Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Guards regularly beat and abused inmates, including these individuals trafficked to El Salvador by the US government.

The US government, of course, was aware of this and wanted it to happen.

Trump is not an aberration; from Guantanamo to the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, extrajudicial violence against enemies of the American king has been going on for decades. And don't forget that Obama ordered a targeted assassination of a US citizen.

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump

Today, @freedomofpress uncovers a Google vulnerability that was exploited to de-index legitimate news stories from search results.

Read our article: Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub articles on San Francisco tech exec

https://freedom.press/issues/censorship-whac-a-mole-google-search-exploited-to-scrub-articles-on-san-francisco-tech-exec/

Remember when “social media” was “social networking”?

What changed? That second word: media. It’s all about capturing your attention and selling you stuff.

Humans are social and want to connect with one another. That’s what makes the #fediverse special to me - authentic connection. We haven’t forgotten the social part.

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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CBS's NEW SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON LINE-UP!
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https://boingboing.net/2025/07/30/tom-the-dancing-bug-cbss-new-trump-friendly-saturday-morning-line-up.html

UK users of Reddit, X, Insta, FB, Bluesky, TikTok, and many other popular platforms are now facing problems. They are being forced to verify their age using government issued IDs and a selfie. All of these for-profit corporations may use this information further for profit or may not even store user information securely. This is a nightmare scenario for many, and I wouldn't be surprised if other governments adopt similar laws.

#OpenPrinting is a fantastic project that has genuinely made the experience of printing on Linux easier; we published a blog post last month about how now it "just works": https://securedrop.org/news/implementing-just-works-printing-in-securedrop-workstation/

Unfortunately, its leader @till was recently laid off and is now looking for other funding.

Please support him and the OpenPrinting project if you're able:

https://ubuntu.social/@till/114932477260801209

I've been assuming this was the case ever since reading about Per Bak et al and their sand piles some 25 years ago.

[Abrupt collapse of Arctic sea ice may come with little warning]
https://www.earth.com/news/abrupt-collapse-of-arctic-sea-ice-may-come-with-little-warning/

https://thehonestscientist.com/per-bak/

Age verification is creating an information desert.

The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.

Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.

It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view ⛔

https://www.404media.co/uk-users-need-to-post-selfie-or-photo-id-to-view-reddits-r-israelcrimes-r-ukrainewarfootage/

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol

So who sent out the memo to all the Western leadership that now's the time to start getting their alibis in order re the genocide? Everybody flips on a dime, all at once, like a flock of starlings...interesting, no?

This is certainly a naïve question on my part but, when I see all the talk about "vibe coding" and "AI agents" and whatnot I find myself asking: How much new code gets written in a day? How much new code do we actually need? Like, is that actually where the most work is?

I guess I don't really know what software engineers (is that what they're called?) actually do with their time. But, I would have (again, perhaps naïvely) thought debugging, refinement, responding to clients, planning/conceptualizing and such things were a bigger part of the job than just new code. I guess I don't really know what tech people are out there doing with themselves all day.

A very long overdue network for me to leave. It's been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It's corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.

But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.

I've given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn.

If you're still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?

https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html

Good morning Fedi friends!

My video "Introducing the #Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" now features subtitles in Hungarian... bringing the total number of subs to 18!

Special thanks to Benedek @whitecold for the new translation! 🙏

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

#TheFutureIsFederated

This piece gets at something I've been trying to gesture toward:
#^https://www.the-reframe.com/total-eclipses/

"And while it's true that many people who act in opposition to rising fascism often behave in performative and self-interested ways that betray a shallow understanding and suggest a lack of moral clarity or endurance or reliability, it's also true that we desperately need opposition to fascism ... and there is awareness happening here, however fleeting or ephemeral, a reaction against something unacceptable."

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Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling #sanctions’ on #Israel over #Gaza #starvation | Gaza | The Guardian

Will #Netanyahu and his government also label these people as being antisemitic too?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/letter-sanctions-israel-gaza-starvation

#Politics #Palestine #Israel

#UK to #recognise state of #Palestine in September unless #Israel holds to a ceasefire | Foreign policy | The Guardian

At last. Of course this should have been done years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/uk-to-recognise-state-of-palestine-in-september-unless-israel-holds-to-a-ceasefire

#Politics

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“Everyone from U.S. senators to CBS employees to a dissenting FCC commissioner has said the settlement appears to have been a bribe to grease the wheels for Carr’s FCC to approve the merger,” we said in our ethics complaint against FCC chair Brendan Carr.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5425320-press-freedom-fcc-ethics-complaint/

Thanks Brian Stelter for covering our disciplinary complaint against FCC chair Brendan Carr in today's Reliable Sources newsletter.

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1753795315253dde4ee365d16/raw