Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Forgejo 16.0.3 and 15.0.7 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

TIL that a 'bellwether' is a neutered sheep (a whether) with a bell around its neck that leads the flock where the shepherd wants it to go...

RE: https://flipboard.com/@euronews/russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine-89mnilrcz/-/a-TT489V_fSLupa5Z6NHRpnw%3Aa%3A89340020-%2F0

Remember folks, we absolutely must have war and billionaires but we can easily do without bread and pasta.

I guess now it's a bit late to warn people not to update the firmware on their #framework laptops, but here is what somebody did to fix them, when the company didn't help. at all.

quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-…

spoiler: it ends well, but not thanks to framework

also, the ending of the article is *epic*.

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/117123155597432737

"Trump Should Have an Age-appropriate Flunky," by Harriet Miers.

After working as a housekeeper, a nursing aide, a home cleaner, a server, and more, [Barbara] Ehrenreich wrote that “The first thing I discovered is that no job, no matter how lowly, is truly ‘unskilled.’ "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q_-bDnz4sw

The modern flying experience, skewered by Jen Sorenson: shrinking seats, endless fees, impossible connections and airports pushed past capacity, all while the people running the airlines seem to be doing just fine.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/airline-ceos-are-profiting-and-flying-private-jets-comic-jen-sorensen

Maybe they were hiding him from Natalie instead of Iran. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Six days from now, Molly Crabapple will be in NYC for a pop-up art show & fundraiser benefiting the next 50 years of In These Times.

Fresh from her book tour, she'll discuss art, politics, journalism, and you will get to see her first wraparound cover as our Artist-at-Large.

https://www.allyoufascistsboundtolose.com/calendar/protect-free-speech-support-independent-media

In Minneapolis, a co-enforcement program reached more than 12,000 low-wage workers and recovered more than $3 million in unpaid wages.

It’s one example of what happens when workers and community organizations gain real power to enforce their rights.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cogovernance-american-democracy-250

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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The MAGAs travel back in time to find the ONE THING that made America Great so they can Make America Great Again.
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https://boingboing.net/2026/08/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-magas-go-back-to-when-america-was-great.html

People are like, you can’t refuse LLMs forever, someday you’ll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode.

Ronald Reagan's first FCC chair—in a sworn declaration submitted in the ABC case—on the FCC under Trump and Brendan Carr:

“Never in its history has the agency ever acted so corruptly and unlawfully to intrude on broadcasters’ First Amendment rights.”

https://techfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ABC-v.-FCC-Mark-Fowler-Declaration.pdf

Veni Vidi Venti includes many short pieces: lyrics, riddles, minute-long Philosophy Talk commentaries about everything from AI to the human soul. Get 20% off this new title with code AUGUST thru 9/1 here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1955

Strong unions raise the bar for everyone, including workers without a union.

As Heidi Shierholz writes, they establish “broad standards that employers must follow to get and keep the workers they need.”

That’s why union power is an affordability issue.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/affordabilitys-union-labor-pro-act-congress

An unusually large number of Apple users report they’ve received threat notifications from the company saying they’re targets of mercenary spyware. There’s a lot journalists can and should do to get ahead of this risk.

Read our newsletter to learn more — and subscribe!

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/apple-mass-alerts-users-to-mercenary-spyware/

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media.

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117118246868644096

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could.

Now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest