Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hey private enterprise enthusiasts. You believe that the public sector can save money by handing over utilities to companies, which are inherently more efficient.

Here's why this doesn't work.

You have to pay someone to monitor the private companies. Because they have no incentive to deliver what they promised. They always cut corners in the name of profit. And that monitoring eats the savings you hoped for. While you have no control over your utilities.

#capitalism

The thing about this, and this whole thing, is that only a pattern completion machine would do any of this. A human being would have taken one look at the issue and been like "what the fuck is that, that's not real" but the bots have zero judgment between just performing the form of code without any meaning and the real thing. LLMs produce boilerplate. Code boilerplate, syntactic boilerplate, semantic boilerplate.

The bot notes pre-existing test failures without noting that nothing in the entire repository, nor anything it is doing makes a goddamn bit of sense.

For the #LoRes Mesh project, we've decided to change from the GPL to the Anti-Capitalist Software License.

You can read more about our reasoning here:

https://lores.tech/blog/anticapitalist-license/

Essentially though it boils down to thinking that the Free Software movement's desire for "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" does not seem to be a good way to actually produce the society free from harm and oppression that we want.

#AntiCapitalistLicense #CoopCloud

BREAKING: Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a global first by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition.

The WMF has undergone a period of significant change in recent months, escalating workers’ concerns over transparency, trust, and the organisation’s future direction.

Trump and George W. Bush judges -- known for being right-wingers -- make a travesty of justice in Texas sentences. But the Guardian, normally an excellent news org, doesn't mention even their names, much less their ideologies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced

Where are the editors, anyway?

Unsealed court docs spotlight Judge John Docherty scolding federal prosecutors and investigators in Minnesota for failing to meet even the most basic legal probable cause requirements while filing for search warrants of activists and press in the Cities Church case.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/unsealed-court-docs-spotlight-judges-rejection-of-federal-search-warrants-in-cities-church-case/

Ugh, and now Guyon is talking to an ex-Microsoftie who - imagine - is gushing about adopting more 'AI'. We need to stop giving these people so much attention.

Please boost, PSA: @MichaelaKHulse has started government petition telling the government to honour its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement.

#Wellington #LowerHutt #NewZealand #AotearoaNZ #Aotearoa #NZPol

https://petitions.parliament.nz/0cbe8214-89b7-45e5-3c5b-08dec98aceba?lang=en

If you are doing any yard work, work on your home or apartment, need decent furniture, all at a decent price and live near a Habitat for Humanity Restore, check it out before going to a big box retailer... I can testify that they have saved us a lot of money. They are open to the public also and their profits goes for a good purpose. Many retailers donate old stock to them. #PaulsYard #PaulsRoof

https://www.habitat.org/restores

They are in #Canada, also https://habitat.ca/en/restore/find-a-restore

@Gustodon
My favorite data center is the public library.

The current version of #KDE on my machine (6.7) seems to be very buggy in terms of what happens when I try to add extra monitor(s) in the #Wayland version, whether it’s via #HDMI or #USB with #Displaylink. The screens go haywire and I can even get a terminal open. I’ve had to revert back to the #X11 version just as I’d got used to Wayland. I’m no fanboy of Wayland or X11 but when such a major breaking of the system happens, it forces my hand. Not good at all.

#Fedora #Linux #Desktop #KDE6_7

Journalists who depend on confidential sources should be alarmed that journalist Catherine Herridge has been ordered to pay $800 a day for not burning her sources.

Congress must pass a strong shield law like the PRESS Act to protect journalists.

Our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/court-forces-reporter-to-pay-800-a-day-for-refusing-to-identify-source/

“Every other issue of social justice, from workers’ rights to economic and reproductive justice, connects back to voting rights and ballot access.”

As Trump tries to make housing relief contingent on the SAVE America Act, this 2021 warning from Georgia still rolls hard.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/georgia-voter-suppression-law-jim-crow

At the AFL-CIO convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota labor was honored for anti-ICE organizing that included food distribution, rapid response networks and the Jan. 23 “No Work, No School, No Shopping” shutdown.

Days later, federal indictments followed. https://inthesetimes.com/article/sweeping-federal-indictments-of-ice-observers-net-minnesota-unionists

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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ELON MUSK AND HIS DOGE PALS' latest mystery: "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
Who killed 600,000 people?
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/24/tom-the-dancing-bug-elon-musk-and-his-doge-pals-in-texas-chainsaw-massacre.html

Public access to court records shouldn't depend on your ability to pay. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free

Signal chats appeared in an indictment of 15 people affiliated with Minneapolis anti-ICE protest groups. Does that mean Signal is compromised? No. But devices involved may be.

Read our newsletter to learn how to maximize your group chat safety (and subscribe):

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-chats-cited-in-minneapolis-protest-indictment/

Get 20% off the newest N.O. Bonzo (@nobonzo) coloring book thru 7/1 with code JUNE here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2147

“A Note to Our Customers and Partners | Snyk”

https://snyk.io/blog/a-note-to-our-customers-and-partners/

> We are simplifying our structure so we can move faster for you, and that includes reducing the size of some teams.

Do we have a name for this genre of "our glorious AI future means we fire people" announcement? Like the "Our Incredible Journey" startup shutdown posts?

Violating the First Amendment is expensive.

People fired for protected speech are not only getting their jobs back, they're getting 6-figure payouts.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5856300/charlie-kirk-assassination-jobs-social-media-payouts-fired-first-amendment-settlements?utm_content=