Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Yale University researchers released a new study finding that Sanders’ Medicare for All legislation would save 114,000 lives and reduce overall healthcare spending in America by more than $1 trillion a year.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.26358689v1

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/117571912314107629

extremely funny how data center companies have already started running commercials going "no no guys we're actually good ok, we totally promise now please end your moratoria and give us all your drinking water 🥺🥺🥺"

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117591411499138946

People keep holding up California, and especially San Francisco, as the leading example of progressivism and “liberalism” and “leftism” but the truth is quite far from that.

A lot of California deeply believes in the capitalist myth. And don’t forget that many (most?) of the prominent US tech companies are here. Which way do you think their True Believers will vote?

San Francisco, in particular, votes to protect wealth and power over public welfare way more than Fox News would like you to believe.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fosdem/117583049310983072

Congratulations to all the accepted stands for #FOSDEM27 !

I see there will be a "Women of Open Source" stand which sounds amazing.

After having our DEIB (Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging) devroom rejected, it feels good to see something acknowledging the work and contributions of women in open source. I'll make sure to stop by the stand when I'm there! If you know who's behind it, please let me know, I'd love to contact them.

#TheMissingDEIBdevroom

@drahardja Contact your precinct chair and/or county chair and ask how you can help. Work that angle from the inside.

Justice is a prerequisite for reconciliation and we need to not let them piss away the mandate to clean house and hold the corrupt and evil to account.

Schumer and Jeffries will ignore you and me. Your local staff? Probably not so much. They're the ones doing the work - press them. They have more power than they realize and we're more likely to sway them than the Won't You Please Please Please Send $30 crowd.

Listen to Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed about Democrats not taking this opportunity to clean house. Voters elected Donald Trump not because he’s good, but because they were sick and tired of “politics as usual.” In that sense, red-state voters elected Democrats for the same reason.

If you believe that people voted in Donald Trump to blow up the establishment in 2016, then you must believe that people flipped states blue to do the same thing in 2026.

Democrats need to rise to the occasion. Fuck this “centrist” nonsense. Fighting the people means cleaning out the infestation of Nazis and corruption, and putting programs in place to break apart the power of billionaires and return it to the people.

#uspol

Source: El-Sayed’s instagram account.

If you have explicitly enabled git garbage collection in Forgejo (`git_gc_repos`) or run it manually, please make sure that `maintenance.strategy = gc` is set in your git config. Commit-graph corruption can happen with the `geometric` strategy, which became the default in git 2.54. Mitigation investigations are ongoing: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/15141

@drahardja

If centrist Democrats are not reigned in, the blue wave will turn into a red wave in two years. Our house wins seem monumental. But Democrats lost more seats (61) in 2010 in reaction to Obama than we gained last week.

Americans need to see our lives get better. We want progressive policies by large majorities and if we don't get them fascism will keep rising.

There’s a tempest in a teapot brewing over Dior’s “hand-drawn animation” Christmas ad, which they commissioned animation director Sylvain Chomet to do, over the use of generative #AI in an ad that ostensibly celebrates human craft.

Chomet and Dior are trying to claim that there was no AI generated, but the evidence captured by keen-eyed observers are IMO indisputable: nonsensical extra features on objects in motion (beyond motion smear), inexplicable hand-merging sequences—not things that a human artist would decide to draw.

Chomet now admits the use of an “interpolation tool” for tweening—which could have used genAI.

Ben Wild of BWS claims he has information from people who worked on the film that #genAI was used for major parts of the clip.

Using #AI hurts your brand, especially when you’re trying to associate your brand with quality and craftsmanship.

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/sylvain-chomet-denies-ai-accusations-dior-robert-pattinson-1236941945/

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/117585261965616394

Y’all — ICE *BLOCKED THE AMBULANCE BAY* of an emergency department while having a hissy fit after the hospital wouldn’t allow them to be present for a portion of a detainee’s examination.

I’d lose my shit. Absolutely. What kind of unsafe fuckery is that. I want to know how many ambulances had to be diverted to hospitals farther away because of it.

I applaud the judge who sentenced Russell Brand for his remarks at sentencing. This is what people, especially men, in positions of authority and power must say publicly about criminal sexual assaults on women. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/nov/09/russell-brand-sentenced-rape-sexual-assault

Seems a pretty safe call to ignore any “anarchist” group promoting gen AI in any way. 🤡 :no_ai:

“Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge, then fired leaders who objected, Colorado lawsuit alleges”

#ethereum #crypto #cult

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/11/06/ethereum-suicide-pledge-lawsuit-mandate-boulder-crypto/

The List

1. Legal consequence for someone, anyone who paid for a pardon or otherwise bribed the government.
2. No more stock trading or crypto for congress and the president.
3. Someone (anyone) goes to prison for Epstein beyond Maxwell.
4. Legal consequences for those who overstepped the law through ICE.
5. Congress reasserts its power to decide when and IF the US goes to war.

Each is worth one point. 3/5 is the lowest passing grade.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117583579591933799

This. As someone who’s fought hard at companies to prioritize accessibility work, I think if executives get word that people with disabilities can “solve the issues themselves” you’ll actually get less accessible software (if you can believe it) in the long run.

I won’t fault someone for using what’s available, but anyone acting as if LLMs are a longterm solution for accessibility is either not thinking this through, or purposely engaging in bad faith.

AI data centres 'could become Scotland’s biggest polluter in just four years'
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26709797.ai-data-centres-could-scotlands-biggest-polluter-2030/?ref=rss

Corrupt rat jumps off the sinking ship. https://www.aol.com/articles/us-sen-ron-johnson-accuses-162239000.html

The one thing every person who says they can live with slavery has in common is an absolute certainty that they will not be the slave

A federal judge said Saturday she intends to appoint an ex-top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital during Donald Trump’s first term
to investigate whether she was purposefully misled by lawyers and administration officials in a lawsuit challenging one of his prized Washington construction projects,
the renovation of a historic public golf course along the Potomac River.

Jessie Liu, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia,
would examine whether officials with the Interior Department and the National Park Service and attorneys with the Department of Justice
violated ethics or misled U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes during the course of the case that was initiated in February by the DC Preservation League and two golfers.

The Republican administration plans to close the East Potomac Golf Course and park on Nov. 15,
intending to construct a “World Class, championship-level golf course that is capable of hosting major events.”

An injunction issued by Reyes last month temporarily bars the government from removing or damaging any additional trees on the course
and the administration must give 10 days’ notice in writing before making any “irreparable modification” to any “forms or features” of the course while the lawsuit is active.
Reyes is giving each side a chance to be heard on her plan to name Liu as special master in the case.
They must do so in writing by Friday, when the next court hearing in the dispute is scheduled.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/07/judge-wants-probe-into-whether-she-was-misled-in-trump-golf-case.html

Sure am glad I didn't relearn emacs and just stuck with a pre-slopped fork of vim.