Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/

Markwayne 🎵
Markwayne
Markwayne, Markwayne

They're beggin you to not expose the scammmm 🎶

https://newrepublic.com/article/213884/maga-erupts-trump-mullin-immigration

This week, the Senate Commerce Committee is considering a package of internet bills that would expand age verification and restrict online speech. The Youth AI Privacy Act is no exception. Congress should reject it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/youth-ai-privacy-acts-privacy-paradox

Parents should decide the right level of tech oversight for their family. Congress shouldn’t mandate one model for everyone. But that’s the model of the CHATBOT Act. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/chatbot-act-forces-one-parenting-model-every-family

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (31/2026): Reported Progress

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-31-2026/

#Phosh #Sxmo #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #Librem5 #PureOS #Jolla2 #PlasmaMobile #GNOME #MechaComet #LinuxMobile

The difference--

What happens when productivity rises, but workers don’t get more time back?

Drawing on Juliet Schor’s decades of research, Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon examine the renewed push for a 32-hour work week—and the labor power it would take to make it widespread.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/four-day-work-week-labor-unions-juliet-schor

While the Trump admin publishes Fauci’s unredacted diaries, it is simultaneously proposing a government-wide NDA "to muzzle federal workers from sharing the very kinds of information" Rand Paul released, FPF's Lauren Harper writes in MS NOW.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/rand-paul-fauci-hearing-trump-government-records

Palestinian trade unionists have long called on workers worldwide to refuse arms shipments to Israel. Dockworkers answered—from Belgium and Sweden to Italy. Now unions in six countries are organizing for October 30.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/dockworkers-six-countries-announce-port-strikes-october-30

Writing your own ray tracer is fun bordering on wasting time.
Actually using it later to create #art by modifying basic parts of the tracer is so validating: I have the last word, world! My pointless experiments do lead to something!

https://gitlab.com/dcz_self/sciema

#graphics #programming #motivation #generalist #raycasting #raytracing

As forests burn across the planet and climate collapse accelerates, the ultra-rich are buying their way into the places still left standing.

In Montana, billionaires are carving out private refuges in Greater Yellowstone with fortunes tied to deforestation and extraction.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

lol I went down a RAG/semantic search rabbithole one time and it was soooo cool until I realized this has existed for **decades** and you can just implement elastisearch. difference was this took me a couple days, not many months and thousands of dollars. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vd0m4w/comment/p15jssv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Despite what the state says, zines are not a crime. This month only get this limited tote bag and zine bundle which includes our Zines are Not a Crime/Bookshelves Are Not Evidence tote plus seven informative (and apparently incendiary) zines for your personal edification.
Get one here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2329

Chicago Folks! This is happening TONIGHT at @pilsencommbooks
Event info: https://pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/50957

I'm old enough to remember when having tattoos would make finding a job harder. Nowadays, employers are requiring you get a tattoo just to get interviewed. Strange times.

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-startup-coerced-tattoos-logo-job-interview

Trump's War on the Smithsonian https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/08/03

🌐 🇪🇺 "Europeas Souveränität im Netz – Wie eine europäische Webdateninfrastruktur Freiheit, Wirtschaft und Demokratie stärkt"

Im Rahmen des #ossym26 richten wir zusammen mit dem Weizenbaum Institut Berlin einen besonderen Netzwerkabend mit Keynote & Podiumsdiskussion aus.

Wann und wo?
8. Oktober, 19 Uhr
Weizenbaum Institut Berlin

Details zum Event:
👉 https://opensearchfoundation.org/de/veranstaltung-europas-souveraenitaet-im-netz/

Zur kostenfreien Anmeldung geht es hier:
👉 https://tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/OSF/

Wir freuen uns auf Euch!