Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#DOGE spent $6.7 billion paying federal workers not to work - https://boingboing.net/2026/09/16/doge-paid-leave-6-7-billion.html efficiency, huh...

Dear Fedi friends,

I want to share a discovery that made my MONTH.

10 days ago, while I was putting together the slides for my presentation at Berlin #FediDay, I noticed a new entry in the @cercle directory (the Mastodon instance set up by the Service Numérique of the French Ministry of Culture):

✨ @MuseeOrsay ✨

Ouiiiiii!

Paris' super prestigious museum - that welcomed 7.3 million visitors last year - is now on the #Fediverse !!!🥳

Let's give Musée d'Orsay a warm welcome ❤️

business school isn't actually teaching you a science. It's teaching you an ideology.

It exists to produce the managerial class - enforcers of capital who normalize the idea that "profit" is the natural goal of human existence, rather than a parasitic extraction.

#capitalism #workingclass #labor #profit

Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives are suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup in 1997.

My deep dive: https://tedium.co/2026/09/14/usenet-rewind-archive-revival-website/

new @tedium

I’m still kind of mad about HTML email tbh. That was the beginning of the end.

RE: https://chaos.social/@andre_meister/117280716531020144

Reminder: eIDAS, which the EU recommends as the "privacy-preserving solution" to this, is not sovereign, it has a hard (and intentional!) dependency on remote attestation powered by Google and Apple. Users of Linux or anyone not using a phone will not be able to read anything with user-generated content as a result.

they should ban web developers from having more than 2GB RAM

Let's meet in person to support each other getting free of big tech 💚

We will be hosting cozy hangouts where we help each other fight surveillance capitalism in hands-on ways. Come join and bring ur friends 🐌 🪱 🐜 🦋 🐛 🐞

Check out our upcoming events:
https://dukop.dk/en/group/1904/

@dukop #dkmastodon #aarhus @aarhus

It must be frustrating to work your way up to the federal bench only to spend your days answering grade-school-level questions like: Can feds show up at someone’s home and hotel room to threaten them with prosecution for criticizing the government via email?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/09/16/ice-likely-violated-first-amendment-by-issuing-warning-critic-judge-rules/

Too Used to Prompt

Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/070.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug:
🧠 DEMENTIA DONNIE RUNS A DEMENTED CAMPAIGN
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Brought to you by the intrepid Inner Hive, including long-time member Veronica Santa Monica and new member Hunter X.
( patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Palestinian rights were pushed to the political fringe for decades. In 2024, Sandra Tamari and Saqib Bhatti wrote: No more.

Now Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour—and every other opener and Sheeran’s backing band have followed him out, in solidarity.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-democrats-israel-gaza-palestine-michigan-uncommitted

The East Palestine derailment began long before a burning axle sent a train off the tracks. Jami Wallace traces the disaster back to Norfolk Southern’s safety culture—and to warnings from rail workers that went unheard.

A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/how-communities-poisoned-by-data-centers-and-toxic-spills-can-stand-together

Reform UK Could Pocket Nearly £500,000 in Interest if They Are Forced to Return £72 Million Crypto Billionaire Donations
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/reform-uk-could-pocket-nearly-500000-in-interest-if-they-are-forced-to-return-72-million-crypto-billionaire-donations/

Scotland imposes mandatory environmental assessments on new datacentres - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/16/datacentres-scotland-environmental-assessments-ai-boom now require renewal energy too

#Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/16/reform-thinktank-tax-cuts-rich-centre-for-a-better-britain this is clearly #farage's "#project2025 - and will be just as disastrous for all but the rich and powerful

‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/16/building-frankenstein-jd-vance-dismisses-ai-regulation oh yeah, that will definitely work... #ai

Wanted: Schrödinger’s Cat
Dead And Alive.

To become independent from X, @EUCommission is betting on … #WSocial, a sort of revamped BlueSky with exactly 3388 users with at least one post.

@elena is trying to alert people about this comical disaster:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/

Which is now even more nonsensical as they inadvertently invented BoratCasting !

https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01M2MQXYZ177XDMX349PBFG7Z2

#WBoratCasting Is Very Nice European Technology for Make Benefits Glorious Nations of Brussels!

https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html