Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

THE TIME OF MONSTERS

The neoliberal world order as we know it is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. But celebrations of its downfall are muted by the bleak reality of the world that is rising to take its place. Every day, our screens are flooded with images of war, genocide, and AI slop. And we all know we’re living in dark times.

So, what does this mean for us, and how do we move forward?

Video in English w English and Arabic subtitles

#SubMedia #Anarchism #Politics #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #Crisis #Resistance #Solidarity #DirectAction #Self-Organization #Anti-Capitalism #Society #Geopolitics #SystemCriticism #DarkTimes #MutualAid

https://kolektiva.media/w/sDi4fpHQm6FnqJvnfnzg5X

I get that this bit about "helping parents manage their children" is clearly aimed at legislators, not people, but god damn how Americans talk about child rearing is creeeeeepy.

PM Press is turning TWENTY! Help us pay off our warehouse, and secure the future of left publishing! Explore limited edition merch and exclusive rewards and support the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/pmpress

If anyone out there with deep pockets would like to sponsor @Iconfactory or hire us for design work and help us keep developing the apps and art you love please get in touch.

I hate to be all doom and gloom on the verge of #WWDC but here we are. What a way to celebrate our 30th, right? 😬 Boosts appreciated.

Newly added to https://Fedi.Punk.Guide:
@Generation_Y_Punk (Movie from Germany on Mastodon)

UK's answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV - https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/08/uks-answer-to-ai-job-fears-is-a-bot-to-polish-your-cv/5251983 stupid: this will be detected as AI-written, and chucked away...

“Grassware – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/06/07/grassware/

> No, they are not; the point is that age verification providers now hold themselves to be delegated law enforcement and extensions of the judiciary

I'm despondent about 60 Minutes' new correspondents. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/06/08

Does anyone have experience #archiving CDs with redumper?
I get some SCSI errors that show up as SKIP, but `redumper refine` seems to ignore them...

The refine run took care of C2 errors at least.

#CD

Things are getting better, but my last paycheck was only for a week. Just had to spend our last $100 on prescriptions to get me through next week.

Payday is Friday

Anything helps

#MutualAid

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116710721279789800

Boy am I sick of all of these price increases.

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116708457056507627

“New AI driven flight route optimization software working well so far,” declares airline

Hell to the yes....NYT reports that a political activist and a Vietnam veteran represented by an anti-corruption organization filed a lawsuit on Saturday challenging what it called the “night of cage fights” that President Trump planned to hold at the White House as part of the celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary.

The lawsuit alleges the significant transformation of the White House grounds to fit the monstrous UFC fight ring on the South Lawn was never authorized by Congress, but more importantly the POTUS will personally profit from this spectacle (shocker, I know):

"It cites reporting that U.F.C. was selling premium tickets to the event for more than $1 million, and the fees that Paramount Skydance, the media company owned by two other executives with ties to the president, Larry and David Ellison, will collect for streaming the event. The suit also notes that Mr. Trump purchased between $15,000 and $50,000 worth of stock in TKO Holding Group, the parent company of U.F.C., in March — while he was in the process of promoting the event."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/politics/lawsuit-ufc-fight-white-house.html

📡 Battlemesh v18 is happening!

Join us from 7–13 September 2026 in Gornji Karin, Croatia, for a week of talks, workshops, hacking, testing, and collaboration around community networks, mesh networking, OpenWrt, and open communication infrastructure.

Participation is free and open to everyone.

Read the announcement and find all details here:
https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV18/Announcement

Please share and help us spread the word!

#Battlemesh #CommunityNetworks #OpenWrt #MeshNetworking #FOSS

Resesarch shows internet availability results in polarised political views, but the fault isn't with the technology. Platforms like Facebook and Xwitter push right wing talking points and suppress others.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409

'There is now a solid body of evidence showing that internet availability is causing a variety of outcomes that adversely affect democracy ...

During the German federal election in 2025, an algorithmic audit of X, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube found that around half of all party-related content that was algorithmically recommended to young users across platforms involved an extreme-right party, doubling its audience share relative to the content’s original upload rate on TikTok. Center-left parties, by contrast, were suppressed.'

When you're a trusting person just trying to get along and you suspect no evil, without a mental model of the web app bureaucracy, how are you supposed to get the necessary experience?

Tiny click targets that I can't consistently hit, unclear form flows, slow websites, verification processes that don't work if you forget that you had an account already.

I don't see any of this horror in my Luddite bubble of avoiding mass-appeal services and mainstream phones.

#web #accessibility #normies

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We've release #Livi 0.5.0, our light video player for mobile 📼 . It now shows a proper status page when processing a URL (by @tpikonen ) and can (optionally) avoid display notches in landscape mode when the #Wayland compositor sends the necessary information (e.g. #phoc does). It's already updated in #Debian and on #flathub.

#Phosh #LinuxMobile

Pete #Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/07/pete-hegseth-d-day-speech-immigration-grotesque-stupidity "Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy"

A take I see often online is that it doesn't matter if code is "clean" - readable, simple, decoupled, easy & fast to test - as long as it works.

They're missing the point. Code that's hard to understand, complex, tightly-coupled and hard/slow to test is very likely to break.

There's no tradeoff.