Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Biden didn’t “fail” to stop the Gaza genocide—he helped run cover for it. Now his own staff are admitting what we knew all along: there was never a ceasefire plan. Just lies, weapons, and mass death. #GazaGenocide
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION:

I don't care about the environmental cost of AI.

I care that unscrupulous sociopaths have convinced enough gullible fools that LLMs *are intelligent* to create a damaging economic hype bubble that, like all such bubbles, causes environmental damage as a side-effect! Along with mass-deskilling and unemployment and profits for trillionaires.

Get people to realize that it's not intelligence at work, it's just statistical modeling, and tackle the root of the problem!

"Liberal analysts refuse to confront their own complicity in this dynamic. Instead, we have Michael Scherer in the Washington Post outrageously lumping together the baseless and dangerous conspiracies of the hard right with Bernie Sanders’s ... apparently because Sanders sees a society in crisis and 'points to the ultrarich' – as if stratospheric wealth concentration and legalized corruption are mere figments of the Vermont senator’s imagination."

#NaomiKlein, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/ignoring-robert-f-kennedy-jr-not-an-option

The United States is committing national suicide. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

Depraved indifference may be the best way to describe this: https://www.apskilledmymom.com/resources/myers

Thanks to @micahflee we can all examine the source code of that weird #Signal app variant from Telemessage that is used by Tim Waltz and possibly more Trump admin members.

iOS: https://github.com/micahflee/TM-SGNL-iOS
Android: https://github.com/micahflee/TM-SGNL-Android

(it's GPLv3 licensed, so Telemessage should be fine with this ;)

The democracies of the world that still use the old first-past-the-post voting system need to adopt a form of preferential voting (or single transferable vote or ranked choice)... This video shows how the UK's local politics are being hobbled by its decrepit voting system: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9mEZofx3Na4 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mEZofx3Na4

Windows 10 support ends soon. Millions of perfectly working computers may be scrapped just because they can’t run Win11. It’s absurd. https://endof10.org encourages people to switch to Linux - and offers volunteers' help. I moved from Windows to Linux in recent years and couldn’t be happier. My favourite old laptop, an affordable model which carried me through years of PhD, now runs like new. If you’re curious to try but nervous, I’m happy to help!

#Linux #FOSS #RightToRepair #EndOf10

It must be cold comfort to the US that it's new main purpose in the world order is to act as a warning to others. Good on you Canada and Oz for running the right wing asshats out on a rail. Now all you need to do is elect actual progressives instead of 'shit-lite'.

This week's comic: A "manly" economy

#economy #oligarchy #gender #authoritarianism #labor #jobs #inequality #work

@existentialcomics @tdp_org yeah, capitalism gave us CompuServe and AOL. The government gave us the Internet.

Come with me, on an NYT Idiot Safari ... https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/5/2/2319992/-Cartoon-Unfocused-groups

well, looks like i'm getting kicked out of my home soon /srs


i would appreciate help in this regard, my german skills aren't that great so contacting authorities to help isn't too easy for me. i currently live near darmstadt/mannheim for reference.

boosts appreciated. #mutualaid

BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center.

We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

Also, if (as Satya Nadela claims in public) 30% of Microsoft's software is LLM-generated, then we can expect the next couple of generations of Windows and Microsoft Office to be unelievably bad. Not just enshittified for advertising and profit: but full of really idiotic security holes and bugs inserted by LLMs that were trained on their own toxic efflux by "developers" too de-skilled to understand what they were doing.

I’m often reminded about the cartoon where someone asks, “what if we made the air cleaner and our cities liveable for nothing?”

There are lots of places where you can find something in common:

You don’t like traffic, I don’t like traffic. You know what fixes that? Buses!

You don’t like potholes, I don’t like potholes. You know what fixes that? Trains!

High power prices: solar & batteries.

Huge jumps in petrol prices: EVs

It helps to have them all ready.

@lightweight @heyrochelle

Packaged the open-source community calendar #Lauti for #NixOS, now in version 1.0 https://lauti.org ➡️ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/403263