Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Online gambling outfit Polymarket gets caught paying online "creators" to promote fake bet "winnings" in their feeds.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-social-media-bets-prediction-market-441cdeb5?st=oE9Lbv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=www.garbageday.email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=youtube-doesn-t-wanna-be-am-radio-anymore

Great reporting from the WSJ, whose parent company is in business with Polymarket (which has ties with Trump family). At least the newsroom isn't corrupt.

Alan Greenspan, who died today at 100, spent his post-crash years trying to salvage the same laissez-faire faith that helped bring the economy to ruin.

Chris Lehmann’s 2013 review cut through the comeback tour and the excuses about markets, human nature and “geopolitical events.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-zombie-economist

California legislators are considering a dangerous bill that would undermine public records access and allow requesters to be sued.

As California goes, so goes the nation. Don't let AB 1821 set an ugly precedent for government accountability across America.

https://oaklandside.org/2026/06/17/public-records-act-ab-1821-pacheco-fees/

#AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/22/anthropic-claude-fable-ai-model-artificial-intelligence-national-security "Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model"

I can't recall if I ever drew Alan Greenspan (RIP, bozo), but his actual face looked like I did.

Happy Birthday to Octavia Butler!
Get a copy of Sisters of the Revolution here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=678

okay literal #askAPunk question: what is the source photo from the Crossed Out / MITB split album cover?

#punk #trivia

We do not want to clean up slop! We are tired of it already! Millennium bug was an honest oversight and of course COBOL programmers were happy to pause their retirement and fix it. But slop is not an honest mistake. It is a systematic corporate malice! They have chosen slop over humans, they deserve to drown in slop!

https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116776087234013214

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #vibeCoding #codingAgents

A fresh batch of exclusive items has been added to the Kickstarter!
Check them out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/pmpress

Iceland is tiny, so a company letting 40 employees go makes national news. The company in question, Rapyd Europe, of course claimed "AI" as the reason for the layoffs.

So, I called them out on their bullshit – in my first piece for the Reykjavík Grapevine:
https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/

#Iceland #AI #Labor

Elon bought Cursor. Folks should stop using it, as Elon does not care about the harms caused by the products his company sells.

before this SFC guy seemed ok? didn't annoy me.

but he's not talking merely like an AI addict, he's talking like a corporate shill.

(and like it's his first time. not even *good* at evasion.)

who for?? who's pumping bucks into SFC for this performance?

“Midwinter | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/midwinter

> Giving up on major or totalising inventions in general is, I think, the single most beneficial thing that we could do for the industry at the moment.

“How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop – Ketan Joshi”

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/06/21/how-to-breathe-air-when-were-drowning-in-big-techs-slop/

> Thanks to the failure of these institutions to reject a software system that produces powerfully convincing fabrications, journalism as an industry is seeing the consequences play out. And those consequences will erode trust

RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116792317254713144

tax them into the ground...

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@sophieschmieg/116770216628493703

Great piece on hybrid classical/quantum *signatures*—why they're harder than you'd think to get right, and also less useful than you'd think.

Not much cryptography background required.

(This is distinct from hybrid *encryption*, which has a much stronger story.)

Dammit, I just realized that this card game is based on a clever math or information theory observation, and now I need to reverse engineer it to figure out how it works.

("What if you just played the g--" NO. Gotta understand it.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/116787984382131525

An uncommonly educated and practical member of Congress, @SeanCasten, is posting some of the most useful threads you will read in the fediverse. An example:

Another supply chain attack... this one at Okendo Reviews, a product review widget used on more than 18k online stores

A threat actor known as SmartApeSG added malicious JS code to prompt users with a ClickFix window

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/smartapesg-launches-okendo-reviews-supply-chain-attack

Color of the year...