Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/115724132956499253

“tests from earlier this year found that AI agents failed to complete tasks up to 70% of the time, making them almost entirely redundant as a workforce replacement tool. At best, they're a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115723674656240039

Happy 3rd birthday #Phanpy!!! And congratulations @cheeaun for this incredible milestone!!! 🥳

My favorite thing about Phanpy is definitely its Catch Up feature. The Fediverse already has a strong focus on genuine human connections... and Phanpy's Catch Up takes things to the next level. I love clicking on the profile photos of people I follow to see what they've been up to.

In my eyes Phanpy is the BEST social media client out there.

Thank you for Phanpy and keep up the incredible work!

My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services

December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host

I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...

It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨

While you can configure the alarm clock sound in #Phosh the default isn't great atm (it's the fallback from the freedesktop.org sound theme).

If your into 🎵 music / sound design and want to provide us with a good morning wake up sound 😴 please join us on Matrix at https://matrix.to/#/#phosh:phosh.mobi .

The sounds we ship in sound-theme-phosh are usually also used by distributions like @postmarketOS, , @mobian and others so this would make a real difference for our daily driving users.

#LinuxMobile #Sound

Kristi Noem also caught lying about why she ran from that Congressional hearing - https://boingboing.net/2025/12/11/kristi-noem-also-caught-lying-about-why-she-ran-from-that-congressional-hearing.html "When she can't take the heat, puppy slayer Kristi Noem runs from the hearing." vile coward

If you want a rigorous analysis of why statistical #AI models collapse when continuously trained on their own data without external supervision and constraints, read this amazing paper from last year.

If you want to get a visual intuition of how model collapse looks like, look at this video.

When AI stares at its own reflection for too long, and its inference is purely rooted on statistics rather than reasoning, this becomes statistically inevitable.

Keep this in mind whenever you hear someone talking about “AI models learning from their own outputs” without addressing the statistical parrot issue.

Planting worker co-op seeds this morning. May they fall on fertile ground 🤞

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/12/14

#Humour #Cartoon

Now imagine believing that you're sharing your private fantasies with a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.

That man is Michael, and this is his story: https://data-workers.org/michael/

@lightweight @neil There's a lot of weird, outdated information on running your own mail server out there. Horror stories about IP reputation, blocklists. In my experience, (big) mail providers have long switched away from simple net blocks and do honour correct SPF/DKIM configs. it actually has become better to Roll And Run Your Own in the past 7 years. based on my experience. Enough for me to do a (nerdy) blog series on HowTo, starting at https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/ a few years ago.

@jwildeboer I agree with you that there's a lot of bad information out there for sure. My personal experience (running mailservers for almost 20 years) is that big providers absolutely do not honour correct SPF/DKIM/DMARC/rDNS – Google and Microsoft especially – and their "postmaster" tools are materially worse than the cowboy blocklist era, especially in terms of silently filing mails as "spam" for no clear reason (and with no notification).

@lightweight @neil

Latest comic: A hot new startup

#corporations #deregulation #economy #oligarchy #WallStreet #cartoon #comic

Tired of the same old holiday schlock? Here's some new garbage. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/12/12/2358073/-Cartoon-More-schmaltzmark-channel-holiday-specials

Heavy rain in Montana in mid-December...totally normal...☹️

The Public Interest Research Group purchased a load of Generative AI kids toys flooding the US market, and found they tell kids Chinese propaganda and have no guardrails for topics like sex etc. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956

Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/ai-bubble-mass-layoffs-income-inequality

As the former Managing Director of the OER Foundation, I am saddened to share that our mission to widen access to educational opportunity around the world through the implementation of the UNESCO #OER Recommendation will come to an end, as the Foundation is being disestablished.

For more information see: https://openeducation.nz/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115709127848563259

And the states rights crowd goes 🦗 🦗

I support the right of the oppressed to defend themselves.