Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We are struggling to keep Codebreg.org available for unauthenticated users due to massive abuse of expensive endpoints.

Our current priority is keeping Codeberg.org responsive for authenticated users.

In a just world, Elon Musk would die in prison. https://newrepublic.com/article/211936/elon-musk-race-war-belfast

“Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety”

https://www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-social-media-ban-keir-starmer-surveillance-parents-online-safety-bill-heather-burns

Amnesty International exposed years of anti-#trans reporting at four UK newspapers. They ignored it. - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-06-17/amnesty-international-exposed-years-of-anti-trans-reporting-at-four-uk-newspapers-they-ignored-it "Research by human rights group identifies nearly 17,000 articles on trans-related topics in just five years"

The use of AI in asylum decision-making is likely unlawful.

These tools rewrite interviews, choosing what to include and exclude.

Without knowing this, asylum applicants can't be sure accurate information is used to inform decisions.

📺️ ORG's @sarahalsherif explains.

https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/fhDQ1ezbb79jedsHPTqe1X

#RefugeeWeek #courage #asylum #ai #migrants #immigration #ukpolitics #ukpol

#WSocial will open up their beta program today… and I have a SCOOP for you: it appears that they have quietly gone closed-source!

This is ironic, considering that the @EUCommission just unveiled their Tech Sovereignty Package, emphasizing the importance of #OpenSource. And yet they have migrated their main ATproto accounts to W Social - whose code can no longer be inspected!

My full article - with a great analysis by @aral:

🔗: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/

#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech

The Trump regime's vicious and blatantly political prosecutions are a total abuse of power. Example: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/minnesota-attorney-ice-protester-indictment

It's vital that potential jurors learn of their own power: to deny convictions, to serve justice to these victims of a lawless government.

https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/jury-nullification-faq/is-jury-nullification-legal.html

"Dear customer portal team,

Your support chatbot is alienating and awful. The patronising simulation of human care, the self-reflexive "I" and "me", and the use of an AI-generated human face stereotyping young Asian women as tech-native and servile is a stain on your brand.

If you cannot budget for a human to take support requests, may I suggest significantly boosting customer morale by switching to a paperclip with dancing eyebrows. Other animated stationery products may work too."

Name them all.

“More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.”

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

Mission Local is hiring a senior editor

Mission Local, a nonprofit news site, is looking to hire a senior editor....

https://missionlocal.org/2026/06/mission-local-is-hiring-a-senior-editor/

#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.