Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A Nikkei investigation showed that Tech giants Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, & Oracle hide $1.65 trillion in off balance sheet debt from GPU contracts, data center leases, & joint ventures. That’s even more than their $1.35 trillion in official debt! Because accounting rules don't count these obligations until facilities go live, investors are getting a skewed picture: hidden debt that inflates current profit figure & yes it is all legal 🤣 https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding ( https://archive.ph/lOlv5 )

I’m a firm believer that nonprofits, especially, should be incorporating Fediverse technologies as part of their social media strategy. I understand that they still need the major social networks for reach, but in my experience, Fediverse users volunteer and donate more often.

I know I do, and I know a bunch of my friends on the Fediverse do as well. We’re a generous bunch, and we often show up.

Red and blue states alike have “stopped talking about harmful content that’s sexual or harmful to minors and are moving towards complete bans on internet access for young people, on social media access for young people,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told @BloombergLaw. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/product-liability-and-toxics-law/state-age-verification-law-rulings-leave-trail-of-uncertainty

I lived in #Philadelphia for two years in the 90s, but this is the kind of thing that gives that town a special place in my heart.

Bombs do not liberate women. They create refugees, orphans and survivors forced to carry the consequences long after governments declare victory.

Dena Al-Adeeb writes on the familiar lies being used to justify war in Iran.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/iran-war-united-states-israel-women-liberation

There's a new directory of US worker-owned co-op products!
#WorkerCoops #Coops #Market

https://geo.coop/articles/new-directory-worker-co-ops-products

https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-07-20-us-demands-voluntary-recognition/

My gawd these poll results are depressing.

https://mayfirst.coop/posts/2026/rewriting-ai-narrative/

What could it possibly mean to "re-imagine" synthetic text extruders "for radical ends"? Like, what specifically?

Why can I suddenly not drag tabs between windows? Is this just a me thing? #librewolf

Stories about people and communities doing things for climate and the environment are important not because these efforts are enough by themselves, but because they signal to likeminded people that there are others like them.

July 21-23 we're doing the Summer Faire Market! (Insiders get early access July 20th)
Shop via our direct link here: https://pmpress.faire.com

Just what this world needs: more confidently wrong people.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

Teachers, nurses, librarians, students, artists and veterans all have a role in opposing fascism.

Azadeh Shahshahani and Stephanie Guilloud make the case for a movement that is broad, bold and unafraid to name what it is fighting.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/antidote-to-fear-is-courage-fascism-antifa-trump

@prietschka Satya Nadella admitted in November that Microsoft’s got Nvidia rigs piled in warehouses waiting for power:

> The biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut, but it’s power and it’s sort of the ability to get the builds done fast enough close to power. So, if you can’t do that, you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in. In fact, that is my problem today, right? It’s not a supply issue of chips. It’s actually the fact that I don’t have warm shells to plug into.

So the world knows and it doesn't matter!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/11/lets-power-ai-with-supersonic-jet-engine-turbines/

I’ll add that one thing I’m personally waiting to see is some sort of revelation about where all these GPUs Nvidia has been selling have gone.

The capacity isn’t there, there’s quite literally nowhere to plug all these GPUs in. The compute demand isn’t there, as Meta and XAI selling their idle capacity indicates.

So…where are the gazillion GPUs Nvidia has sold?

Biohacking is all we'll have once real medicine is fully defunded. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/07/20

Falsifying data in a statistical analysis is a fireable offence, but erasing women from the scientific record is business as usual

https://olivia.science/cryptogyny/

Gosh I have so much work to do... but I'm too angry because the engineer who built the fucking space mirror for Reflect Orbital and then quit openly admits that it won't actually provide solar power and that it's just for "Maybe there's some, you know, grand party in the desert"

But they're still going to launch it. Fuck ecology and sleep patterns, we have to light up a party in the desert from orbit!

FUCK TECHBROS EVERYWHERE.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-07-19/reflect-orbital-wants-to-sell-sunlight-to-earth/106918866

There's a decent chance that the Trump regime did irreparable damage to a packaged food company by claiming, falsely, that it was responsible for the explosive-diarrhea outbreak. Oops, said the incompetent (by Trump's choice) FDA. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-says-taylor-farms-cyclospora-finding-was-false-positive-2026-07-20/

The general uptime is good again, we're still investigating the cause however and might cause downtime again. A few things that happened since the last update:
1. Forgejo runners were (still) blocked after the outage due to a temporary block rule being left in place. This was fixed a few hours ago. In the UI they are still shown as offline, this is only a visual bug.
2. Registering and login was not possible due to Anubis not being aware of failover. This was fixed in the last hour.