Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Everyone thinks we grow a lot of corn & soybeans in the US "because of subsidies," & that's just... not accurate?

So I made a video about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSRyPcc-so

I expect this kind of thing from the US "bible belt."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/18/women-who-suffer-stillbirths-could-face-police-searches/

@davidgerard Mr Gerard, Mr Gerard, I went on LinkedIn today and found someone with 27K followers sharing code on Agentic AI, and when I checked the code they're just importing BTC prices and asking ChatGPT to trade good.

https://github.com/hananedupouy/LLMs-in-Finance/blob/main/Agents/OpenAI/OpenAI_AI_Assistant_Agentic_System.ipynb

It appears that the plane back to Melbourne accidentally dropped me off in the darkest timeline

@mastodonmigration @liaizon @Nelfan @bsky.app @pfrazee.com @dot_social here’s the thing: I am trying to evangelize the fediverse to people who don’t even know what it is so we can get a lot more adoption and awareness. I’m taking a big tent approach I.e. Fediverse is not just apps that use activitypub (only technical people understand this) it’s a movement focused on wresting control from the walled gardens.

That said, I’ve heard this feedback before and so I have more often been referring to the whole movement as the open social web which is inclusive of ActivityPub and AT proto. While I know this is not perfect either I think it’s important that we clearly name and position our movement in order to advance it rather than confusing it with detail and nuance that few will understand.

WSJ does a service by listing Trump's cryptocurrency dealings in an article it plans to update as the criminal-in-chief -- by far the most corrupt president in American history -- rakes in more billions in bribes and scams.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/breaking-down-trumps-entanglements-with-crypto-fe13ec3e

Now do this with ALL Trump world corruption, pls.

Musk's fascism-spewing "AI" is that way because someone made it that way. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

Sometime just after 4:35pm Pittsburgh time tomorrow (Sunday—I think it's still Saturday there as I write this), I was supposed to walk on stage at @pycon and receive the Community Service Award.

I won't be doing that in person, because I'm transgender, and the event is in the US.

My AU passport has an X gender marker, so I can't even get an ESTA or visitor visa to enter the US, and even if I could it is a country that is even more wildly unsafe for people like me than it was a year ago.

LLMs exist to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

Missouri’s governor signed a law this spring for the state to grab control of St. Louis Police, returning the city to a Civil War-era arrangement.

A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas.
https://boltsmag.org/missouri-state-control-of-st-louis-police/

For some minutes, SSH host key verification failed. If you accepted the new key, please restore the previous one. The keys are listed in https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/Imprint.md#ssh-fingerprints.

The migration wasn't as smooth as we hoped but the impact has not exceeded our expectations.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and are now looking forward to see you pushing the code you worked on in the meantime 🚀

We have migrated the primary Forgejo instance from "Kampenwand" to "Achtermann" now and everything is expected to run stable. Let us know if you face any issues.

For some minutes, the page showed a banner with " WARNING: THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. DATA CAN VANISH AT ANY TIME.". No data was at danger, or lust but we simply forgot to remove the warning before doing the actual switch.

Teachers Beware of Climate Denial

I wrote this peer-reviewed review article especially for science teachers to inform them of the insidious nature of the threat of climate denial in the classroom.

https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/81/2025/gc-8-81-2025.html

#SlotMachine firms target #UK’s #poorest areas and channel funds to #billionaires | #Gambling | The Guardian

An insidious way of effectively draining poor people of money, the ones who can least afford it, of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/18/slot-machine-firms-uk-poorest-areas-andy-burnham

phosh 0.47.0 is out 🚀📱:

This release is a bit smaller than the previous two as we spent more time on other parts of the #LinuxMobile stack but there's still some 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release
notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile

We. Are. LIVE!

https://apply.coop

There might only be a handful of co-ops and positions, but its up to all of you to help spread the word to co-ops/non-profits to list their job openings. We will do our part as well!

#applycoop #Coops #JobBoard #GetFediHired #Hiring

The UK prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/my-island-of-strangers-poem-michael-rosen

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/05/18

#Humour #Cartoon

Sigh. It's possible to remotely, physically locate any O2 mobile customer at any time over the internet with a trivial method using their mobile phone number, due to O2's poor implementation of 4G Calling which, by design, gives away the Cell ID.

https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/

Oklahoma public schools are ordered to teach lies to students. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories