Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So there's this guy who made a tool where someone punches in their bluesky or mastodon credentials to his website, and it auto-crawls their feeds and produces an LLM summary of everyone it finds posting there. He was asked what people should do if we don't want to be mulched as content for his summary feeds. He said we should block him. I replied, I can do that, but that only stops *you* from running the tool on me, how do I prevent *your other users* from running your tool on me? He blocked me.

oh I’m sorry are my takes regarding liquid glass and age verification not nuanced* enough for you?

good. get the fuck off my feed. bad things are bad, pretending they’re good doesn’t make you a fucking adult. it just makes you wrong.

I don’t need to pretend I didn’t watch Apple capitulate to fascists. I don’t need to pretend I didn’t watch Poettering do the same in a way that fucks over the rest of the FOSS ecosystem. this isn’t hard. don’t choose advocacy over truth.

* centrist

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-new-york-times-to-stop-being-heartless-and-let-rich-quan-work-at-home?source=direct_link&

All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/all-of-doges-work-could-be-undone-as-lawsuit-against-musk-proceeds/ " Musk’s X posts bragging about DOGE may trigger reversals of its biggest wins. " that would be nice

Dying inside as I update the firmware on my bike’s derailleur. #cycling #gravelbike #shimano

#PSA: posting photos and videos of your kids online ensures they'll never be able to meaningfully opt out of privacy invasion.

80% of children have an online presence by age two, with parents sharing an average of 1,500 images before their fifth birthday. —2017, Northumbria University

By the age of 13, children have had an average of 1,300 photos and videos of themselves posted to social media by their parents. —2018, UK Children's Commissioner

#Privacy #DataPrivacy

Once again, a truly astonishing amount of stuff has been happening with Co-op Cloud since our last blog post in October. Read about it here!

https://coopcloud.tech/blog/march-2025-equinox

– 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech #OpenSource

Paul Krugman:

"When officers of a company or people close to them exploit confidential information for personal financial gain, that’s (illegal) insider trading. But we have another word for situations in which people with access to confidential info regarding national security exploit that info for profit. That word is “treason.”

There’s a broader lesson here: You can’t trust a corrupt govt to protect national security. And our govt is now utterly corrupt."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets?r=4bv4c
#UsPol

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 56,703:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/volume-in-stock-and-oil-futures-surged-minutes-before-trumps-market-turning-post.html

These graphs show the total collapse of snowpack numbers for California over the past few weeks (dark blue line), along with the average snowpack (light blue area), for the state, and northern/central/southern California.
California snowpack is now at only 27% of normal, as heat waves have turned the little #snow California received to #water or vapor.

#climatechange

Vibe CMS?

Error message somehow posted as a story: "Article Cannot Be Produced — Source Material Does Not Exist"

(fwiw a story about this subject does exist, at https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/21/delve-accused-of-misleading-customers-with-fake-compliance/ )

Soon. Really soon. The #Fedora project is getting ready to migrate to the new #Forgejo based Fedora Forge! Read more at https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/the-forge-is-our-new-home/

Fedifriends, I need your help. I occasionally need to use a screen reader with Google Docs. Is anybody here familiar with how to use GDocs’ in-built accessibility tools? I could really use a hand.

It's been a few years since I drew this. I still stand by it.

#MastoArt #HumanArt #CreativeToots

Debian is evidently "discussing" complying with California's age verification law. Desperately hope it doesn't go further than that. I don't want to have to switch distros.

https://agelesslinux.org/distros.html

Why the hell, with an enormous electoral mandate, has Michelle Wu abandoned her progressive priorities for Boston? I have ideas: https://write.as/brendanhalpin/whats-wrong-with-michelle-wu

#Boston #BosPoli

"Ownership is not a status. It is a system."
#WorkerCoops #Cooperatives

https://www.icagroup.org/blog/how-ownership-actually-works-in-a-worker-cooperative

Trump admin's:🚨suspension of certain #immigrants' work authorization renewals is sidelining ~1000s of foreign-born doctors.

Policy:🚨could worsen access to care in a #health sys already facing physician shtgs. ~25% of the US physician WF are IMMs. Rural communities esp depend on IMM drs to fill WF gaps.

The change has affected work authorization renewals, green card processing & naturalization.

#TrumpRegime: wants us DEAD. Shortsighted -we pay our taxes.
#Protest #USPol
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/trump-visa-policy-immigrant-doctors

The Pentagon's revised policy adds mostly meaningless window dressing while retaining the core constitutional violation — subjecting journalists to punishment for doing their jobs.

It is not a good faith effort to comply with the judge's order.

Read our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/meet-the-new-pentagon-press-policy-same-as-the-old-pentagon-press-policy/

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/24/epic-river-migrations-of-fish-rapidly-collapsing-un-report-finds "Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%" #depressing #stupidhumans