Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Holy moly, one of my cousins (8 weeks into undergraduate computer science) asked me for help on a university assignment. I was surprised because he's very switched on.

It's a group assignment and it was extremely obvious that every other student has logged into a parent's corporate LLM and written all the code via prompt with no understanding.

When I asked how they're getting away with it, he said that the lecturers have just given up on all policing. (University is RMIT in Melbourne.)

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm excited to travel to Amsterdam later today for #PubConf2026.

I'll be on a panel tomorrow at 2pm alongside @bjoernsta @cubicgarden @michael and Sherif Elsayed-Ali of Eurosky on the topic "Strengthening European Democracy with a ‘Euro Social Stack’"

🔗 : https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/strength-through-diversity-1

Hope to see some of you there! ❤️

"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

There’s an awesome queer bookstore in my city that does a ton of events and the like and is overall pretty awesome. But the only social media they are on is Instagram and TikTok, which both require accounts to view. So I decided to send them an email asking if they’d be interested in joining Mastodon, and I was able to pull from folks and resources across the fedi to send to them.

I sent a wonderful article from @_elena that put the benefits of federation into words better than I ever could.

I used @FediGarden’s server list to find a good server to reccomend them (ended up with lgbtqia.space).

And I sent the awesome @firestorm to show another bookstore already on Mastodon!

It was really cool being able to use all of these awesome resources and seeing the community that has been created here and being able to invite a business I care about to join us. This was a fun experience and something that wouldn’t have been possible anywhere else. For all its problems, Mastodon and the fediverse are special, and I hope it stays that way as we keep moving forwards.

US House passes war powers resolution to curb #Trump’s authority in #Iran - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/house-passes-war-power-resolution-trump-iran "Stunning rebuke to president as lawmakers vote 215-208 for measure forcing him to seek congressional approval"

Finally got Jackson, MS caught up with the rest of the punk world:

https://jxndiy.fyi/

A few years ago every big tech company besides Apple assumed COVID lockdowns would last forever then overhired assuming infinite demand for online services and has been doing layoffs since 2022.

Now every big tech company besides Apple believes a few .md files and Claude Code means they no longer need workers. Curious to see how this plays out.

Happy Pride Month!

Rainbow Railroad is an organization which helps LGBTQ+ people flee dangerous regimes.

They’ve had a surge in requests from Americans looking to escape Trump.

No one is “safe” under fascism.

The tyrants start with the most marginalized.

They don’t stop there.

The next heat wave they should leave him in the White House without rolling the windows down.

This is not how it works. If judges closed hearings anytime parties to a case wanted them closed, there would be no open hearings.

Requests for secret court proceedings should be met with extreme constitutional scrutiny, not rubber stamps.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/luigi-mangione-secret-sealed-hearing

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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The MAGAs swoon over the manliest man they've ever seen
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/03/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-magas-swoon-over-the-manliest-man-theyve-ever-seen.html

Hi @propublicaguild we should be responding to ProPublica fundraising e-mails with "Not until you recognize the union", right?

An aspect to the “go pro might go under because of AI memory price hikes” news is that it entirely ignores that go pro has been heading that way for a long time

They’re crunched between cheap no-name action cams on the low end and superior Chinese action cams, actual cameras and phones on the high end. They’ve largely got a worse product and nowhere to go. Their line of 1 inch sensor cams is an attempt to retake the high ground but the price puts it in direct competition with actual cameras

Queer Joy is an Act of Resistance. Get 40% off all gender and sexuality titles with code BEGAY thru 7/1 here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=46&sortby=num_sold:desc

“Contentful spent 13 years as a trusted European vendor, and one board meeting is enough to put it under US law.

That is where Open Source matters.”

https://dri.es/contentful-and-the-limits-of-buy-european

Feds Begin Targeting ‘Anti-Technology Extremists’ Which Is Going To Make Everything So Much Worse - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/01/feds-begin-targeting-anti-technology-extremists-which-is-going-to-make-everything-so-much-worse/

#Texas Adds Another Huge Solar Farm As ERCOT Grid Demand Soars - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/06/02/0452232/texas-adds-another-huge-solar-farm-as-ercot-grid-demand-soars #renewables

"OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies have actively conspired to mislead the world about the true costs of AI, and it was working great right up until they decided to try charging what it actually cost. Less than a quarter into the shift to token-based billing, enterprises are freaking the fuck out, with Walmart setting token limits on its internal “Code Puppy” AI coding tool, with a spokesperson saying that it “wanted employees to apply AI in ways that create value” mere days after Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell told employees to “not use AI just for the sake of using AI.”"

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

A general rule I am currently following: if I discover gen "AI" elements to something you're working on, I will not voluntarily share it or talk about it at all. Not in a good way and not in a bad way. The only exception is if I think other people should be warned about a situation.

I doubt I am alone in this, but silence is hard to measure.