Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We Have All Become Too Comfortable With #Corruption - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/we-have-all-become-too-comfortable-with-corruption/ "A quarter-million dollar donation, described casually as protection money to avoid being “shut out” by a politician with a reputation for vindictive retaliation against those who cross him" #trump

"#Gaza deserves death. The 2.6 million terrorists in Gaza deserve death! … Men, women, and children – in every way possible, we must simply carry out a Holocaust on them – yes, read that again – H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! For me, gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel forms of death for these Nazis." - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/israel-gaza-propaganda still doubt #israel is committing #genocide?

Dear Fedi friends,

I just published a blog post with the links to all the versions of my Fedi promo video - so that they can be easily found in one place: https://news.elenarossini.com/a-video-celebrating-the-fediverse-available-in-english-francais-italiano/

Direct links:

#English: https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

#français: https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/hxzy97B63KJBtVC6jU5Cf4

#italiano: https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/petiQESS6xH5B68Pysqfug

A routine reminder that there are subtitles in 14 languages thanks to wonderful Fedi volunteers. Adding more today. Credits: https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

More versions coming soon! ✨ 🚀

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).

Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Bog Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not free as in “freedom”) but at least their original licenses (non-commercial, share-alike, no derivatives, and yes, sometimes even just attribution) were genuinely useful for people as well as for corporations.

I like to think (perhaps naïvely, I don’t know) that Lawrence Lessig had his heart in the right place when he came up with it all. But I’m biased. I learned how to present from him (including how to use my presentation display) and we even presented a session together back in the day when I was running Open Source Flash. I’m also a big fan of his concept of “institutional corruption”. But I have no illusions that we see eye to eye on all things and I haven’t spoken to him in over a decade.

Anyway, that’s neither here nor there.

This is Creative Commons jumping the shark (is jumping the shark the original enshittification?) and destroying their credibility with a scheme that doesn’t benefit people, only their corporate donors.

Keep using the existing licenses, as they have value, but don’t help them legitimise this latest land grab by the same trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires who are busy destroying our habitat, human rights, and democracies.

In fact, if they go ahead with this, it might be an idea to fork the original Creative Commons licenses and publish them under a different name in an effort to counter the use of their legitimacy to whitewash Big AI.

#CreativeCommons #SiliconValley #BigTech #BigAI #AI https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114754532045016792

There are so many evil senior apparatchiks in the Trump regime that it's difficult to single out the most evil among them.

Our public health infrastructure and policies have saved millions of lives. RFKJr, destroying both, will surely be remembered as one of the worst.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/rfk-jr-vaccines

Saw some wild things from the Salesforce CEO on "30% to 50%" of the work being AI. If you work at Salesforce, give me the inside scoop, and I'll both protect your identity with my life and provide information to the non-coward journalists I know and parties like Ed Zitron. Godspeed.

New NLNet Projects were recently announced, with a solid collection of ActivityPub related ones:

* Mastodon adding new features for institutional instances
* ActivityPub Polls for Wordpress
* Funkwhale Federation Improvements
* Making Events more interoperable between Fediverse Platforms
* Context Discovery in NodeBB
* Icosa 3-D Model Sharing with ActivityPub

Did I miss any?

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

remember that Creative Commons has fallen for NFT and shitcoin grifts before, when they let Filecoin bribe them into NFT land

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/11/26/creative-commons-is-shilling-nfts/

and EFF was crawling up coiners' arses at the same time too, reminding us that these are Silicon Valley libertarian organisations that are extremely into the corporate funding

With Budapest Pride just two days away, Hungary has criminalized Pride marches and is planning to deploy real-time facial recognition technology to identify those participating in the event. The EU must defend fundamental human rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/ahead-budapest-pride-eff-and-46-organizations-call-european-commission-defend

From the U.S. Press Tracker:

Initial charges were dropped June 25 against Atlanta-based immigration reporter Mario Guevara after his arrest at a mid-June protest — but Guevara remains in ICE custody and faces deportation, three additional charges.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/spanish-language-reporter-arrested-at-atlanta-area-protest-faces-deportation/

ICE appears to have rescinded guidance that illegally tried to hamper congressional oversight of detention facilities.

If so, that’s a good thing.

But FPF will continue to pursue our FOIA requests to uncover the information ICE is trying to hide.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/did-ice-quietly-rescind-illegal-guidance-curtailing-congressional-visits/

The Threat Beneath: Hidden In-Chip Operating Systems

Modern CPUs from Intel and AMD ship with undocumented, embedded operating systems (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that run below your OS

Nothing runs below PureOS by Purism which is private and secure the way an OS should be.

Learn more at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating-systems-in-chips-vs-secure-auditable-oses-a-cybersecurity-comparison/

Hundreds of weight loss and diabetes jab users report pancreas problems - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/26/weight-loss-diabetes-jab-users-report-pancreas-problems maybe #TINSTAAFL...

Trump’s FTC announces merger condition that prohibits advertising #boycotts - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/trumps-ftc-announces-merger-condition-that-prohibits-advertising-boycotts/ " Merging firms agree to FTC demands in order to create world's largest ad agency. " more bullying #musk

All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of #RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/all-childhood-vaccines-in-question-after-first-meeting-of-rfk-jr-s-vaccine-panel/ here come the iron lungs... #polio #antivaxxers

After a week, Trump Mobile drops claim that #Trump phone is “made in the USA” - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/after-a-week-trump-mobile-drops-claim-that-trump-phone-is-made-in-the-usa/ #awkward

It's kinda wild how many executives seem to be a worse choice than a person that does nothing when faced with any given decision

France's third-largest city is dropping Windows and MS Office in favour of Linux and Open Office.

https://digitrendz.blog/newswire/business/19813/lyon-drops-microsoft-office-to-boost-digital-sovereignty/

'Lyon isn’t navigating this change alone. The city will leverage Territoire Numérique Ouvert, an open and interoperable software suite developed in collaboration with SITIV (Intercommunal Union of Information Technologies for Cities) and the Lyon Metropolis. Already in use by thousands of employees across nine local governments, this platform demonstrates the scalability of decentralized solutions.'

Fire to the Prisons. Read like a prison abolitionist. All e-Books $1.99 thru 7/1 with code READ at pmpress.org.