Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

112 yrs since Mr. Block debuted in 1912! Get a copy of Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1498

Maybe the only company on the planet that owns the browser and ad market shouldn’t be the one propagating a standards change that would undermine user privacy controls?

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/third-party-cookie-allowlist-header

Y’all might want to get in on the discussion.

FBI sources say #Epstein files "worse" than photos "showing #Trump with half naked teenage girls," says journalist - https://boingboing.net/2025/11/07/fbi-sources-say-epstein-files-worse-than-photos-showing-trump-with-half-naked-teenage-girls-says-journalist.html ""more than 100 Republicans" now planning to vote alongside Democrats to release the files"

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent

Check out this story by Michelle Zenarosa in Poynter:

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/la-public-press-journalists-covering-ice-raids-safety/

#30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Accessibility 🌍✈️

I mapped visa-free travel:
🛫outbound (where citizens can go) and 🛬inbound (who countries let in).

It reveals global mobility inequality and rising deglobalisation. Borders are tightening due to geopolitics, trade, migration fears & right-wing politics.

This affects researchers & global collaboration.

📊 Data: 2025 Passport Index
🛠️ Made with QGIS

#VisaFreeTravel #Deglobalisation #QGIS #GIS #DataViz

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug!
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LETTERS HOME FROM THE SECOND CIVIL WAR
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Brought to you by the fightin' Inner Hive, including long-time member Austin L. and new member newmanewman
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

From the article:

Richard warned that the missiles in the arsenal were so obsolete that their original designers were dead, and engineers no longer had some of the necessary technical documentation. That thing is so old that in some cases the [technical] drawings don’t exist anymore, or where we do have drawings, they’re like six generations behind the industry standard. And there’s not only [no one] working that can understand them – they’re not alive anymore,” he stated.

Next season of Strange New Worlds will take place entirely in orbit above Planet Sorbo. https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11/4/paramount-has-blacklisted-talent-deemed-overtly-antisemitic

These people are 🤡 🤡 🤡

Don't be like them.

https://gizmodo.com/why-is-the-ai-czar-already-saying-openai-wont-get-a-bailout-2000682693

I could probably scam a few billion by wearing a fleece vest and claiming to have invented a fridge that has a built-in food* replicator.

If you are unaware Perplexity is an AI company; the paper is owned by Bezos, one of the largest stakeholders in the industry

And this is just a snapshot of the problem

Earlier this week #TeenVogue was folded into #Vogue US and its parent company #CondeNast fired 6 reporters who fearlessly covered politics, speaking truth to power ("coincidentally" they were mostly BIPOC women or trans). Talk about capitulating to the current political climate.

I know it's not much, but this morning I canceled my WIRED & New Yorker subscriptions (also owned by Condé Nast)... and made sure to let them know my reason. Plus I added a note about their awful AI narrations #noAI

Catch Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen on Sun, Nov 09, 2025 @ 3:00pm at the Teaneck International Film Festival in NJ.

Feat. a talkback with Greg Palast, moderated by Anthony Johnson (ABC News).

Info: https://www.newjerseystage.com/events/2025/11/09/vigilantes-inc-americas-new-vote-suppression-hitmen-at-teaneck-international-film-festival-puffin-cultural-forum-in-teaneck-nj-on-2025-11-09/

#Documentary #Film

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.

We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.

Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.

He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.

He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

ICE deported him anyways.

They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.

Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.

What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?

He died a few weeks after deportation:

ICE enforcement may be a mass disabling event.

Disease is rampant in the camps.

Disabled people report having their medical needs ignored and their conditions drastically worsened.

The indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and violence causes harm.

Abolish ICE.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/randall-alberto-gamboa-esquivel-ice-family

#disability #uspol #fascism #ice #abolishice #eugenics

Judge orders #Trump administration to deliver full #SNAP benefits to states by Friday

The administration had said it would distribute partial payments in November, but that the process could take weeks.

by By Aria Bendix, November 6, 2025

"But [Judge] McConnell said the Trump administration 'did nothing to ensure' that SNAP benefits would be delivered this week. He ordered the administration to use the funding for child nutrition programs, known as #Section32 funding, in addition to the contingency funds to make sure payments are delivered in full.

" 'The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened and needless suffering will occur,' McConnell said. 'Last weekend, SNAP benefits lapsed for the first time in our nation’s history. This is a problem that could have and should have been avoided.' "

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-orders-trump-administration-deliver-full-snap-benefits-rcna242446

#SNAPCuts #TrumpSucks #USPol

This is now the worst year of layoffs since the housing crisis in 2009. On a positive not “woke is dead” so it’s a fair trade. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Elections have consequences as the saying goes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/06/october-job-cuts-surge-worst-layoffs/87127775007/

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

View this curated media guide that has a description of each of the 73 newly released Minneapolis Police body-worn camera videos from Minnesota's largest mass arrest of 646+ people on Nov. 4, 2020.

https://unicornriot.ninja/a-guide-to-the-646-video-dump/

Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to #Australia’s solar boom - https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/millions-to-receive-free-electricity-in-2026-thanks-to-australias-solar-boom/ the shape of things to come... #solar #renewables