Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Things are so bad they need you to spend your 401(K) to keep Trump’s economy afloat.

https://www.rawstory.com/scott-bessent-2677279924/

Temporary flyers for upcoming Hattiesburg gigs. Gotta keep the AskAPunk page looking active!

Meta/Facebook/Instagram/etc makes a deal with Newsmax to use the latter's right-wing spewings as AI training data, thereby ensuring that anyone looking for even remotely accurate output from the Ai is on a fool's errand: https://ir.newsmax.com/news/news-details/2026/Newsmax-and-Meta-Enter-AI-Content-Partnership-/default.aspx?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=bari-s-new-60-slate

An excellent bit of Big Journalism news: New York Times right-wing propagandist Douhat is departing for the Magafied CBS "News" -- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/media/60-minutes-ross-douthat.html

Until the Times (predictably) replaces him with another right-wing propagandist, the quality of its editorial pages will be markedly higher.

Just saw an AI scare piece published a news megacorp and realized that the author reads my blog, i.e, doesn't believe a fucking word of it

The end times are upon us

Tobi Lütke (CEO of Shopify) is a fascist.

(Have been saying this for years, but finally the mask is completely off; especially when considering the "let's just kill brown people and ethnical cleanse Europe" posts of his best buddy and Shopify board member DHH.)

https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/shopify-ceo-voting-rights-stripping-americans-19th-century/

What happens when decisions about a neighborhood’s future are made before residents have a meaningful say? Tomorrow, Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of Respair Production & Media join In These Times’ Nashwa Bawab for a conversation about Quantum Entanglements.

https://www.allyoufascistsboundtolose.com/calendar/who-decides-the-future-of-our-neighborhoods

And... a review of this excellent and important comp:

https://the-counterforce.org/inherited-wasteland/

Wandering around YouTube and on the videos I've been watching the comments for the software dev videos have been a cesspool of rightwing hate and nihilism while the comments on the rest are mostly just silly

Maybe I just got unlucky but it's not giving a good impression of the state of the field

'I Would Never Do This To You:' Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials
https://www.404media.co/casa-grande-arizona-flock-city-council/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Bars should stop using ID scanners that share information, return to standard ID checks, and prove to their customers that their privacy and security still matters. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/why-are-gay-bars-building-databases-their-patrons

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Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.

Venture Capitalists and anybody with some disposable income, please send some of that fake money that doesn't do anything my way. I promise not to contribute anything of substance to society with it. https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden/posts/silicon-schlock-164717189

@UlrikNyman

Many reasons. Honestly the main reason for me lately is that it makes coding a miserable experience. Gambling, waiting, retrying. Then reviewing garbage and fixing things and updating agents.md, but the LLM ignores a lot of the that. Then more reviewing large PRs from peers that they didn't review well and so they are full of bugs that look good and need extra scrutiny to find. After correcting them, no one learns anything unlike the mentoring in traditional reviews.

please, please do this. https://killthecookiebanner.eu/

“Poor genie keeps trying to crawl back into the bottle. Everybody hates him.”

@yoasif @GrapheneOS @log Its use would not be to keep HIM out of jail, it would be to keep the data on the phone from getting anyone ELSE arrested.

In social resistance movements and in guerilla movements (Stop Cop City contained both), being willing to take one for the team comes with the territory

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116994661553101555

Wikipedia depends on collective action and cooperation to exist, and they talk about fairness, but somehow they think those ideas aren't good enough for their own organization?

It's a shame that they're drawing this out. The foundation would be better off without the cost of fighting a union drive, and they'd only be living their publicly-stated values by voluntarily recognizing their workers.

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen.” - William Goldman, The Princess Bride