Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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NPR - DoJ withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell

@screwturn @xgranade

I'd love to tell you you're imagining things.

You're not.

It's a weapon.

The fucking thing is a weapon. On a whole lot of different levels.

Remember everything is about power and control. One time I was looking at medical studies to participate in cause I'm poor, and one turned out to be a dog food company wanting to stick electrodes to people's heads to measure their reactions to ads. The CIA's torture program explicitly researches things like learned helplessness. What the hell WOULDN'T this system try to do, to warp people's minds and push social engineering? Thats what the LLM systems DO-- studying conversations, what js related to what and leads to these reactions, this engagement. How to make people interested, how to make them angry. Patterns of addiction and despair.

I work in mental health, and this shit makes my hair stand on end.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Texas Is About To Overtake California In #Battery Storage - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/0043228/texas-is-about-to-overtake-california-in-battery-storage despite #trump

Okay, so I've been talking about the ways that Big AI directly harms kids. But what can we *do* about it? Here are some things you can do, at work and and your kid's school, to take action today, complete with scripts to follow: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/

Former ICE Employee: "I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken. I received secretive orders to teach cadets to violate the Constitution"

Read that again.

Ordered. To violate. The Constitution.
This isn’t partisan spin. This is about the rule of law.

Repost please!! 🙏

#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #ICE #AbolishICE

US women’s hockey gold medal-winning team declines President Trump’s invite to his State of the Union address tomorrow. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/us-womens-hockey-team-declines-trumps-invitation-state-union-rcna260299

Jesse's question: "Many kiwi use adult entertainment sites - should NZ gov't have account there, too, to communicate with voters?" She (Jillain Heather - seehttps://www.fsu.nz/about ) was flustered by that... She's generally negative on social media... but I think her position was very weak.

"You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts"

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/you-do-not-under-any-circumstances-gotta-hand-it-to-chief-justice-roberts/

Yes, I could use archive.today (and its clones), but its behavior is WAY to sketchy at this point. See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Anthropic and OpenAI are accusing Chinese companies of using their work for their AI models.

Anthropic and OpenAI clearly have the high moral ground, having never used other people's work to create their products /sarcasm

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/anthropic-accuses-chinese-ai-labs-of-mining-claude-as-us-debates-ai-chip-exports/

I gave one of my first-year university lectures today, on biodiversity and extinction rates, in which I mention the recent population growth of the Earth's most abundant large animal species ever: us.

I still remain completely gobsmacked by the magnitude of the world's recent human population growth.

8.27 billion: today's population, according to worldometers.info.

7.2 billion: in 2015 when I started teaching the course.

6.8 billion: in 2008 when my daughter was born.

3.8 billion: in 1971 when I was born.

2.3 billion: in 1946 when my parents were born.

1.9 billion: in 1923 when my Dad’s Dad was born.

So 1.9 billion to 8.2 billion in just over a century!

I worry about whether we can sustain this many people on the planet long-term while retaining and restoring a thriving wild biosphere that supports us.

Some of us are going to have to learn to use a lot less energy and resources.

#SoManyPeople #HumanPopulation

Every accusation is a confession. Austin Smith, a former state legislator and senior official at Turning Point Action, has been sentenced for election-related fraud. Smith had previously been a vocal critic of election integrity and accused opponents of manipulating voting processes.

Colorado Wants Your Operating System to Card You

step 1: type any birthday you want. step 2: app decides you're lying based on "vibes". step 3: the app's guess is now legally binding. this is the actual plan 🪪🎂

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/23/colorado-wants-your-operating-system-to-card-you/

Are you looking for an experienced software and security generalist to help you with your project? Reach out, I know someone who can help (it’s me; I’m the someone.)

LISTEN: EFF’s @cooperq joins @thefinalstrawradio to talk about Rayhunter, the open-source firmware to turn hotspots into scanners that detect fake cell-phone towers (Stingrays) used by law enforcement. https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/22/rayhunter-with-cooper-quintin-plus-debanking-the-movement-in-germany/

I am BEGGING you.

Please, PLEASE, do not try to talk your way out of an arrest or detention. Do NOT talk to cops.

"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT."

Say that and SHUT UP.

Other Tech Worlds are Possible - via Brazil's Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST)

https://digilabour.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Other-Tech-Worlds-Are-Possible-Vol.-1-Homeless-Workers-Movement-in-Brazil-English.pdf

"Rupay is an employment lawyer in Germany, fighting for workers’ rights. Frustrated, working in a system rigged against workers, he sought out more empowering alternatives and discovered worker cooperatives. After years of researching and advising them as a lawyer, he went on to write A Practical Guide to Democratising Companies and to co-found a cooperative for cleaners."
#WorkerCoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3UyPC7L8b4

"Bharat Taxi, a platform co-op designed as a driver-owned alternative to capital-extractive models like Uber, was launched this month in New Delhi by India’s Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah. The platform is run as a multi-state co-op, with drivers, known as Sarathis, joining as members, shareholders and co-owners."

https://www.thenews.coop/indias-co-ops-minister-officially-launches-driver-owned-bharat-taxi/