Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

There's been some talk about the price hikes for copilot and the cost of tokens actually worrying software company management, but how are things going for all the businesses now running their customer service through chat bots that get things wrong? Are they seeing a cost increase yet?

#llm #aiBubble

Our government won't fund anything except new boats for the worst people in the country. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity - https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/ " Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript. " sounds like evil magic #surveillance

Good morning Fedi friends!

After spending 3 weeks working on a deep dive about #WSocial, I am delighted that the article is now out and I can move on.

I already had so much admiration for people like @molly0xfff who speak truth to power. My appreciation for her work has grown 20x since attempting to write an exposé myself.

It’s surreal to know you have irritated many powerful, well-connected people.

Going back to my roots now: articles boosting the Fediverse 🤗🚀

Have a great day everyone!

developer puts little surprise instruction for AI agents to delete code in the codebase, agent users are predictably upset 😂 https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708

Let's celebrate, Project Gutenberg joined #fediverse 3 years ago!

Thank you for all your support, in particular @gbnewby (he will always be in our hearts), @gluejar , @lhamilton1515 .

We would also like to thank all of our loyal followers for their relentless support and confidence in our work.

#Ebooks #PublicDomain #Fediverse

California's operating-system-level age-verification law is still terrible, but it's slightly less absurd now that the legislature is moving to exempt open-source OS distributions.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law

Do you like bumping your music a little loud? Cops are searching Flock Safety ALPR data to investigate noise complaints. The creeping use cases keep getting more absurd. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background

🦩 #StateoftheMapUS2026 is only a few weeks away!

There's still time to meet us in Madison: https://openstreetmap.us/events/state-of-the-map-us/2026/

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #CityofMadison #MadisonLocal #MadisonWI #MadisonWisconsin #VisitMadison #MadisonLife #opendata #maps #cartography #GIS

The below was shared on Threads by someone I know talking to an engineering leader friend.

AI-driven layoffs in tech are now a fad similar to jumping on blockchain or NFTs. The rationale is if the big tech companies with smart CEOs are doing it then why aren't you doing layoffs because of AI?

@arstechnica y'all spelled "oligarchy" wrong.

Nobody's angry at the tech itself, we're angry at the power and opportunity that our overlords are stealing from us with their tech.

It's not about the tech, much of which we fucking built, it's about the power and opportunity loss.

You know, if the feds are worried about this they actually could do something to address the blow-back:

- They could improve workers' rights, and staff the NLRB with individuals who will protect worker rights
- They could end their push to prohibit state regulation of AI tech
- They could regulate digital surveillance companies so Flock employees stop watching little girls practice gymnastics without their knowledge and consent
- They could implement a wealth tax, and use that to offset the economic losses of folks displaced by AI

But no, they're just going to spread FUD and create the pretext to suppress dissent.

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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🧠 Dementia Donnie settles with himself and grabs all the Teddy Grahams!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/05/27/tom-the-dancing-bug-dementia-donnie-settles-with-himself-and-grabs-all-the-teddy-grahams.html

if you are a parent in the US, do you have a plan for how your kid goes to college without taking on a lot of debt, do you believe he or she has a high probability of an economically secure future if the child does go to college, are you confident housing and health care will be affordable?

“Direct action gets the goods.” From hotel workers to machinists to postal workers, sabotage has long been part of labor history—often funny, disruptive and rooted in workers knowing the job better than the boss.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/when-sabotage-carried-the-union-label

Privacy and freedom are non‑negotiable. As governments and Big Tech fuse power, we build devices and free software that put control back where it belongs: with you.

https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-product-philosophy-in-an-age-of-government-big-tech-convergence/

#privacy #DigitalFreedom #OpenSource #security #FOSS #PureOS

STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science. https://www.statnews.com/careers/stat-reporter-trust-in-science/

Bad news: Performance on Codeberg is still slow. We're seeing a lot of abusive cloning and crawling and have limited the ability to clone for several minutes to investigate the situation.

We're still investigating the situation and taking respective countermeasures. We try to keep the impact on legitimate usage as small as possible.

Good news: We have addressed recent SSH performance degradation by replacing linear parsing of the authorized_keys file with a custom AuthorizedKeys command.

This is what GitHub and GitLab have been doing for years, and we have grown to a size where this has become necessary for us as well.

The cause for the degradation was still abusive patterns, as connections without valid key take more resources (scanning the file to the end) than legitimate users (scanning is stopped after match).

Senate elections are a spectator sport for like 75% of the country, unless you're rich, then you can participate in all of them.