Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States] shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Maybe some parts of the Constitution are fuzzy or ambiguous. This isn't one of them. https://mas.to/@gleick/114489803866392093

Beware any industry that claims you need more of what it is selling to offset negative externalities generated by its unbridled use. This seems to be the pitch of the AI cheerleaders: If your systems are doing a poor job screening automated activity from AI, the real problem is you're not using enough AI, dumbass.

This is from the socials of Branden Spikes, a former DOGE guy and longtime Musk employee/lieutenant, in re an article on AI cheating in academia.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-is-the-doge-and-x-technician-branden-spikes/

This piece, from the founder of Ghost helps explain why it was an EASY decision to use this open-source project's software for my newsletter (resuming this week), rather than sign up with the odious Substack.

https://john.onolan.org/12/

Yo, journalists:

"A company you’ve probably never heard of is selling copies of every airline ticket issued by a travel agency in the US to...DHS and a plethora of other Federal law enforcement and immigration agencies — and who knows who else."

https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/05/08/arc-sells-airline-ticket-records-t o-ice-and-others/

Not generally a fan of Scott Galloway, but he'd on the nose in this blog post about United States' economic suicide: https://www.profgalloway.com/brain-drain/

This is self-evidently illegal: a $400 million gift to Trump rather than to the United States. Apparently laws no longer apply here.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511

In all my years of making radical media, I rarely took the time to reflect on how these projects actually evolve over time. So it really meant a lot to hear the crew at @subMedia—who’ve been carrying the torch since I stepped away in 2019—dig into the history of the collective on @thebeautifulidea podcast.

https://itsgoingdown.org/a-discussion-on-interrebellium-with-submedia2/

What hit me hardest wasn’t just the trip down memory lane, but the depth of their reflections: why they make media, how they make decisions as a collective, and how they keep pushing forward without compromising their politics. Major props to the interviewer too—for once, someone asked real fucking questions.

And while we're on the topic—if you haven’t watched Interrebellion yet, get on that. The first episode dives into the uprising in Chile right before the pandemic, and it’s fire.

https://sub.media/interrebellium-01-the-estallido-social/

Leave it to Ezra Klein and his ilk to label oligarchy "abundance" smdh

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abundance-agenda-democrats/

In a bid for survival, businesses are labeling #tariff costs on receipts to explain price hikes and retain customer trust - https://www.businessinsider.com/businesses-are-labeling-tariff-costs-on-receipts-bid-for-survival-2025-5 #trump will love that

I got lost trying to research it.

Geetech GT2560 exists but apparently it's compatible with Anet A10 rather than Prusa i3.

Einsy RAMBo is only in an old version on the #Prusa website.

There are some BigTreeTech offers but I read the firmware would become a project.

And I have no idea if all the connectors are standardized or not...

Help, fedi! My #3dprinter broke!

It's something on the mainboard and the bed is not heating any more. I don't think repairing is worth the time.

What's a good new mainboard compatible with Geeetech i3?

#AskFedi #electronics #3dprinting

Someone posted to our group chat a photo of their 'Welcome Home, Rumeysa' sign, hung on their #SomervilleMA front porch.

RUMEYSA IS RELEASED.

https://bsky.app/profile/jtforward2.bsky.social/post/3lordaj26js25

https://www.reddit.com/r/Somerville/comments/1kivkqe/rumeysa_ozturk_has_been_released/
🤞 🍉 🐘
#Boston #Somerville #RumeysaOzturk #Tufts #Porchfest #uspol #mapoli #Somerpoli

This week's comic: A dangerous invasion of warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds

#immigration #birds #cartoon #uspol #comic

Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of #EnergyStar - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/industry-groups-are-not-happy-about-the-imminent-demise-of-energy-star/ "endorsed by manufacturers and well-recognized by U.S. consumers, who have saved an estimated $500 billion over the past 33 years"

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UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/uk-lawyers-for-israel-condemned-over-claim-war-may-reduce-obesity-in-gaza truly sick attempt at whitewashing #israel's continuing #gazagenocide; shame on them

"Wrong but plausible" is a feature and not a bug for LLMs if you're looking for a system to deploy where you can use it, say, to fine-tune insurance reimbursements to the exact dollar amount you wanted and have it produce the justifications needed to get there at an industrial scale

Just now I saw an article describing Bluesky as the “billionaire-proof” social platform - you should have seen my eye roll. Sure, “billionaire-proof” (quote marks necessary) AND funded by the crypto bros at Blockchain Capital.

I wonder if the person who came up with the hype of Bluesky decentralization is the same who built up the myth of Space Karen as a genius.

Sure Jan - but you can’t fool me.

Media literacy and digital literacy are more needed than ever. I miss the late Neil Postman 🥲

It's really interesting to see a company report they are saving millions in storage fees alone by moving *from* AWS to on-prem, considering so many companies were influenced to move to AWS to begin with because of Netflix's articles many years ago about the money they saved on storage costs moving *to* AWS.

#cloud #aws #devops #onprem #datacenter

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/37signals_cloud_repatriation_storage_savings/

Rümeysa Öztürk's detention “is one of the most shameful chapters in First Amendment history,” says Seth Stern about a federal judge’s order Friday to release her. “Without a system committed to its principles, the Constitution is just words on paper.”

https://freedom.press/issues/order-for-%C3%B6zt%C3%BCrks-release-is-welcome-news-but-it-took-far-too-long/