Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It occurs to me that the parallels with the modern world are profound, with so many people deluded by things they see and read about on the Internet that they live out their lives in a similar fantasy.

My take as well.

"What happened in this year’s election was not some kind of flowering of American fascism, but a rebellion against a hated, out-of-touch Democratic Party elite...Harris abandoned a raft of progressive policies that are wildly popular, some of which were featured on ballot initiatives that won by big margins in states that went for Trump. "

https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/16/the-democrats-deserved-to-lose-1000-times-over/

1/There is nothing more embarrassing than watching hordes of liberals willingly herd themselves into a pen funded by Russian capital. Blue sky’s principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russia’s state social network.

Oh, look. the Mozilla Foundation is asking for community feedback about what folk want them to focus on.

Anyone have opinions?

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

Liberalism is unable to meet our needs, because it is based upon the idea of the rational self-interested individual, rather than human beings as fragile vulnerable creatures. That political actor has no needs that they cannot meet themselves. Why should we expect its language to be different? If we have no language of need or of frailty, then it would seem we cannot escape. However, we do have a language of need. We find that language in care ethics, in human fragility.

Scientific American's editor -- who believes in, you know, science -- told some truth about the looming dark ages of the Trump regime.

She "resigned" soon afterward.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientific-american-editor-chief-leaves-anti-trump-comments-rcna180400

@laurahelmuth's tenure at SciAm was honorable and important. She deserved better, but of course so do we all.

Some media outlets are already sane-washing Bhattacharya. To learn more about how he has spread disinformation that undermines public health, is widely discredit by real experts, and is funded by dark money, read this piece by Walker Bragman who has tracked him throughout the pandemic: https://www.importantcontext.news/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about

Accepted stands https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-11-16-stands-announced/

It seems like our joint stand with @forgejo at #FOSDEM2025 has been accepted, thank you @fosdem!

For those of you that don't know, #FOSDEM is an annual conference for free and open source software taking place in Brussels. We'll be there throughout the event to exchange words and/or stickers with some of you.

See you in February!

https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-11-16-stands-announced/

Ouch, bloody hell!

The supermarket in my area recently expanded and just reopened their doors. Guess what? It is ALL self-scan checkouts now. The floor layout guides you into this kinda voluntary sweatshop barracks where the customers are put to work to get their stuff scanned. Already there's ranks and status here, reputation. From clumsy beginners to confident Masters of the Scan™, who go in and out in seconds to the envy of others.

ALL self-scan checkouts, I said? Well.. one exception.

1/2

UK must pick between US economic model or EU’s ‘socialism’, says Trump adviser - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/16/trump-adviser-says-uk-needs-free-enterprise-model-to-aid-us-trade-deal people didn't vote for trumpian slash and burn economics, so we'll take the #EU, thanks...

I upgraded my system overnight to #Fedora41. I seemed to be running low in the #RootPartiition and so I moved the directory in /var/lib/dnf, where all the downloaded new #rpm files are temporarily kept, to another partition and created a symbolic link to it from there to that location. After that, everything went smoothly. I do like the new dnf output, it’s more informative than before.

#GNU #Linux #Fedora #F41 #FreeSoftware

Microsoft employees in the Fediverse - you might want to block me now, because I'm never going to make you feel good about your employment decisions.

(Just got blocked by an MS bro breathlessly promoting some Microsoft self-congratulatory hype session. Ignite or something. I replied that I couldn't imagine attending anything less exciting, meaningful, or flammable.)

@lightweight Precisely this. What is the lure of a billionaire's walled garden that captivates so many? Classic honey trap. Hook the users on the "open + distributed (yeah right)" marketing and then proceed with enshittification as and when the majority shareholders demand payback.

I find myself having zero interest in BlueSky. It's distributed (theoretically?) but it's still owned by profit motivated people, and it can be sold. It will be. After people are committed to it. It's a future train smash, like Twitter. I'm banking on the Fediverse. No need for the also-rans.