Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I successfully got the SELC to stop using AI art in their presentations (or at least one of them). When orgs you care about start showing signs of slop, call them out loudly. Sometimes it works.

“All tomorrow’s parties. — Ethan Marcotte”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-tomorrows-parties/

> When I say the phrase “generational damage,” I mean it.

Not sure many people outside of tech (or in tech for that matter) appreciate just how much is being destroyed

“SearchLeak: Prompt-inject enterprise Copilot with a search – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/17/searchleak-prompt-inject-enterprise-copilot-with-a-search/

We were discussing hiding & disabling preinstalled apps on immutable images at PCM26 and recently with the @postmarketOS #duranium folks.

We now have some bits that allow to hide those (and other) applications. There's plenty of more work needed for different app types (e.g. we can do better for webapps) so help here is appreciated.

#Phosh #LinuxMobile #gtk #BengalOS

Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?

Oh, right

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/

Wow. Frontier Airlines has seriously screwed the pooch. Your passport numbers, credit card numbers, identifying your children...

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/frontier-airlines-hack

This is Kohen Wiley, the one year old baby killed by a Mississippi police officer earlier today.

Patrol sergeant Hunter Foster shot and killed this innocent child after someone reported his mother stole diapers.

She didn’t steal them. She was the victim of racial profiling.

But even if she had … you don’t shoot people for shoplifting.

Many locals went to protest this senseless murder and the cops tear gassed them.

ACAB.

RIP Kohen Wiley. You deserved so much better.

#mississippi #uspol #acab #racism #discrimination

The NO FAKES Act is supposed to address harmful AI replicas. But as drafted, it would make it easier to suppress satire, commentary, and political speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/no-fakes-act-could-silence-satire-commentary-and-news

https://kolektiva.media/w/hASJMYJx34QrNPN4fMSZAf

The World Cup has come to so called North America and with it, corruption, gentrification, dispossession, and repression. From their conception to the present day, mega-sporting events have been used as powerful tools of social control. Activists and militants in the territories occupied by the state of Mexico have been organizing direct actions and have issued a call for a total boycott of the World Cup.

In collaboration with Ant1fazz Media

#WorldCup #Fifa

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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The Dementia Donnie Center for Television Watching
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-dementia-donnie-center-for-tv-watching.html

god help us we're idly chitchatting about a sysadmin/dev consultancy

obviously a shit ton of you want precisely this, and i can see you twitching for the YES I WANT IN button - but DON'T do that yet there is no thing here

but how the fuck do we sell this? None of us have any fucking idea how to market a consultancy, we all find doing sales makes us want to die

so. how the arsing fuck does one sell one's tech services?

also if you’ve established a consultancy before and can give an overview of the process and stuff we haven't even thought of, do feel free to chime in

We are struggling to keep Codebreg.org available for unauthenticated users due to massive abuse of expensive endpoints.

Our current priority is keeping Codeberg.org responsive for authenticated users.

In a just world, Elon Musk would die in prison. https://newrepublic.com/article/211936/elon-musk-race-war-belfast

“Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety”

https://www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-social-media-ban-keir-starmer-surveillance-parents-online-safety-bill-heather-burns

Amnesty International exposed years of anti-#trans reporting at four UK newspapers. They ignored it. - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-06-17/amnesty-international-exposed-years-of-anti-trans-reporting-at-four-uk-newspapers-they-ignored-it "Research by human rights group identifies nearly 17,000 articles on trans-related topics in just five years"

The use of AI in asylum decision-making is likely unlawful.

These tools rewrite interviews, choosing what to include and exclude.

Without knowing this, asylum applicants can't be sure accurate information is used to inform decisions.

📺️ ORG's @sarahalsherif explains.

https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/fhDQ1ezbb79jedsHPTqe1X

#RefugeeWeek #courage #asylum #ai #migrants #immigration #ukpolitics #ukpol

#WSocial will open up their beta program today… and I have a SCOOP for you: it appears that they have quietly gone closed-source!

This is ironic, considering that the @EUCommission just unveiled their Tech Sovereignty Package, emphasizing the importance of #OpenSource. And yet they have migrated their main ATproto accounts to W Social - whose code can no longer be inspected!

My full article - with a great analysis by @aral:

🔗: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/

#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech

The Trump regime's vicious and blatantly political prosecutions are a total abuse of power. Example: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/minnesota-attorney-ice-protester-indictment

It's vital that potential jurors learn of their own power: to deny convictions, to serve justice to these victims of a lawless government.

https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/jury-nullification-faq/is-jury-nullification-legal.html

"Dear customer portal team,

Your support chatbot is alienating and awful. The patronising simulation of human care, the self-reflexive "I" and "me", and the use of an AI-generated human face stereotyping young Asian women as tech-native and servile is a stain on your brand.

If you cannot budget for a human to take support requests, may I suggest significantly boosting customer morale by switching to a paperclip with dancing eyebrows. Other animated stationery products may work too."

Name them all.

“More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.”

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/