Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Ranked-choice voting lets people support the candidate they actually want without worrying that they’re handing the election to the candidate they like least.

J. Patrick Patterson explains how it works and why it could bring disillusioned voters back.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ranked-choice-voting-big-idea-election

US continues to shun #Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/us-continues-to-shun-ebola-infected-citizens-second-american-sent-to-germany/ #murica the cowardly won't even look after its own citizens

200 economists just admitted they can’t see where #AI is taking the economy - https://thenextweb.com/news/economists-ai-transformation-we-must-act-now "The remarkable part is not the warning about AI and jobs. It is that a profession famous for its scepticism is admitting it is driving in the fog."

“Free” AI is being powered by coal plants kept online, new gas plants, water use, noise pollution and rising utility bills.

Dan Howells and Todd Larsen of Green America write about who is paying the real price.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-data-centers-climate-change

RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/116460268527275229

Addendum:

If you find AI has utility for something, it's the "something" that you have found, not the "utility"

1/x

"Who doesn't want diarrhea lettuce and needless war?"

Even in the US a lot of people aren't going to CPAC any more. No wonder nobody showed up to "CPAC Great Britain."

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/liz-truss-opens-maga-style-cpac-gb-to-deserted-room-407901/

#UKPoli #ReformUK

Happy Birthday to Assata Shakur
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
― Assata Shakur

RE: https://mastodon.social/@livelakeontario/116925532059307444

You should treat wildfire smoke with AQI 200+ or so like you would treat a chemical accident—at the very least, do not go outside, do not open windows, wear a N95 mask (or better) and yes I mean wear a mask indoors.

It will permanently injure you and your loved ones to breathe that stuff in.

It’s correct to be angry that so many Democrats voted to send $3.3B more to Israel as they commit genocide of Palestinians.

But recognize this: An unprecedented 104 Democratic members of Congress — a majority — voted to stop funding Israel’s genocide. That is a major shift. It’s been made possible by countless progressives activating and organizing. Progress is slow but it is happening. Keep the pressure on. Let’s go ❤️✊🏽

Today's air quality here in the Twin Cities is brought to you by every oil pipeline and data center our elected officials prioritized over sustainability and people.

(at 1am I screen shotted the airnow app showing AQI of 526 -- although currently it's showing "only" 337 😑 😐 😬)

Tell the Senate to reject Jay Clayton for director of national intelligence.

Clayton just subpoenaed several New York Times journalists over their reporting on the Air Force One plane Qatar gifted to President Trump.

Someone who targets reporters shouldn’t be DNI.

https://freedom.press/action/write-a-letter-opposing-jay-claytons-confirmation-as-director-of-national-intelligence/

“It’s the same recipe they have been feeding the American people from Iraq to Libya to Afghanistan.”

Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernández warns that Washington is using familiar narratives to build public support for another U.S. war. Chris Mills Rodrigo reports.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cuba-raul-castro-trump-sanctions-invasion

🔴 This week’s comic now up on Daily Kos
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Those irrepressible MAGAs do their own science research!
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/16/800070468/cartoon/tom-the-dancing-bug-maga-does-its-own-scientific-research/

In Maine, ICE turned grocery runs, school drop-offs and ordinary errands into sources of fear.

In this excerpt from "Breaking ICE," Sonali Kolhatkar reports on the neighbors and organizers who built a community defense movement in response.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-people-fighting-back-inside-maines-immigrant-defense-movement

We're excited to see @forgejo releasing v16. We already deployed it to our internal staging environment and have not found any regressions.

We plan to deploy it later today in the evening at 21:00 CEST (19:00 UTC) which requires downtime of around 10 minutes. We'll keep you updated in this thread.

The FSFE turned 25 this year!! Hurrah for a quarter century promoting and defending #SoftwareFreedom 🙌
Check out our timeline with our key achievements since 2001: https://fsfe.org/about/timeline/

#FreeSoftware

Die neue PUNX.social website ist online!
https://punx.social

Sie soll als Anlaufpunkt für alle dienen, die sich für das Fediverse interesieren oder aber #neuhier sind.

Bitte verbreitet die frohe Kunde vor allem außerhalb des Fediverse, also auf Facebook, Insta, TikTok, Twitter, Bluesky oder wo immer ihr seid.

#punk @punk #fediverse #punkstodon #punktube #PUNKdotPHOTOS #fediverse101

Working on a brand new post for my series "a newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost" - showing people how to set up their own #GoToSocial microblogging instance.

Sorry it's been taking a while: I started over when I realized most people use subdomains... and I'm doing a thorough step-by-step explainer that any newbie could follow - I hope 😅

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon