Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This week's comic is now up on Daily Kos
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"A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport"
after Richard Scarry
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/5/2325998/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-looks-at-a-Busy-Busy-Day-at-the-Airport

Donald #Trump Declares He Should Have Faced Trial - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/05/donald-trump-declares-he-should-have-faced-trial/ "The entire premise of this #EO is that things Trump and his White Houses have done — from lying about his weight and height to his theft of classified documents — must be prosecuted."

Purism is leading the charge with Quantum- PQC Security including the following:

Finalized NIST PQC standards

Liberty Phones with Made in USA electronics

Full control over your encryption keys

Verifiable open-source software

A secure, trusted supply chain

Learn more at Purism:
https://puri.sm/posts/rip-rsa-aes-the-immediate-need-of-quantum-resistant-cryptography/

I’m not too strong on history, but on reading an “on this day” I realise I have a fixed point (of about 100 years) that European history is divided by in my head.
It’s the “before/after potatoes” divide.
That old guy that did a thing? He lived without eating potatoes.

Skirrets were the winter storage starch before potatoes and it took 50-100 years before potatoes gradually ousted skirrets after their introduction.

No potatoes- can you imagine?
#skirrets #potatoes

#NewZealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/new-zealand-mps-who-performed-haka-in-parliament-given-record-suspensions this is racist bullying: this country belongs to the Maori people..

Embryo ‘adoption’ answered these families’ prayers. The Christian right is using them to attack IVF - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/05/embryo-adoption-ivf-christian-right christian nutters don't give a damn about people's suffering, just their twisted dogma

#Trump’s #tariffs have become his Vietnam – and the right is breaking ranks - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/05/trump-tariffs-republicans break some more, please

Please move along, nothing to see here 🙈

But yes I just uploaded my Fediverse promo video to my self-hosted #PeerTube in case tomorrow I encounter technical glitches and need to share a link. The video is set to private (for now!), I will change its status to public on Monday. Sooo excited, it's finally happeniiiiiing.

Thank you @samaaberg @TheLifeofTarzan for your help with this!

#EleFediVideos

I need to make a site map for a client. After a few minutes pottering around in LibreOffice Draw, Dia and Inkscape I feel dissatisfied and dreading the massive task ahead (this site is huge)

I need something mind-map-ish. I type "mind" into the start menu of KDE. Damn, I have no mind map software, but oh look it says "Get Minder" with a suitable-looking icon.

2 mins later it's installed.

30 mins later I'm done. The software was excellent.

#FOSS really is a gift to humanity.

Breakthrough in search for #HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’ - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/05/breakthrough-in-search-for-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed "Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body"

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced - https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/ good move: you can't kill #opensource...

I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Columbia University did the cowardly thing and caved in to the Trump regime. Now it's learning that bullies don't stop once they've found a pliant victim.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/

The fact that both a magistrate judge and a district judge denied the government a search warrant for an Instagram account run by student protesters at Columbia University speaks to the lack of probable cause, EFF’s Mario Trujillo told @theintercept. https://theintercept.com/2025/06/04/fbi-columbia-gaza-warrant-instagram/

Trump's regime is inviting terrorists to attack the United States.

How? By dismantling all kinds of national-security operations and, in this insane move, appointing a completely unqualified kid to a key security post:

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention

Why? The invited attack will be our Reichstag Fire.

I just murderized our old Squarespace website and made a cool, new one. Enjoy my bold stance of refusing to sell AI as the literal first heading on the page, which will no doubt bring us all great catharsis before I starve to death:

https://www.hermit-tech.com/

I am open to hate and styling suggestions because I have no idea what I am doing.

I am now free to write a billion words a day again!

“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told Norfolk's WAVY NBC10. https://www.wavy.com/news/disturbing-data-personal-information-being-bought-and-sold-how-you-can-stop-it/

Local officials can disagree with a newspaper's coverage, but they have no right to retaliate.

“It’s very much unconstitutional for the government to in any way punish the press over its editorial or content decisions,” Seth Stern told the Phoenix New Times.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/fountain-hills-officials-punished-paper-negative-coverage-21848425

Public employees have a right to speak to the press. The government can't gag them and certainly can't force them to mislabel verifiable facts as their opinions.

Greene County, VA, needed a reminder of these First Amendment basics, so FPF, SPJ, and numerous other press rights organizations gave them one.

https://freedom.press/issues/rights-organizations-object-to-entirely-absurd-virginia-gag-policy/