Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

jacqueline project update: i am looking for additional work. please hire me.

i am a very good software engineer. i can lead engineering teams, i can manage projects, i can design hardware. i have brought a physical product to market. i'm quite the catch!

if you've ever used an android phone, then you've run code i wrote. if you've gotten directions with google maps, you've used ui built by me and the team i used to lead. i'm also quite good at backend server development!

#fedihired

Without going into specific cases, of which there are many, I've noticed a pattern in our news cycle.

1. Someone says Something Crappy.
2. It resonates through our collective minds.
3. There's outrage, people take sides, interest grows, the media picks it up and amplifies it.
4. People fight over petty details, ignoring preposterous lies buried in the original statement.

We need to ask what feelings/ideas people are promoting when they say Crappy Things.

Apparently there are more non-profit employees in the US now than manufacturing workers.

https://youtu.be/5TDdvE6pqS8?feature=shared&t=90

Sweden begins #wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s population - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/01/sweden-wolf-hunt-halve-population-endangered-animal sickening start to #2025; shame on #sweden, in thrall to sadistic killers

Support any political candidate or party with a serious plan to tax the billionaires and their heirs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-31/world-s-500-richest-billionaires-surpassed-10-trillion-in-wealth-in-2024?leadSource=uverify%20wall

We should make all candidates for office do this 👇 before they are allowed to run (btw, in the book, this is the paragraph immediately preceding the one in the previous post).

Reminder that elections have long been recognized as undemocratic. Sortition is real democracy. Elections guarantee you end up with narcissists in power - at least with random selection it's not guaranteed.
[Quote below from The Dawn of Everything, by Graeber and Wingrow.]

"Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth."

(Unpaid Cat Maid)

I was confused why they were pushing ticketers to ignore paper tickets while they are exactly as good and static as "digital" tickets, but with the future TOTP rollout it makes sense: they want to teach people before the rollout that screenshots won't work.

#TIL there are Deutsche Bahn #tickets in development which have a #TOTP on them.

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-what-s-inside-my-train-ticket

That means an imminent repeat of the #Ticketmaster fail
https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/
because ofc the extra TOTP step is not really adding any security compared to a static paper ticket.

Why is this "digital" nonsense being pushed so hard?

#deutschlandticket #digitalzwang

please donate to support anarchist, abolitionist, distroist, and my dear comrade Casey Goonan as they approach their plea deal hearing in a few weeks.

Casey is also the only Palestine solidarity movement member who is facing federal felony charges currently. The so-called "student intifada" has abandoned them out of respectability politics, disdain towards anarchists, and an inability to think beyond the confines of the university. They are also one of the most principled and dedicated anarchists who had been, until their arrest, supporting multiple prisoners across the US with letters, phone calls, phone zap campaigns, money on people's commissary, and publishing people's writings. It is PAST TIME for anarchists broadly to show up for Casey.

This fundraiser is for legal fees associated with their hearings: https://chuffed.org/project/supportcasey

If you can't donate, please boost this post.

If you are so inclined, PLEASE write to Casey. More info on how to do that here: https://freecaseynow.noblogs.org/write-to-casey/

Y’all, since I started trying to learn how to Art in the pandemic, I’ve fallen into a tradition where between the Xmas and NYE, I will let my subconscious loose on a canvas, and then I paint what my brain thinks is coming in the next year. They’ve been kinda weirdly prophetic when viewed in retrospect. I tell you that, because if I really am an incarnation of the Delphi, next year is gonna be real weird. (Also, I need detail brushes, and steady hands, and maybe a xanax.) #art #pencil #painting #sketch #surreal
(Edit because I guess I forgot how to conjugate verbs.)

Hey artists, my partner is on mastodon.art and can't see, like, 50% of the federation because her instance has blocked so many other instances.

Is there another, better, art-focused instance that she can move to? It's frustrating to both of us but obviously mostly her.

(a boost is appreciated in lieu of an actual answer, ty!)

I spent the weekend cobbling together some passable Ansible to build Tor web tunnels on six VPSes on six different international providers. I could have done manual installs, or used their existing Ansible, but I like to play with the tech.

Plus, if I can keep at least five of the systems up continuously for a year, I could get a free Onion t-shirt. Never underestimate what a geek will do for a t-shirt.

https://blog.torproject.org/call-for-webtunnel-bridges/

Quebec's chief forester plans to log an area equal to Romania’s size—about 20,000 Olympic pools annually. Over the past four years, we've documented the devastating impact of this policy on Nehirowisiw lands. In September, we were invited to Innu territory to witness similar destruction. Watch our latest video report.

https://kolektiva.media/w/tfADC9eSNXwqEWBxS5vwTN

That older relative you do tech support for is probably not bamboozled by digital devices. They were guessing their way through Y/N ms-DOS and dodging Fatal Error cartoon bombs on Macs before you and the smartphone were born. Now they're older, wearier, and exasperated by digital coercion and the complication of simple things. They’re not listening to Bing Crosby while being amazed email exists. They’re listening to Queen while cursing enshittification & resenting the time it costs them and you.

Donald #Trump loses appeal against E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/donald-trump-loses-appeal-e-jean-carroll "US supreme court ruled unanimously in 1997 that sitting presidents have no immunity from civil litigation over actions predating their official duties."

I've been thinking a lot about "individualism" and "individualists" lately, because so fucking many of the people who described themselves that way are apparently enthusiastically jumping on the fascist train, and fascism is so antithetical to individualism that it's hard to understand what the fuck is going on.

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New from 404 Media: the Secret Service admits it never actually checked if people really consented to being tracked by a location monitoring tool, like it claimed. Under a section saying what steps had it taken to ensure consent, the agency wrote "None"

https://www.404media.co/secret-service-admits-it-didnt-check-if-people-really-consented-to-being-tracked/

"Once you’re so deep into it that you’ve done a press tour and committed yourself as a public figure to this idea, dislodging the belief that we now have a proto-AGI becomes impossible."
[source: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/]
Same for crypto. Once people have bought the hype and written a book or two about the possibilities, it's basically impossible to get them to realize that they've been led astray. As the famous saying goes, "it's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled."