Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116557803713255407

Remember when the entire GOP was calling Democrats groomers and pedophiles for wanting trans folks to exist without harassment? Turns out they were too busy actually being pedophiles to care once they got into power.

"EFF to Fourth Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant"

"EFF, along with the national ACLU, the ACLU affiliates in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) filed anamicus briefin the U.S."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-fourth-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant

#Privacy

I was away from the computer all day and I don't want to catch up. Things still suck and the bad people haven't faced consequences? Ok, I'm caught up.

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_opinion/116557235607143142

#boycott

what if you took the billions of dollars being spent on data centres and spent it on UBI instead

then you’s have a whole bunch of people suddenly with all this free time on their hands to make you pictures and answer your weird research questions

This is _your_ internet, too. How are you going to make it weird and cool today?

#WeirdifyTheInternet

@liamoc Tokenmaxxing mathematics championed by a Fields Medalist. Sad!

so what's the alternative if you can't review the avalanche of slop code? you just don't. and that's basically akin to live coding in the production environment. anyone who attempts this for long enough will be punished for their hubris

"Data centers aren't going to increase your power bill, that's a myth."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/maryland-citizens-slapped-with-usd2-billion-grid-upgrade-bill-for-out-of-state-ai-data-centers-state-complains-to-federal-energy-regulators-says-additional-cost-breaks-ratepayer-protection-pledge-promises

"Ben Rhodes, inhabits some fantasy world where America is a source of light for the world—as long as people from his side of the aisle are in charge."

Isn't this just standard issue PMC liberalism?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/the-same-democrats-who-brought-you-war-crimes-r-us-are-preparing-to-sell-you-an-imperial-rebrand-for-2028.html

If Dems take Congress, they can defund the Supreme Court and reduce their security detail to Paul Blart. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/05/11

More bad behavior by Big Tech data centers: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

It's time for the web to get cool and weird again, and I am doing my part: https://manchicken.neocities.org/

Do your part, and please share it with me so I can get stoked with you.

Great news everyone! I'm still alive and have dropped a post on my plans to violently knife as many software recruiters as possible, and also talk about how all the managers that seemed incompetent were, in fact, totally incompetent:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-worlds-left-to-conquer/

Couldn't agree more! The destruction of democracy, Constitution, Institutions, elections and rule of law!

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