Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Associated Press is collaborating with a so-called prediction market (Kalshi) that invites corrupt gambling on its platform.

Baffling that the AP was willing to compromise its credibility as several other news organizations have done.

https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2026/ap-to-provide-kalshi-its-gold-standard-elections-data-ahead-of-primaries/

ICE deported a severely disabled 6 year old to Columbia after removing him from his special needs school.

Before being deported he was dragged from one detention centre to another and denied his medical devices.

He had no way to communicate or understand what was happening.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-06/deaf-6-year-old-boy-deported-with-family-to-colombia-attorney-says

#abolishice #immigration #disability #ableism #uspol

We could end homelessness and hunger tomorrow if we wanted to.

We could agree that everyone should be fed and housed.

We could admit that being disabled, poor, homeless or unemployed is not a moral failing.

That society would be better off if everyone’s basic needs were met.

Hanne Dugeman is a Type 1 diabetic who was denied proper medical care in ICE custody.

She lost 10lbs in 9 days.

She experienced severe infections and had to be placed in medical isolation.

She was denied her continuous glucose monitor.

She was given too much insulin & another detainee gave her crackers and saved her life.

She did nothing wrong.

She was married to a US citizen and grabbed at a regular check in

ICE nearly killed her.

It’s eugenics

No one is safe in their custody, least of all disabled people.

https://www.newsweek.com/diabetic-woman-arrested-by-ice-almost-died-after-being-refused-insulin-11611498

#abolishice #immigration #uspol #fascism #ableism #disability #eugenics

Investigating my daughter's Chromebook, I found that Chrome by default sends your ENTIRE browsing history to Google, all sites, everywhere on the web. (If you're signed in I guess, which you always are on a Chromebook.) This is something you can turn off by visiting https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols. How many people know about this? I stopped using Chrome myself a long time ago. It's no wonder the Google advertising machine is so effective. #google #chrome #surveillance

Our dumbest war yet requires our dumbest weapons. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/3/6/2371926/-Cartoon-Dumb-war-weapons

“Drone as first responder” programs are branded as emergency response technology, but actually involve “building the infrastructure for a pervasive, aerial mass surveillance system,” EFF’s Sarah Hamid told The Santa Fe New Mexican. https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/policing-from-the-sky-santa-fe-police-testing-drone-as-first-responder-future/article_f032d779-9e80-4e03-912a-954912f109d9.html

Venture capitalists, get in on the ground floor of me, an IDEA MACHINE: Underwear that you rent. Shoes that detect if you're walking too leisurely and shock your feet. An aerodynamic baby you throw like a football.

St Patrick's Day enjoyers
🤝
Raw milk cultists

🥰 My milk is green 🥰

Rising gas prices are going to create a terrible rise in people who don't know how to use a sidewalk.

if you're depressed about the state of the world right now

or you're too numb to be able to feel anything at all

it means you have a moral compass. hold on to that.

people who are cheerfully going about business as usual right now, terrify us

Could someone PM me a Riseup email invite code? 🥺

#email #privacy

@dysfun One consistent boundary would be non-determinism, another the risk of copyright infringement

watching the fucking brain decay amongst previously superlative programmers, i'm gonna be saying "AI krokodil" a lot

This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

#war #foreignpolicy #uspol #cartoon

@alanpaxton @akahn I genuinely think having an AI write tests is a category error so bad I'd almost call it malpractice

A.I. musicians are COOKED. I just recorded an ENTIRE SONG using nothing but my instruments and a few microphones. This would have cost upwards of hundreds of dollars in expensive A.I. subscription fees but for me it was completely FREE. Don't get left behind. This is the future!

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Mining copper is environmentally devastating

In 1920, mining 1 ton of copper caused 30 ton of toxic waste

In 2020, mining 1 ton of copper caused 180 ton of toxic waste

Since 1900, the energy required to produce a unit of copper is up 16 fold.
The water required has doubled.

We need to mine as much copper in the next 18 years than in all of previous history.

In 2020, a data center might have used 5,000 tons of copper.

An AI data center can require up to 50,000 tons of copper

'Green'?