Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way”

https://www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pinker-anti-woke-eugenics-race-science-free-speech-epstein-edge-nathan-cofnas-jason-arday?utm_source=www.thenerve.news

I've had several bosses and former coworkers who were major Pinker fans and they all turned out to be toxic dicks. So he's useful as a red flag. See a Pinker book on the shelf: refuse that glass of water and get the hell out of Dodge before you become one of Pinker's statistics of for a "decline in violence"

Thank you to each of you who writes your own toots, hand crafts your own blog posts and stories, draws and paints your own art, and makes your own music.

I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.

I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.

I read recently that in societies where empathy increases, justice decreases. It puzzled me at first, but it makes sense.

Philanthropy is all about compassion and empathy – giving. But that doesn't make it fair.

In fact, often it’s another way of making sure some are benefactors and can feel great about themselves, while others are poor and crushed and have to feel permanently grateful if they get anything at all.

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“AI almost starts WWIII”. No it did not. The people stupid enough to think that LLMs can be used as a reliable source of information did that. That’s like reporting “Tarot cards almost start WWIII”. Completely irresponsible framing.

Feels like Icelandic media has a clueless “AI” hype piece every single day at the moment. Their complete inability to apply any sort of criticism or scepticism to the claims is exhausting to witness.

The food is contaminated.

The medical supplies are contaminated.

If you’re thinking “I will just wash everything more to be safe”… think again.

The soap is contaminated with bacteria.

This was always the goal of deregulation.

Flood the zone so people can’t keep up.

It’s a cull:

https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/lifestyle/hand-soaps-recall-upgraded-by-fda-over-bacterial-contamination-fears/

#uspol #deregulation #fda #recalls #eugenics #fascism

Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) #vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was.
RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system.

Moooooooooom! manchicken is making tutorials that he's likely to lose interest in again!

https://manchicken.com/2026/09/19/adventures-in-zig-finding-a-substring/

People who think "anarchy" means a descent into violent chaos are people who have read zero books on anarchy by people who have defined and adopted the philosophy.

So many alternative ideas on organizing society have been poisoned by those who benefit most from the way our society is currently structured.

We should all read books about ideas we disagree with, and accept those authors genuine intent. Then we can disagree honestly with the ideas, rather than dishonestly with their caricature.

"They tried to bury us, but didn’t know we are seeds! New archive containing all Noblogs pages now open!"

#NoBlogs #A/I

https://nublogs.org/

READ A FUCKING BOOK ALREADY!

And tell me which one you're reading! I'm on book 3 of Murderbot Diaries. I also just finished "Extinction of Experience."

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This is straight out of Handmaids Tale.

A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle.

Don’t comply? You lose a grade.

There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.

#uspol #fascism #reproductiverights #eugenics #privacy

Tierra Walker died from pre-eclampsia because healthcare workers refused to intervene due to the Texas abortion ban

While suffering seizures, a HCW said to tell her husband: “Can you go tell him that this is all in her head?'" 

They psychologized a life threatening complication until it killed her.

Her family is suing the hospital, doctors and AG Ken Paxton.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-death-lawsuit-tierra-walker-ken-paxton/

#uspol #texas #abortion #kenpaxton #healthcare #abortionishealthcare

It’s difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than Trump banning news outlets from the People’s House for criticizing the government.

These outrageous attacks only show how scared he is of an informed public.

Our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-comments-on-trumps-media-ban-announcement/

Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/18/sensitive-uk-police-data-vulnerable-to-compromise-by-us-government-and-foreign-actors well, doh: many of us have been warning about this for years...

What Calibre developers have done here is an affront to the human act of creation, and no less than a fascist attack on art. I do not believe that to be even slightly an exaggeration, even if it does sound hyperbolic.

To have a fascist attack on art come from an open source project that used to stand for helping users free their e-books from proprietary lock-in is beyond disgusting.

But I don't get to say something like that without backing it up by action.

@joelPosts @rochelimit @omgubuntu There is this AI free fork, haven't tried it: https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

@phosh users: There are some regressions regarding OSK input (like the keyboard showing too often or text prediction not working) when using #Phosh with apps using #gtk 4.24. So if possible please stick to 4.22 just a bit longer, until these are resolved.

Note that this also applies to Flatpaks using the GNOME 51 runtime.

Maybe #Flatpak maintainers that want to help mobile users could stick to the 50 runtime just a little bit longer too.

#LinuxMobile

#LinuxMobile

#PrivateJets pollute up to 14 times as much as #CommercialPlanes and are #Undertaxed in #US, report says | US news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/private-jets-pollution-undertaxed

#Environment #Aviation #GreenhouseGases #Pollution