Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Will people PLEASE stop talking about the "Tax payer's union"/Curia poll as if it is real?

The TPU is an #AtlasNetwork front. People disagree on how they cook their poll, and they probably use all the dirty tricks together.

The pertinent bit is that they've always been an outlier. They're trying to be inaccurate.

Instead of talking about how right wing party is up or left wing party is down in the Curia poll, the story is that their propaganda is working.

Removing a news outlet from a government media list because its reporter caught a U.S. attorney claiming he lived in a boarded up house to satisfy residency requirements is almost as petty as it is unconstitutional.

US attorney John A. Sarcone III should reverse this ridiculous order before New York tax payers have to foot the bill for a First Amendment lawsuit.

https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/interim-u-s-attorney-removes-times-union-media-20761206.php

Brief Congress update: my very own district in "deep red east NC" has been drifting to the center for years.

It's flippable in '26.

I'm so ready for this, I'm doing FARM FACTS FOR KIM HARDY.

For every donation to this link I will post one (1) farm fact!

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07social

US shoppers feel the heat of Trump’s trade war: ‘the prices are going up’ - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/10/trump-tariffs-price-increase-shoppers how odd: #trump assured people that wouldn't happen... #tariffs

#Forgejo 11.0.3 and 7.0.16 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

US issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN official investigating abuses in Gaza - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/israel-gaza-war-un-sanctions more trump bullying trying to quell investigations of #gazagenocide

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Daily Kos!
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TRUMP SCIENCE!
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/10/2332469/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-presents-Trump-Science

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

German court rules #Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws - https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech "sets a precedent which the court acknowledged will allow countless other users to sue without “explicitly demonstrating individual damages,” " big #privacy

#Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazil, citing a ‘witch-hunt’ against #Bolsonaro - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-tariffs-brunei-libya-moldova trying to use tariffs to interfere with a foreign nation's judiciary; says it all...

Children limiting own #smartphone use to manage mental health, survey finds - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/10/children-limiting-own-smartphone-use-manage-mental-health-survey the kids are alright...

From the President of Brazil.

Jim Spanfeller destroyed multiple media brands and has now written a self-ecomonium about how hard it's been ... on him.

Won't someone *please* think of the oligarchs?

https://defector.com/jim-spanfeller-somehow-worse-at-writing-than-running-a-media-company?giftLink=8d76e139360bae5a6a2d10c434f29c59

#Herb #Journalism #defector #journamalism

How's that AI coding going for you? Ah... I see.

Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

"... Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers...."

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/

#ai #cybersecurity #llm

I've spent not-insignificant amount of time at protests in the US, looking for signs of IMSI catchers and never found anything, so when I saw this, my ears perked up:

https://san.com/cc/exclusive-evidence-of-cell-phone-surveillance-detected-at-anti-ice-protest/

#Podcasttip

Why facts aren't important to populists leaders and followers.

@mattsheffield and prof. J Eric Oliver

America’s political divide is psychological, not ideological
https://plus.flux.community/p/americas-political-divide-is-psychological

It would be laughable that people of supposed integrity are still debating whether to leave XTwitter, but it's merely pathetic.

Fascist Barbie Noem held back FEMA search/rescue assistance in Texas for 3 full days after flooding began.

Always remember that cruelty and indifference to suffering are, in a big way, what motivates this regime.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/fema-texas-flood-noem