Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

#Substack openly platforms—and profits from—#Nazis. And not just nudge-nudge-wink-wink types of Nazis, but literal black-swastika “NatSoc” Nazis. And they recommend Nazi writers.

If you are still on Substack either as a reader or publisher, please seriously consider leaving the platform. It’s a Nazi bar. You don’t want to give them your money or your attention. I hear ghost dot org is a great, Nazi-free alternative.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word

#media #journalism #authoritarianism

Something has me in the mood for DK. I'm not _actually_ too drunk for anything in particular, having drank only coffee, but this song is really fun to sing along with.

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession
L: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-since-great-recession/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925669
posted on 2026.02.07 at 12:31:24 (c=1, p=7)

It doesn't smell like love is in the air at the White House. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/2/6/2367372/-Cartoon-2026-valentines

Decided to join a WEBRING for the first time since about 2002.
P-U-N-K is a punk webring run from Dublin, have a look here, bring back the 88x31 banner: https://p-u-n-k.nekoweb.org/

#Tesla refuses to come to terms with the Swedish labour unions. As a result, nobody is willing to link up their charging stations in the small Swedish town of Vansbro. But Tesla has found a solution.

They've bought some diesel generators. 🙄

https://www.arbetsvarlden.se/tesla-rundar-strejken-driver-laddstation-med-diesel/

#union #evs #climate

Judge: 'Overwhelming majority' of cases brought to him by #ICE were for people lawfully in #Minnesota.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/judge-says-most-cases-brought-to-him-by-ice-were-for-people-lawfully-in-minnesota

The U.S. District Court judge says he has seen hundreds of lawfully present individuals detained under Operation Metro Surge — and then held beyond the legal timeframe even after he ordered their release.

A surge in new datacenters, each with the power demand of 100,000 households and a cooling water demand of 1,000,000 m³ per year to train AI models on material obtained without consent on hardware now unaffordable to consumers so fascism-adjacent tech billionaires can sell us the idea that any skill is now worthless and in doing so creating the largest economic bubble ever while simultaneously destroying society and environment.

I think that about sums it up.

#genai #llm

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

The singularity has been cancelled.

What we're getting is wall to wall spam generators, optimized for passing the (modified) Turing test and convincing gullible humans that they are "intelligent".

Instead of the singularity, we are getting the spamularity.

You don't need weapons to fight an army of dipshits. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic:
☑️ Are YOU a Dangerous Criminal? A handy quiz to find out!
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TIL that Palantir UK is lead by Oswald Mosely's grandson. WTF? Can you be any more on the nose?* Have they hired one of David Duke's progeny too?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/the-political-fallout-from-mandelson-gate-has-only-just-begun.html

*...I ask of a company that is literally takes it's name from evil magical tools.

A billionaire's perfect version of business is a fully automated operation that employs no real people but that supplies a product you are forced not to live without.

#politics #capitalism #business

ICE kidnapped one of my neighbors yesterday. https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/roslindale-business-owner-moves-car-off-busy-street-after-ice-detainment/O46XBYZDPZBHTIZ3KRDF7CXUFQ/

Slop Machine

#webcomics #comics

#Trump posts racist video depicting #Obamas as monkeys - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/06/trump-barack-obama-michelle-truth-social-epstein-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6985c4848f08465128686f8a#block-6985c4848f08465128686f8a when you think this pathetic coward can't sink any lower, he does...

"Actually, on the point of Bitcoin and crypto having no use case...they do. But they are not socially productive. In addition to the oft-mentioned tax evasion, money-laundering, and criminal payoff situations, former State Department official Mike Benz has said that a major user in total transaction volume are intel agencies, for payoffs to recently recruited assets and to otherwise move funds covertly to support things like regime change operations. So that alone suggests these, erm, vehicles1 will not go to zero since they have an official use."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/bitcoin-crypto-crash-captures-headlines-as-potentially-more-serious-tech-driven-debt-retreat-progresses.html

A bitter pill to swallow for those of us who wish this whole thing would in a fire 😖

RE: https://mementomori.social/@digitaalinenitsenaisyys/116022479606183593

And this is why we don't use Meta's products.

Meta has closed the Threads account for a project running citizens' initiative for digital independence from US companies.