Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Americans are still working long hours, with no federal guarantee of paid vacation, sick days or parental leave.

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon revisit the long fight for shorter hours—and why a 32-hour week will require organized labor with the power to win it.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/four-day-work-week-labor-unions-juliet-schor

Can't wait until this guy's swiss cheese brain is on display in the Mütter Museum. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/31/800077220/cartoon/blight-at-the-museums/

“On the non-use of AI in my writing process - Charlie's Diary”

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/08/on-the-non-use-of-ai-in-my-wri.html

> I do not use LLMs in my work. I don't use them in my non-work life either, for that matter. I despise the grifters selling these toys as "tools" and trying to convince us to use them to generate plausible answer-shaped text strings in place of actual internet search for verifiable sources.

Trump launches a war, possibly ends it, demands a Nobel Peace Prize and prepares to get back to terrorizing immigrants.

Tom Tomorrow follows the self-proclaimed dealmaker’s logic to its bleak conclusion.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-comic-tom-tomorrow-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz-deal

Our development report for July is up.

👀 Check out our our latest improvements, 🐛 fixes, and what else is 🍳:

https://phosh.mobi/posts/development-news-2026-07/

Testing (and other) feedback appreciated.

#LinuxMobile #Phosh #BengalOS #gtk #linux #mobile

Informative blog by @Purism explaining the technical relation between #PureOS and #Debian, and building blocks like #phosh, #phoc, #Mesa, and #libqmi.

https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-development-report-june-2026/

The blog reports the development for PureOS in June 2026.

"With the development pipeline in full swing, we’re updating some of the cornerstone components of PureOS for #Dawn. Phosh and phoc are both updated to 0.55.0, the latest Phosh release in June..."

#Librem5 #Purism #MobileLinux #Linux #opensource #phone #FOSS

“"A slant fit" in a specialist job market | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2026/07/30/a-slant-fit-in-a-specialist-job-market/

> The book world is notoriously myopic when it comes to evaluating experience outside of book publishing

True words.

“The obligatory AI post”

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/15.html

> What we appear to be discussing are products so worthless that they would never get produced unless production is practically free.

did you do the hacking

yes :(

jail

fyi i am company

oh i take all that back. i'm buying your stock as we speak.

A labor movement capable of changing people’s lives needs organizers, durable institutions & journalism willing to follow the struggle closely.

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Supporting Phosh development is one of our association's core goals. We're thus happy that we can financially support bringing mobile data usage monitoring to Phosh.

https://ev.phosh.mobi/blog/mobile-data-use/

This will help users keep track of their data usage and avoid unpleasant surprises. Thanks a lot to our supporters for making this possible.

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The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/chatbot-act-forces-one-parenting-model-every-family

@librico @malteengeler I think the term AI is rather poisoned now.

Machine Learning as a term isn't.

When most folks think about AI they are thinking ChatGPT.

So focusing on specific parts of machine learning and naming their specific purpose is all we can do.

Call a neural network that, explain the specific models to train them.

Refer to the older Knowledge Based Systems to refer to the curation and rules for these models.

Abandon AI as an overall term. The marketers have it now.

@librico Thank you for pointing that out. What I wanted to stress is that niche use cases like protein folding are frequently used to justify "AI" in a way that has little to do with what "AI" stands for: (commercial, LLMs, extraction , exploitation, domination).

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Kind of shocking whenever I check up on the blog of somebody I used to respect who now earnestly seems to believe AGI is here.

Feels like it’s happening more and more these days.

@eff LLMs are certainly even-handed and equitable doing cognitive and environmental damage, and they'll violate the copyright of anyone regardless of their being rich or poor.

Let's not start looking at access to these vampiric systems as being a human right. They're no more necessary than cigarettes or non-fungible tokens.

All Americans have a First Amendment right to record law enforcement. This includes ICE and CBP. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/eff-guide-recording-law-enforcement #ICE

One rhetorical trick AI vendors & boosters use to steamroll over concerns - like the lack of demonstrable ROI - is to paint the LLM future as "inevitable".

It doesn't matter that the end product is worse, or that productivity gains are elusive.

Go all-in or "get left behind". It is *inevitable*

In reality, what's *inevitable* is that this technology will have to become profitable in the not-too-distant future.

The CFO has entered the chat, and we have no good answers for them.