Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Pentagon wants to block FOIA access to all “controlled unclassified information.”

If successful, hundreds of millions of documents could be hidden from journalists and the public — potentially forever.

Read more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/pentagon-tries-to-hide-unclassified-records-from-foia/

How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html

It seems like if the initial token costs are to believed, the cost is approaching $1m USD, but it's likely, as the article says, that there were a lot of non-reported costs being spent from Anthropic helping the project along and continuous CI/CD.

Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executive
#NotTheOnion

https://futurism.com/future-society/pharmaceutical-executive-fugitive-criminal-yacht

What garbage is Silicon Valley selling? https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/07/27

“We are experiencing exactly what the climate models in the 1990s said we should experience now...

... more frequent, more severe #heatwaves, bigger temperature anomalies, more humidity, higher overnight temperatures... all part and parcel of the climate story" ~ #ClimateCentral org

The 3rd major #HeatDome in a month is set to hit southern & central U.S.. Temperatures of 95-105F (35-40C) are expected -- potentially reaching 120F (48C) in some areas.

#ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/scorching-us-heat-wave

But what seems to unite Icelandic labour movement and our oligarchs is a belief that their position would be weaker in the EU

The oligarchs are right. They are small fry compared the EU's oligarchs and would be eaten alive in direct competition. Same applies to our banks and retailers. The EEA was already a body blow (currently Boozt is eating our retailer's lunch)

The left's antipathy stems from seeing the EU as a fundamentally capitalist project. (Not wrong, but also not that simple)

Corporate and establishment Democrats are desperately trying to stop Abdul El-Sayed from being Michigan's U.S. Senate nominee. They claim it's his (for them) too-progressive views. Nowhere in the news coverage have I seen talk of another plausible (if ugly) reason: they're worried about his name.

A hero for our authoritarian times: https://www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-year-old-republican-man-is-staging-a-solo-protest-against-st-petes-flock-cameras/

So, Codeberg (which is a FOSS/freedom-focused code hosting site) is run as a cooperative, with members able to nominate measures/policies and vote on them etc.

They just had a vote and approved policies making "AI" / LLM-based projects basically unwelcome there. The vote wasn't close; 70% voted in favour of the policy. It's not a hard & fast "if you use LLM, you're banned" or anything of the sort - it's quite a measured, reasoned stance.

The slopcoders are freaking out. They just don't understand how this is possible. Imagine! A community of people that makes their own decisions and you can't just make them do what you want or ignore them and consume their resources without their consent!

"I like slopcoding, actually" is turning out to be a *really* good litmus test for people you want to have absolutely nothing to do with your project or your community.

Look at some of the whining (this is the only reason I would ever link to YCombinator [1]):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021856

[1] Your occasional and irregular reminder: "Hacker" "News" is neither.

#NoAI #NoLLM #sloperator #slopcoding #vibecoding #consent #Codeberg #hosting #forge #community #FOSS #HackerNews #YCombinator

The Handbook for Exposing an Undercover Cop is now available on our website in *9 languages*, after the recent addition of Basque, French, Galician, and Portuguese translations.

"This manual was written by activists who have experienced police infiltrations first hand, which were uncovered between the years 2022 and 2024. It is aimed at all past, present and future activists, as well as all organisations and groups that are in any way concerned about the security of their spaces."

Read or download:
https://notrace.how/resources/#handbook-undercover-cop
http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6prycad.onion/resources/#handbook-undercover-cop

Did another stream this morning, talking about why Taylor Farms is lashing out at everyone & everything right now.

This one is less "let's catch up on current events," & more How The Food Safety Sausage Actually Gets Made.

So if you're looking for less "chatter about this week's news" & more "How TF does the food system actually work," this is your stream!

https://youtube.com/live/r2KK_-jZpKs

#Science #ClimateCrisis #AISlop

How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding #spycop from former partner - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/26/how-the-met-police-spent-25m-hiding-spycop-from-former-partner "Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship" staggering waste of our money

Nearly two weeks of U.S. bombing have given way, for the moment, to talk of diplomacy. But the blockade is still in place, the region remains on edge, and Jack Ohman finds Trump asleep in the middle of the war.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-is-sleeping-through-his-war-on-iran-comics-jack-ohman

@zzt @dysfun more broadly, this essay is sticking in my head again

https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

the bots take the forms of persuasive writing and do them extremely badly

I find the defensive panic of US ‘AI’ enthusiasts in response to the use of Chinese models kind of comforting

“Look, if you actually do the numbers, the Chinese models aren’t cheaper!”

You don’t say. Really? Do you mean to say that they aren’t going to make this whole house of cards sustainable after the bubble pops?

@varx
I was having a hard time finding something more reputable, apart from the SBU FB page, which I was trying to avoid linking to here. But if you doubt:

"Have you felt sick after handling Starbucks’s blending powder? If you’re at a union store, reach out to your staff organizer as soon as you’re able (if you don’t know who that is, text us at the link in our bio). If you’re not yet a member of our union, you can still reach out to us if you have questions through the link at our bio."

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1007114328699042

Finally have given up on Dropbox -- Linux support just doesn't cut it -- in favor of local encrypted backups and rcloning that directory to Backblaze. Less convenient, yes, but since I couldn't trust that Dropbox was functioning properly, a worthwhile tradeoff (and also less expensive)...

I just convinced my local #punks to upload their music on @mirlo. Here they are:

@headwindsband / https://mirlo.space/headwindsband

Give them some love if #midwestemo #emo is your thing!