Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

ps. If you're worried about how small farmers going bankrupt... most small farmers are millionaires with a 6-figure income. From a day job off the farm. Small farms don't have enough acreage to lose real $$.

It's the bigger farms that will suffer the most. That's why they're hollerin for bailouts. https://youtu.be/mD50nJzDFLA

Totally unrelated! Here's a chart of soybean exports over the same time period.

source: https://unitedsoybean.org/hopper/total-u-s-soy-exports-add-39-8-billion-to-u-s-economy-in-marketing-year-22-23/

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

source: https://www.fb.org/market-intel/farm-bankruptcies-down-for-now

Tomorrow night in Sacramento!

Big First Amendment win in Chicago: A federal court told the government it can’t target journalists at protests.

But it still allows officers to order reporters to leave protests in some circumstances. We wrote about why that needs to change.

https://freedom.press/issues/court-backs-chicago-reporters-but-leaves-door-open-for-dispersals/

Wow this sucks so bad.

a person posted on /r/datahoarder that they have created an archive of the Epstein files with added metadata like mentioned people and etc. But everything is LLM-generated.... Including the "full text" of the documents.

Rather than OCRing them, they were fed to chatGPT with a system prompt that told it that it was an expert at OCR.

https://github.com/epstein-docs/epstein-docs.github.io/blob/b92183bb667afd636872d9f854de8154d61f68b4/process_images.py#L102

Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine.

https://www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sovereign-Tech-Fund.html

Someone calling for a US invasion of their own country winning the Peace Prize is pretty on-brand, both for the Nobel Committee itself and the world in general 😕

As I have noted on more than one occasion: it's easy to get an American liberal to support reactionary conservative politicians - just so long as they are from some other country, ideally one with a left-leaning government.

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Just an FYI: Machado winning the Peace Prize is the committee kowtowing to Trump without actually giving him the prize directly - they are helping the admin make the moral case for a military invasion of Venezuela.

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/top-trump-officials-ramp-up-pressure-for-military-strikes-in-venezuela-to-oust-maduro/

And what is it that the conservative "Iron Lady" of Venezuela so opposed to? You know, nasty things like this:

https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/chavezs-legacy-in-action-the-palmarito-afro-descendant-commune-part-v/

The Guardian buries the real story in the last two paragraphs of their article (quote below)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/10/venezuelan-politician-maria-corina-machado-wins-nobel-peace-prize

Depending on your definition, you might say that crypto is having a bit of a glowup moment rn, with all the official adoption by the current admin (which would have likely happened much the same had the other party won, fwiw). And yet, while the speculators are banking W after W, I don't hear A THING from the DAO people. Where did they all go? Have they all just blocked me, or are there still some true believers out there trying to "trustlessly" do...something or another?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/time-bomb-how-uninsured-stablecoins-and-crypto-derivatives-threaten-financial-and-economic-stability.html

Can I ask people to send me some spare good vibes, prayers and juju tonight?

I’m facing a few very serious threats to my survival and baseline right now that I haven’t been able to talk about.

I’m working on an article.

I’m trying to ask for help.

But right now I could just use some hope from anyone with spoons to spare.

#Mastodon feature request: you know how you can opt in to a confirmation dialog before you boost a post or you publish media without #AltText?

I think it would be WONDERFUL if there could be a prompt to ask: "are you sure you want to boost this?" when you're about to boost a post that has a picture without #AltText...

Because the "Explore" page makes me a little bit angry when I see EVERY SINGLE DAY the same accounts posting screenshots that do not contain any alt text descriptions. Not cool 😒

"Coops4Coops is a growing, embeddable digital directory that connects co-operatives offering services to other co-operatives across Canada. Built by and for the co-operative movement, the platform addresses a persistent challenge in our sector: the fragmentation and regional silos that limit inter-cooperation and leader co-operatives to default to non-cooperative suppliers."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du_CHFrS82g

Just had to turn off the stupid AI bullshit on @DuckDuckGo for the third time. It used to remember my settings, but I guess they care more about trying to jam AI down our throats than about respecting their users choices.

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Update: Chicago journalists and press groups won a temporary restraining order today, restricting federal agents’ violent tactics in response to protests outside an ICE facility in Illinois.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-shot-with-pepper-balls-at-illinois-ice-facility-protest/

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

🎉LEGISLATIVE VICTORY🎉
We’re glad Gov. Newsom signed AB 566, which makes it easy for Californians to tell companies what they want to happen with their own personal information. The easier it is to exercise your rights, the more power you have.

It's official — a court ruled that the public's interest in knowing if Elon Musk has a security clearance and access to classified information outweighs any potential privacy interests.

Great FOIA ruling in favor of The New York Times.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.639038/gov.uscourts.nysd.639038.21.0.pdf