Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks.

https://musings.martyn.berlin/to-have-a-moral-stance-on-ai-is-to-be-an-outcast-and-it-sucks

I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI.

“In many cases, design choices strategically build on aspects of human psychology—such as reciprocity norms, people’s tendency to anthropomorphize, and emotional response to a sense of rapport."
https://www.404media.co/new-study-reveals-the-manipulative-dark-patterns-of-ai-chatbots/

Has there been a more divisive consumer product feature? DuckDuckGo installs rising because Google announced more AI features in Search is wild.

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/articles/duckduckgo-installs-30-users-reject-223256854.html

We’re guaranteed another January 6th situation if Trump loses the election.

He’s signaled very clearly that if you commit political violence in his name, not only will you be pardoned but you could become a millionaire.

Republican lawmakers remember that he turned the mob on them last time.

https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-loyalists-urge-him-drop-205045000.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGmqBJTAn_hJ3R4X4bH36tSBzKFiOh1mhPX4Stckt3yrQd2MkCYvqVMP93lqRUSliB2jOJx0iWYwt37bvNeEcuZX4aqcppcDXk9FaW0fJLF4uW_jcX7AwRK3bMnZSh3R9lFPuszrftiSUafga93kLKi-mgkCeotfCuQ5llZyJl3h

LG wanted to charge me £1200 for the repair of my 40” monitor, which considering I bought it new in 2022 for £1500, not worth it. We tried replacing the boards ourselves, that wasn’t the problem.

Put it on Freecycle for spares and repair.
The person who comes to collect says “I think it’s the backlight, if I can fix it do you want it back?”

It’s a good world!

One of my clarifying thoughts in the slop age is: if someone didn’t have the patience to create something without the reconstitution machine doing most of it for them, they’re *definitely* not going to have the patience and diligence to maintain it properly afterwards. Maintenance is even more laborious and less dopamine rewarding than green field development. Run away

You gave a stranger with no soul and no skin in the game the keys to everything you own.

copying and synchronizing data is one of those things that sounds simple but really isn't, and rsync is historically very good at it. it seems baffling that someone with the necessary knowledge to create rsync would willingly chuck it through the slop grinder

NPR laid off about 4 percent of its content division, including 10 journalists and some veteran reporters.

""People love science," NPR Science Correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce, who was laid off Wednesday, said in an interview for this story. "It's such a break from the political and economic and often grim news to have something more inspiring and curiosity driven. I thought it was a great blessing to have the opportunity to give that to people."

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5836624/npr-layoffs-job-cuts

#media #layoffs #journalism

New format! Come one come all!

Wikipedia, and the entire Wikimedia movement, has been a democratic, anti-authoritarian experiment since the day of its inception.

It's a project that matters, something I've been proud to have made a career of.

I spent my 20 years at the Wikimedia Foundation trying to further that experiment on a professional basis, and I have never been prouder of my former colleagues at WMF than I have been these past few months as we've been making @wwu a reality.

You should organize your workplace too.

The #HouseholdBattery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world | #RenewableEnergy | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/may/31/cheaper-energy-bills-battery-revolution-climate-crisis

#Environment #Renewables #Battery #Batteries

I'm done with Democrats that want civil rights and accountability for everyone except the police.

https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/02/xavier-becerra-police-misconduct-records/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116452401274098204

Trump is so evil! Journalists uncovered what many suspected: that many ICE agents have been convicted of violent crimes, including rape and murder!😮

The journalists were going to release the convictions. But Trump threatened to send the DOJ after the journalists if they did!

🤔Oops, I mean Becerra.

Boycotting a football match is about as low-effort an act of resistance as you could imagine when opposing an ongoing genocide.

You’d think.

That said, at least you can have conversations like this on national television in Ireland and have viewpoints like this aired.

#israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #Ireland #football

there's a very simple solution to prompt injection, and it's called "don't use large language models"

When the Justice Department takes down pages like this, their white christian nationalist intentions are made clear: https://web.archive.org/web/20260109001153/https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/patterns-discrimination-assessments-death-penalty-case-louisiana

You should reach out to your superintendent of schools and let them know you oppose this: https://www.404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-cameras-in-tens-of-thousands-of-school-buses-now-they-want-to-give-cops-access/

Nobody should want their schools paying private AI firms to surveil communities with buggy-ass slopware to send to law enforcement who will simply rubber-stamp the AI bugs without investigation.

Court Temporarily Freezes Trump’s $1.776 Billion ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Slush Fund To Figure Out WTF Is Going On - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/29/court-temporarily-freezes-trumps-1-776-billion-anti-weaponization-slush-fund-to-figure-out-wtf-is-going-on/ "The complaint shows how this is nothing more than a slush fund for often law-breaking Trump allies"

@billiglarper

Maybe it just because it's the kind of thing that seems "smart" that's how most media frame it.

If I had a dime for every guy who has said to me "the largest expense for a business is payroll" like it was some kind of revelation maybe I'd be rich enough that I'd understand how they think about jobs.

Of course the largest expense is payroll! If it isn't what is your company even doing? Probably not anything of value.