Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Europe’s $24T breakup with Visa & Mastercard has begun. ECB’s Lagarde warns almost all EU card/mobile payments still run on non‑European rails, sending spending data outside the EU. Now EPI + EuroPA are launching Wero, a pan‑EU wallet for 130M users to pay cross‑border without US networks. A huge shift for payment sovereignty—and data privacy.

#payments #fintech #eu #wero #datasovereignty

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

“There’s no way to put the genie back into the bottle,” say AI boosters about a product that the industry is spending more than a trillion dollars a year to keep out of the bottle.

A few days ago, OpenStreetMap hit 180 million changesets with this one: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/180000000
Great milestone, but even better to see that it's a contribution linked to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team ("HOT"), by a new but prolific contributor adding lots of data in #Uganda.

Never too late to get started with filling the gaps and updating existing data on OSM, you could start with this tutorial: https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/start-osm/

#GIS #openData #maps #OSM #OpenStreetMap

Thanks @nostarch for supporting EFF with a new Humble book bundle! Unlock your potential with Linux—pay what you want and support the fight for open source software! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-good-stuff-no-starch-books

Green tech could add $22b to annual GDP growth in 10 years – report
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/31/green-tech-could-add-22b-to-gdp-in-10-years-report/

Investing in green innovation now could prevent declines in agriculture and tourism as customers seek low-emissions products and services.

Seems OnlyOffice are throwing their toys already tho https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/onlyoffice-flags-license-violations-in-euro-office-project-by-nextcloud-and-ionos

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcfadden/116318330517396142

I think maybe the only holiday that online leftish people absolutely do have a War On is AFD. They don't even wanna rename it to Serious People Day or anything. It's just universally loathed! (And I do not disagree with Mr. McFadden, here.)

10 years of news about the same demented guy isn't good for the news business. I've known he sucks the whole time and only skim articles about how much he sucks. We know! I'm not reading 1,000 words about it. Getting someone new in there should be a top priority.

Brands will try to be funny on Wednesday and it's going to be awful.

Five #EU #governments found to ‘consistently’ dismantle rule of #law | #CivilLiberties - international | The Guardian

This is a dangerous time for #Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar/30/five-eu-governments-consistently-dismantle-rule-of-law-finds-civil-liberties-union-for-europe

#Politics #Bulgaria #Croatia #Hungary #Italy #Slovakia #RightWingPolitics #Nationalism

Was the #Iran War Caused by #AI Psychosis? - https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/ "the most consequential military operation of the twenty-first century may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers now call AI #sycophancy — the tendency of large language models to tell their users exactly what they want to hear." (v @ottocrat)

Addictive apps. Today’s cartoon by Jean Gouders. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#addiction #Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/28/britain-peatlands-restore-dartmoor-bog-carbon-store "In the UK, about 80% of peatland is degraded or damaged, and what could be the country’s biggest carbon store has become a net carbon emitter"

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@jalefkowit @davidgerard @adrianh somehow the consensus I am hearing for Claude Code is simultaneously it is by far the best and most advanced agent for writing code ever and it’s a complete rip off that needs hundreds of dollars a month to approach adequate limits which are constantly being reduced arbitrarily

how is that a product

Every ICE agent with their thumb up their butt airport is playing a unique role. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/3/27/2375012/-ICE-s-airport-agents

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The rank stupidity of soooo much of our society is really killing me. I feel like there are a lot of techies who need to stand trial for crimes against humanity for purposefully trying to stupidify the world.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/study-do-what-chatgpt-tells-us

Got told again that my 30 years of computing and electronics experience is grossly incompetent compared to the infallible omniscience of #ChatGPT.

#idiocracy #brainrot #techilliteracy #AIdiots