Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The "it doesn't have a thumb yet" joke really irritates me since it implies evolution ... it's a little ominous in a way that the very interesting vacuum cleaner robot doesn't deserve.

It also doesn't make any sense. A giant pick and place robot doesn't need a thumb, that's the whole point.

I don't know how people watch most media. There is so little real reporting, even a story about technology is just another opportunity for hype.

The thing that “AIs” are the best at is turning every communication into a conflict, where the LLM user is the attacker and the person who has to consume its output is the defender. https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use.

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Next Monday, the EU decides on Chat Control 1.0. Will they let the Trojan Horse through the gate and let Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc continue to scan all your messages?

We at Tuta say NO.

❌ No scanning
❌ No mass surveillance
❌ No age verification

Instead we fight for:

✅ Encryption
✅ Privacy
✅ Open Source

And so should the EU. Call your local representatives! 🥊

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #Privacy

I have a hard time trusting people who express a belief in the benevolence of robber-barons and tech bro dipshits.

Holy hell, could Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Ministry for the Future' "wet bulb temp catastrophe" be playing out right now in Pakistan (in the book I think it was set in a doomed Uttar Pradesh )? For their sake, I dearly hope not. Sending hope for cooling! https://www.dawn.com/news/2009970/51-degrees-and-counting-surviving-heat-in-jacobabad

Bill C-22 is a massive change from the status quo in Canada, and should be debated and fixed before moving it forward. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill

“The wake of a data breach would be a good time for Madison Square Garden to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/

LIMITS 2026 starts TOMORROW!

This week, June 23-25, join a global distributed community at our free yearly online-first conference #LIMITS2026.

LIMITS moves us closer towards #computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres. We're excited for 15 peer reviewed papers, 10+ alternative contributions, open sessions, and a storytelling session with Bonnie Nardi.

Program and free registration: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/

Under the First Amendment, possessing literature cannot be criminal.

If prosecutors are correct that Daniel Sanchez moved zines because he feared they’d try to use them against his wife, that’s a commentary on their lawlessness, not his.

Our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/texas-man-sentenced-to-30-years-for-transporting-pamphlets/

Fuck Judge Mark T. Pittman and Judge Reed O’Connor.

We are without words. Our thoughts are with the Prairieland Defendants and their loved ones.

Become a Friend of PM, and support independent radical publishing. We’ll send you books monthly, and you'll get 50% off of everything on our website year-round. You’ll also receive this enamel pin set free. Offer ends 7/1. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=139

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can:

https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (25/2026): Alpen Avocado and a flip phone by Commodore

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-25-2026/

#Linux #LinuxMobile #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #DanctNIX #postmarketOS #CommodoreCallback #MobileConfigFirefox

Transparency wins in Tennessee.

Judicial records can't be kept secret without a compelling interest, the TN Supreme Court has clarified.

This is a major win for public access to the court system.

https://www.aol.com/news/tn-supreme-court-raises-bar-100324266.html

"It’s not hard to see why Israel would seek to intervene in the electoral processes of democratic nations in Latin America, Europe and other parts of the world, including, most importantly, the United States of America. As public support for Israel collapses across the West (see graph below), both Tel Aviv and Washington are determined to install as many Israel-friendly governments as possible in Latin America."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/the-us-and-israels-covert-and-overt-election-meddling-on-multiple-continents-is-off-the-charts-2.html

#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.

Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”

(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)

This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/

#tech #ai #datacenters #climate #heatwave

Another dead a$$hole.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/good-riddance-alan-greenspan.html