Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Spanish households save €10 a month thanks to #renewables expansion, report finds - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/spanish-households-save-renewables-expansion-electricity-gas-prices-iran-war "Thinktank says decoupling electricity from gas prices has also helped shield Spain from hikes caused by Iran war" clever old #spain

They're hiring big beefy reflecting pool boys to keep it clean and cry while thanking the president for the amazing job he is doing.

“hmm, how is the market doing”

computer hardware went up 5x because memory that hasn’t been yet manufactured was bought with money that doesn’t exist for pairing with gpus that don’t exist in data centres that haven’t been built which would be powered by infrastructure that isn’t even planned to satisfy demand that doesn’t exist in order to generate profits that will never exist

“good god”

@broadwaybabyto During the Clinton regime, then Sec. of State Madeline Albright stated during a TV interview that the US knew that it's sanctions of Iraq would lead to the deaths of hudred's of thousands of children, but that they decided to do it anyway because they thought it was important "to send a message" to Saddam

This is what the US has been for a long time. Elon is evil, but that disease is a distinctly bi-partisan one. We need to rid ourselves of both parties and the entire political class if we want to save our nation's soul (assuming that it isn't already far too late for that).

I dont like the term “digital sovereignty” because of the pronounced nationalist and authoritarian connotations that it carries, regardless of what the actual intentions of its particular users are.

I propose that as hackers, we reframe the core concept (independence of US-centric cloud operators) as “digital autonomy”. I think this carries the same core idea while being less about who rules the digital realm, and more about the freedoms we all have within it.

Was just talking to a friend at a US technology company, they’ve had their budget reduced by 50% as the company says it wants to announce “the largest layoffs in US corporate history” to prove GenAI can replace jobs.

There’s no plan to actually replace the jobs with GenAI.. they just have to decimate their area.

Not naming company as the staff don’t know they’re about to fed to the line going up.

Despite the insistence of MAGA hats that "tHeRe aRe oNlY TwO GeNdErS", it's vastly more complex than that. Here's a nice overview.

#Pride

Using AI takes so much of the fun out of hacking. It's not _not_ fun, but there's something special about figuring stuff out for yourself.

The UK social media ban for under-16s does nothing to sort out the harms caused by platforms.

Harmful content is a product of a business model that uses data to drive engagement and target users with ads.

Digital ID checks feed more data into this system, while leaving the engine for harms unchecked.

Read our response ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/starmers-social-media-ban-fails-to-address-root-causes-of-online-harms/

#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship

Me: "What'd you study in school today?"

Kid: "We talked about poverty."

Me: "Oh, like what?"

Kid: "In countries where people make a dollar a day."

Me: "You know there's a woman living in her car in front of the house?"

Kid: Stunned silence.

Wife: "What?!?"

To sum up, many autistic ‘deficits’ may only be deficits such in a material world that requires very high sensory tolerance & the constant filtering of a barrage of human-made information...

... and in a social world that's built around implication, hierarchy, performance and obedience.

13/13

Can anyone think of more things? Whatever your view, comments very welcome!

I’ve explored the “negative or nothing” theme more here: https://www.neurofabulous.org.uk/autism-negative-or-nothing.html

Zitron just reported that OpenAI lost $38.5 billion dollars in 2025:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/email/dd1a5875-1dd6-41bf-8be3-7752e684cf6b/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Conor McGregor says many offensive things. Most US folk, even those that don't follow MMA, know who Conor is. Conor loses a lot. He has only won 1 fight since 2016.🤷🏿‍♂️

Khabib Nurmagomedov avoids saying offensive things. Most people don't know who he is. He retired undefeated, having never lost in MMA.

Does that say something about Conor?

Or about UFC fans?

Or about Americans?

What are we worshipping?

The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster. “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial fraud bc he’s accumulated obscene amounts of money.” https://karlbode.com/the-spacex-ipo-is-a-giant-unworkable-con-orchestrated-by-an-overt-white-supremacist-huckster

People manipulating Reddit are turning AI search into garbage, but Reddit makes money on this, so why would it try to fix the problem? https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

New modeling from The Lancet suggests the USAID funding cuts will kill 14 million people.

Many of them are children.

600,000 have already died.

The man who gutted the program?

Elon Musk. The world’s first trillionaire.

He has a trillionaire dollars and is murdering the poorest people on earth.

He should be in jail.

Billionaires and trillionaires should not exist in a world where millions die from poverty every year.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900281-5/fulltext

#usaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #musk #capitalism #poverty #publichealth #uspol

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