Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Just learned about the #Carhartt data #breach because of a phishing email to may Carhartt-specific email.

Congrats to them for refusing to pay the ShinyHunters ransom. However, I haven't seen any kind of actual breach notification. Not so good.

An afternoon outside with food, drinks and people who believe independent journalism still matters.

Join In These Times Board President William Weaver and Interim Executive Director Ari Bloomekatz in Chicago on August 22.
https://www.allyoufascistsboundtolose.com/calendar/billionaires-cant-buy-our-magazine-a-fundraiser-for-in-these-times

43% of nonunion workers say they would vote to unionize if they could.

“It’s high time lawmakers translate the public’s near-record support for unions into policy.”

Heidi Shierholz on why the PRO Act, stronger bargaining rights and rebuilding union power belong at the center of the affordability debate.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/affordabilitys-union-labor-pro-act-congress

“Insured” and “able to afford care” are not the same thing.

In this 2023 piece, Sonali Kolhatkar examined the record-low uninsured rate, underinsurance, medical costs, and the continued public support for universal healthcare, aka Medicare for All.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/medicare-for-all-healthcare-biden-democrats-aca

This month the B-sides of our merch selection are on sale. Deep cut designs, limited runs, possibly even some stuff we may retire soon...
Get 20% off thru 9/1 with code DEEP here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=284

New Music Review: Totalis – Griefstate (2026; Organize and Arise, Phobia Records, Cimex Records)

Link: https://diyconspiracy.net/totalis-griefstate/

Crust punk supergroup, or maybe just an old-timers’ one-off project, featuring members of Napalm Death, Skitsystem, Anti-Cimex, War//Plague, Detestation, and Dishumanitär.

P.S. The album artwork is not AI. It’s Andy Lefton’s established style he has been developing for many years. In the last few years, though, people on forums like Reddit, often completely unfamiliar with his work, have accused him of making AI art.

#crustpunk #punk #hardcorepunk #metal

Ethics aside, we can clearly no longer deny the utility of necromancy. Perhaps a year ago, when the pathetic shambling of the animated dead so often made a hollow mockery of our arts. But now! Incantations that once took weeks of toil can be wrested from their tormented souls in mere minutes!

Without the awesome power of the newly dead coursing through our veins, how are we to solve the great problems of our age, like the mysterious disappearance of so many of our elderly and sick friends, or the festering piles of rotten flesh that now clog our streets and homes?

If you still have qualms about using the large soul providers, you can always obtain your own local, free range specimens, although of course they won’t obey quite as faithfully as ones from the leading charnel houses.

Honestly, do you want to be left behind?

OK my Swedish lovelies. You were all in agreement except for one letter, this should be easy 🤞

I'm collecting phrases that are used in the same manner as an exasperated "for fuck's sake" in English - imagine shouting in angry frustration at a news headline - what would you shout?

If there are many things you would shout, tell me your favourite!

If this has landed in your timeline & you don't know what I'm talking about, there is some info about the project here
https://things.uk/@eclectech/117071859569448514

Tack!

#theFFSproject #Swedish

Recently my son had pulled up the real estate page for a house next door up for sale and he looked at me and said "these pics are garbage, AI."

I said something like 'really, how do you know?'

He started picking out technical aspects that I would a thousand times miss but also things like where the floor of a same room was entirely different (not lighting difference but substantively different) and where other features changed.

He said the realtor ran the originals through an AI enhancer.

He just now texted me: "Saw at the gym. Local 12 is actually doing a piece on ai staging for homes creating risks for real estate."

AI is a consumer protection violation in the making...

I think I need to replace Bitwarden as my password manager. It's been getting worse and the last update introduced a super-annoying bug.

Recommendations? (Not 1Password, please.)

@gregeganSF Some doctors say AI based note-taking solutions make the notes much less useful.

https://benngooch.substack.com/p/i-was-an-enthusiastic-early-adopter

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/117090457831768597

SAY NO TO ALL MEDICAL AI NOTE TAKING.

Whether it is Meta AI glasses used to harass & covertly film women, Apple AirTags used to track women, Meta algorithms that push sexist ads, Grok AI tools that nudify women's images, tech companies continue to create harassment by design instead of privacy by design.
https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/2026/08/13/women-continue-to-bear-the-brunt-of-bad-tech-decisions/

Begging folks to wake up and realize that the massive increase in food borne illness and infectious diseases is not an accident.

This was always the goal.

The regime removed protections because they want “the vulnerable” to die.

Fascism and eugenics go hand in hand.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/health/foodborne-illness-outbreaks-risk-rising

#uspol #eugenics #fascism #ableism #disability #chronicillness #publichealth

In my Feb 2026 talk, "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities", I call on humanities scholars to make legible to the broader world how even as we work with texts (and write more texts), the words aren't the work.

This recent paper by Lauren Goodlad of @CriticalAI is an excellent example:

https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2026.175.3.80

You've asked, so our small but mighty design team answered: EFF images are all made by human beings. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/who-or-what-generates-images-eff

I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why?

Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub.

In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to make his statements in the gossip press "because that's where people are".

I think its time to dismiss that "where people are" argument altogether. No one will listen to me, but still 😐. #plus1

I self-host now: this account runs on my own server and my own domain, @mbr

The old instance is shutting down and the auto-migration only carried a fraction of you across. If you can read this, you're already in the right place.

Everyone else has to re-follow by hand. Please BOOST this to help me get back everyone :)

#Fediverse #SelfHosted #Mastodon #mbr #masterbootrecord

Great interview with EMMA Technology Cooperative from Strange Birds (also a co-op!)
#WorkerCoops #Tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3RgYmKLJ78