Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Trump regime ICE didn't merely "detain" Khalil for daring to exercise freedom of expression. It kidnapped him.

Everything about this situation is straight out of Kafka -- and that's the point.

Meanwhile, in Canada:

Dear Elon Musk, protesting is not a crime. Organizing online to protest isn't a crime either, even if you don't like the protesters' goals. We oppose any efforts to mislabel peaceful protesting as illegal—protests are foundational to our democracy.

If you're wondering about why things in the 'west' (esp the US) are the way they are, this is quite a remarkable explanation: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gqtrNXdlraM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtrNXdlraM Very compelling and utterly terrifying. We (all of us) need to understand this stuff.

Columbia has a journalism school, a First Amendment institute, and a journalism magazine. But instead of listening to any of them before investigating an op-ed writer, Columbia's administrators took their cues from Trump and their own cowardly hearts.

Shame on them.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-campus-protests-trump-congress-ba0eddec4679d70287202831c52ebed6

#USAid cuts could create untreatable #TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/10/us-aid-cuts-tuberculosis-tb-untreatable-bug-drug-resistance-stop-tb-partnership-who #trump is a global criminal

Turmoil within #DOGE spills into public view as #Musk’s group confronts a PR crisis (free link) - https://wapo.st/3DqNera excellent, more please...

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No method of age verification is both privacy-protective and entirely accurate. Introducing these laws is dangerous, and expanding them to things like skincare, dating apps, and diet pills has enormous unintended consequences for your personal data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

Authorities in Lake County, IN are inadvertently furthering both Trump’s anti-press and anti-immigration agendas by prosecuting a journalist arrested at an ICE protest.

Seth Stern explained in the Post-Tribune.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/guest-column-lake-county-prosecutors-must-drop-charges-against-photojournalist/

I’ve posted a detailed explanation of why the claimed ESP32 Bluetooth chip “backdoor” is not a backdoor. It’s just a poor security practice, which is found in other Bluetooth chips by vendors like Broadcom, Cypress, and Texas Instruments too. https://darkmentor.com/blog/esp32_non-backdoor/

A backpacker was snatched by ICE. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3yx1jdyo

#BeckyBurke

People. Do not come to the United States. It isn't safe.

The real reason for crypto has always been money laundering and financial scams. The real reason for "AI" is to replace "knowledge workers." If you've been around the US for awhile, none of that is surprising. What's surprising (and maddening, and depressing) to me is the number of people who will stan for both of those technologies while claiming to be leftists of some variety. They are like someone who promotes a 3-card monty game, despite not getting a cut of the take.

America has been "disappearing" people for decades. They have military bases and black ops sites worldwide. They obey no law when they do this but their own desire to do it. In the past it was perhaps mostly foreigners or outsiders they summarily captured and tortured but don't count out that they do it to their own as well.

The USA is, and has always been, a violent, authoritarian state. Don't only notice that when it affects something you care about. It was always there.

#usa

#Measles outbreak hits 208 cases as federal response goes off the rails - https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/measles-outbreak-hits-208-cases-as-federal-outbreak-response-goes-off-the-rails/ "CDC to reportedly study nonexistent link between measles vaccine and autism." #bonkers

Music labels will regret coming for the #InternetArchive, sound historian says - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/ " Labels push to spike cost of Internet Archive fight over old 78s. " #copyright

We're all going to be paying for some people's obsession with tech toys (that don't actually work very well).

https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/