Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Israel accused of #EthnicCleansing after more than 140 killed in #Gaza in 24 hours | Israel | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/17/israel-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-palestinian-death-toll

#Palestine

#UK #government dropped #health push after #lobbying by #Ultra-processed #Food firms | #Ultra-ProcessedFoods | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/may/17/uk-government-drops-healthy-eating-push-after-lobbying-by-ultra-processed-food-firms

#Politics

May Day reminds us: the working class has always fought back. In a time of rising repression, worker solidarity isn’t nostalgia—it’s survival. Now through 6/1, get a free e-book copy of The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day with code MAYDAY here: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=808

Thanks for nothing.

Latest comic: Beware of Glernog

#cartoon #comic #oligarchy #aliens #climatechange

Hello Fedi friends!

I'm preparing a presentation for a conference. The title: "The Rebellion will be self-hosted: Resisting the Digital Coup with #YunoHost"

I'm trying to describe how @yunohost has had a positive impact on my life. It's so hard to do so in 10 minutes or less 😅

A routine reminder that #YunoHost has a fundraising drive for the year so if you self-host through them and can afford to donate, any euro / dollar / yen counts: https://yunohost.org/donate.en.html Their volunteers are amazing ❤️

Terrible books for terrible times. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/5/16/2322643/-Cartoon-Spring-reads

@maxleibman I 100% agree. Here’s a blog post I wrote on the subject a while back: https://mattjhayes.com/2024/01/21/when-computers-hallucinate/

Widely covered MIT paper saying AI boosts worker productivity is, in fact, complete bullshit it turns out.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092?st=sF3Wvo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

@thisismissem @kissane I haven't deployed Loomio, but my advice for deploying things in general is to use @coopcloud which makes things much easier thanks to some nice tooling + a recipe commons, and there's a Loomio recipe: https://recipes.coopcloud.tech/loomio

Another advantage is once you have the tooling set up, it's a breeze to deploy more FOSS apps to the same server :)

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. https://boltsmag.org/how-volunteer-patrols-are-working-to-protect-san-diego-immigrant-communities-from-ice/

Code migration to @Codeberg ✅ 🎉

https://codeberg.org/inventaire/

Bye bye Microsoft/Github, we are excited to finally have our code forge also running on libre/free software, and hosted by a fellow non-profit! Thanks @forgejo and @Codeberg for the amazing work!

#codeberg #forgejo #github #microsoft #git #nonprofit

Presidential libraries can be fronts for massive, unregulated “donations” to private presidential foundations.

Yes, even jumbo jets from foreign Qatari royals.

Watch Lauren Harper unpack what Jon Stewart teed up on The Daily Show.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9XDKzX2WbLI

New blog post: GTK 4.18, the PinePhone and Megapixels https://linmob.net/gtk-418-the-pinephone-and-megapixels/

KOSA lets the government decide what’s “safe” to read online. That’s not protection—it’s censorship. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/kids-online-safety-act-will-make-internet-worse-everyone

Support forums. LGBTQ resources. Mental health info. KOSA puts it all at risk. Content will disappear—not just for kids, but for everyone. Tell the Senate to reject KOSA: https://act.eff.org/action/don-t-let-congress-decide-what-we-re-allowed-to-read-online

"We cannot meaningfully engage in self government when we don't know what the government is doing," Lauren Harper told NPR's 1A show.

The National Archives "plays a key role in ensuring that the public has access to information about government activities."

https://the1a.org/segments/the-national-archives-and-the-trump-administration-2/

Because nothing else is 5 bucks anymore. Not fast food. Not eggs. Not iced coffee. But, you can get a mystery bundle of radical reads for $5 each! The Grab Bag and Grab Box Sale is back thru 6/1! You pick the vibe—we pick the books. Get 4 for $20 or 20 for $100. Dozens of categories are available. Please note: This sale cannot be combined with any other discounts.
Shop the sale here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=243

We are proud of InterRebellium. For the better part of a year we coordinated with anarchists and anticolonial activists in Chile and the diaspora. We were able to make full-length documentary about the 2019 transit fare hike uprising for under 2000 CAD which we had originally budgeted for a 30 minute film. In film making terms, this is next to nothing. We’re eternally grateful to the comrades who donated and those who volunteered film interviews and were only reimbursed for travel expenses and recording equipment.

The reality of the situation is financially we are running on fumes. We stretch our budget and use every dollar donated as efficiently as we can. We’re motivated by our desire to make as much revolutionary content as possible to inspire people to action, to educate new anarchists and to inject a sense of revolutionary optimism into our movements. The bulk of our funding comes from people just like you who donate 20 USD per month or less. If you’re one of the people who already donates, we can’t thank you enough. If you recently found us by seeing a screening of InterRebellium or a This Day in Anarchist History we invite you to check out the rest of our over 20 year catalog of radical media. If you’ve watched our videos for awhile and never donated please consider making a one time donation or becoming a monthly sustainer at sub.media/donate

Good to see that at least one FCC commissioner still understands the First Amendment and will speak up loudly in its defense.

https://www.wral.com/story/fcc-commissioner-rips-a-weaponized-agency-punishing-news-outlets-trump-dislikes/22008631/