Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is not a normal moment. It does not call for timid journalism.

For $5 a month, you can sustain independent reporting that confronts power, stands with working people and helps movements imagine what comes next.

https://bit.ly/sustaininthesetimes

By the end of the day it'll be raining diarrhea and we'll be shitting ash.

"actually its fine if agentic code is unmaintainable for humans because the agents will just maintain it" is just the next cope in a long series of copes from LLM true believers who said they were going to revolutionize customer support, summaries, art, writing and video, all of which they failed at

genAI is a dead-end technology that creates output without intention that is practically useless. the only reason it hasn't failed yet is because of the trillions pumped into it by business idiots

In 2023, wildfire smoke made the air dangerous while employers expected business to continue as usual.

Workers had other ideas. They pushed for N95S, left unsafe workplaces, and won closures that protected their coworkers.

In a climate crisis, organizing keeps people alive.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/workers-organized-for-better-conditions-after-air-quality-plummeted

For Instagram, my art is "Likely made with AI". Hard to be an artist in 2026...

Even though the two national teams will be battling it out in the World Cup final on Sunday, the real-life protagonists of both these books were actually fighting against many of the same things. Check out Argentina: A Tale of Two Utopias, and Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Post-dictatorial State!
Argentina: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1871
Spanish Punk: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1770

The call is coming from inside the house!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJYw2gR0cU

#SSH be like:

> WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.

Dude, that's my #N900 with an OS from 2007. It's using #rsa and I had to make an exception in two places to even make you connect. On a private network.
#Quantum computers are the least problem here.

#cryptography

RE: https://ruby.social/@tekin/116939799012427504

DHH is a racist piece of shit and everyone supporting his shit by buying stuff from his company, inviting him to talks, using or promoting his garbage "distribution" (looking at you @frameworkcomputer ) is compliant and a morally bankrupt human being.

And, right on cue, someone complains about my "political" posts not having a content warning.

Let me explain: fuck you.

A complete, #openaccess #humanrights textbook. - https://humanrightstextbook.org/digital-book "This leading international human rights textbook remains an open-access publication and is widely used by students, educators, researchers, and practitioners around the world"

Election Interference is Fine For Me But Not For Thee - https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/17/election-interference-is-fine-for-me-but-not-for-thee/

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/national-academies-climate-attribution-is-maturing-but-still-has-limits/ "could make it easier to hold companies liable for damages."

Piledrivers.

Kathunk. Kathunk. Kathunk.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145548/follow-the-money-especially-in-open-source/

Small reminder that there's now less than 2 weeks left to hand in your proposals for the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference :)

https://postmarketos.org/conference/

I have, after two years, allowed myself to talk about my experiences with AI madness again, this time with the benefit of speaking to people all around the world, including Fortune 500 executives. This one is on my regular blog for casual readers, and cross-posted to the company blog if you need to share this with someone and have it look official.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

We live in a society that blames the poor for their poverty while tolerating the existence of leeches who become billionaires (and trillionaires) by stealing the wages of others. We are expected to believe this is fair and the result of choices made by individuals.

It is all wrong.

AI companies and Amazon are inviting bogus "authors" to publish bogus books about real people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html

Madison Square Garden is suing @WIRED over stories relating to surveillance at the venue. Wired stands by its reporting and has lifted the paywall on two of the stories so you can read them for yourself. Here they are:

https://flip.it/CmOGtT
https://flip.it/2n8E4_

#Technology #MadisonSquareGarden #JimDolan

Kids need to explore the world and that includes social media

A prominent psychologist argues that children should be free to explore the world they are going to have to live in, and that includes the internet and social media, which means no age-gating laws

https://mathewingram.com/work/2026/07/16/kids-need-to-explore-the-world-and-that-includes-social-media/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social