Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@EUCommission By the way, in case you’re wondering, this means that apart from folks in Cuba and Iran not being able to use Let’s Encrypt, neither can the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese nor the ~11 International Criminal Court judges and other officials that are being persecuted for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and their efforts to bring the war criminals responsible to justice.

#LetsEncrypt #USA #fascism #israel #genocide #sanctions #EU #sovereignty

Fuck shareholders.

“If I hadn't had it, I'd be dead right now.”

Journalists across the U.S. told us why they use personal protective equipment while covering protests, and why attempts to ban it are so dangerous.

https://freedom.press/issues/ppe-bans-not-only-risk-reporters-they-risk-the-publics-right-to-know/

Coming to Chicago for #labornotes?

Join the afterparty on Sunday, June 14.

Featuring Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly, Maximillian Alvarez, Alex Press, comedy, & a dance party with Tromblau &Friends.

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RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116716560985593842

Our friends at Crimethinc have published an interview with comrades in #Syria providing an update of the current political situation in the country, and their thoughts on Internationalism and the #Mujawara campaign launched this month by The Peoples Want. Recommended reading! 🔥

Maybe the treatment for AI psychosis is 5-meo-DMT...

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/wilson-pollan-michael-consciousness-review-world-appears

Is AI a scam? Yup.

(from Alex Falcone, who is not on here, apparently. Only a threads repeater.)

Help save @internetarchive's Wayback Machine by signing this petition - https://boingboing.net/2026/06/08/help-save-internet-archives-wayback-machine-by-signing-this-petition.html "describes the importance of the Wayback Machine's archive in preserving journalistic integrity, and outlines the dangers that censorship and authoritarianism pose to a free press. "

Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/most-new-us-ai-data-centers-are-going-up-on-drought-land

Is there a tech conference that only presents software and topics that do not use any AI?

#Tech #NoAI

Crypto and AI companies have also poured $7 billion+ into Trump directly. Afterwards, 21+ SEC cases/investigations against crypto companies were dropped, regulators did a U-turn on crypto policy, and the industry was invited to write their own rules.

https://influence.citationneeded.news/analysis/quidproquo

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Trump's contempt for non-subservient women is one of his most notable -- and contemptible -- traits. It's most obvious when he goes off on female journalists.

He does this again and again to them, with almost zero pushback from their cowardly journalism peers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8k1xx6yzjo

I sometimes think about how if open source had never happened at scale, and all LLMs had to train on was proprietary code, how different things might look right now. Breaks my heart; sharing code openly has been a huge part of my life and belief system for so long, and I was so convinced that the good that it did outweighed the bad actors taking advantage. I never imagined that the bad actors would win by automating their behaviour

I put out a video that was critical of AI without AI being mentioned in title, thumbnail, or description. And it was dogpiled with pro-AI comments almost instantly.

This video has almost 2.5X as many comments per view as my most recent "controversial" video, and 4.5 the average.

I don't want to say that AI bots are being used to astrorturf videos after scraping scripts, but I have a hard time believing this is real based on experience.

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116715874283622057

So:
• With Siri AI, Apple deliberately developed a brand-new (and central) OS feature that they knew would not meet the DMA requirements they've been subjected to since 2023
• They went to the EU Commission with the proposal of a technical solution that is not ready and would not roll out before 18 months
• The EU Commission said no because lol what do you mean you plan to disobey the DMA *again* for the next 18 months
• Apple whines

#fedihire The NextGraph association is pleased to announce it is opening a position for an open source front-end developer, fulltime or part-time, fully remote and European based, working with React and/or Svelte frameworks, and who is interested in creating the next generation productivity tools and social media applications. Experience with CRDTs, local-first and linked data technologies are a plus. If you like Rust that could also be a good match. 1/2

Thanks to my RSS reader, I recently saw that the long-running mp3 blog https://hc-punx.blogspot.com/ has relaunched as a self-hosted website at https://blog.punkify.cc/ !

Read their rational here: https://blog.punkify.cc/about/

It looks like they even are trying to add Fediverse integration from the blog (so one could follow it/comment from a Mastodon account) but it doesn't appear to be working just yet!

Updated the former Fediverse Punk Month site at https://allpunkspleaseleavemeta.com to be more evergreen content. Now has a standalone version of The Counterforce Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse (for punks) alongside printable zines, links, and other resources.

If you'd like to translate the site + guide please get in touch and we'll add multiple languages (including printable versions of the zines!)

THE TIME OF MONSTERS

The neoliberal world order as we know it is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. But celebrations of its downfall are muted by the bleak reality of the world that is rising to take its place. Every day, our screens are flooded with images of war, genocide, and AI slop. And we all know we’re living in dark times.

So, what does this mean for us, and how do we move forward?

Video in English w English and Arabic subtitles

#SubMedia #Anarchism #Politics #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #Crisis #Resistance #Solidarity #DirectAction #Self-Organization #Anti-Capitalism #Society #Geopolitics #SystemCriticism #DarkTimes #MutualAid

https://kolektiva.media/w/sDi4fpHQm6FnqJvnfnzg5X

I get that this bit about "helping parents manage their children" is clearly aimed at legislators, not people, but god damn how Americans talk about child rearing is creeeeeepy.