Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#AISlop
When widespread distaste for AI Data Centers enters popular culture:

I've got a client looking to hire five senior engineers in Sydney -- they work in data engineering, but they'll take anyone that's competent and work it out from there. Pay's about A$160K to A$180K + superannuation for someone that nails their interview process. No LeetCode stuff, though there is an online screen that is reportedly at the level of "You weren't lying about programming, right? Can you like, read a CSV and write some SQL?"

Hit me up if you know anyone that'd be interested!

Even though Paramount cited a conflict of interest in rejecting our ad criticizing its merger with Warner Bros., it apparently sees no conflict of interest in promising the Trump admin editorial concessions in exchange for merger approvals.

Our statement: https://freedom.press/issues/paramount-blocks-fpf-ad-about-trump-ellison-censorship-threat/

First they called Renee Good and Alex Pretti “domestic terrorists.” Today, federal prosecutors indicted 15 Minnesota activists and leaned again on the specter of “antifa.”

This is not incidental. It’s the repression strategy Alberto Toscano warned about.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/antifa-everywhere-war-on-terror-cve-material-support-laws-hlf5-terrorism

The UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs may be one of the most ambitious IT education projects ever launched. Experts have praised the scheme, saying that a deft combination of incentives and peer education make it more likely to succeed than other, comparable initiatives.

"With the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN-literacy is more essential than ever.” said one expert, “This bold project definitely comes at the right time.”

#UKSocialMediaBan

We need to move on from the obsession with growth as a proxy for “better”, or “success”; and instead dig in on, just improving.

It doesn’t need millions of people to make something better, it needs a few, or just one.

We make better communities by helping one another, fixing things; seeing things that need some love, and finding new ways to give that to them.

I’m not going to stop participating, or making things, or encouraging others, just because a thousand people don’t show up tomorrow.

I find myself quite frustrated by the eagerness with which some people in tech use AI to output slop and leave others to clean up behind them.

Then those who output the slop get credit for the idea and the execution when the execution was never really theirs.

The feds this morning raided and arrested about 15 activists in Minnesota for opposing the occupation of Minnesota. The feds put out a press release stating they are going after anti-fascist, "antifa", organizers, which is telling.

There should be a website listing appliances that do not spy on people. Also cars, which model until which year.

I can't believe the subset of Firefox users who didn't turn off telemetry also didn't find the tiny menu item buried in the settings to turn off AI features, I'm shocked

"Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on."

Poppycock. The people who turned off all the AI had already turned off the telemetry that measures this.

Even if headlines are now pointing to a possible end to the war, that cannot erase the central fact: This war was never legal.

Phyllis Bennis explains why the U.S.-Iran war violates both U.S. domestic law and international law, and why accountability still matters.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/iran-war-united-states-israel-trump-illegal

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#NHS patients can't opt out of #Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can - https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/06/13/nhs-patients-cant-opt-out-of-palantirs-data-platform-but-their-hospital-can/5254766 "Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal"

Oh and now I can't `git push`

All of us put all of our eggs into this one very shitty basket FUUUUUUUUCK

US #AI giants are colonising #London, and squeezing its startups in the process - https://thenextweb.com/news/us-ai-giants-london-expansion-talent-squeeze "London is cementing its place as the most important AI hub outside the United States. "

Half of #world’s #children exposed to at least three #climate hazards, #Unicef says | Climate crisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/16/half-of-worlds-children-exposed-to-at-least-three-climate-hazards-unicef-says

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

This sounds pretty crooked. Good thing we have highly respected television news magazines and 24-hour news networks that can help get to the bottom of Trump-Ellison corruption.

Oh, right…

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/justice-department-decision-to-allow-paramount-deal-surprised-staff-investigators-a18f70da

TOMORROW we're talking to soatok@furry.engineer and Equilabs founder Luísa Franco Machado about censorship and targeted surveillance facing LGBTQ+ communities. Join us and learn how to push back. https://eff.org/livestream-pride