Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We are excited to announce our first open call: a 1 year term, paid position for a special someone who can support the Co-op Cloud Federation with our financial administration.

https://coopcloud.tech/blog/radmin-open-call/

Please spread in your networks and consider applying!

-- d1

How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
L: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5638908/walmart-prices-inflation-affordability-shrinkflation
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618272
posted on 2026.01.14 at 11:39:43 (c=1, p=7)

Six Prosecutors Quit over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow
L: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resignation-ice-shooting.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618513
posted on 2026.01.14 at 11:55:29 (c=1, p=4)

The GEO Merch Store is here! Spread the word about worker co-ops with a hoodie, hat, or t-shirt:

https://shop.worxprinting.coop/collections/grassroots

Big shout out to WorX Printing cooperative for making this possible, and to @stizzi for the new logos!

Oh no! I just unpacked and tried on the sweatshirt. It's a different hue of green than on the site (olive), the writing is HUGE compared to my mockup so I need to stretch it out to get the message read, and lower on the sweatshirt. In short, a fail.

I used to create custom apparel at a local shop (always support your local artisans) but it went out of business after COVID, sigh.

I need to find a new one before FOSDEM. I'm on a mission to get this made 🥲

With Forgejo's scheduled v14 release for tomorrow, we will do our final tests of v14 tonight on our test instance.

If we can't find any issues with v14, we might deploy it today. We will let you know ahead of time when this happens, so you can prepare for 10-15 minutes of downtime.

Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights - https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/article-article-how-big-tech-shaped-eus-roll-back-digital-rights incredibly stupid: handing *more* power to US digital giants - exactly wrong

I switched from #macOS to #Linux #Debian13 between christmas and new year‘s eve.
And already I ask myself, why I didn‘t switch earlier…

#UnplugTrump #UnplugBigTech #FOSS #OpenSource

I've mentioned this before, but one thing I've been closely watching for is when crypto people begin to distance themselves from Trump.

November 2024 vs. January 2026

#USpol #USpolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency

#Via Sarah Lazare / sarahlazare
5:30 PM · Jan 13, 2026

"Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions

After a solid track record of two successful book Kickstarter campaigns and fulfilling them, Kickstarter approved my third campaign.

It launched today, just now, on my birthday.

Technofascism Survival Guide.

Backer reward levels range from $15 to $99.

I got my first backer donation literally two minutes after launching. Wow.

--

Technofascism Survival Guide is my followup to Digital Safety in a Dangerous World.

Technofascism Survival Guide is informative and useful on its own. But reading both books is the most comprehensive experience. There are affordable backer rewards with eBooks of both if you don't have Digital Safety yet.

Digital Safety in a Dangerous World focused on cybersecurity and opsec advice for individuals, the history of technofascist corporations from Microsoft to Palantir, and the fascist origins of Silicon Valley. (Hint, Stanford University's first few decades were led by eugenicists.)

Whereas Technofascism Survival Guide focuses on cybersecurity and opsec for groups-- from families, to college clubs, to church, synagogue, and mosque groups, to political activism organizations.

And I will go deep into the history of the most prominent hacktivist groups, from Cult of the Dead Cow, to Anonymous, to Dark Seoul, to Shiny Hunters.

And we will also explore political activism groups, from the Black Panthers to current ICE resistance groups.

What can we learn from them?

Finally, I will explore the opposing side: the Pentagon, COINTELPRO, MI6, CIA, and so on.

Writing this book guarantees I will never try to enter the US ever again!

I have firsthand anonymous sources who have been spooks, in Anonymous ops, and who study Marxism professionally.

I will also scour academic research libraries offline, and the Deep Web.

I think the last day of my campaign is February 13th?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide

A woman in Minnesota was trying to get to a doctors appointment when she drove down a street where an ICE protest was occurring.

Masked thugs swarmed her vehicle demanding she move

They then smash her windows, break her seatbelt and drag her out

You can hear this woman yell “I’m disabled and trying to get to a doctor up there that’s why I didn’t move”.

This is horrifying.

How many of these videos do people need to see before they realize this is not going to stop?

#abolishice #uspol #disability #ableism #eugenics #minnesota

A Ford employee in Michigan yelled “pedo protector” at Trump.

Trump gave him the middle finger and appeared to say “f*ck you”

The worker, named TJ Sabula, has now been fired.

Trump defended the murder of Renee Good by saying she was “disrespectful” to ICE agents.

Now an employee has lost his job.

There’s no freedom of speech in America anymore.

Unless you want to say “quiet piggy” to a reporter.

Or “f*cking b*tch” to a murder victim.

#uspol #fascism #abolishice

According to Variety, CBS Evening News is down 23% in viewership compared to this time last year.

People don’t want to watch state sponsored propaganda.

They don’t want to watch the Erika Kirk hour.

They don’t agree with the decision to cancel the CECOT story.

They don’t like that CBS cancelled Colbert.

Keep boycotting! It makes a difference.

What's it like applying for a job for ICE?

Over at Slate, a writer -- who's both a US veteran and has a long record of being very vocally anti-ICE online -- went to an ICE recruitment expo

Link if you subscribe to Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

Free link, if you don't: https://archive.is/791rH

the tl;dr is ...

... they hired her, in a process that seemed so haphazard and sloppy that she concludes they're not doing serious background checks

as she puts it ...

as she puts it ...

I want to make sure this is repeated.

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews‘

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list

#Fascists #TrumpRegime #TrumpTerrorSquad #Nazis

the gloves come off at @adafruit. Love it.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/13/wegmans-press-release-translated-how-to-say-we-scan-your-face-and-call-it-safety/

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. https://gourmetmagazine.net/

@michi

People are realizing that AI isn't a product, it's not even a business decision, it's a political weapon and it's not on our side.

The European Left Alliance has just now launched an ECI: A European Citizen's Initiative to demand #JusticeForPalestine. It's similar to a petition, and legally binding if the goal of 1.000.000 signatures is reached. The EU has to act if we share this enough!

We demand a full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which is the cornerstone of EU-Israel bilateral trade, economic, and political cooperation.

🚩 https://eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/

We don't need words. We don't need letters of condemnation (even if it'd be nice if they ever came in the first place), we demand action. We expect real consequences for a state committing genocide!