Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcfadden/116318330517396142

I think maybe the only holiday that online leftish people absolutely do have a War On is AFD. They don't even wanna rename it to Serious People Day or anything. It's just universally loathed! (And I do not disagree with Mr. McFadden, here.)

10 years of news about the same demented guy isn't good for the news business. I've known he sucks the whole time and only skim articles about how much he sucks. We know! I'm not reading 1,000 words about it. Getting someone new in there should be a top priority.

Brands will try to be funny on Wednesday and it's going to be awful.

Five #EU #governments found to ‘consistently’ dismantle rule of #law | #CivilLiberties - international | The Guardian

This is a dangerous time for #Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar/30/five-eu-governments-consistently-dismantle-rule-of-law-finds-civil-liberties-union-for-europe

#Politics #Bulgaria #Croatia #Hungary #Italy #Slovakia #RightWingPolitics #Nationalism

Was the #Iran War Caused by #AI Psychosis? - https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/ "the most consequential military operation of the twenty-first century may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers now call AI #sycophancy — the tendency of large language models to tell their users exactly what they want to hear." (v @ottocrat)

Addictive apps. Today’s cartoon by Jean Gouders. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#addiction #Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/28/britain-peatlands-restore-dartmoor-bog-carbon-store "In the UK, about 80% of peatland is degraded or damaged, and what could be the country’s biggest carbon store has become a net carbon emitter"

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This webinar gives an overview of #sociocracy. We will talk about:
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https://www.sociocracyforall.org/event/free-info-session-april-2026/

@jalefkowit @davidgerard @adrianh somehow the consensus I am hearing for Claude Code is simultaneously it is by far the best and most advanced agent for writing code ever and it’s a complete rip off that needs hundreds of dollars a month to approach adequate limits which are constantly being reduced arbitrarily

how is that a product

Every ICE agent with their thumb up their butt airport is playing a unique role. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/3/27/2375012/-ICE-s-airport-agents

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The rank stupidity of soooo much of our society is really killing me. I feel like there are a lot of techies who need to stand trial for crimes against humanity for purposefully trying to stupidify the world.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/study-do-what-chatgpt-tells-us

Got told again that my 30 years of computing and electronics experience is grossly incompetent compared to the infallible omniscience of #ChatGPT.

#idiocracy #brainrot #techilliteracy #AIdiots

“As a Jewish Australian who spent considerable time in Israel, I noticed, decades ago, something unsettling: a hardening of emotional life and a gradual erosion of empathy toward anyone outside the Zionist frame.

This presents itself clearly, especially among the young: a bluntness in moral language, a comfort with power and a way of speaking about others that feels stripped of hesitation. This is not hidden. It is not marginal. It is part of Israeli culture as it is actually lived. You hear it in ordinary conversations, in how people describe daily encounters, in the absence of pause where you might expect reflection. It is not performed for outsiders. It is internal, habitual and widely shared across Israeli society.

People sometimes call it ‘psychopathy’. That’s not quite right. It’s something more systemic than that — and more confronting for precisely that reason, because it is produced openly, not accidentally. The instinct to pathologise it comes from discomfort, from the sense that something is off. But the more accurate way to understand it is not as deviation, but as outcome — the outcome of a specific social and ideological structure.
What is taking shape is a set of conditions that reshape how young people in Israel see others, how they use power and what they come to experience as normal. These conditions are not hidden. They are visible, repeatable and embedded in everyday Israeli life.”

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-hardening-of-youth-in-israels-nationalist-enclave,20863

#israel #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide

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#healthcare #science #health #medicine #healthinsurance #EconomicInequality #SocialMedia #influencers

The platform "Doughnut Economics Action Lab" is aiming to turn Kate Raworth's concept of Doughnut Economics into practice. It provides a hub for local groups, organisations and local government to organise and exchange resources to implement doughnut economics - inspired policies. You can find related events as well as tools and teaching materials.
https://doughnuteconomics.org/doughnut

https://www.justsecurity.org/135103/questions-congress-should-ask-before-renewing-section-702/

#USPol #surveillance

Superb. https://theonion.com/all-i-ever-wanted-is-to-be-a-musician-and-for-music-to-be-easy/ I see quite a few folks these days who seem to have fully embraced this approach.

🤔 #NoKings