Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hello Fedi friends!

I'm currently getting an advanced degree in all things #PeerTube - after setting up my own self-hosted instance earlier this week (thanks @yunohost ❤️ )

Joining an existing instance is one thing... but creating your own is a completely different ball game. I plan to write about all this for #TheFutureIsFederated... once I'm a little less clueless 😅

A moment of gratitude for @FediTips and their excellent explainers: https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse/

P.S.: https://videos.elenarossini.com/a/ele/video-channels 👀

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Hello Fediverse. I come bearing GIFs (calm down, it's a PNG)

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/04/doge-hunt/

Co-op Cloud kite-flying, coming up in 45 minutes at 12 UTC! Drop by for an informal chat about the project, get support for anything you're stuck on, or feedback on something you're working on.

Same links as usual:

Agenda: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

Call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying

Docs: https://docs.coopcloud.tech/federation/organisers/

#KiteFlyingHours #CoopCloud

– 3wordchant

Miliband says electricity bills will be lower by 2030 because prices will no longer be pegged to global gas prices - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/apr/24/ed-miliband-energy-pricing-keir-starmer-nigel-farage-latest-live-uk-politics-news?page=with%3Ablock-6809f8d08f0848f875062b97#block-6809f8d08f0848f875062b97 should do it now; insane system

100 Human Rights Harms in 100 Days - https://www.hrw.org/feature/2025/04/24/100-human-rights-harms-100-days/trump-administrations-assault-rights-united "The Trump Administration’s Assault on Rights in the United States and Abroad" lots more to come, doubtless

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s #ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/labour-nature-england-ecosystems-planning-bill-keir-starmer #labour seems determined to prove that yes, it can get worse, and no, there is no reason to vote for them next time

Children in school shelter among 25 killed in wave of Israeli strikes on #Gaza - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/eleven-killed-in-gaza-school-shelter-as-israel-continues-bombing-campaign brave #israel continues to wipe out those terrifying child terrorists... #gazagenocide

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But for most of her life, nobody asked.

She died in 1991.

Things have changed. Today is designated Barbara Johns Day.

A Barbara Johns statute in Virgina, and check this out:
https://dhr.virginia.gov/blog-posts/barbara-rose-johns-maquette-approved-for-us-capitol/

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I just realized that it's April 23.

That means it's the anniversary of the Farmville, Virginia Motion High School student strike.

What? You don't know about that?

Well, in 1951, Barbara Johns was fed up with the deplorable conditions in her segregated school, so she organized a strike. She was inspired by labor strikes.

After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down, she called in the NAACP.

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A collation of results from peer reviewed studies shows that an overwhelming majority worldwide (80% globally) want action on climate pollution, despite that same number being trained to believe they are outliers, within a general minority.

"The question is whether and how that mass sentiment might be translated into effective action. What would it mean if this silent climate majority woke up [...]?"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2025/apr/23/climate-action-public-support

#climate

If someone was outside Mar-a-Lago writing down everyone's license plate numbers, “eventually someone from the Secret Service would go over and figure out who they are and what they’re doing,” EFF’s Dave Maass told Politico - so what’s up with the ALPRs? https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2025/04/23/the-cops-have-two-license-plate-readers-outside-mar-a-lago-where-does-the-data-go-00306306

Huh, imagine that... the infamous 'you wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign used a pirated font, throughout. See https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

PureOS Crimson Progress Update 🚀

Since July 2024, we’ve built a strong foundation—now climbing the stack!

March highlights:

• Faster USB charging
• Smoother touchscreen
• Speedier storage access

PureOS developer Sebastian Krzyszkowiak tackled major package updates, syncing key components from Debian Bookworm and patching PureOS-specific enhancements for devices like the Librem 5.

First alpha release coming soon. Stay tuned.

🔗 Learn More Here: https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-march-2025/

- Tesla Q1 profits down •71%• YoY
- Earnings per share of $0.27 lower than analyst expectations of $0.41
- Without carbon credits, company would have posted an operating loss

Bad as all that sounds for Tesla, keep in mind that this company regularly publishes falsified data. It hacked its odometers to push customers out of warranty. It wildly exagerrated Cybertruck orders. It almost certainly published fraudulent sales figures in Canada to get in on an expiring gov benefit.

I’m assuming this dismal quarterly earning report isn’t reality, but is the rosiest lie they could manage to sell to investors. The reality is probably even worse.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-sounds-extremely-depressed-after-tesla-profits-plunge-71-2000593013
#TeslaTakedown

Truly my greatest professional joy is that, not only did we get to build a tool to help people stop AI bots from scraping up their work without consent, I was able to have our in-house artist create a SLOP sign to mark the spot where the bots expire.

If you are a non-profit or open source project that does good internet stuff, we’ll protect you for free. If not, then you can pay us money and we will hook you up. Either way, good tools to put you in control over the bots. https://www.fastly.com/blog/take-back-control-make-ai-bots-play-by-your-rules

Republican economics has been insane since before I was born. Anyone pretending they're good at it just wants tax cuts for the rich. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/04/14/republican-economic-innovations/

We are thrilled to announce the fourth member-owner of Limeleaf! Read all about it at https://limeleaf.coop/blog/welcome-mubs-to-limeleaf/. #coops