Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Right-to-repair people are celebrating what they claim is a pathbreaking agreement by John Deere, the rapacious and unethical tractor maker, to stop monopolizing repairs. Matt Stoller says it all may be yet another scam on farmers (and the rest of us): https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why

Just a reminder, as smoke from wildfires covers the Northeast US. https://inthesetimes.com/article/santa-marta-colombia-climate-change-fossil-fuels

Just to give an idea how LLM nonsense is affecting #Wikipedia, perhaps a quarter of threads on ANI, the Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents, involve LLM use—either crap articles generated by LLMs, or people using LLMs to write extremely wordy, unhelpful replies to concerns about their behaviour.

That's a huge externality right there - whatever uses AI tech has, it has enabled a DDoS attack on the hardworking volunteers trying to maintain the commons-based project the damn LLMs trained on.

You know something? The reason so many developers have gotten taken completely in by LLMs is actually the same reason so many CEOs have: LLMs flatter the ever-loving shit out of you, and a lot of software engineers have egos the size of a planet.
That's it. The robotic yes man is a highly addictive drug to people who are wanting to be told they're smart and clever and right about everything.

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough."

https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

For context: longships, the famous old Norse ships famous for Viking rowing, were coastal. So, the famous Viking raidres were largely local settlers robbing and murdering their neighbours. The ocean-traversing ships, knarr, primarily used sails. The Norse who crossed to Iceland and North America did not row there.

@mcfadden They actually enshittified diarrhea jokes. Quite an achievement.

Kind of on the nose for the Norwegian fans to fake a rowing motion when they're at the world cup and cheering their team because their ancestors, by definition, never went out on the ocean-crossing knarr and instead stayed at home 😝

Days of Dissent brims with defiance in recounting the rebellious history that has reshaped the United States and the world.
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Prebituary, oMITCHuary, whatever you want to call it, I got you covered. And there's a Lindsey Graham version over at https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/

100%

I love how all these open source projects are accepting LLM generated stuff, and when called out on it, they will quickly mention that "this is not the place to debate the ethics of AI".

So my question for everyone saying that is... if not now, when? When will we discuss if the source of the thing you're trying to ram through our throats is acceptable? When will we discuss if you normalising the damage the LLM companies are doing to create these tools is acceptable?

Or are we just going to ignore all the bullshit because it is (according to you) "useful"?

I bet people thought labour from kids sent to the mines was useful... Or the results from inhumane studies were also useful...

So, I ask of you again, when IS the time and place to discuss the ethical ramifications of you using these things? Because it never seems to be the time for it somehow, isn't that interesting?

This administration managed to take the joy out of diarrhea jokes. (I'll still make them; I have no other skills.)

A temporary pause after two deadly ICE traffic stops is not accountability. Neither is more training for an agency empowered to terrorize communities.

Representative Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE is only the beginning: dismantle DHS.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/delia-ramirez-says-abolish-ice-dhs-must-go

‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk
By Claire Biddles

Five decades years since punk bible Sniffin’ Glue, DIY magazines are in rude, rich health. Their creators talk fandom, community-building and resisting the algorithm

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/15/uk-fanzines-zine-radical-resurgence

#Music #Culture #Punk #Indie #Hiphop #Magazines #Newspapersmagazines #TheGuardian #ClaireBiddles

#Forgejo 15.0.5 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

@manchicken @carnage4life https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/grok-build-uploads-entire-git.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116919986243362258

That's another way of saying: "Grok was stealing users code"

LLMs do not exist to make people happy but to harvest data and make money people