Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Even though the two national teams will be battling it out in the World Cup final on Sunday, the real-life protagonists of both these books were actually fighting against many of the same things. Check out Argentina: A Tale of Two Utopias, and Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Post-dictatorial State!
Argentina: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1871
Spanish Punk: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1770

The call is coming from inside the house!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJYw2gR0cU

#SSH be like:

> WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.

Dude, that's my #N900 with an OS from 2007. It's using #rsa and I had to make an exception in two places to even make you connect. On a private network.
#Quantum computers are the least problem here.

#cryptography

RE: https://ruby.social/@tekin/116939799012427504

DHH is a racist piece of shit and everyone supporting his shit by buying stuff from his company, inviting him to talks, using or promoting his garbage "distribution" (looking at you @frameworkcomputer ) is compliant and a morally bankrupt human being.

And, right on cue, someone complains about my "political" posts not having a content warning.

Let me explain: fuck you.

A complete, #openaccess #humanrights textbook. - https://humanrightstextbook.org/digital-book "This leading international human rights textbook remains an open-access publication and is widely used by students, educators, researchers, and practitioners around the world"

Election Interference is Fine For Me But Not For Thee - https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/17/election-interference-is-fine-for-me-but-not-for-thee/

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/national-academies-climate-attribution-is-maturing-but-still-has-limits/ "could make it easier to hold companies liable for damages."

Piledrivers.

Kathunk. Kathunk. Kathunk.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145548/follow-the-money-especially-in-open-source/

Small reminder that there's now less than 2 weeks left to hand in your proposals for the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference :)

https://postmarketos.org/conference/

I have, after two years, allowed myself to talk about my experiences with AI madness again, this time with the benefit of speaking to people all around the world, including Fortune 500 executives. This one is on my regular blog for casual readers, and cross-posted to the company blog if you need to share this with someone and have it look official.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

We live in a society that blames the poor for their poverty while tolerating the existence of leeches who become billionaires (and trillionaires) by stealing the wages of others. We are expected to believe this is fair and the result of choices made by individuals.

It is all wrong.

AI companies and Amazon are inviting bogus "authors" to publish bogus books about real people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html

Madison Square Garden is suing @WIRED over stories relating to surveillance at the venue. Wired stands by its reporting and has lifted the paywall on two of the stories so you can read them for yourself. Here they are:

https://flip.it/CmOGtT
https://flip.it/2n8E4_

#Technology #MadisonSquareGarden #JimDolan

Kids need to explore the world and that includes social media

A prominent psychologist argues that children should be free to explore the world they are going to have to live in, and that includes the internet and social media, which means no age-gating laws

https://mathewingram.com/work/2026/07/16/kids-need-to-explore-the-world-and-that-includes-social-media/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

ICE thugs tackled and tried to handcuff a man at Las Vegas airport. When they realized they were being filmed, they simply walked away, leaving the man on the ground with a handcuff attached to one arm. The Las Vegas Police found no outstanding warrants for the man and removed his handcuffs.

https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-ice-airport-arrest-553273b1f51c5e999396c147de8729fe?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a59ef2b41d4be0001a14c2e&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Bluesky

Huh, I wonder why Linus Torvalds has suddenly become such a sloppusher.

Anyway entirely unrelated, but here's the top sponsors of the Linux Foundation, which employs Torvalds.

WATCH: EFF’s Matthew Guariglia joined @taylorlorenz to discuss how AI is automating mass surveillance at an unprecedented scale, and what you can do to protect your privacy. https://youtu.be/qCunDUJKYeQ?si=hb7gvrF6H9czB-Wx

Trump wants Americans to distrust ballots whenever he dislikes the result.

Workers live with the consequences: a $7.25 federal minimum wage, broken labor law and a PRO Act backed by 70% of voters and going nowhere in the Republican-controlled Congress.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-unions-pro-act-fight-for-15-filibuster-election-2024

Hotter than Death Valley...😬

https://montanafreepress.org/2026/07/16/eastern-montana-shatters-heat-records/