Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Trump-infected US Postal Service isn't just threatening to wreck mail-in voting. It's under way.

So we have to take our ballots to a dropbox or cast them in person.

In other words, the regime's election fuckery has worked, while the press ho-hummed as usual.

https://www.thurstoncountywa.gov/news/we-are-still-getting-ballots-should-have-counted-primary

Anyway solution for 1Password problem is straightforward

- Patch ChiPass (no-AI fork of KeePassXC) to support VaultWarden syncing protocol

- Develop a socioeconomic system capable of supporting a team of 3-5 people to do ongoing security response, UI design and multiplatform mobile app development without ruining literally everything in a quest for ever-expanding growth and illusory short-term efficiencies

- Apply said functioning socioeconomic system to ChiPass

"The idea that surveillance makes us safer keeps being used as an excuse," EFF’s Rindala Alajaji told @BBCNews, as tech is "used to criminalise people for being bystanders, with stories of innocent people being pulled over and having guns drawn on them because a licence plate reader read a letter wrong.” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260902-how-to-watch-the-cameras-that-watch-you

An Oklahoma city can't charge a records requester an obscene fee of more than $17K thanks to a recent ruling from the state attorney general.

Good for the AG for knowing the law — far too often state officials refuse to respect the public's right to access government records.

https://www.404media.co/oklahoma-tells-city-it-cant-charge-17-125-44-for-a-records-request-related-to-data-center-arrest/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter

The odious surveillance company Flock has been teaching police how to spy on Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights. https://www.404media.co/r/beaca1b1?m=ea6b4c29-f97b-4025-aaeb-1d01a70b3b30

#UN votes to adopt new #WorldMap that shows #Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

#Cartography #MapProjections #Metcator #EckertIV #Gall-Peters #Geography #Politics

Oh, if humanoid robots really do function, why not make them better than humans? Give them 6 arms for example, so that they can work thrice as fast! But where would they find six-armed humans to operate them remotely? #nobot

“Vibe Coding and the Next Silent Cyber Risk”

https://digital.casact.org/issue/september-october-2026/vibe-coding-cyber-insurance/

> For casualty insurers, this loss of visibility turns a software defect into a provenance problem.

Insurers are increasingly not big fans of "AI"

Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/wireless-routers-as-motion-detectors.html "Comcast may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you in connection with any law enforcement investigation or proceeding" #privacy #surveillance

Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/revealed-how-companies-secretly-use-billions-of-litres-of-public-water-in-drought-hit-england "many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply" outrageous, needs fixing as priority

At my organisation, Copilot for MS Teams transcription (or whatever it’s called) is now disabled org-wide because there was a scare based on the fact that Copilot “hallucinated” something that was not said at this meeting, which was then actioned by a non-attendee as a real point.

Thankfully, whatever this was, was caught before it was fulfilled/implemented by someone who does governance checks, but hahah it’s really darkly comic to think that we could have done something that nobody asked for and nobody wanted because Microsoft’s shitbot inserted it in a transcript

“UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/

> The vendors always claim that patients trying to get an appointment out of the AI can totally speak to a human any time. This turns out not to be true.

Generative models have no place in healthcare.

@_elena Leaked Slack comment from the CEO indicates what they really think: "the Nazis are the victims" -- see https://www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy

Sharing this from #TheSELC 's Non-Profit Democracy Network https://www.theselc.org/npdn_calendar:

Have you been dreaming of building an organization with shared leadership? Do you want your organizational structure to more deeply embody your values and visions for a new world?

Join the Nonprofit Democracy Network, a project of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, for a three-part series of 30 minute participatory trainings for organizations considering the transition to shared leadership.

Topics will include assessing your organizational capacity for shared leadership (September 30), identifying and shifting power in your organization (October 21), and navigating the culture shifts needed for deep workplace democracy (Nov 18). Join with your team, or on your own! Each session will provide optional "homework" and take-home tools and resources to be used between each session to deepen your exploration of shared leadership structures.

Join one, two, or all three!

The Trump regime routinely ignores and/or breaks laws it doesn't care for. Republicans in Congress routinely approve of the lawbreaking. Judges often say no, but don't enforce their rulings. And the press says "So interesting how they break the law..." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/trump-triumphal-arch-plans-approval.html

After Tyson abruptly closed its Joslin plant, workers didn’t go quietly.

Caitlyn Clark reports that they’re demanding six months’ severance and calling on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reopen the plant under state ownership.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/treated-worse-than-cattle-tyson-workers-laid-off-labor-notes

4/7 Steinem used her visibility to share the stage with Flo Kennedy & Ms magazine founder Dorothy Pitman Hughes—Black feminists whose organizing shaped the movement, though neither became the household name Steinem did.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/when-women-revolted-1960s-second-wave-childcare-equal-pay-feminism

3/7 “It might not come from pop culture, but from our culture.”

In 2012, Jude Ellison Sady Doyle reviewed how Steinem traced mass violence to hierarchies of race, gender and power, naming Columbine a “supremacy crime.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-power-and-the-story

Rather than empowering teens to create their own safe experiences, Meta's settlement largely turns that role over to their parents and ultimately to the states. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/metas-17-billion-settlement-bad-deal-teens-and-all-social-media-users

The Trump administration is arguing that imported brass instruments are a national security threat.

These claims may sound absurd, but they point to a serious problem: invoking ‘national security’ to advance policy goals while bypassing public scrutiny.

Watch our video to find out more.