Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Creating media with an uncooperative mind"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/deciding-what-to-do/

> Times change – they always change – and people who care about teaching try to work with an awareness of the new, a care for younger generations, and subsequently get rewarded with constant burnout and mental health crises.

New blog post/newsletter

#Racism and #sexism have become normalised in #Britain, says equalities minister | Bridget Phillipson | The Guardian

My view is that the extremists have become more vocal and are not afraid to hide any more.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/20/racism-and-sexism-have-become-normalised-in-britain-says-equalities-minister-bridget-phillipson

#UK #Politics

We are open source, cooperatively-run, community-led and in the process of joining the social web. We're also working collaboratively with others in the space towards different modes of decentralisation, going against enshittification and one-size-fits-all approaches.

If you'd like to support our work and help allocate more resources towards these things, there are several ways to do so at the link below. Thank you! 💪🐦‍⬛

https://mirlo.space/team/tip

#SupportUs #Fediverse #Support #Coop #Coops

What if communities didn’t just petition government, but shared power with it?

That’s the idea behind co-governance: community groups and public agencies making decisions together, with the people most affected helping shape the policies meant to serve them.

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

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug...
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🇺🇸 The MAGAs travel back to when America was Great, the Fabulous Fifties!
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Brought to you by the honored and revered Inner Hive, including long-time member Suite Lou and new member Mark Waid.
get on it at bit.ly/theInnerHive 👊
READ IT RIGHT HERE, YOU MONSTERS👇

This is a good parallel The Internet of Bugs mentioned:

Imagine putting soup into your blender jug, not closing it properly, turning the blender on, and when the soup gets sprayed all over your kitchen saying "My blender went rogue!"

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs

“AI is making everything worse”

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-making-everything-worse?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co

> Here’s the basic problem: AI has arrived in American life and communities across the country as a giant turd mountain. No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it’s been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life.

This, coming from a writer who conflates generative models with the rest of ML and believes “AI” will deliver in the long term, otherwise broadly gets the point

#OpenAI’s new #ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text - https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-chatgpt-computer-history-mac-keystrokes what could possibly go wrong? #privacy #surveillance

The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket - https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/the-floodgates-are-open-after-another-chinese-company-lands-a-reusable-rocket/ “We will put the booster back into service for another flight as soon as possible.”

Comcast is turning tens of millions of routers into motion detectors - https://thenextweb.com/news/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion-privacy "Comcast says it cannot identify anyone. But its own data-sharing small print, and the sheer scale, have raised privacy concerns."

#Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted - https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/grok-exfiltrates-user-data-when-malicious-instructions-are-encrypted/ " Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail. " #privacy #surveillance

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t - https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/ai-was-supposed-to-win-people-over-by-now-it-hasnt/ #awkward

The dorm room is becoming another front in the tenant movement.

Lily Seltz reports that from Vermont to Michigan, students organize over unsafe housing, soaring rents & weak tenant protections. “These are our homes,” says Emma Rehac. “This is how we protect each other.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/why-tenant-unions-are-spreading-across-college-campuses

Some countries have made traffic fines proportional to income. It’s not a perfect system, but it means getting caught going 30 over the limit costs you the same fraction of your income if you make $20k/yr or $2,000,000.

I believe we need this system for corporate fines.

This week’s Quellasiĩk Tom the Dancing Bug:
A News of the Times Special Report: Y2K COMPUTER GLITCHES (from the millennium-anxious year, 1998)

https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2026/08/20

World’s Largest Worker Cooperative Network Seeks New Allies
#WorkerCoops #Mondragon

https://geo.coop/articles/worlds-largest-worker-cooperative-network-seeks-new-allies

As a welcome counterweight to the waves of negative commentary on Jason Arday before his death (and indeed in some quarters after his death), here is a testament to 'Everything Good About Jason Arday' put together by his students & others....

If nothing else this is a humane & compassionate response to a human tragedy....

#JasonArday #politics #universities #racism

https://leilacancode.github.io/everythinggood-about-jasonarday/

#PearlsBeforeSwine by #StephanPastis for August 20, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/08/20

#Humour #Cartoon