Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Stop scrolling and read a book. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/12/01

Your ticket to Fairyland:

https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations

Interactive App | #ElectricityMaps

How well or badly is your #country/region doing in terms of how much it pollutes the #Environment in order to generate its #Electricity?

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes

#FossilFuels #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #NuclearEnergy #GreenhouseGases

More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese #AI - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-rcna242430 "AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models." be crazy not to... #china #opensource

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/01/uk-sue-foreign-oligarchs-corporations-litigation-offshore-courts we've been warning about #ISDS for over 10 years; UK gov still hasn't addressed this...

Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to its Limits - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/germany-data-center-boom/ "Data centers are using fossil gas in response to energy bottlenecks" awful; germany gets worse and worse... #ai #climatecrisis

It’s been six years since the first reported case of SARSCov2.

It’s never too late to wear a mask.

It’s never too late to clean the air.

Every infection avoided or delayed is a win for long term health.

We can drastically reduce transmission if everyone does their part.

Reminder, perpetual copyright is an affront to a free society.

All titles below are just $5. No coupon code necessary. Get 'em before the deal is off (tomorrow morning at 8am PST).

https://pmpress.org/

As more and more states roll out some form of mobile driver’s license, you might be asking yourself: should I use this thing? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/should-i-use-my-states-digital-drivers-license

Science fiction scenario:

Some company finally figures out self-sustained asteroid mining. Maybe they get their start in reaction mass delivery, but at this point they've got automated fabs that can maintain (and repair) themselves with what they mine.

...and then they intentionally cause a Kessler Syndrome situation in order to prevent any competitors from pulling the same trick.

Hey all, you remember that time that it was legal for the United States to unilaterally close the airspace of another sovereign nation that has not engaged in acts of aggression against anybody?

Me neither.

By my count, Linux has 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number
L: https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-people-keep-flocking-to-linux-in-2025-and-its-not-just-to-escape-windows/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099985
posted on 2025.11.30 at 15:14:12 (c=0, p=8)

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115638305698750538

There are two really interesting data points in that article.
1) execs are far more excited about AI than all other workers and are using AI more than anyone else
2) mediocre performers feel much higher benefit from AI while top performers find it more of a problem than a help

I'll leave the conclusion as an exercise for the reader ...

@GossiTheDog

I’m sure this won’t have any negative consequences in 5 to 10 years.

This is… pretty accurate. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages: https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

Too bad that it hasn’t been updated after 2010. I’d love to see his take on Rust and Go.

Thank you, Dr. Morale. 😡

“Jeff Sharlet, a leading scholar of Christian nationalism and author of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, has described Pete Hegseth as a clear, self-identified Christian nationalist whose ideology is explicitly militarized and apocalyptic, not just culturally conservative. Sharlet emphasizes that Hegseth’s own writings and symbols reveal a project of holy war within the United States, not merely a defense of traditional values.” - Constitutional Crisis Alert

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio gave orders leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, most of them children. These three "leaders" killed USAID, and in the process ordered those deaths.

A crime against humanity, IMO.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

According to Reuters, over 600 Americans were fired, suspended or investigated over social media posts about Charlie Kirk.

That’s not including the immigrants who had their visas revoked and were deported.

There’s no free speech anymore.

Which is why we all need to keep speaking up.

They can’t punish everyone.