Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

California law explicitly protects the privacy of power customers, prohibiting public utilities from disclosing precise “smart” meter data in most cases. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/when-your-power-meter-becomes-tool-mass-surveillance

The City of Lyon is transitioning from proprietary to open source software, supporting digital independence, sustainable IT, and aligning with EU public sector trends.
Read the full article: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/municipality-lyon-moves-towards-open-source

Who Says You Can’t Have Privacy and Security in an Operating System?

Meet PureOS — The OS That Respects You

Supported on Purism’s Librem 5 and Liberty Phone, PureOS gives you the power to break free from the eye of Big Tech.

✅ No targeted ads
✅ No trackers
✅ No foreign or domestic surveillance
✅ No addictive tech

Just freedom, transparency, security, and full control over your device—the way it should be.

Read more at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a-beginners-guide-for-ios-android-and-windows-users/

Help bring Fearless Benjamin to life—a children’s book about Benjamin Lay, the 18th-century Quaker dwarf who was among the first to call for the total abolition of slavery. Support the Kickstarter today:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/fearlessbenjamin

You know how history is going to remember this country of ours, don't you?

https://paydayreport.com/amazon-union-leader-chris-smalls-detained-beaten-by-idf-but-us-media-ignores-it/

The government is putting ORMs in the code so that people don't learn how to write SQL, WAKE UP SHEEPLE

@lightweight @RichardJMurphy

Official transcript for those who prefer to just read / or are somewhere where they can't watch with sound right now (I.e. me right now)

The point that really drove it home was: "They don't want to actually *cure* the disease"

Yep... actually solving problems - comprehensively solving them - is apparently not something the world at large seems to support a lot of the time...

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/28/what-if-economic-scarcity-is-a-lie/

Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/meta-pirated-and-seeded-porn-for-years-to-train-ai-lawsuit-says/

Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.

Wow 🍿

The Guardian is hiringa senior science investigative reporter based in DC

https://workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

#Journalism #Jobs #GetFediHired #TheGuardian #Newspapers

If you thought going to a Pride event or drag show was just another night out, think again. If you were in Florida, it might land your name in a government database. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-went-drag-show-now-state-florida-wants-your-name

That doesn't sound right?

The paper describes the campsite as being surrounded by hazelnut forest. Hazelnuts are 50% fat. Melting down bones was NOT "the only way to get enough fat to live."

The campfires had hazelnut (oily) & acorn (carbs) shells in them. Lots of high-carb cattails & wild grains too.

Heck they were actively & successfully managing the landscape for food. Including carbs & fats to balance out game.

https://press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals-changed-ecosystems-125000-years-ago/

Fish & meat? Gotta smoke 'em.

Acorns? Pound them into powder, put them in a bag, & leach in a river for weeks or months so they're edible.

Maple sap? Boil it down into shelf-stable sugar cakes.

Rendering fat from bones is 100% in line with this.

Bill C-2 lets Canadian cops demand users' info without a warrant—and it paves the way for that info to go to U.S. government agencies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-surveillance

NEW: Today, FPF, represented by American Oversight, sued DOJ for withholding legal memo on Trump Administration’s acceptance of $400 million Qatari jet.

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-sues-doj-for-trump-memo-on-qatari-jet/