Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

Thanks in part to messages from EFF supporters, the Washington legislature passed a strong consumer electronics right-to-repair legislation through both the House and Senate. If you’re in Washington State, please urge the governor to sign these important bills. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/washingtons-right-repair-bill-heads-governor

"President Trump's vilification of the press should be seen in the context of his larger agenda to discredit any arbiter of fact and fiction that has not kissed the ring," Seth Stern writes in the Daily Beast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-at-stake-when-alternative-facts-become-the-only-facts/

Check out FPF’s newly launched secrecy news tracker, The Classified Catalog.

Reporters, litigators, and the public can use it to track developments on topics including FOIA news, disappearing messages, removal of information, and more.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/the-classified-catalog-launches-to-track-secrecy-news/

Columbia’s Barnard College hits a new moral low by targeting a student journalist for her reporting on a pro-Palestine sit-in before changing course.

Student journalists should be able to report freely on campus without interference or disciplinary action.

https://www.cjr.org/news/student-journalist-columbia-covered-a-pro-palestine-protest-graduation-under-threat.php

Police surveillance companies are jockeying for monopolization of the state surveillance market that they’re helping to build. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/beware-bundle-companies-are-banking-becoming-your-police-departments-favorite

Just put up a video about new farmer problems!

Sometimes folks ask me to help with starting up their own small farm. Adventures ensue. Logistics, siting, deer, & back-of-the-envelope financial math in one tight 7 minute package.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvct04pbKNc

The Trump administration claimed that the leak of this memo was so dangerous that it necessitated opening criminal investigations and creating new, stricter rules around leaks to the media.

We wanted to see if that was true — and it wasn’t.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/foia-win-by-fpf-undermines-new-doj-policy-on-journalists-and-sources/

At this critical juncture, the Socialism 2025 Conference will be a vital gathering space for today’s left. A four-day conference featuring over a hundred participatory discussions, lectures, and workshops organized by activists from all over the country, the Socialism Conference will be the place for both seasoned organizers and politically curious folks to sharpen analysis, hone strategy, and build community. Event Info and Registration Here: https://socialismconference.org/

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I've got some good news and some bad news....well, actually it's just bad news. #AI #LLM

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
https://archive.ph/Jqoqa#selection-471.0-471.71

RT @wmhuo168
Forbes calls China’s AI “cost-effective.” Translation: they’re winning, and the West can’t handle it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moinroberts-islam/2025/04/30/the-global-ai-race-chinas-cost-revolution-challenges-us-dominance/

The LLMentalist effect: Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms used by (fake) psychics to gull their victims: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

Judge To Trump: No You Can’t Just Kill All The Lawyers You Don’t Like - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/05/judge-to-trump-no-you-cant-just-kill-all-the-lawyers-you-dont-like/

Democratic-led states sue Trump for blocking wind energy projects - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/state-lawsuit-trump-wind-energy-policy "Lawsuit also filed over administration’s cuts to health and human services that destroy life-saving programs" more, please...

it's so fucking excruciating to watch everyone slowly get lobotomized by a dumb pile of linear algebra that burns forests to lie

Drones, robots, and automated license plate readers - These are just some of the technologies we've explained for you in our Field Guide to Police Surveillance, Street Level Surveillance. https://sls.eff.org/

'60 Minutes' Airs Scathing Segment on 'First Felon in the Oval Office' Despite Pressure to Avoid Sensitive Stories About Trump

#PresidentialScrutiny #60Minutes #MediaPressure #LawFirmInterference #FirstFelonInTheOvalOffice

https://www.mediaite.com/news/60-minutes-airs-scathing-segment-on-first-felon-in-the-oval-office-despite-pressure-to-avoid-sensitive-stories-about-trump/

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is "going through a laundry list of Trump's enemies and finding frivolous legal bases to harass and intimidate them," Seth Stern said on the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA's 2025 World Press Freedom Day panel.

Watch:

https://foreignpress.org/educational-programs-learning-takeaways/takeaways-from-afpc-usas-2025-world-press-freedom-day-panel

The parents want (1) the garden to be open even when their are no volunteers to keep an eye on things and (2) few plants and more room for kids to run around in, including a play structure. The volunteers who currently manage the space (as part of an agreement with the city, mind you) argue that (a) this random group can't just come in and dictate how the space they have been taking care of should be used and (b) this is a unique space with a unique focus on biodiversity and calm greenery and more playgrounds shouldn't come at the expense of already existing public space.

This is their petition to try to slow the roll of the participative budget process and not lose the garden: https://chng.it/Z5MbyLSTpx

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#viladegracia