Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Observation about Germany:

Heat pumps are left wing and "woke" as far as German politics are concerned.

German politics have however not figured if installing air conditioners in public buildings and hospitals is a left-wing or right-wing talking point and therefore German politicians don't know how to approach the subject.

However, it is perfectly normal to send bespoke-built police water cannon trucks to public events for cooling them down.

As institutions scrub queer history from public view, citizen archivists are racing to save it.

Invisible Histories, QZAP and queer zine makers are preserving the records of survival, resistance and joy.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/fighting-anti-queer-backlash-with-citizen-archivists

Immigrants detained at Delaney Hall say they have been denied medical care, served food with worms and forced to work for as little as $1 an hour, or for no pay at all.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-jersey-prison-immigrants-strike-ice-trump

Secret Panel HERE 😜 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/06/28/fun-side

Due to unfortunate life choices I have become one of the main yamlwranglers for the #Peertube @coopcloud recipe. Thanks to the help of @3wordchant we finally managed to update the recipe to the latest version. Please update your Peertube co-opcloud installs ASAP because doing so fixes a critical security vulnerability: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.1.8

@aral Calling it a "child abuse law" is such a bullshit take. It's a mass surveillance law.

just describe the image the way you would describe it to a friend on the phone

if it's just text, copy and paste the text into the image description

if it's just an image, describe what you're seeing in the image

if it's both, include both the text and the visual description

if it's a joke, describe all the components necessary for the joke to work

it's really that simple

Waddya wanna bet that some or all of the California PUC members have received bribery money from Uber and Lyft? (If that sounds unlikely, please see the history of CalPERS)

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/california-regulators-voted-to-release-ride-hailing-safety-reports-then-they-didnt/

We've moved on to mocking the Great American State Fair, but that pool's still nasty. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/06/29

The biggest datasets from outfits who are in a position to collect hard data from real dev teams, like Faros and CircleCI, show beyond any reasonable doubt that the *average* team that uses AI for code generation is outperformed in software delivery by the average team that doesn't.

True story.

It was nice to speak to China's The Paper about the climate consequences of fossil-fuel hungry software systems

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33451501