Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Instagram Suspends Zohran #Mamdani’s account - https://nycjournals.com/2025/07/21/instagram-suspends-zohran-mamdanis-account-leaked-memo-cites-national-interest-as-meta-tilts-right/ "explained by Instagram senior directors in an internal leaked memo that his content was deemed “too socialist,” and goes against current national US interest." staggering even for the evil #meta

Holy crap. I still haven't deployed my upgraded personal blog. I have a bunch of posts that I've withheld for months now because I was going to push it to production 'any day now'... but Drupal 11's got a remarkably convoluted tool chain, especially with regard to theming. So I've still got one or two pesky things to sort... then I will make it live. This has gone on long enough. I need to put a fork in it. It's (so close to) done. Must be patient & do the last bits of hard work.

Ooo - fascinating to hear Jesse Mulligan throwing some shade at the Microsoft corporation (and RNZ's use of MS Windows) in his intro just now. Heh, seems like the worm is turning... lovely to hear it.

Nous relayons ici le communiqué de Jakhi McCray, un modèle de dignité et de courage face à la répression. Il y a quelques heures, ce camarade a été mis en accusation pour l'incendie criminel de plusieurs autopatrouilles du commissariat du 83e district du NYPD.

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It has been one month since the NYPD & the U.S. government came after me, accusing me of setting fire to police vehicles belonging to the 83rd precinct in Brooklyn. According to them, $800,000 worth of damage was done & the charred remains of the vehicles represented a direct attack on the police.

Today, July 21st, I walked into the 83rd precinct & turned myself in. There's a real chance that I won't see the outside of a cell for years. but I make this choice clear of mind &, in a naive way, hopeful. It's a hope that comes from feeling loved & supported by my friends, my family, & my comrades that have rallied in support of me in wake of the accusations. It's a feeling that I cherish & will hold on to in the now uncertain timeline of my life. I'm 21 years old & I know it's normal to be unsure about life & the world, but I want to thank you-whether I know you or you're just meeting me for the first time now—for giving me some comfort in all this.

My charge comes with a minimum sentence of five years & a maximum of 20. The federal government has labeled me "armed & dangerous" & blasted a $30,000 bounty for my capture, which Zionist & white supremacist news outlets have happily supported in their racist doxxing & smear campaign against me. My home has been raided alongside two other addresses in New York City, & my little siblings had assault rifles brandished at them as they were harassed & forced outside.

I'm not, nor was I ever, scared. This scare tactic is nothing compared to other black people that are beaten &/or murdered, & their names being dragged through the mud as the media does damage control for the officers that did it. It's not new to Palestinians & Arabs that are being assassinated, deported, & harassed. I've met immigrants that live under daily paranoia. not knowing whether or not ICE goons will bust through their doors & kidnap their families.

I've been arrested 12 times before this, & doxxed & lied about by fascist press & police officers alike. I've seen friends & comrades lose relationships, homes, & jobs because of their refusal to be responsible for the genocide in Palestine & the kidnapping of migrants. The SCC61, the CUNY8, the Prarieland 11, the 2020 prisoners, Tarek Barzouk, Leqaa Kordia—all just a few current examples of the government's attempt to regain control. The use of COINTELPRO & its domestic warfare campaign that left hundreds of dead & imprisoned revolutionaries throughout the 20th century & now has caused a memory crater in our movement, where we don't know how to handle the brutality of State repression.

Repression is the State trying to call our bluff. It is intense because it shows itself when our potential to disrupt genocides & capital becomes too grand to ignore. Millions of people, whether they consider themselves revolutionaries or not, that participated in the encampments, the anti-ICE street rebellions, & the George Floyd Uprising have helped create a social crisis in the last five years that continues to bring in millions more & fuel the need for liberation.

The constant effort it takes the State to oppress us is not manageable. It is already breaking, with the funding & hiring disasters in federal agencies, the infighting between the Trump administration & his base, & the complete political catastrophe over Israel. The harshness of the State's eye on our movement is nothing more than a defensive reaction. a mask from their fear. This is as much of a make or break moment for them as it is for us. If we come out of this with our solidarity & our infrastructure intact, it is a monumental win for our communities & a devastation to our enemies.

Our greatest strength is each other-that we are not just coworkers maintaining appearances for the duration of a shift. We are comrades, & with that comes a promise to love, defend, & fight for one another. Because you are my comrades, I hold this promise towards all of you. I don't know what will happen now, but I do know that I will never stop fighting & I will do my best wherever I find myself to be.

