Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Trump regime's vicious and blatantly political prosecutions are a total abuse of power. Example: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/minnesota-attorney-ice-protester-indictment

It's vital that potential jurors learn of their own power: to deny convictions, to serve justice to these victims of a lawless government.

https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/jury-nullification-faq/is-jury-nullification-legal.html

"Dear customer portal team,

Your support chatbot is alienating and awful. The patronising simulation of human care, the self-reflexive "I" and "me", and the use of an AI-generated human face stereotyping young Asian women as tech-native and servile is a stain on your brand.

If you cannot budget for a human to take support requests, may I suggest significantly boosting customer morale by switching to a paperclip with dancing eyebrows. Other animated stationery products may work too."

Name them all.

“More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.”

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

Mission Local is hiring a senior editor

Mission Local, a nonprofit news site, is looking to hire a senior editor....

https://missionlocal.org/2026/06/mission-local-is-hiring-a-senior-editor/

#AISlop
When widespread distaste for AI Data Centers enters popular culture:

I've got a client looking to hire five senior engineers in Sydney -- they work in data engineering, but they'll take anyone that's competent and work it out from there. Pay's about A$160K to A$180K + superannuation for someone that nails their interview process. No LeetCode stuff, though there is an online screen that is reportedly at the level of "You weren't lying about programming, right? Can you like, read a CSV and write some SQL?"

Hit me up if you know anyone that'd be interested!

Even though Paramount cited a conflict of interest in rejecting our ad criticizing its merger with Warner Bros., it apparently sees no conflict of interest in promising the Trump admin editorial concessions in exchange for merger approvals.

Our statement: https://freedom.press/issues/paramount-blocks-fpf-ad-about-trump-ellison-censorship-threat/

First they called Renee Good and Alex Pretti “domestic terrorists.” Today, federal prosecutors indicted 15 Minnesota activists and leaned again on the specter of “antifa.”

This is not incidental. It’s the repression strategy Alberto Toscano warned about.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/antifa-everywhere-war-on-terror-cve-material-support-laws-hlf5-terrorism

The UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs may be one of the most ambitious IT education projects ever launched. Experts have praised the scheme, saying that a deft combination of incentives and peer education make it more likely to succeed than other, comparable initiatives.

"With the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN-literacy is more essential than ever.” said one expert, “This bold project definitely comes at the right time.”

#UKSocialMediaBan

We need to move on from the obsession with growth as a proxy for “better”, or “success”; and instead dig in on, just improving.

It doesn’t need millions of people to make something better, it needs a few, or just one.

We make better communities by helping one another, fixing things; seeing things that need some love, and finding new ways to give that to them.

I’m not going to stop participating, or making things, or encouraging others, just because a thousand people don’t show up tomorrow.

I find myself quite frustrated by the eagerness with which some people in tech use AI to output slop and leave others to clean up behind them.

Then those who output the slop get credit for the idea and the execution when the execution was never really theirs.

The feds this morning raided and arrested about 15 activists in Minnesota for opposing the occupation of Minnesota. The feds put out a press release stating they are going after anti-fascist, "antifa", organizers, which is telling.

There should be a website listing appliances that do not spy on people. Also cars, which model until which year.

I can't believe the subset of Firefox users who didn't turn off telemetry also didn't find the tiny menu item buried in the settings to turn off AI features, I'm shocked

"Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on."

Poppycock. The people who turned off all the AI had already turned off the telemetry that measures this.

Even if headlines are now pointing to a possible end to the war, that cannot erase the central fact: This war was never legal.

Phyllis Bennis explains why the U.S.-Iran war violates both U.S. domestic law and international law, and why accountability still matters.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/iran-war-united-states-israel-trump-illegal

Get 20% off this new title with code JUNE here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2149

#NHS patients can't opt out of #Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can - https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/06/13/nhs-patients-cant-opt-out-of-palantirs-data-platform-but-their-hospital-can/5254766 "Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal"

Oh and now I can't `git push`

All of us put all of our eggs into this one very shitty basket FUUUUUUUUCK