Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

them: Wow. This person who keeps making videos abt how most small family farmers are millionaires w a 6-figure income? We should ask her how to save farmers.

me: Nah we shouldn't be "saving" millionaires w 6-figure incomes. Or the farmers who are even bigger

them:

Every so often the head of a do-gooder nonprofit or journalist reaches out, wanting to hear my thoughts on [farm topic]

And they're always floored & taken aback that I say "mean" things about farmers. Like "They're adults. They chose this. And they should live with the consequences of their actions."

Policymakers are legislating blanket bans on social media based on evidence that would be rejected in any other field of public health. Before imposing these draconian measures, they must listen to the experts sounding the alarm on oversimplified conclusions. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/science-not-settled-how-weak-evidence-fueling-national-push-ban-social-media-youth

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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116607455389757472

I never thought this day would come, but this is a pretty stupid future, so...

I've added noindex,nofollow meta tags for Google user-agents in all of my site's page headers.

Since I complained about it earlier I feel it's important to give respect when due: WordPress 7.0 released and my host will be updating my site to it eventually. I was super concerned because WordPress 7 is supporting AI integration, and there are a lot of negative connotations that come with that.

Well, as it turns out, the developers were looking ahead and anticipating that, because they made it possible to turn that integration off.

But there's more...

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Arc XP and The Washington Post illegally fired 76 tech workers for union activity, myself included, and then started releasing opinion videos on social media with right-wing dipshit influencers telling the public about how great more AI data centers are.

Democracy died a while ago, and this is merely the desecration of a corpse.

Some months ago it was revealed that they use donated bodies for ballistics testing, now this:
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116611159697312350

Friend just lost their job, right after buying a new house, and because they're on a visa they have 90 days to find another job or get deported.

If anyone has any leads on software product/partner/customer management jobs in London, please send them my way.

This week’s comic now up on Daily Kos
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Justice Roberts’s Shadow Docket steps OUT of the shadows, revealing their true purpose!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/21/800041951/cartoon/tom-the-dancing-bug-reveals-the-shadow-dockets-true-identity/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/116611995470298305

indeed, this shows the scientists were right when they said renewables et al. could reduce extreme risk.

#trump, as usual, is wilfully wrong, or maybe just stupidly wrong

Scientists Tweaked the #GlobalWarming Outlook. So Trump Weighed In.
#RenewableEnergy has helped make the worst-case scenario a bit less bad. The president said, falsely, it shows that #climate #scientists were wrong all along.
Hothouse scenario assumed highest #greenhousegas #emissions. Predicting temps rise 5C or 9F. Climate experts said likelier range would be warming of 2.5-3 Celsius by the end of the century, based on current #emissions trends
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/climate/trump-global-warming-truth-social.html
https://archive.is/20260519011715/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/climate/trump-global-warming-truth-social.html

The feeling when you use crazy complex abstractions you designed but already forgot how they work, and... they are easily used!

Torn between proud of my smart self from 2 weeks ago and sorry for my clueless today self.

That would not have ben possible without #rust 's type system.

#programming #rustlang

If anyone wants to recruit a senior R&D code monkey with multiple degrees for a job that will involve neither "AI" bullshit nor "blockchain" bullshit nor "HFT" bullshit nor killing people nor destroying the planet just for the heck of it ... I get cheaper and cheaper by the minute as things descend deeper and deeper into nutty "More cloud and more AI will fix it!!" chaos around me. Located in Germany. Will only work remote as we're tied to this place due to aging parental units. Strong preference for something related to actual green technology such as solar. #FediHire #FediHired #Systems #Storage #ProgrammingLanguages #Compilers #GreenTech #Solar #Linux #BSD #Academia #Teaching #noAI #BoostsWelcome