Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Found a new worker co-op game dev studio 🥳 ...but they use AI 😕 ...but not for "creative" work 🤔 ...just for coding 😠 ...and a real human checks it out 😩 ...{sigh}

Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/trump-canada-trade-war-detroit-michigan "Trump doubling down on an unpopular policy deep into election season is viewed by many observers as a gift to Democrats,"

The flash flood that's ripped thru the border comms of #Nepal & Tibet🚨has heightened fears: the #ClimateCrisis is destabilizing the geology of mtn & polar regions, threatening Ms of people.

SAT: likely a glacier collapse➡️primary cause of the deadly torrent of mud, water & ice:🚨tore along the Bhotekoshi River on Wed -swept away bldgs & roads & left at least💔360 dead & 1,400 missing.

~100 Americans:💔missing,🚨Trump can't profiteer➡️DoS is only sending $500K in aid.

#USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/climate-crisis-mountain-areas-glaciers-nepal-tibet

"We are a global service!"

No you aren't. Nobody in the payment business is a global service. It's literally impossible to provide a global payments service without enabling fraud, money laundering, or terrorism. Some legal environments simply don't work practically with other laws. Some countries are too small. Just publish a fucking list of countries you support.

Modern Dependency Problems (with apologies and thanks to XKCD)

Probably needs more arrows, tbh

thie is comedy plutonium

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/claude-codex-and-hermes-installed-unowned-code-inside-corporate-networks/

> Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware.

> The potentially dangerous content is in llms.txt and llms-full.txt files, an emerging convention websites employ to provide machine-readable summaries of the site’s content and its high-level structure. These files are the AI equivalent of the robots.txt standard that instructs search engines how to index the site’s content. Google Lighthouse, a tool for helping web developers, has more here. Correctly configured llms.txt and llms-full.txt files for Cloudflare are here and here.

Elon #Musk’s xAI used child porn to train #Grok models, lawsuit says - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/elon-musks-xai-used-child-porn-to-train-grok-models-lawsuit-says/ " xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography. " #csam

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117171566603371463

this is just the start of a general attack on EU organisations...

Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/28/seven-charged-damaging-trump-scottish-golf-course-accused-terrorist-connection absurd devaluation of "terrorism"; now #ukgov just brands anything it doesn't like as this. shame on #burnham

If you trust your data to a company like Microsoft, you are gambling with your future, as a slew of nonprofits discovered to their horror.

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

Once again, I find myself begging FOSS folks to recognize that open source is, by construction, a political movement. The onus is thus on us to make sure that our politics are in keeping with our actual values.

We cannot, especially during a global resurgence of fascism, act like it's possible to be apolitical.

The news is a profit-driven industry owned by the ruling class - designed to keep us afraid, distracted, and exhausted.

At least the old lies were calm. The new lies are a relentless frenzy.

#usa #news #attentioneconomy #workingclass #24hournewscycle #solidarity #nervoussystem

There’s explosive diarrhea lettuce

Screwworm in the beef

Blueberries that will kill you

Measles cases at a record high

Now there’s fibreglass in IV saline.

De-regulation kills. And it kills the disabled and elderly the fastest.

This was always the plan.

Wake up.

Your future is bright if you’re willing to pay a monthly subscription to the sun.

What could go wrong besides disrupted sleep, confused animals and collapsing ecosystems?

Jen Sorenson reflects.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/selling-the-sun-comic-capitalism-subscription-jen-sorensen

What a f**king mess.

Donald Trump’s war on Iran has driven the US military into a severe financial crisis, with the US navy forced to transfer money from its payroll and other sources to cover the costs of combat. #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/trump-iran-war-navy-budget?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Hot off the press, hand-printed, cut-em-yourself patches. Because the battle vest could always use a little sprucing up...
White screen print on black canvas. These are sew-on, not iron-on.
Get yours here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=138&sortby=id:desc

If you want to stay on top of the latest in voter suppression efforts AND "what we're doing to keep that from happening," here are updates FROM PEOPLE DOING THE WORK.

(Much better info than "doomscrolling & doing an echo chamber with other doomscrollers"!)

https://www.democracydocket.com

(And if you're a US person worried about keeping elections on track in YOUR community, there's actually a LOT you can do!)

(Many, many links to volunteer, donate, and "stay on top of actual news & not scaremongering" in the thread below!)

Let's start with:

Sign up as a poll worker at your local polling place!

https://www.powerthepolls.org

This is the #1 thing to do to protect elections. And it's paid work!

Animated student film project brings Crow language to the big screen

"For almost a year, beginning last fall, Hardin High School students worked with elders, Crow language speakers, and a California-based media company to create a short animated film featuring the Apsáalooke (Crow) language. The 33-minute movie, titled “The Sacred Culture of the Apsáalooke Nation,” will premiere at Harriet’s restaurant and theater in Hardin on Thursday, Aug. 27."

https://montanafreepress.org/2026/08/26/crow-language-animated-movie/