Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

They've managed to screw up medical education.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/on-the-accelerating-decline-in-us-medical-training-and-with-it-doctor-competence.html

I just finished getting a one hour demo of the current meta in agentic programming from an actually-technical CTO.

100% stand by my statements in the latest blog post. It was very slightly better than I expected, but the CTO said many times "I would never trust this in production", and their main use was knocking out POCs that were being handled by an offshore (read: cheap and not very good) dev team.

Anyone laying off their Real Software Engineers on the grounds of AI productivity are nuts.

A Florida judge seeking a nomination to the federal judiciary turned a procedural ruling on one of Trump’s nonsense SLAPPs into a MAGA diatribe. Then he got his nomination.

The Florida Bar needs to investigate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/ed-artau-trump-judge-nomination-florida-00415408

Submerged Kickstater is live now!
Explore and back the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/submerged

I shaved my head during the covid lockdown, and I wound up liking it so much I've been doing it ever since. I'm turning 54 in a week, so I've decided to grow my hair out for a while just to see what color it is. Well, also to see how aggressive my widow's peak has become, and to see what bald spots I've developed over time.

I expect mostly what this will do is re-enforce my perception of hair being unnecessarily itchy.

I made a very silly video about (hypothetical) logistics of farming dodos

youtu.be/pA7uD9435tU

Trump has no effing idea how oil markets work. No amount of domestic production will change global prices when the market is reacting to Iran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, which is a choke point in the shipment of 20% of the world’s daily oil supply.

It was bound to happen some day--I'm starting my dive into Home Assistant.

My wife wanted a doorbell for our house, I wanted to protect our privacy, so it was the gateway project to set things up. Now my wish list is full of various home automation widgets, and I'm trying to decide how far I want to go with home automation.

What are your favorite Home Assistant devices?

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."

(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/masked-men-in-u-s-border-patrol-vests-brutally-beat-take-santa-ana-father/

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

P.S.: dear PeerTube admins who mirrored the video on your instances to help offset its bandwidth consumption...

and dear regular PeerTube users who kept your browser on my PeerTube page to take advantage of the P2P function and also help with bandwidth

you're real life superheroes to me. I cannot thank you enough! ❤️

I only got a couple of reports of the video being down, but it was mostly up and very fast, traffic surges and all 🤗

Space exploration isn’t wasteful. Letting the worst of humanity do it their way for all the wrong reasons is wasteful.

“That money could be spent on real problems here!” We solve real problems here via science and engineering, both of which are advanced by space exploration.

Nobody is starving because we have a space program. People are starving because we have billionaires.

🚫 So we just caught another “thanks but no thanks” from a grant we applied to for our next film A Red Road to the West Bank—a journey into Indigenous resistance from Turtle Island to Palestine.

But fuck it. We’re not waiting around for institutions to decide if our stories are worth telling. We got a fresh batch of keffiyehs, straight from Palestinians in Syria via a homie in the West Bank, and this is how we’re gonna fund this film—through real-deal solidarity, not nonprofit begging bowls.

We’ve got black & white (classics), red, green, blue, and yo—RAINBOW keffiyehs. Only 9 of those exist, so if you want one, move fast.

💥 Go to https://amplifierfilms.ca, click the Keffiyehs link, drop a donation for A Red Road to the West Bank, and tell us which color you want in the notes. If we’ve still got it, it’s yours.

Half the cash goes to support the Palestinian vendor and his fam. The other half helps us get this radical-ass film made.

#NoGrantsNoGodsNoMasters
#ARedRoadToTheWestBank
#FuckColonialism
#KeffiyehNotCapitalism
#AmplifierFilms

Most of #Phosh's short tutorial and demo videos are now also available on #peertube at https://peertube.debian.social/c/phosh/videos . Some of them are already a bit dated and thus look a bit old fashioned (but can still be useful)

#LinuxMobile

My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.

Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.

Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.

https://thecocklebur.substack.com/p/new-map-shows-public-land-for-sale

This is a disaster. As a Montanan, I'm not surprised that our R reps were against this, as conservative rednecks love going out to the un-developed woods just as much as the leftist hippies. Is there a lesson in there for other places?

"A new map published by the Wilderness Society documents which tracts of public land could be for sale. The potential sale area includes a vast area of over 250 million acres in 11 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. (NOTE—Montana is exempt from the proposed public land selloff due to resistance from the state’s Republican Representatives and Senators who oppose the sale. See, Republicans, speaking out works!!!)"