Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So over 12,000 people were killed in a one-week heatwave last month, just in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, and Germany!
One could have expected bigger headlines.

Living your values in the real world is tremendously difficult.

There’s a mentality in big tech that the job market is so bad that employees will put up with all sorts of abuse. Working for 12 months under a threat of 1,600 additional layoffs is an example of this abuse.

I feel bad for the folks at XBOX, the work culture will be horrible as will the work product created under such conditions of fear.

This guy I volunteer with at the queer youth center grew up here and brought this one-page #zine for me to check out. He said someone handed it to him when he was hanging out downtown sometime in the #90s. After asking around, I learned it’s by a guy who they used to call Brett Not Bombs (he also headed up Food Not Bombs). Cool piece of #Florida #punk ephemera.

"Learn learned helplessness now! Learn abject dependence now! Unlearn your skills!"

No thanks. Just call me when this is over. I'll be around with intact professional capabilities to help mend all the stuff you're breaking now, at the behest of your cult leaders.

“We could have health care and access to food, healthy foods, fresh food, we could have good doctors.”

As people struggle to eat, pay rent and survive, the political class keeps funding war.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/permanent-war-state-iran-workers-struggle

A few simple steps can drastically decrease the amount of personal information that’s available about you online. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-manage-your-digital-footprint

I am seriously going to start a "sloperator list of shame" of employers requesting "AI" knowledge or interest in job postings! For posterity! (Those who do legitimate ML should know better than to call it "AI!)"

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #vibeCoding

Since farming in the US is kind of an upper-class pursuit at this point, you'd be amazed how many farmers.......don't really understand working in the heat that well.

Which makes it hard to supervise a crew responsibly! 🙃

Which makes worker protection laws REAL IMPORTANT!

Europe’s economic crisis and the war in Ukraine are not separate stories.

Richard D. Wolff and Glenn Diesen examine how lost empires, industrial decline and dependence on the United States have pushed the continent toward deeper militarization. https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-economic-collapse-ukraine-war

I just learned necrocracy is a real word.

In other political figures meeting their end, Dick Cheney spent years denying the torture carried out under the Bush administration. In Matt Bors’ comic, he reaches hell and discovers that history has kept the receipts. https://inthesetimes.com/article/mamdani-election-cheney-comics-zohran-ice

"What if hunger isn't a failure of the economy, but one of the ways the economy works? From work requirements and SNAP to food banks and political battles over who deserves to eat, we ask whether hunger is simply a social problem or an economic tool. We’ll explore this with co-host Pascal Robert and guests Tanya Denise Fields and Bertrand Cooper."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msOszxf9rEo

What I've been seeing in my timeline over the last few is just ridiculous. Post after post saying you should absolutely NOT support Bandcamp anymore under ANY circumstances, that "everything there is shit anyway," that all the artists still on there are either lazy, ignorant, or sellouts. I'm reading this from people who have never released a single record or song in their lives, pointing fingers at us and telling us how to manage our livelihood.

And here comes the big, fat point everyone's forgetting:
With this blind activism, you're not punishing Bandcamp. Bandcamp already cashed the check and is sitting in their warm office. You're fucking us over. The artists. The ones who built their entire artistic existence there.

Let me break this down a bit more because I have a feeling many of you don't understand what it means to be an independent artist caught between the front lines right now.

From the ACLU: #Flock lies to city managers about what they do.

“Flock’s chief information security officer, who was in attendance, told the council that Flock’s system did not “create a pattern or heat map of an individual’s movement” through the tracking of their vehicles. At the end of that meeting, the Oshkosh City Council approved a contract with Flock. The very next morning, the city learned that Flock had lied.”

#deFlock #fuckFlock

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country

If you are looking for a low-traffic way to stay up to date about changes to our services: We created https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/changelog/ to document significant changes to our services in one place. You can "watch" issues that are important to you, to get targeted notifications.

We also use our second account https://social.anoxinon.de/@codebergstatus to keep you up to date about downtime and incidents.

The opposite of cloud computing is LEAF computing:

Local application logic and data
End-to-end encrypted data
Autonomous operation without non-optional dependencies
Federated capability between devices and connectivity with trusted parties

https://leafcomputing.net/?ref=activitypub

#DWebCamp #LEAFComputing #LocalFirst #OfflineFirst

Sometimes when people run a forum or even on social media the long time participants will notice that they answer the same questions over and over and over... this may lead to forum rules that ban posts that are repeats of old questions.

I think this is almost always a mistake if you are trying to build a community. It's helpful and good to link to similar older posts, but nothing makes a community feel insular than being told none of your questions are new and RTFM.

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I don't usually do obituary cartoons, and since these are technically prebituary cartoons, I still haven't. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/10/800067741/cartoon/emergency-obituary-cartoons/

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