Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“What all these people really opposed is that the United States was not founded to be a Christian nation, in the way they imagined a Christian nation should be.”

A 250th anniversary read on religion, democracy and the fight over America’s founding.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/christian-right-founding-fathers-conservative-movement-trump-american-heretics

In 2024, Trump and Vance turned Haitian immigrants in Springfield into political targets.

Now TPS protections are being stripped from Haitians and Syrians, putting communities at risk of deportation.

The opposite of independence and freedom.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-vance-migrants-springfield-ohio-2024

The Secret Service agent who cuts his hot dogs so he doesn't choke should take today off.

Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless.

"We have to start doing things for each other again without expecting it to trigger a revolution overnight. In other words, we have to rebuild the foundation of actual kindness and caring before we ask anything else of them."

www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/heads-above-water-why-it-looks-like-americans-dont-care/

I've been running hot with go-away (https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away) for a while now and I'm really starting to like the results.

I had to put a few massively violent rules for scrapers trying to smash my blog posts, which is doing the job at blocking fake users when the signaled bots find themselves locked at the door.

It's also very good at more fine rules to allow certain federated legitimate needs pass through.

I'm far from done at tweaking, however, the results of reducing non-genuine traffic from thousands an hour to 100 legitimate users every few days is a great show to see that I'm not wasting my resources on Sam's Plagiarism Machine

Like, every time I read somebody arguing we shouldn't judge people for using chatbots as it's the first time they've had somebody at their constant beck and call I think, no, that actually makes me think less of them

“Financial Nonsense”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/financial-nonsense/

> What looks like a bad investment academically and increasingly like a bad investment politically may also soon be calculated as a bad investment financially as well.

I like this cartoon.

Credit: Jesse Duquette (https://www.jesseduquette.com)

#humor

No AI for Al. I wrote on Boing Boing about "Weird Al" Yankovic canceling his participation in a commercial for an artificial intelligence software company.
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https://boingboing.net/2026/07/03/no-ai-for-al-weird-al-yankovic-yanks-ai-commercial.html

We'll be gathering at the @dweb camp in Alte Holle/Berlin from 8-12 July, together with people working on the crossroads of #opensource #decentralisation #cooperative #SSE Social and Solidarity Economy and #commoning

I'm really happy that we decided collectively to do this, when we were together at the @internetarchiveeurope in Amsterdam last February.

We'll be working together shaping the building up of the Democratic Tech Fund Below a list of the workshops and sessions we're part of (directly), while weaving connections with all people and communities working in solidarity towards a decent world, based on shared, democratic tech that works for our communities and not against us.

d:t:f #DTF

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Boosted already but this is just to say that "coders" at the same time complaining that "delete everything" in a comment can hobble an agent and is tantamount to criminal, and insisting that these things are Artificial Super Intelligence is exactly what Orwell was describing with Doublethinking: holding two absolutely opposite concepts in the mind at the same time and juggling one and the other ad hoc without ever considering that they're incompatible.

“Responsible use” of LLMs isn’t a thing! On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, sava saheli singh joins @alex and me to discuss the problems with AI “harm reduction” frameworks in edtech.

Monday, July 6, noon Pacific
https://twitch.tv/dair_institute

Checking MA beach water quality so I don't swim in poo-poo like a Kennedy. https://www.mass.gov/info-details/interactive-beach-water-quality-dashboard#

welcome to your planet is dying! brought to you by the people "on a mission to change the world" a decade ago

Maybe we really need to transcend "Open Source" and move towards more of a "community software" or "humane software" kind of direction that puts the focus on Freedom (similar to how Open Source works) but also on responsibility and care for each other and the infrastructures these systems establish.

The "AI" reactions really show how heterogenous the "Open Source" field and the people's and organizations' values are.

Grindr has been caught sharing users' HIV status and precise location with advertisers without obtaining valid consent. They must immediately stop prioritizing profits over users’ safety, and make privacy the default across its platform. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/grindr-put-queer-safety-and-privacy-over-profits

This July 4th weekend, America celebrates “freedom” while nearly half a million people sit in jail awaiting trial, many because they cannot afford bail.

That is not liberty, Jeremy Cherson writes; that is poverty punished as policy.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/bail-funds-jail-prison-america-250

Hey DIY punks, if you are concerned about the future of #Bandcamp, one route to having an autonomous way to share your music online is by building your own band website with #Faircamp.

See our recent how-to:
https://the-counterforce.org/faircamp-how-to/

Also a nice interview with the creator if Faircamp just appeared in @diyconspiracy :
https://diyconspiracy.net/faircamp-interview/

Version 2.0 of Faircamp is coming soon, which should be even easier to use!

Fun fact: the vast majority of all carbon re-captured by CCS is used to dislodge more oil from nearly-depleted oil fields

https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260113-part-two-the-false-promise-of-carbon-capture-and-storage