Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The NHS can't make us better when big business is making profit by making us sick https://youtu.be/uQA3jkqOXNQ?si=HvvGjBNa1EBcf9wo From addictive foods to lifetime drugs, corporations are profiting from your ill-health, and the NHS is left to foot the bill. This is how neoliberalism is eating the state.

Very interesting to see that Zohran Mamdani has soundly beaten Mario Cuomo in the New York City mayoral primary. I note that Bernie Sanders endorsed Mamdani... wonder if it shows that the US is moving in a progressive direction?! Too much to hope for?

Somewhere Barbara Streisand can heave a huge sigh of relief. It will henceforth be known as "the Vance effect."

#JDVance #fascism #couchfucker

@dangillmor In case you hadn’t seen this…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317

Amazon bought Goodreads and turned it into a dumpster fire where "reviewers" trash books even before galleys and review copies are sent out. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/authors-hit-by-bad-reviews-on-goodreads-before-review-copies-are-even-circulated

It's a shame, because Goodreads was a valuable service for authors and readers back when...

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From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Town councilmembers from Fountain Hills, AZ, removed the press table from its council chambers in April, citing “partisan” reporting by the local newspaper that primarily used it:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/town-officials-in-arizona-remove-press-table-from-council-chamber/

Identifying federal government employees is not doxxing. It was bad enough when Elon Musk suggested otherwise on X about DOGE employees.

It's even worse when a U.S. senator suggests it in legislation about ICE agents.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-gop-senator-gets-inside-look-ices-dangerous-mission-agents-battle-surge-assaults

Just saw this scrolling through Facebook. I don't know anything about the matter, but my point remains valid: using other people's platforms does not and never will guarantee the safety of your data.

#OwnYourData

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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Elon and His Doge Pals, in "School of Grok!" Can you solve the thrilling A.I. whodunnit??
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https://boingboing.net/2025/06/24/tom-the-dancing-bug-elon-musk-and-his-doge-pals-in-school-of-grok.html

In a future of friendly and #sustainable digitization, we don't only need free/libre software, but also fairly produced and open hardware to operate the systems.

The German non-profit computer mouse manufacturer "Nager IT" needs human resources for a new future. If you can and want to support them, check out https://www.nager-it.de/maus/uebergabe#:~:text=Aktuell:%2024.06.25%20Schnuppertreffen (German only). There is a meeting in a few hours.

It would be great to keep the project alive and have more of the resources available under open licenses.

CBS Execs Have Second Thoughts About Paying Trump Bribe Money After California Threatens Bribery Inquiry - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/24/cbs-execs-have-second-thoughts-about-paying-trump-bribe-money-after-california-threatens-bribery-inquiry/ well, well, well

Has anyone ever encountered this before? Attached is a mock-up of a problem I've been having over the last few weeks in Windows 11 (only Windows, never any of my Linuxes). I can't screencap the problem: a lot of the time generating the weird blue rectangle locks up my system, and even when it doesn't a screencap won't capture the weird blue rectangle.

Supreme Court's right-wing super majority is totally corrupt and in the bag for the Trump dictatorship. Doesn't get much worse for democracy than that. https://archive.ph/xjyiq

They've managed to screw up medical education.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/on-the-accelerating-decline-in-us-medical-training-and-with-it-doctor-competence.html

I just finished getting a one hour demo of the current meta in agentic programming from an actually-technical CTO.

100% stand by my statements in the latest blog post. It was very slightly better than I expected, but the CTO said many times "I would never trust this in production", and their main use was knocking out POCs that were being handled by an offshore (read: cheap and not very good) dev team.

Anyone laying off their Real Software Engineers on the grounds of AI productivity are nuts.

A Florida judge seeking a nomination to the federal judiciary turned a procedural ruling on one of Trump’s nonsense SLAPPs into a MAGA diatribe. Then he got his nomination.

The Florida Bar needs to investigate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/ed-artau-trump-judge-nomination-florida-00415408

Submerged Kickstater is live now!
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I shaved my head during the covid lockdown, and I wound up liking it so much I've been doing it ever since. I'm turning 54 in a week, so I've decided to grow my hair out for a while just to see what color it is. Well, also to see how aggressive my widow's peak has become, and to see what bald spots I've developed over time.

I expect mostly what this will do is re-enforce my perception of hair being unnecessarily itchy.

I made a very silly video about (hypothetical) logistics of farming dodos

youtu.be/pA7uD9435tU