Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“If the administration wants to not have to disclose embarrassing information about its actions, it should stop making up reasons to deport people,” says Lauren Harper about the federal judge’s order today to release Rümeysa Öztürk.

https://freedom.press/issues/order-for-%C3%B6zt%C3%BCrks-release-is-welcome-news-but-it-took-far-too-long/

PureOS Crimson Progress Update

Since July 2024, we’ve built a strong foundation—now climbing the stack!

Recent Updates:

• Faster USB charging
• Speedier storage access

First alpha release coming soon. Learn More Features Here: https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-march-2025/

PeerTube have updated their official app, you can now sign in with a PeerTube account 🥳

Unfortunately Apple & Google are being crap:

Apple App Store users can only sign in on the built-in server list, Apple won't allow manually adding servers

Google Play users can manually add unlisted servers

F-Droid users get a *much* wider server list and can add servers manually

You can avoid app store problems by using PeerTube's web app: https://fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-apps-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

Ireland's Oldest Gym is a #cooperative that "any halfway decent person" can join.

https://defector.com/any-halfway-decent-person-can-join-and-own-irelands-oldest-gym?giftLink=16689e2454a332e057a7be94abdf5f54

"Two co-operative apexes have signed a joint letter urging the European Commission to prioritise business transfers – including worker buyouts, which suffer from a lack of recognition in most member states." #WorkerCoops #EU

https://www.thenews.coop/eu-not-doing-enough-to-support-worker-buyouts-warn-co-ops/

"High Yield Pale Ale is a story in a glass—a symbol of what’s possible when co-ops cross sectors and combine their strengths." #Cooperatives #CreditUnions #Community

https://www.cuinsight.com/a-toast-to-principle-6-when-cooperatives-collaborate-communities-win/

NYT could've kept me drawing dipshits with power instead of whoever's drawing their random focus group freakshows. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/05/01/unfocused-groups/

Plan for #windfarm in German ‘fairytale forest’ stokes green energy culture war - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/09/plan-windfarm-german-fairytale-forest-reinhardswald-stokes-green-energy-culture-war "Rather than felling swathes of gnarled oaks in protected woodlands, two-thirds of the project area covers commercial spruce monocultures"

#Texas’s War On #Abortion Is Now A War On #FreeSpeech - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/07/texass-war-on-abortion-is-now-a-war-on-free-speech/ "Texas legislature is coming after the most common method of safe and effective abortion today—medication abortion."

@reiunion we won! None of the corporate picked candidates won enough votes to get on the board.

https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/05/rei-co-op-members-reject-company-board-picks-after-union-campaign

#DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing #malware - https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/doge-software-engineers-computer-infected-by-info-stealing-malware/ " The presence of credentials in leaked "stealer logs" indicates his device was infected. "

‘Hollowing out’: #NewZealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/leaving-new-zealand-record-departure-numbers "Surge of departures – mostly fleeing a weak economy - fuels concern over the longer-term impact on the country as some small towns scramble for survival" never a good sign...

#Musk funds Texas group aiming to crush journalists with #defamation lawsuits - https://boingboing.net/2025/05/08/musk-funds-texas-group-aiming-to-crush-journalists-with-defamation-lawsuits.html "I am a free speech absolutist," Elon Musk declared on Twitter in 2022.

Police tech providers want to ensnare their cop customers in a web of surveillance tools and software. Read more about how these companies are locking your communities into years of privacy-invading technology.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/beware-bundle-companies-are-banking-becoming-your-police-departments-favorite

Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss #OpenSource

There's a lot of interesting stuff in this interview with Mansib Rahman and Dru Oja Jay! Radish is a local, multi-stakeholder food delivery #cooperative in Montreal, Canada that has been exploring supply-chain logistics for restaurants. #PlatformCoops

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

#DigitalSovereignty doesn't mean tech for sovereign nations, it means tech for sovereign people.

Tech in the hands of a European billionaire class is hardly any better than what we have now.

Free it up, give people control, open source it, decentralise it, remove choke points and gatekeepers, encrypt all the things, remove the #SurveillanceAds industry from the equation, enable #SelfHosting and #SmallTech. And then let's talk #GoEuropean.

3 THINGS I'm grateful for when it comes to the #Fediverse:

1: I (almost) never see any AI slop. I'm subscribed to @404mediaco and I'm constantly horrified by their articles on AI slop - so common on Meta platforms. Not here. So #ThankYouFedi.

2: I'm never force-fed content by people I don't follow – so common in other places where algorithms rule. My time & attention are treated with RESPECT.

3: People here protect the privacy of children / don't post their pics. Consent is BIG. #ThankYouFedi

Alerta! Due to a problem with our usual Jitsi server, we're falling back here https://meet.waag.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying 🤙

– 3wordchant