Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Declaration of Independence was written in a small room by a few property-owning white men.

A different vision of democracy is now taking shape in community spaces and on the streets, where working people are demanding a real share of governing power.

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

"Ooh kudzu is soOoOoOOo scary!" is kinda like fearmongering about Burmese pythons in Florida.

Don't get me wrong, the pythons are definitely there & they're a problem.

But also, at the same time, most of them DO get eaten before reaching maturity. By the alligators that already live there.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@alexhaist/117146258450979191

It's a 3-way melee between Smilax (native with thorns), Wisteria, & honeysuckle

Honorable mentions to Virginia creeper (native), wild grape (native), & English ivy

Two days until Molly Crabapple's NYC pop-up art show & In These Times fundraiser.

Supporters who give $1,000 + or purchase a fundraiser ticket at that level will receive an exclusive signed Giclée print of her first wraparound cover as our Artist-at-Large.

Limited number available.

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

Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir, runs venture capital firm 8VC and helped lead a pro-Trump super PAC.

His Cicero Institute has also pushed laws criminalizing homelessness across the country.

Rebecca Burns reports on the billionaire behind the crackdown. https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-lonsdale-cicero-war-on-homeless

#PearlsBeforeSwine by #StephanPastis for August 23, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/08/23

#Humour #Cartoon

#1 isn't real bc "AI" doesn't have a concept of what "everything" is bc it doesn't have concepts bc it's a fucking piece of garbage software. #2 isn't true because *it isn't fucking true*.

"AI" psychosis plus imperial provincialism is stripping people of their ability to form even the most basic of coherent mental models of how the world actually is.

Normally I engage in debate with people, but I'm really getting to the point where "AI" people get blocked first.

It's like talking to a cultist

To think "AI" is going to "destroy us all" you have to make a whole lotta assumptions about it that are simply not supported by evidence.

But you also have to have forgotten that until ~20 years ago, everything worked fine and the IoT *didn't exist*.

"AI" doomers think that 1) "AI" will take over everything through "online", and 2) the entire world relies on "online" to function.

Gold, money, power and a crowd trained not to look too closely. Kirk Anderson illustrates blind trust in action.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trumps-blind-trust-republicans-comics-curated-by-matt-bors

“A Technology of Unlearning”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/a-technology-of-unlearning/

> Rather, this “unlearning” of “AI” involves cognitive surrender and cognitive atrophy. It involves dependence and perhaps even (if you accept this medical and moral framework) addiction. It involves the monopolistic control and, so damningly, the erasure of knowledges.

@AnnaAnthro
"Deidentified" data is at best a feel-good term. It has been proven over and over that it is trivial for companies to re-identify people after the data has been "deidentified".

"You're going to be left behind if you don't embrace Ai."

Okay. Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills. Leave my ability to be creative, to brainstorm solutions. Leave my common sense. My judgement. My ability to research and fact check. Leave me alone with my thoughts and my philosophies. Leave me with my art and my poems and my music. Go ahead. Leave me behind. Leave all that to me. It's mine.

Police resources and tax payer dollars in Georgia are being spent to track down a man who took $30 he found on the floor of Walmart.

1 year old Kohen Wiley was murdered by cops because they thought his Mom stole diapers from Walmart.

Corporations & billionaires are who the system protects.

The rest of us are expendable.

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/georgia-police-searching-man-picked-091500322.html

#uspol #acab #capitalism #racism #kohenwiley #fascism

OK, here’s the link to the Chuffed.org page. Please share widely https://chuffed.org/project/196914-lets-ship-a-solar-generator-to-folks-without-power-in-gary-indiana

I’d also really appreciate whatever support you yourself are able to join me in kicking in. Thanks so much for your attention, your care and your solidarity. I’ll share regular updates as to the status of the campaign/getting the generators to the folks in Gary.

Folks do know what’s happening in Gary, right?

An article for The Counterforce I wrote got published this month! It's about the punk and diy community where I am in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and how our skills are perfect for fighting for social justice, how rising fascism is felt in our community, and how it is antithetical to our ethos and to that of artists in general.

You should check out the rest of the site too for interesting articles, important how to guides, and music reviews and recommendations.

https://the-counterforce.org/authentic-and-alternative-community/

This guy loves feces. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/21/800087381/cartoon/rfk-jr-s-maha-notices/

Support the Prairieland Defendants and the MN 15! When you pay full price for select titles thru 9/4/26, we’ll donate 40% of each sale to legal aid for the defendants. Shop all titles at pmpress.org.

I've you're maintaining a program, service or library and want to help #LinuxMobile without much effort:

Please make your program, library and services work without needing a default config in `/etc`.

This allows us to have hermetic `/usr` for safe A/B upgrades without having to care about the programs defaults. We can then also reset to sane defaults more easily.

It also makes it easier on any system to spot what's actually different form system defaults.

#systemd #LinuxMobile

If A.I. ever becomes a person (it won't), it'd be one of those guys in a polo and salmon shorts who don't do anything but somehow six figures for it.