Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I wanted to see what the Free Speech Union is up to, and I watched some of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nibDDSRD_Q - seems to me that this Atlas Network affiliated organisation is trying to be a "Charlie Kirk"-style organisation, creating propaganda with people in public places being manipulated by someone with an agenda.

I asked an FSU member how the 'Union' is funded. He said - read their Annual Report. I searched and found https://fsu.nz/publications/from-strength-to-strength-free-speech-union-releases-2025-annual-report/ which links to the report... which isn't there. 🤔

@luckytran Corrected headline: Cops are using school shootings as the excuse to get pepper-spraying drones they will use against protesters.

And so we find ourselves where we knew we'd end up... the Home Office using AI-generated slop (a document that doesn't;t exist) to refuse an asylum claim.

AI & its associated technologies are having clear & consequential effects, yet they no doubt will allow Home Office officials to escape censure for lying & misrepresentation;

'it was the machine what done it, M'lud'.

Court's will need to be more sceptical of HO claims from now on!

#HomeOffice #refugees #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/28/home-office-used-ai-hallucinated-information-to-refuse-asylum-claim-judge-suggests

Conde Nast's online subscription services are the absolute worst I've seen. I've come to believe that it's on purpose -- to deter me from canceling.

@phated just linked me to this and I love it, and by extension, this Dave fellow

https://daverupert.com/2026/07/number-chart-go-up/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117000692716570698

I never, ever use apps if there is a web mobile version...Apps give corporations control over you.

I'm looking for a new job.

I've been in security for 13 years. I spent the last year at Trail of Bits doing code reviews and security assessments on desktop/web apps, kernelmode code, and firmware. I co-wrote the C/C++ testing handbook we published recently, contributing the Windows usermode and kernel sections. I've got strong hardware skills and industrial experience.

UK based but flexible on operating hours. Looking for similar work, full-time remote.

CV: https://poly.nomial.co.uk/graham_sutherland.pdf

#fedihire

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

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

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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