Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

CNN is flummoxed, foundering, and ruderless. They might has well have had Vanna White at the debate, pointing to the next question. The Times is broken. The Post is being invaded from within. Murdoch's empire has been successful at its insurrectionist mission. Sinclair is accessory to that crime. Hedge funds control most newspaper chains. News media are a dire disaster and, no, it's not a crisis of business. It is a crisis of mission.

Some self-soothe by reading powerless Supreme Court dissents. I do it by declaring noon as Beer O'Clock.

Daniel Dale is CNN's fact checker. He's fact-checking the debate in real time on his Twitter feed.

There are a couple things Biden's said that Dale says are not quite right, or need some context explained to be technically true.

Other than that, it's dozens and dozens of tweets pointing out Trump's bald-faced lies.

Some reason CNN isn't running this as a Chyron on the broadcast?

If you have not yet watched John Oliver’s presentation of the plans for Trump’s second term, I recommend you do.

Yes, it is a comedy show, but the facts presented are extremely important and eye opening.

Last Week Tonight is on Max, but if you are not a subscriber, there is a 30 minute version of the show here on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/gYwqpx6lp_s?si=sV2g9mQkSK9I2hJQ

When CNN decided to let Trump lie with zero fact checking, it gave Trump its biggest gift to date.

CNN has decided, based on its pre-debate "coverage", that the two major-party candidates are very much equivalent.

The network's correspondents surely know that they are pushing the worst kind of false balance, but it is what they do routinely.

Business as usual in Big Journalism will be seen by honest historians as one of the most effective enablers of fascism in America.

the allegory of the nazi bar

@agx @dos @kyle I work on this phone. you hit the nail on the head; it is our goal to share and upstream as many of our improvements as possible throughout our shared stack. you may have already seen me around GitLab now and again. :)

re: mainline, afraid it's not in our roadmap. getting the device in a halfway semi-usable state would be a decade-long project and the result would be ~the same to an end user. we prefer to focus our energy on improving the userspace (e.g. GTK perf, Firefox, etc)

I just recorded an episode of BetterOffline and, uh, I may have gone too hard.

I may have laughed openly at the CTO of OpenAI's PR statements.

I dimly recall saying that modern Agile has mutated so badly that "we're on Kamino but all the clones have eight heads" and accused GenAI waste of being measurable in dead dog tonnage looking at treatment costs in Fiji.

Just going to leave my Patreon link here before I get fired, thanks, remember me fondly, I would do it again: https://www.patreon.com/Ludic190

@davidgerard it’s finally gotten through to the LLM boosters that normal people fucking hate the idea of LLMs enshittifying creative work, and it’s very funny watching them throw shit at the wall trying to find a use case that isn’t universally hated

“uhhh we’ll have the LLMs replace lawyers and garbage people, surely you don’t hate that” and it turns out most people hate losing lawsuits and appreciate when their trash gets collected, which you’d think would be obvious, but

Ever tried a #TilingWindowManager for an efficient workflow? Using #Wayland already?

Check out https://codeberg.org/river/river #riverWM, a tiling Wayland compositor.

It supports custom "layout generators" and we found an active ecosystem of tools and plugins for the project.

If you know some #Ziglang, you can start hacking right away, or dive into the #ziglings excercises to learn it: https://codeberg.org/ziglings/exercises

Let us know what you think if you tried it!

#CommunitySpotlight #tilingWM

Ahead of the debate, here's Trump's VP shortlist. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/06/21/trumps-v-p-shortlist/

I truly think the way we're going to survive the next few months, years, and on is by creating and leaning on small communities.

Create a huge chosen family if you can, and then do everything you're able to support them while they support you. Distribute wealth, share spoons, share your heart and uplift theirs.

Shake up what you thought society was supposed to be, live in each other's houses, move to the same neighborhood, etc.

Humans are meant to be together. Capitalism needs us apart.

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Nonchalantly using over-hyped technology that eats up massive resources, only to provide marginal benefits to the few who can afford to use them while making the world worse for everyone else, really is peak "rich white people" behavior, especially when those same people keep going on about protecting the environment.

Yes, I am implying that using "AI" tools, despite being aware of all of the negatives they come with might, in fact, be a moral failing on your part.

Finally, some good news
"A white buffalo calf was born in the park’s vast and lush Lamar Valley. To the several tribes who revere American bison, the calf’s appearance was both the fulfillment of sacred prophecy and a message to take better care of the Earth."
https://montanafreepress.org/2024/06/26/tribes-honor-the-birth-of-a-rare-white-buffalo-calf-in-yellowstone/

This will never not be funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPT-DuG0UjU

If journalists did even a tiny bit of self-reflection, this headline

"Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voters"

would be understood as proof that Big Journalism has utterly failed to do its job.

But if you read the story, there's not a hint of that recognition.

https://wapo.st/3KYyorV (free link)

Journalists aren't the only reason for this public ignorance of reality. But they are a major factor, and they absolutely refuse to grasp that, much less do better.

Election denialism isn’t gone. Trump’s backers are probing for weaknesses.


The Carter Center, founded by former president Jimmy Carter, normally sends election observers to countries such as Sierra Leone, Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

⭐️This fall, the group will deploy nonpartisan monitors in Michigan, Arizona and, yes, Georgia ⭐️
— not the country but the state where the group is based.

Such vigilance, in the world’s oldest democracy, reflects 💥the corrosive downstream effects of former president Donald Trump’s years of relentless election denialism.💥


Mostly under the radar, 🔥Trump backers in some key states are probing for weaknesses in the nation’s decentralized election administration system. 🔥

For example, Mr. Trump’s allies appear to be exploring whether county-level officials can block the certification of vote tallies, if the election doesn’t go their way.


The United States has more than 3,000 counties. Dragging out certification in one could create a cascading problem in which a state is unable to certify its results by the Dec. 17 deadline to cast its electoral votes so that they can be sent to the Capitol for counting on Jan. 6, 2025.

If no candidate receives 270 electoral votes, the House might be forced to pick the president
— with each state’s delegation getting one vote,
a system that favors Republicans.


The Electoral Count Reform Act that passed in 2022 addressed weaknesses exposed by Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

State legislatures will find it harder to block certification, and the threshold is higher for members of Congress to block the counting of electoral votes a state submits.

Yet, while significant and valuable, the bipartisan measure did not address every vulnerability.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/26/2024-election-certification-denial/