Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It’s difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than Trump banning news outlets from the People’s House for criticizing the government.

These outrageous attacks only show how scared he is of an informed public.

Our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-comments-on-trumps-media-ban-announcement/

Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/18/sensitive-uk-police-data-vulnerable-to-compromise-by-us-government-and-foreign-actors well, doh: many of us have been warning about this for years...

What Calibre developers have done here is an affront to the human act of creation, and no less than a fascist attack on art. I do not believe that to be even slightly an exaggeration, even if it does sound hyperbolic.

To have a fascist attack on art come from an open source project that used to stand for helping users free their e-books from proprietary lock-in is beyond disgusting.

But I don't get to say something like that without backing it up by action.

@joelPosts @rochelimit @omgubuntu There is this AI free fork, haven't tried it: https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

@phosh users: There are some regressions regarding OSK input (like the keyboard showing too often or text prediction not working) when using #Phosh with apps using #gtk 4.24. So if possible please stick to 4.22 just a bit longer, until these are resolved.

Note that this also applies to Flatpaks using the GNOME 51 runtime.

Maybe #Flatpak maintainers that want to help mobile users could stick to the 50 runtime just a little bit longer too.

#LinuxMobile

#LinuxMobile

#PrivateJets pollute up to 14 times as much as #CommercialPlanes and are #Undertaxed in #US, report says | US news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/private-jets-pollution-undertaxed

#Environment #Aviation #GreenhouseGases #Pollution

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117292656176293011

Also available as video on PeerTube:
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/b8fH3fp2fr3Dpki11tsWfb

"'Software issue to blame' for UK flight disruption"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/sep/18/japan-raises-interest-rates-central-bankers-fight-inflation-gb-retail-sales-rise-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6aad30998f085ee1fe6a0621#block-6aad30998f085ee1fe6a0621

Of course it was a software defect. We're going to be seeing a lot more shit like this happen over the next few years as people discover that the software industry is being unravelled not "revolutionised"

Tech billionaires are spending millions to crush wealth taxes, deregulate AI and crypto, and elect politicians who will hand them more power.

Miles Kampf-Lassin explains why: Democracy remains the biggest obstacle to their plans.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/tech-trump-vance-crypto-artificial-intelligence-silicon-valley

Here's a photo I took right towards the tail-end of the 2008 financial bubble in Iceland, when it was more lucrative for investors to buy up properties on the Laugavegur/Bankastræti shopping street, drive out the stores, and just let the real estate price increases roll in

Didn't last

📣 IT'S!!
The Tom the Dancing Bug Review!!!
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👑 Our mad king
🇺🇸 Saving America
🧇 Bitter, Bitter Irony
🦋 Chaos Butterfly
🐓 Killjoy Was Here
🛋️ Oh, That Matthew Modine!
& MUCH MORE!
Free, and a bargain at twice the price👇
https://tomthedancingbug.substack.com/p/the-madness-of-dementia-donnie

Words tech(nofascism) made me hate:
- smart
- regulation
- alignment
- pause
- companion
- agent
- agentic
- vibe
- delve
- tapestry
- cloud
- landscape
- disruption
- disruptive
- democratise
- altruism
- paramount
- crypto
- vibrant

· "The Counterforce" #10 (@The_Counterforce), avec notamment un article sur Faircamp et une interview d'un punk qui fait du graffiti. Les zines sont dispo en PDF à imprimer sur https://the-counterforce.org/zines/the-counterforce/

· "Réveil forcé" #4 : j'avais beaucoup accroché au dernier qui racontait un voyage aux USA et au Canada (rare zine que j'ai relu plusieurs fois d'affilée !) et ce numéro raconte la fin de ce voyage. Punk & graffiti là aussi, mais aussi une interview d'Anatole du zine "Sans issue", une contrib' Ratinho comix, etc.

#punk #graffiti #faircamp #thecounterforce #comix #zines #voyage #réveilforcé #perzine

Romanian crust band Livia Sura recently reformed and released two great records in 2026, reworking songs from their earlier years. Guitarist Adi has been one of the most active people in the Timișoara punk scene for the past 30 years, and we had a great conversation about the band, the local scene and politics.

https://diyconspiracy.net/livia-sura-interview/

Amazing to see Toxic Grafity zine from late 70s/early 80s publishing online! Wow. There's no new posts since a few years ago but there's a lot to read here about punk, anarchism and more:

https://toxicgrafity134567235.wordpress.com

And you can find them on Mastodon too (but the profile it's not very active...): @toxicgrafity

@lwriemen People should self host Forgejo if they can, and if they can't then they should use Codeberg.

📣 Deadline-Alert! The registration for ossym2026 ends on September 22, 2026. Register now and book your seats for this years Open Search Symposium in Berlin at CODE University of Applied Sciences. Discuss the future of open web search and open web data as the foundation for AI applications, as well as many related topics.

👉 All information and the registration link (via Indico) can be found on our website:

https://opensearchfoundation.org/ossym2026

Oof, just deleting all of that data with seemingly no way for some of the affected orgs to get their data back is just horrible.

Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything.
https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

"Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”"

(Article title: ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft)

https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/