Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

DOGE ended its mission with no public accounting of its actions.

For a project touted as radical accountability, the hypocrisy is staggering. We have zero clear answers on what it broke, what it changed, or what it saved.

Read The Classifieds for more.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doge-is-formally-done-where-are-its-records/

Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. https://www.wmtw.com/article/significant-police-presence-pool-street-biddeford-maine/71917201

#Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains - https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/07/13/photovoltaics-are-still-running-after-a-year-under-swiss-trains/5269664 "Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological"

They should've put this comic in that creepy proof of life photo. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/07/13

@rhelune There were two major western techbrodouche empires involved in spreading Rohingya hatred in Myanmar. Facebook was one, but even Zuck the Fuck didn't go so far as that dead-eyed, dead-soulled psychopath that ran Twitter at the time: Jack Dorsey.

That dude went to Myanmar at the height of the genocidal crimes and meditated with the very fucking monks who were perpetrating the crimes!

Update no.2: after erasing and re-flashing my Heltec v3 as a Bluetooth companion I am now receiving messages again! 🥳

And I can see adverts from Piemonte - some 200+ km away. Sooo cool!

A message I sent to the public Channel this time had the label underneath "Heard 1 Repeat" (which I didn't get yesterday, after 3+ hours of experimentations).

My repeater on the balcony may be a lemon, but I'm operational again - I think 😅

#MeshCore

> We are not here to discuss "open weight" models; these are still built on a foundation of companies destructively mining the web from data centers that wreck communities. Such models cannot exist without exploitation. When a model can be fully trained by end users using data that was collected with consent, then we can talk about that, but right now that is nothing but science fiction and speculation.

https://human-emacs.org/

Go read Careless people. Just have in mind that it is triggering. It describes crimes against Rohingya people in Myanmar (of course, Facebook played a crucial role in the incitement of hatred), and sexual harassments in the company.

#facebook #meta #technofascism

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