Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So, there're a couple communities I want to be part of which force me to use Slack. What a puke-in-the-mouth experience. Constantly being advertised to by the system (which is holding the community's content hostage - it is a ransomware business model). Just got a message telling me to 'go pro' so I can use 'AI' to summarise what I've missed. Get into the sea, Slack, and sink to the bottom where you belong. And yes, there are many others who should join you and Davy Jones.

Debian 13 "trixie" has been released, thanks to everyone involved! "trixie" images are available for download at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ or you can run apt full-upgrade as always ;-) #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports

What a vicious, stupid nation we have become when employees of the Centers for Disease Control feel obliged to hide where they work, for fear of violence from extremist vaccine deniers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/cdc-shooting-trump-kennedy/683814/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

We’re looking for a creative thinker to join our social media team. If you want to fight for the soul of American democracy, we want to hear from you. https://ats.rippling.com/indivisible-project-careers/jobs/b531d36d-1dd7-47fd-81a7-43a178530f03

One study shows four in ten data brokers are leaving consumers exercising their privacy rights on read—in violation of California law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/data-brokers-are-ignoring-privacy-law-we-deserve-better

Latest comic on destruction of the public good

#comic #cartoon #pbs #cpb #media #government #radio

No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/blocking-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how

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@mschfr @ADMP @mikemccaffrey Watch this please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM

@sundogplanets @ADMP @mikemccaffrey

Quite apart from which, the insanity of making laughably trifling attempts to geoengineer or "terraform" the Earth while simultaneously declining to stop DEterraforming it with both hands is hard to even state properly.

Hi journalists! Before I start targeted emails to journalists I've talked to before, I'm just going to put this out here and see if it works:

Now that Reflect Orbital https://www.reflectorbital.com/ has officially filed to launch their first satellite, does anyone want to write an article about what a stupid, useless, potentially destructive and harmful idea this is? I would be happy to be interviewed about all the ways this is a very very bad idea and why I'm absolutely livid that they're launching.

Nebraskans asked Rep Mike Flood great questions about his vote to cut Medicaid at his recent Town Hall.

They verbally disagreed with him when he gave a BS answer. They booed when he changed the topic to lie about who was losing Medicaid.

One of Flood's constituents, who had asked him a question, was on Jen Psaki's show. She reiterated her question & pointed out Flood's lame response. It was great.

Then CNN's Jake Tapper had on Flood who reiterated his lies, with no pushback from Tapper.

It’s release day for Debian 13 “trixie”! Across the world, the release, publicity, images, and FTP teams are making their final preparations for the new stable release. #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

Instead of telling a disabled person what they should or shouldn’t be able to do… ask them how you could help them accomplish what they need.

Listen to their struggles. Approach the situation with compassion.

Offer genuine support.

That’s the best way to be an ally.

The US Air Force is discharging trans service members to comply with Trump’s “two gender” Executive Order.

Today they announced they won’t provide retirement pay to the trans service members who’ve been discharged.

This is egregious violation of basic civil rights that every single person should oppose.

They fought for the country that is now denying them the right to literally exist.

Don’t let them lose their retirement fund as well.

Remember, as soon as you agree it’s ok to take one group’s rights away… we’re all vulnerable.

We all have rights or none of us do.

#uspol #fascism #TransRightsAreHumanRights #lgbtq

Anti vaxx rhetoric is dangerous.

Not only does it promote the spread of contagious and preventable disease, but it radicalizes people.

The disinformation campaigns prey on people’s fears of death and disability. They turn that fear into anger.

Today a man opened fire at Emory University in Atlanta.

It appears he was targeting the CDC because he believed the COVID vaccines made him sick.

This is what propaganda does. And it’s only getting worse.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/active-shooter-emory-university

#uspol #cdc #covidisnotover #vaccines #emory #gunviolence

Cuomo is attacking Mamdani for having a rent stabilized apartment at $2300 a month.

He says he should move out immediately because he’s “rich” and someone else needs that apartment.

The uber rich old establishment white dude is shaming a guy who makes $47k a year for his $2300 apartment.

Not only that, if Mamdani did move out, the landlord could legally raise the rent. Benefiting no one.

Further proof Cuomo has no idea how things actually work for lower income people.

In preparation to ditch my Facebook account, I requested data logs for the ~15 years I've used the site. Result: a file of less than 1MB. And the ridiculously bogus file had events with dates like January 01, 1970 -- decades before Mark Zuckerberg was even born.

A scumbag company in any decade...

Some interesting developments seem to be going on with the Calyx project, first with the founder/CEO stepping down and then with this interesting message around rotation of signing keys.

https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/