Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

COVID vaccines still protect against heart problems, large study finds

Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/covid-vaccines-still-protect-against-heart-problems-large-study-finds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

It's gonna take more than DEET to get rid of these parasites. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/06/15

Leaked White House memos show top Trump administration lawyers were concerned by proposals to suspend habeas corpus and invoke the Insurrection Act.

This article underscores why our legal fight for the preservation of — and access to — presidential records is critical.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/politics/trump-scharf-habeas-corpus-insurrection-act.html

Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.

I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.

This is not a drill.

If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.

They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@DopeGhoti/116751891754949897

We will give you a high tech visual aid for free if you spy for us.

Connecticut passed a law requiring Trump's secret police thugs to show their faces. Their response: Up yours.

Do state officials have a spine or not? Stay tuned.

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/ice-arrests-danbury-hartford-video-mask-22301159.php

Sea surface temperatures in a key monitoring region for El Niño continue already at record high levels for this time of year. This is due to the long-term warming of the tropics (human-caused climate change), as well as the growing +ENSO event.

Learn more in my upcoming briefing on Tuesday: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-briefings.

Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.highres.html.

Nah, the Bible still has more translations.
https://mastodon.social/@readit/116743510259195167

There's no doubt that America's two-party system has directly enabled the rise and persistence of reactionary extremism.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/14/uk-us-trump-starmer-elections-00960828

Conservatives have a different ideology than reactionaries, but in a two-party system, their fear of change makes them much more likely to back ideologues who hate democracy.

This dynamic exists in multi-party systems, however their construction dilutes reactionary power.

On this day in Anarchist History, we remember the establishment of the Oaxaca Commune.

https://kolektiva.media/w/omsRf8NFetPRLwbfNknuWY

How #Brexit has made #Britain poorer – in charts | Brexit | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/14/how-uk-economy-changed-since-brexit-vote-charts

#UK #Politics

How to make good open source project:
- plaster pride flags everywhere (keeps bigots away)
- swear constantly (keeps ai away)
- sex (keeps corporations away)

This week's comic on the enshittification of flying

#corporations #consumers #transportation #travel

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@baldur We're trying to change that - we now have a UX design site where we track UX issues, request user feedback, and try to make more thoughtful design decisions after discussion and testing.

If you're interested in contributing your thoughts (or just want to see the reported issues thus far), more information is here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/work_items

We're also starting to document design decisions for future review: https://testing.developer.gimp.org/core/specifications/

“What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source”

https://blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-invisible-newcomer-in-open-source/

> Organic traffic to community spaces was down roughly 30 percent, traceable to question-and-answer behavior moving to LLMs.

The post is a little too optimistic overall, which is counterproductive (too much optimism leads you waste effort on solutions that will never work), but outlines a core part of the problem well

“Feedback loops require real feedback. AI drives it underground.”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/feedback-loops-require-real-feedback-ai-drives-it-underground

> The methods we take for granted have load-bearing requirements that have already gone extinct in many organizations.

I genuinely try these tools, I use them with all the recommended usage patterns, I try to do all the magic context management tricks, they sometimes hit the slot machine jackpot and get something right, but the rest of the time they just make doing what I know should be done 10x as expensive and confusing.

There is a new brand of post in the anthropic subreddit, people being amazed at how good the advice fable gave them. The reason they cite is that fable pushed back on them heavily and arrived at some Socratic solution. But if you ask them "OK so was the advice actually good" (e.g. did investing advice make you money, did relationship advice save your relationship, etc.) The answer is crickets. The new pattern for convincing people of model efficacy seems to just be negging them, and it also seems to be an effective enough product change to sell through the IPO