Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Wikipedia is written by volunteers—but defended by lawyers when necessary. We spoke with Wikimedia about legal threats, global takedown demands, and why Section 230 remains essential. https://www.eff.org/pages/internet-still-works-wikipedia-defends-its-editors

“Free” surveillance is a trap. Vendor trials, private donors, and federal grants hand police no‑cost tools that quietly build massive databases on all of us and feed ICE and DHS pipelines. Cities can and should refuse the bait.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/free-surveillance-tech-still-comes-high-and-dangerous-cost

It’s always fun when you get to use more advanced techniques when programming.

@lwriemen
This 👇

"I describe ChatGPT as “the opposite of good software”. As in, it’s not just bad software, it’s as if they wrote up an inventory of what makes software good and then decided for each and every entry in the list to implement the exact opposite in their app and service design."

Help us, big, beautiful stroke, you're our only hope.

AI-"enhanced" tools are making surgeons worse. Part of me thinks this is all part of the plan, given the Silicon Valley billionaire freaks legit seem to want most of us to die.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/reuters-finds-ai-using-surgery-devices-harmed-patients-nature-magazine-and-reuters-find-medical-chatbots-not-beating-patients-own-internet-sleuthing.html

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

It's shockingly cheap to dismantle surveillance systems. You can poison them in your free time.
https://youtu.be/AJf4SNuDnoI?si=2_qOUwL2QjQMwTks

Some of my favorite international political cartoons from @cartoonmovement this week, by Matthew Fuller, Deb Milbrath, Gatis Sluka and Franco Juri.

More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#PoliticalCartoons #PoliticalSatire #EditorialCartoons #CartoonMovement

The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace #AI the most - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/the-first-signs-of-burnout-are-coming-from-the-people-who-embrace-ai-the-most/

Via mandatoryrollercoaster.com

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

@atax1a can I, like, make an advance directive that if I'm incapacitated and require surgery that no AI-assisted instruments can be used

like a DNR, but DNAI

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING

I think imma just keep reposting this every day, as nothing expresses my rage about this farce better:

#Epstein #EpsteinClass

You know what I haven't got time for? People in videos saying positive things about 'AI'.

Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

Why does everybody want their applications to live in a web browser?

Tim Bray (@timbray) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says:

My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate