Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🧵 AI-assisted vulnerabilities are all the rage nowadays. We had a close call with two of them in the last few days. Here’s how our defenses held up:

The SEC "gag rule" is blatantly unconstitutional.

As financial regulators confront new tech — crypto, prediction markets, etc. — they’re sure to make mistakes. You deserve to be informed.

Hear from experts on why SCOTUS must act.

🗓️ May 5, 2 pm ET

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uKXPL10cT2qeJcaYqfSo0A#/registration

ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight

Read more in @arstechnica:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/abc-can-beat-trump-fccs-license-threat-if-owner-disney-is-willing-to-fight/

Yesterday voting rights protections were gutted. Today, states are setting up to redistrict ahead of November.

Being intentionally and consistently marginalized isn't my favorite, but credit to the voter suppression movement for having a vision, making plans and following through.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/states-redistricting-maps-voting-rights-act

Five years ago I was routinely chastised for suggesting we give non-technical users scripts to automate or fix various things. The concern was that management didn’t think that the non-technical users would screw up running a deterministic script and break something.

Fast-forward five years and now management wants Frank in Marketing and Joe in Finance using non-deterministic tools running in third-party environment to produce working web apps of their own. Frank and Joe didn’t learn how to read code, it’s just that management has confused a chat bot for an actor with agency and understanding, even though it is not and does not.

Fuck this timeline.

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We understand that this was a long wait, but we didn't want to leave it up to chance. Thank you all for your patience.

CI operations has been restored.

Hi all, sorry for the long wait.

We wanted to preemptively ensure that our servers were sufficiently shielded against https://copy.fail; we found no evidence of a compromise.

We waited for the greater community to react and provide some additional clarity on what is affected and what isn't (e.g. container engines), we carefully studied the LKML, and waited for upstreams to release official updates and guidance.

A.I.'s Manifesto Destiny https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

We believe these findings can be addressed publicly. The security team will open issues where approaches to implement new defensive measurements will be discussed, we believe there's no single answer and as such appreciate the opinion of other Forgejo contributors on this matter.

2/2

https://crimethinc.com/2026/04/30/ice-melts-in-the-spring-ten-principles-for-the-movement-against-immigration-policing

Read the latest by @CrimethInc here on principals we should all agree on in the fight to end ICE.

Not to mention, a couple of our videos are mentioned in the further resources section:

Trouble 3 - Refugees Welcome: Creating Solidarity Across Borders

and

Trouble 22 - Crossing the Line: Border Resistance in Fortress America

> This presumption of wrongdoing... is unacceptable

Cops really don't like when they get Copped back at

(for the avoidance of doubt, everyone involved in this is terrible, but this bit is very funny to me)

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/met_police_palantir_deployment_cop_probe/

@marisa first of all, yes. Libraries are awesome.

Personally, I think the right hates libraries because it assists people to become educated. An educated voter base doesn't tend to vote conservative. And the moneyed class loses a bit of their edge if I get can't give their offspringing a head start with a decent education.

RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116432400687637204

❝ hypervigilance, famously, destroys your mind and body.

when employers act like it's expected, it is a very strong message that they do not care about their workers. ❞

this AI-mania is the consequence of trust fund, nepobaby capitalists buying themselves CEO titles.

“hypervigilance” is the fear and paranoia kakistocrats live by; because they have no idea how to make what sustains their wealth.

#kakistocracy is not limited to government; it applies to VCs, startups & the corporate world

not to mention most of the devs i see in the field are generating their *tests* with AI, which completely defeats their purpose in catching AI errors.

Days before warning report, all 22 National Science Board members fired in two-sentence email - https://boingboing.net/2026/04/29/days-before-warning-report-all-22-national-science-board-members-fired-in-two-sentence-email.html #trump destroying #murica yet further...

This is why we call it kayfabe - they are only pretending to be on opposite teams.

The House voted 235-191 in favor of the bill released last week by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has been trying for months to get an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to President Donald Trump’s desk.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-section-702-reauthorization

This is not the first time the Dems have been screaming "fascist!" while voting to give the Pres even more power. It will not be the last.

@lzg @oscarjiminy The original posts I saw on the incident were loaded with anthropomorphization ("the AI 'went rogue'") which is evocative but absolute garbage framing.

HUMANS designed a system with massive single-points-of-failure, HUMANS ran untested and unreviewed automation which had unintended and catastrophic consequences, HUMANS gave admin access to a third-party automation system without having defined the most fundamental requirements and acceptance criteria for it to determine whether it was fit for purpose, HUMANS approved a change process that had no control points to manage risk and prevent cascading failure.

One of the incredibly corrosive aspects of agentic tools is the absolute disregard for QA, change control, and thoughtful process. It's all YOLO all the time. The departments allowing or mandating the use of these tools exercise even less diligence in making sure their tools are fit for purpose than they normally do which is usually next to nothing. If they were doing their jobs, IT would never deploy Excel to non-finance workers (and even then).

What we're seeing is rank incompetence from the CEO and CTO on down through IT and the software/devops organizations - people making catastrophically bad devisions and shrugging off the consequences with "oh, the _AI_ did it..." No, nobody at the top did their job to ensure the money and effort put in resulted in a robust system and effective change control processes. That wasn't the AI's responsibility, it was that of the company's executives and directors.

Here's the COVID Vaccine Paper the CDC Censored

"...The censored paper presents data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines during the 2025-2026 season. The results suggest that, in the first few months after vaccination (September-December 2025), this year's vaccines were 53-55% effective against hospitalizations among the study's population of adults without immune compromise."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/121016?

The paper in question:
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/api/v1/file/ab3d90bd-5bb8-4b2a-bf5e-0eccb93e0230.pdf

"In a social media response to The Lever editor-in-chief David Sirota on April 17, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) posted that a five-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — a War on Terror-era measure that has allowed federal law enforcement to unofficially spy on Americans’ communications — was “not acceptable.”

"But emails reviewed by The Lever show Himes, the top Democratic lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, ittee, urged his colleagues just hours before he posted the response to support a Trump administration-backed bill that would have extended the spying powers for another five years."

https://www.levernews.com/top-democrat-opposed-surveillance-bill-then-whipped-votes-for-it/