With love & solidarity, Jakhi

Using a little extra juice to power Christmas lights shouldn’t bring the cops to your door — but police looking for cannabis are using power meters as home-mounted spies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/when-your-power-meter-becomes-tool-mass-surveillance

I posted on Boing Boing about Mario Guevara, a journalist arrested over a month ago while covering the No Kings Day protest, and still being imprisoned despite there being no charges against him.
https://boingboing.net/2025/07/21/atlanta-based-reporter-has-been-in-jail-for-over-a-month-for-the-u-s-crime-of-journalism.html

@springdiesel @johnbrowntypebeats
He's mocking the people who mock people in rural areas, pointing out their obvious hypocrisy. Living out here in the sticks, I see what he is doing and approve of it. Everyone who's ever said, "That's what you get for voting Republican" when a natural disaster hits a state whose electoral votes went to the Rs should be ashamed of themselves. It's so nasty, I want to think only right-wing plants would express that opinion, to stir up controversy, but idk...

More and more, the Trump administration is accusing journalists of inciting violence or lawlessness by simply reporting the news.

These claims are baseless, but they’re not harmless.

https://freedom.press/issues/no-reporting-is-not-incitement/

Migrants at #Ice jail in #Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses "female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food." #trump

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder/ "Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff" #trump

Can someone help me find the thread that talked about furries as a sign of ecological health of online communities?

“The government wants to use me as an example, they want to send a message that people can’t be following ICE operatives or expose what’s happening.”

https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/07/direct-retaliation-hispanic-journalist-detained-by-ice-speaks-out/

Israel’s genocide isn’t just murdering Palestinians en masse, it’s also destroying any semblance of morality or ethics the West might have purported to possess. International law? Bullshit. European values? Trash. Western democracy? A joke.

#israel #unitedStates #germany #europeanUnion #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #internationalLaw #europeanValues #democracy #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, which transforming into 'the world's largest mirror' (used for calibrating the altimeters of Earth observation satellites) during the rainy season, when a thin layer of water covers the surface. This creates a breathtaking natural phenomenon where the sky and clouds are perfectly reflected, offering surreal and stunning views.

Cast member displays Palestinian flag at end of Royal Opera House performance - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/20/cast-member-displays-palestinian-flag-at-end-of-royal-opera-house-performance "Flag held up during curtain call for Il Trovatore, with attempts to remove it resisted" #bravo #palestine #gazagenocide

‘Everything here is just better’: Ellen DeGeneres confirms she moved to the UK because of Donald #Trump - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/21/ellen-degeneres-uk-move-donald-trump-ntwnfb “Everything here is just better – the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.”

My background is in #AI and ML, even though I’m not working on it directly now.

One of the reasons is that I’m utterly disgusted by the kind of people who have taken over this field.

These are the same kind of sociopath cynical anarcho-capitalist cryptobros who screwed up the few good ideas about Blockchain and transformed it into just another speculative financial instrument.

And you know why I hate them from the bottom of my heart, why I believe that they have negative added value for society?

Because the previous generations of computer engineers, those who gave us the digital computer, modern operating systems and the Internet, would NEVER get a boner thinking of how many jobs they would have replaced. They didn’t repeat all the times “this will make all employees redundant so I can keep all the money for myself, it’s so beautiful!”

No, their focus was just on building things that improved society.

Not on creating chatbots that consumed as much energy as a country, and dreaming about how long it’d take them to kick people out of jobs and screw their lives.

And they don’t even bother to think on how to prepare anybody for the transition, or how to build a sustainable post-employment world.

No, the only mission of these filthy motherfuckers is to make them and their shareholders disgustingly rich. Millions losing their jobs in the process is just a small collateral effect in the way of their wealth.

These are parasites screwing up one great idea after another just because they need a next-big-thing wagon to jump on and get rich. They are literally reversed Midas who turn whatever they touch into shit.

This kind of people would belong to a psychiatric hospital in a functioning society, but unfortunately in today’s ultracapitalist world they are seen as technological gods - and even inspire new generations of tech enthusiasts to be jerks.

https://gizmodo.com/ai-will-replace-recruiters-and-assistants-in-six-months-says-ceo-behind-chatgpt-rival-2000631871

Non disabled people can’t fathom what it’s like to wake up every day sick & in pain

To know that things aren’t getting “better”

You can’t “try harder” you’re way out of it

We live with things that would send most running for the hospital & we do it while facing intense ableism and discrimination

It’s exhausting. It’s why we fight. It’s why advocacy is so important.