Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at parades 'n' protests
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https://boingboing.net/2025/06/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-political-protests.html

There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407/scientists-may-have-found-a-big-mysterious-carbon-sink-in-the-south-island

The bodies weren't even cold before MAGA spun up a conspiracy theory, deflecting blame for the Minnesota shooting and saying no, it was actually Democrats who did it. To themselves.

It makes no logical sense. But it does encourage more MAGA violence.

https://www.salon.com/2025/06/16/conspiracy-theories-about-minnesota-shooter-arent-just-deflection-theyre/

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com

From the U.S. Press Tracker

Los Angeles immigration raids protests began on June 6. The Tracker is investigating:

- 47 assaults on journalists
- 8 detainments/arrests of journalists
- 5 equipment damages
- 2 equipment searches/seizures

View our database:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?date_lower=2025-06-01&tags=immigration&endpage=

News outlets, even propagandist ones, are not legitimate military targets.

Bombing a studio during a live broadcast will not impede Iran’s nuclear program. It’s not the work of the world’s “most moral army” and is not something the U.S. should support.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-irib-state-tv-air-strike-9ab46d05baeb354a6596bd09aa12a2d6

Great to see this on file so quickly. LAPD's assaults on journalists must stop now.

https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/journalists-sue-los-angeles-police-for-unlawful-use-of-force/

@georgetakei

Reminder that the fascism is funded by the wealthiest people on the planet.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/project-2025-oracle-19654875.php

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/larry_ellison_second_richest_person/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/06/13/larry-ellison-40-billion-richer---surpassing-bezos-and-zuckerberg---as-oracle-stock-mounts-big-rally/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

The fossil fuel industry funded that abomination Project 2025 for a reason.

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

https://thebulletin.org/2025/06/trumps-ai-gamble-in-the-gulf-doesnt-put-america-first/

To keep their fossil fuel wealth, the rich are preparing to do much, much worse to humanity & to the planet.

Until the oil wealth is stopped, the billionaires won't stop.

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From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

CNN anchor Erin Burnett was pushed by police on live TV while actively covering an immigration enforcement protest in LA on June 9:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/police-push-correspondent-on-live-tv-during-immigration-protest-in-downtown-la/

We'll be tabling at the Positive Force 40th anniversary shows in DC this week. If you're around, come see us and celebrate 40 years of punk & hardcore activism. http://positiveforcedc.org/

Update: I just had to edit the description on YouTube to say that the video was originally released on PeerTube last week... because I was getting inundated with complaints ("why isn't this video on PeerTube?"). Ouf.

You know you need to go offline when you start replying to people all in caps "IT WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON PEERTUBE!" 🫠

Anyway, I'm off to a screening of the film as part of the internship program Sam & Riyen were in. Excited to show it again ✨ 🚀

#TheFutureIsFederated

“To get your hands on a gas turbine and to actually get it built across the market, you’re really looking at 2030, or later.” That's NextEra CEO John Ketchum.

My latest, with SolarKal's David Wei:

"Trump Wants U.S. Energy Dominance; Solar Is the Way to Get There"

https://gwagner.com/trump-solar

#trump #us #climate #solar

❝Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.❞

Hell of a research abstract there, via @gwagner: https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/114690366530883451

Scientists discover strange signals coming from ancient R'lyeh.

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/strange-radio-pulses-detected-coming-ice-antarctica

The Times can't help itself. Blatantly corrupt dealings in Trump world merely "raise ethical concerns" -- because the Times (like essentially all of Big Journalism) has normalized activity that would have had news barons demanding impeachment of any previous president.

I'm attending a sales meeting in one hour with some people from Sydney, who have said that my product is going to be a great fit at their conference.

Of course, my company does not have a product, so I mostly just want to see if they really will like, fail to Google me but allocate two staff to the call.

(Of course, maybe they have read something and the product is my consulting, but I am DUBIOUS.)

An day of epic protests in America yesterday warrants one mention now on the NY Times homepage: far down the page, about a protester's killing in Utah.

The Times has said repeatedly that its mission doesn't include saving democracy. This is only the latest evidence of its indifference.

I think it'd be pretty metal if Canada stopped Trump at the board and sends him back when he tries to get to the G7 Summit.