Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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GIVE DEMENTIA DONNIE HIS PUDDING, YOU CRAZY BASTARDS!!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/04/07/tom-the-dancing-bug-give-dementia-donnie-his-pudding-you-crazy-bastards.html

Donald Trump is a war criminal and should be treated accordingly.

So should every member of his administration who enables him.

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AI bro walking into the one place on the internet that unequivocally rejects AI like "wtf this is an echo chamber!!!11"

Could use a "Somehow the Pee Tape returned" right about now.

I have read a statement
that “a whole civilization
will die tonight,
never to be brought back again,”
and as I read that statement
and as I reread that statement
I cannot shake the feeling
that the civilization
from which that statement comes
is one that is already dead.

2016: never, ever run a script unless you know what it does
2026: let a statistical model run random commands for you

American president: fuck shit fuck die boom boom!

Mainstream media: The strategy behind the president’s unorthodox approach to international conflict and diplomacy appears to be…

American president: I go wee wee on your head!

Dementia Donnie

Only 3% of current #Electricity demand is being provided by #FossilFuels in the #UK and #RenewableEnergy source are generating over 80%, with the price of generation actually being negative.

https://grid.iamkate.com/

geez. Senators want to lock up the law (again).

@carlmalamud spent years making sure the law (and standards included in the law) were publicly accessible for free. Even getting the Supreme Court to declare it so.

yeah, but...

"Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/06/congress-wants-to-put-the-law-behind-a-paywall-again/

U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.),
John Cornyn (R-Texas),
Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

boo.

This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turn out it works because the claims are adjudicated by AI agents.

https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

The UK avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 thanks to record electricity generation from wind and solar, reveals Carbon Brief analysis.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-wind-and-solar-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1bn-in-march-2026/
Wind generation hit a new record for the month of March on the island of Great Britain, up 38% year-on-year, while solar nearly matched the output of last year’s exceptionally sunny spring.

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/ofcom_social_media_use/ "Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows"

It's artificial but it's not intelligence. Let's call it machine learning.

Analytical machine learning is an excellent technology for identifying patterns in data.

Generative machine learning is a Venture Capital-fuelled dumpster fire that will crash as soon as people have to pay the actual non-subsidised price for it.

#machinelearning #aibubble #aicrash

Each city will have a published list of every citizen and the name of their house. This list shall be provided to each and every house, sometimes twice or even thrice in a calendar year! These lists will seem amazing at first but eventually they will be discarded and swell with rain water upon the changing of the seasons, left to rot in the sun and wind.

#BoringNostradamusProphecies
#HashTagGames

Families left in the dark: #UCSD, #USC quietly sell donors’ bodies to #Navy for #Israel military training

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/04/06/families-left-in-the-dark-ucsd-usc-quietly-sell-donors-bodies-to-navy-for-israeli-military-training/

The U.S. Navy has taken the first steps to extend the program that relies on anatomical donations from USC and the UC system until 2029.

Luxembourg becomes second country worldwide to enshrine abortion rights in constitution | Luxembourg Times

https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/luxembourg-becomes-second-country-worldwide-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-in-constitution/138838058.html

My browser, and pretty much everybody's browser, has a unique digital fingerprint. Why on Earth do the same websites then need to repeatedly check that I am not a robot??? If I wasn't a robot yesterday, I am not one today either!

#surveillanceCapitalism #privacy #enshittification