Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The eternal struggle of trying to maintain an appropriate facial expression throughout a conversation based on heuristics and context clues and having the lag become the main problem

“Oh, no! Sudden tone shift. Abort smiling! Abort! Abort!”

https://crimethinc.com/2026/10/22/introducing-the-nspm-7-defendants-union

"The Web Is More Than Enough"

https://aboard.com/the-web-is-more-than-enough/

> I put maybe twice as much effort into building a web-based office suite as I might normally put into writing a long newsletter post.

This dude is one of the tech intelligentsia's favourite CEOs and he's basically praising vibe-coding and arguing that programming has been completely devalued. This is who your executives and managers are listening to.

More importantly, this is the dude who most "AI" centrists really adore.

“AI & Design Systems Course with Brad Frost, TJ Pitre, and Ian Frost”

https://aianddesign.systems/

> buy for $1,495

Every dev trainer and educator I know is going out of business. Software dev writers are giving up left, right, and centre. Meanwhile this trend hopping crap is charging $1500 USD. 🤷🏻‍♂️

(Following links on websites is occasionally a big mistake)

OH MY GOD

I realized why the vibecoder software can be "like a home cooked meal" bothers me so much https://bradfrost.com/links/post/an-app-can-be-a-home-cooked-meal/

IT'S THE STEAMED HAMS SKETCH

Someone says they're making you a home cooked meal and then they plop a Krusty Burger on your plate and call it a family recipe they made themselves

PHP Foundation’s budget is about 700k a year. It’s used on something like 40 million websites. Almost no company who uses it contributes anything and many people work on it for free.

The latest trend is cybersecurity and AI vendors have realised they can vampire off its security for publicity (money).

Perhaps the world would be a better place if those orgs who rely on it just contributed sponsorship to the foundation, and didn’t monetise vulnerabilities for themselves.

Men use an LLM to explain the code that I wrote using my own brain to me.

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs

Far from "driving the energy transition", the data centre boom is swallowing up the mineral resources that were once meant to be going towards building technologies that help eliminate fossil fuels.

https://heatmap.news/am/trump-wind-tariffs

Artists of all industries must continue to also fight this wave of being attributed to an LLM made thing but they, the artist cited, never made the LLM thing. Gods I hate this timeline. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/ #FuckAI

On breaking embargoes; TLP is not a suggestion https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/tlp-is-not-a-suggestion

‘Overnight, everything was dead’: the Teesside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seas - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/23/overnight-everything-was-dead-the-teeside-fisherman-turned-activist-dubbed-the-mr-bates-of-the-seas bravo; all signs that a massive environmental crime has been committed here. people should go to prison for it

Regular reminder to join a union. Especially if you're in tech and you think you don't really need to.

But also: a union is not a magic machine were you put money in on one side and a better world comes out on the other side. It's not a service provider for delivering fairness.

Unionising and organising first and foremost mean doing things together, not individually. Supporting each other and being active for our common goals. And that means people doing stuff.

It can always get worse, therefore, it can always get better.

Your voice matters, so speak your values.

Nothing is inevitable. The future is yet to be written.

#eMudhra should have just said “our ai went rogue and created that 4 key. We are building the future of agentic certification, this just happens”
and no shareholder would have cared