Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“The Algorithmic Order”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-algorithmic-order/

> This does mean, of course – and this is truly paramount – that we plan for those things, that we reclaim public space for kids, that we fund activities and resources for them and with them. And not because we think they’re broken without their phones, but because we believe that they are whole people, worthy people regardless.

This week officially marks 10 years since Barrack Obama signed PROMESA Law. The promise was getting Puerto Rico’s finances under control. What we actually got was tons of austerity.

An “oversight board” was supposed to be temporary has become its own de facto government on top of the Puerto Rico government.

It already swallowed the electric grid. Now it wants to strangle the University of Puerto Rico.

May it forever be a stain on the names of everyone involved. #PuertoRico

Is Digital Sovereignty Another Word for Nationalism?

In which I share my experience at the United Nations' Open Source Week, discussing the critical issues around digital sovereignty and open source discourse. I'm a little disappointed that discussions focus on the localization of technology rather than addressing fundamental questions about privacy and human rights. Please don't view sovereignty purely as a geopolitical power play - this could lead to exploitation under the guise of nationalism. I'm calling for a definition of human rights in technology and urge that meaningful outcomes should take precedence over mere geographic considerations. https://osenetwork.com/2026/06/26/is-digital-sovereignty-another-word-for-nationalism/

RE: https://defcon.social/@HamRadioVillage/116818418146906648

I did ham in a day last year, it was such a great time!

New to #defcon? Traveling solo? Just want to make some new friends at #defcon34? The Lonely Hackers Club Community has your back!

You can learn all about their Community and Meetup schedule in their /r/defcon post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/s/B6noNV5SVp

Anti-abortion government officials are coming for online speech, targeting websites that do nothing more than tell people what their options are, how to find a doctor, and where abortion remains legal. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/four-years-after-dobbs-anti-abortion-lawmakers-keep-coming-online-speech

“Prediction markets go one better than sports gambling because they widen the online casino’s tent to encompass any possible topic you could think of — from the mundane to the grotesque.”

That now includes bets on wars, wildfires, disease outbreaks and nuclear detonation.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket-inflation-silicon-valley-capitalism

“Monopolies in rental housing have the same effect as any other monopoly—only in this case, it’s monopolization of something that’s a human right.”

Rebecca Burns reports, The Los Angeles Tenants Union and Debt Collective are organizing tenants facing junk fees, rent debt and opaque utility charges as AvalonBay and Equity Residential move toward a mega-merger.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/real-estate-monopoly-equity-residential-avalon-bay

Trump promised “the most epic party in all of American history.”

What showed up instead, Hamilton Nolan writes, was sod, security fencing, military flyovers, and “the air of a boss who threw a birthday party and required his employees to attend.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/america-250-trump-state-fair-speech

The Prairieland sentences handed down this week followed a trial where the government argued that "antifa" posed an existential threat to national security.

FBI records tell a different story.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/prairieland-antifa-trial-protest-repression-fbi

Being forced to opt out of AI training seems to be the standard across sites and platforms. It doesn’t have to be this way. “I think ‘opt in’ is really asking the bare minimum of these companies,” EFF’s @Thorin told WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-opt-out-of-google-search-new-ai-data-training/

daniel berntsson, one of mullvad's two founders and owners, has donated millions to a local fascist/populist party. (swedish link to flamman, a socialist news site)

the örebro party are mainly known for using unusually aggressive rhetorics and racism.

in the article, berntsson specifically mentions supporting the örebro party's politics of forced repatriation of swedish citizens born abroad.

"We’ve reached the point in the erosion of the First Amendment where the government considers possession of anarchist zines and membership in a terrorist cell to be more or less the same," Seth Stern and Jeremy Busby write in @theintercept.

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/

"#unjected", a special class of anti-science, anti-fact, anti-intelligence #antivaxxers what utter morons - rolling back 3 centuries of medical progress.

growing evidence of huge collateral benefits in terms of staving off #dementia. I have had so many #vaccines I have lost count, more coming up soon, and I can't wait...

I am not at all amused to find that Reddit has compiled AI generated dossiers on all of its users...

Faircamp creator @freebliss talks to a hardcore punk zine about platform autonomy, the small web, and building a radically sustainable way for artists to publish music online.

Find the full interview at https://diyconspiracy.net/faircamp-interview/

shout out to @fairplayer

#faircamp #music #punk #diymusic

This month is the anniversary of the Battle of the Greasy Grass

The former Stars & Stripes ombuds is fighting back against the government's disregard for the First Amendment. Good.

More journalists should take this administration to court.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/25/fired-stars-strips-ombudsman-jacqueline-smith-sues-pentagon/

Secret Panel HERE 🫂 https://patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/keeping-it-real-26175234