Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest #datacentre hub leaves town sweltering - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/slough-is-like-an-experiment-europes-largest-datacentre-hub-leaves-town-sweltering "Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C" #ai

Oh dear. I had to sign up for #LinkedIn - dummy account of course - in order to do research for articles I am writing and... I am not OK.

Just spending 10 minutes a day on LinkedIn, reading what European tech entrepreneurs* are sharing is... painful. I am CRINGING SO HARD.

(*Not the company you're all thinking about, something else).

That being said, I wish I had 10% of the confidence and lack of self-awareness of these tech bros.

I'm going to retire from this beat soon. It's too much 🫠

is it a good sign when the national weather service runs out of pre-assigned colors to depict temperature?

I want Enron-level congressional hearings when the AI industry collapses.

I got the boot this month and am looking for a new software developer job. Rust and Python would be fun, but I can do a lot of stuff in JS/TS, Kotlin, Java, even C/C++ with a bit of a brush up... Bit of a jack of all trades full stack dev.

Working with open source would be awesome if it paid just enough to survive the mortgage and get something to eat. Climate positive job or EU digital independence development is interesting too.

Hybrid work within reasonable distance from Klaukkala is a-OK. Remote probably whole of EU <3. Can't travel.

Having put this https://jago.kapsi.fi/cv.pdf up on the public interwebs, I'm probably unfit to work in any US company...

Not a techbro. Sane person and a long-time ally.

#GetFediHired #FediHire #NoAI

"Seeking new data for AI training is no excuse," EFF’s @falsemirror told @cnet. "Such disproportionate monitoring of workers is an abuse of power and highlights the necessity of legislation to protect worker privacy by requiring consent and due process."
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meta-backs-off-data-tracking-of-employees-train-ai-models/

Software used to be more like that. Open a word processor and start typing. It never does anything else unless you tell it to. It doesn't offer to write for you. It doesn't fix your typos unless you ask. It's reliable and constant, and your brain doesn't need to give it much thought.

Modern software is a battle of wills against some experience designer somewhere. They have made assumptions about what you want to do (or what the business wants you to do), and you cannot appeal these decisions.

Corporations are making it harder to repair your devices—locking you out and forcing you to pay for repairs and replacements you don't need.

Join EFF along with Adam Savage and Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit. We'll explore the Right to Repair and answer your questions live! https://eff.org/livestream-repair

When a license plate is captured by an automated license plate reader (ALPR), it’s instantly compared against a list of vehicles that the police are actively looking for, known as a “hotlist.” EFF has learned that one of these hotlists targets immigrants on behalf of ICE. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/are-your-local-police-using-flock-safety-alprs-scan-immigrants

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Still time to implement these for the knockout rounds. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

🚨THE KIDS ACT IS AN INTERNET SURVEILLANCE BILL🚨

Congress is rushing the KIDS Act toward a vote. This blend of KOSA, the SCREEN Act, SAFE Bots, and other bills is a single package that is a threat to privacy and free expression for ALL internet users. 🧵(1/10)

The new version of KOSA says it doesn’t require age verification, but it also obligates sites and apps to take reasonable steps to determine whether a user is a minor or an adult. How will they do it? By collecting more information about age before a lawsuit happens. (4/10)

People, I am begging you, if you have air con in your flat please PUT IT ON YOUR DATING PROFILE.

“How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

In the Prairieland case, the government built a terrorism theory around “antifa,” protest tactics, Signal chats and zines.

This week, the defendants were sentenced. FOIA records now raise questions about evidence the defense says was missing from trial.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/prairieland-antifa-trial-protest-repression-fbi

🚨 Important update about my latest #WSocial article 👀

A user on #ATproto cracked the code and came up with a reasonable explanation for the made up number of comments on W Social's homepage.

The number next to the speech bubble (comment icon) are an "engagement metric": the sum of boosts and likes. It all makes sense now!

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

(scroll down to the end of the article for the update)

Why the spread of powerful local #AI models makes #copyright enforcement even harder - https://walledculture.org/why-the-spread-of-powerful-local-ai-models-makes-copyright-enforcement-even-harder/ #china #redflaglaw

I do appreciate that all of these creepy-ass companies are giving me the heads-up to submit delete requests.