Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Plexfiltration update: the AI work zone compliance tool has started emailing me thousands of pictures from a (I think) Saudi industrial facility again, to my internaluser.com domain. #infosec

I hold onto the hope that descendents of European colonisers, Native Americans, enslaved Black people and immigrant cultures can find a way to live in peace and justice. Where and how we do this is still an open question. Moving our society towards that future, in whatever way we can, is the responsibility of everyone who calls themself American.

📚 Culture doesn’t have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️

Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿

In THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory has become one of the defining political challenges of the digital age. 🏛️

📖 Read or download the paper ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS.

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

Bypass for ad-blockers: https://web.archive.org/web/20260724175443/https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

if you don't like crypto you're transphobic is the new if you don't like plagiarism machines you're ableist

or the other way, perhaps: i'm sure i've heard that one from crypto grifters before crypto collapsed.

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“The stock market is at an all-time high.”
“But groceries are—”

Alex Hood illustrates an economist who tries to excuse sky high grocery prices with stock market performance, ignoring the realities of our lived experience.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/itt-comics-alex-hood-bloodless-quant

Tariffs are the leverage. Public health rules, climate policies and protections from Big Tech are the targets.

Last year, Sarah Lazare examined how Trump turned trade policy into a global protection racket.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-creates-liberation-day-expanding-corporate-power-global-trade

If you agree with @Codeberg 's decision over banning LLM-generated code, why not support them financially with a membership?

https://join.codeberg.org/

For €2/month you can support an important organisation taking a stand against AI, providing a #FOSS alternative to big corporate GitHub. Many nerds here can afford that.

As an active member of the Codeberg e.V. nonprofit, you also get a voice and a vote in how Codeberg is run. It was the members who voted to support the resolution against slopcode.

#Codeberg #git #NoAI #FuckAI

I don't get why people who want to use LLMs to generate code are grumpy because Codeberg doesn't want to host it.

Surely they can just use their LLMs to generate a replacement for Codeberg, which they can operate on whatever basis they choose?

RE: https://wikis.world/@bvibber/116975416333847858

I support Wiki Workers United, and I encourage others to do the same.