Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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My favorite data center is the public library.

The current version of #KDE on my machine (6.7) seems to be very buggy in terms of what happens when I try to add extra monitor(s) in the #Wayland version, whether it’s via #HDMI or #USB with #Displaylink. The screens go haywire and I can even get a terminal open. I’ve had to revert back to the #X11 version just as I’d got used to Wayland. I’m no fanboy of Wayland or X11 but when such a major breaking of the system happens, it forces my hand. Not good at all.

#Fedora #Linux #Desktop #KDE6_7

Journalists who depend on confidential sources should be alarmed that journalist Catherine Herridge has been ordered to pay $800 a day for not burning her sources.

Congress must pass a strong shield law like the PRESS Act to protect journalists.

Our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/court-forces-reporter-to-pay-800-a-day-for-refusing-to-identify-source/

“Every other issue of social justice, from workers’ rights to economic and reproductive justice, connects back to voting rights and ballot access.”

As Trump tries to make housing relief contingent on the SAVE America Act, this 2021 warning from Georgia still rolls hard.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/georgia-voter-suppression-law-jim-crow

At the AFL-CIO convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota labor was honored for anti-ICE organizing that included food distribution, rapid response networks and the Jan. 23 “No Work, No School, No Shopping” shutdown.

Days later, federal indictments followed. https://inthesetimes.com/article/sweeping-federal-indictments-of-ice-observers-net-minnesota-unionists

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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ELON MUSK AND HIS DOGE PALS' latest mystery: "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
Who killed 600,000 people?
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/24/tom-the-dancing-bug-elon-musk-and-his-doge-pals-in-texas-chainsaw-massacre.html

Public access to court records shouldn't depend on your ability to pay. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free

Signal chats appeared in an indictment of 15 people affiliated with Minneapolis anti-ICE protest groups. Does that mean Signal is compromised? No. But devices involved may be.

Read our newsletter to learn how to maximize your group chat safety (and subscribe):

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-chats-cited-in-minneapolis-protest-indictment/

Get 20% off the newest N.O. Bonzo (@nobonzo) coloring book thru 7/1 with code JUNE here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2147

“A Note to Our Customers and Partners | Snyk”

https://snyk.io/blog/a-note-to-our-customers-and-partners/

> We are simplifying our structure so we can move faster for you, and that includes reducing the size of some teams.

Do we have a name for this genre of "our glorious AI future means we fire people" announcement? Like the "Our Incredible Journey" startup shutdown posts?

Violating the First Amendment is expensive.

People fired for protected speech are not only getting their jobs back, they're getting 6-figure payouts.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5856300/charlie-kirk-assassination-jobs-social-media-payouts-fired-first-amendment-settlements?utm_content=

Employers in March: Your salary, bonus, and eligibility for promotions hinges on demonstrating you use AI constantly. If not, don't expect to keep your job.

Employers in June: We are shocked, _shocked I tell you_, that employees have been frittering away our very expensive tokens on unnecessary shit like converting PDFs to slides.

https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/

"This is Silicon Valley — a monoculture that sells itself as outliers, putting everything it has into supporting a generative AI industry that sends the vast majority of its value directly to the largest tech companies in the world. The staunch rationalists of the Bay that have built brands convincing people they’re immune to the influence of groupthink need you to think exactly the same way that they were told to.

Why would everybody agree to do something so stupid? Why would everybody act so crazily?

It’s simple: the tech industry has completely run out of ideas, and all that’s left is a cargo cult that hasn’t had a human experience since 2015."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/cargo-culture/

Google lost two star researchers and fell 6%, its worst day in over a year. The headlines blamed the exits. They missed that Amazon fell 4% the same day, and Meta and Microsoft dropped too. Two people leaving Google does not move Amazon. Something bigger did.

Here is what actually moved them as far as I see. The four giants building AI will spend more than $452 billion this year doing it, and their cash is vanishing into it. Google's free cash flow has already fallen 47% to $10 billion. Amazon's has collapsed 95%, to barely $1 billion. The market did not panic over two resignations. It woke up to a number.

And the forward number is quite worse. Wall Street now expects Google's full-year free cash flow to fall around 72% in 2026, from $73 billion to roughly $20 billion. The company that printed cash for two decades is on track to keep a quarter of what it made last year. Its own finance chief says next year's spending goes higher still.
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“New poll: majority support reopening EU negotiations - RÚV.is”

https://www.ruv.is/english/2026-06-16-new-poll-majority-support-reopening-eu-negotiations-478286

> When all survey participants are included, 44.5 per cent say they will vote “yes”, 39.4 per cent “no”, while 14.6 per cent are undecided.

Considering how quickly the nationalistic and borderline violent rhetoric here has been ramping up, I'm not optimistic about the outcome of the referendum

The "it doesn't have a thumb yet" joke really irritates me since it implies evolution ... it's a little ominous in a way that the very interesting vacuum cleaner robot doesn't deserve.

It also doesn't make any sense. A giant pick and place robot doesn't need a thumb, that's the whole point.

I don't know how people watch most media. There is so little real reporting, even a story about technology is just another opportunity for hype.

The thing that “AIs” are the best at is turning every communication into a conflict, where the LLM user is the attacker and the person who has to consume its output is the defender. https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use.

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Next Monday, the EU decides on Chat Control 1.0. Will they let the Trojan Horse through the gate and let Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc continue to scan all your messages?

We at Tuta say NO.

❌ No scanning
❌ No mass surveillance
❌ No age verification

Instead we fight for:

✅ Encryption
✅ Privacy
✅ Open Source

And so should the EU. Call your local representatives! 🥊

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #Privacy

I have a hard time trusting people who express a belief in the benevolence of robber-barons and tech bro dipshits.