Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A must-read report from CPJ: "We returned from hell": Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons

"58 Palestinian journalists reported being subjected to what they described as torture, abuse, or other forms of violence in Israeli detention facilities."

https://cpj.org/special-reports/we-returned-from-hell-palestinian-journalists-recount-torture-in-israeli-prisons/

AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and over

The most random number is 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0B6hoOE9uo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260219-ai-generates-the-same-random-passwords-over-and-over - podcast

time: 5 min 32 sec

HEADLINE: "Trump announces $10B donation to Board of Peace"

ALT HEADLINE: "Trump steals $10B from the American people in broad daylight"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_978LLWYags

NEW: ‘I’m a U.S. Citizen and I was arrested by ICE,’ A Statement from a Legal Observer in Minneapolis

Upwards of 206 U.S. citizens have been hauled off the streets by masked federal agents over the past 3 months in Minnesota.

One of the hundreds shared their experience which they said illustrates the broader systemic harm faced by immigrants, Indigenous people and communities of color.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/im-a-u-s-citizen-and-i-was-arrested-by-ice-a-statement-from-a-legal-observer-in-minneapolis/

Let's disrupt <industry> by reinventing <thing that already exists> but exempt from labour laws!

"They're going full steam ahead to figure out how to wring a profit out of this stuff," EFF’s Cooper Quintin told @Bbcworld. "There are countless ways to abuse this." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded." —Leo Tolstoy

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DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'
L: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/doge-bros-grant-review-process-was-literally-just-asking-chatgpt-is-this-dei/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076826
posted on 2026.02.19 at 13:01:50 (c=0, p=3)

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked
https://www.404media.co/grok-doxing-real-names-birthdates-siri-dahl/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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Researchers Declare That A.I. Model Is Conscious;
ICE Immediately Seizes and Detains It

Brought to you by the brilliant Inner Hive, including longtime member Marcelline and new member David Howell
(you can too patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership)
READ IT HERE👇

"Our right and ability to do this work is now under intense assault."

"I asked journalists who have been covering the ICE raids in LA, Oakland, Chicago, and Minneapolis to share their advice on staying safe."

"Here's what they said."
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Author: Brooke Anderson
Publication: Prism
February 18, 2026
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#USA #Media #Protest #Military #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://prismreports.org/2026/02/18/photojournalists-ice-raids-movement-journalism/

bad category of person: person who comments "just buy a new <thing>, they're only like $25" under a post by someone asking how to fix something

“The hunting of whistleblowers is wrong because it is failing to address the actual problem, which is the reason they blow the whistle in the first place,” FPF's Adam Rose told Lookout Eugene-Springfield.

https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/government-politics/2026/02/18/officials-investigating-how-lookout-obtained-state-hospital-report/

Consequences in the US are too fantastical, so I'm hoping for a kaiju to emerge from the Potomac and stomp the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation into dust.

Flexible spending accounts just aren't worth the effort, are they? This shit just feels like a scam.

Saw someone create a 19,000 line long Python dictionary today and now support loosening labour laws until they can be fired

Not seeing any redeeming qualities in this US-owned mining corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-18/alcoa-fined-for-clearing-jarrah-forest-for-bauxite-mine/106359988 Why do countries like NZ and AU continue to allow any of these corporations even enter their country, much less put them in charge of carving it up and shitting on the piece. Irredeemable.

"LLM-generated passwords"

"LLM-generated passwords fundamentally weak, experts say" and it's really a headline

I can't even.

I. can't. even.

I can't even begin to apprehend the brainrot that has been pushed on humanity by the "AI" terrorists.

Every time I think I get it, something like this comes across.

Beam me up.

A giant 🖕 to every academic who sees fascist eagar to fund and apply their pet area of research as a golden opportunity rather than something horrifying and a reason to immediately stop whatever they're doing.

None of these comics are in the Epstein files. https://inthesetimes.com/article/i-went-to-pedophile-island-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-shirt