Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.”

how about charging musk with 518,428 charges of negligent homicide?

#NegligentHomicide #USAID #politics https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/geek-tragedy-altman-musk-bezos-zuckerberg/

I joined #Fediverse after 2025 inauguration. So far I see the future is bright here at Fediverse

The clean energy kind of bright

Never going to be as bright as tech-bro-business kind of bright like #Facebook, #Instagram, #Twitter (never going to call anything else), or #Bluesky, but that is okay with me

I choose clean and friendly energy kind of bright over fossil fuel polluted kind of bright.

And that is how I explain to people why I only have #Mastodon and #Pixelfed accounts when they asked

For now, have a good night!

CARTOONIST DEFENDERS in the Sussex area, UK are encouraged to attend Monday evening’s Cartoon County event in Brighton where our Executive Director Terry Anderson will be speaking along with John Curtis – founder of Africartoons, and the newest member of our board of directors.

https://www.cartooncounty.com/nextguest

Hi #socialcoop and the greater fediverse 👋 nice to meet you.
We're a democratic #techcoop from Stuttgart, Germany and we're specialized in web software development, website design and #opensource service #hosting. We support organizations working for the common good and aim to build lasting connections in solidarity with them. Let's talk about open source, technology, democratic project and organization governance and solidarity economy.
For more check our website https://coquest.coop
#introduction #newhere #neuhier

Why let A.I. write your manifesto when I did it for free? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/24/800026575/cartoon/tech-bro-manifesto/

A few years ago, after finishing 20 years as a sysadmin, I compiled a list of rules that were generally true.

1. You can't automate a process that doesn't already exist

2. Good engineering makes for easy administration

3. The easiest thing for us to do is exactly what we're told. Inventing what needs to be done takes longer.

4. It's just as easy to do something right as it is to do it wrong (or avoid doing it)

5. Everything you know will be suboptimal in three years, replaced in five, and obsolete in ten

6. Someone who is unwilling to learn is no different from someone unable to learn

7. It costs more than you think it will. It will also take longer, and do less

8. Extent always exceeds intent

9. The only safe connection is a disconnection

10. Your intellectual work is a part of the total cost of ownership

Not enough people are aware that there is an old Scottish song by the title "Cock Up Your Beaver."

That is all.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Scottish_Song/Cock_up_your_beaver

Well-documented list of free software projects and their use of genAI:
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

It’s already a long list that shows what looks like uncritical adoption, both by high-profile projects (systemd, VLC, etc.) and by niche projects (GNU Mach is a prime example).

Help us secure our warehouse for the future of left ideas. Every piece of merch sold gets us closer to our goal.
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Libadwaita demo app on Android, new update for Goblint, a linter for C GObject codebases, Java/Kotlin library for interacting with XDG Desktop Portal and much more in This Week in GNOME!

#246 Offline Dictionaries
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/04/twig-246/

#ThisWeekInGNOME #GNOME #TWIG

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

New by me - Microsoft Vibing. A very strange fake open source project published by Microsoft employees, which gathers screenshots and voice recordings of users with unique machine identifiers attached. Not sure how this one has happened.

https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-vibing-capturing-screenshots-and-voice-samples-without-governance-6973c48f03a7

I just saw the most amazingly corporate expression of "we did what the bosses wanted us to do, even though the research didn't support that." The actual phrase was:

The research employed a methodology that prioritized stakeholder voice over researcher interpretation.

I wonder if a data scientist slipped that in to make it clear to other folks how this happened. You don't have to write stuff like this if the boss wants to do what the research says is a good idea. You only have to write this if the research says one thing and the boss says another.

“Do I belong in tech anymore?” from Ky Decker (not on Masto) https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

Google's antonymous taxi company says it won't obey traffic safety laws because its customers want convenience, so screw those bicyclists who don't want to be injured or killed.

https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

On Saturday May 9th in Rome, as part of the Nina Festival, we're hosting a workshop to think with Bonfire, exploring and co-designing federated digital spaces for caring for our communities.
Together with @reclaimthetech@mastodon.uno, Zero81, Scift Lab and more.
📍 Millepiani, Via Odero 13, 3pm
If you're in (or near) Rome, come join us!

The ‘No More 24’ Revolution is Not Yet Complete; DSA Members Condemn Mayor Mamdani

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/cc1viz2uzyzih2uiiys8cddpzq4oym

Tomorrow is Indie Bookstore Day! Did you know PM Press owns @autumnleavesbooks, an independent bookstore in Ithaca, NY? This Indie Bookstore Day, support spaces that keep radical ideas alive. If you’re local, stop in and pay the Autumn Leaves crew a visit! You can follow them and check out the website via the link in our bio.

A routine reminder that it's always a good idea to boycott #Substack.

We have long known that it platforms and profits from Nazi publications. And now: #manosphere influencers with multiple accusations of serious crimes... so much so that there is a dedicated Wikipedia page about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_Tate_brothers

No problem for #Substack though! They happily take a 10% cut from all paid subscriptions.

There are many great alternatives to SS: Ghost, Buttondown, beehiiv, Patreon... no more excuses