Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/12/14

#Humour #Cartoon

Now imagine believing that you're sharing your private fantasies with a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.

That man is Michael, and this is his story: https://data-workers.org/michael/

@lightweight @neil There's a lot of weird, outdated information on running your own mail server out there. Horror stories about IP reputation, blocklists. In my experience, (big) mail providers have long switched away from simple net blocks and do honour correct SPF/DKIM configs. it actually has become better to Roll And Run Your Own in the past 7 years. based on my experience. Enough for me to do a (nerdy) blog series on HowTo, starting at https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/ a few years ago.

@jwildeboer I agree with you that there's a lot of bad information out there for sure. My personal experience (running mailservers for almost 20 years) is that big providers absolutely do not honour correct SPF/DKIM/DMARC/rDNS – Google and Microsoft especially – and their "postmaster" tools are materially worse than the cowboy blocklist era, especially in terms of silently filing mails as "spam" for no clear reason (and with no notification).

@lightweight @neil

Latest comic: A hot new startup

#corporations #deregulation #economy #oligarchy #WallStreet #cartoon #comic

Tired of the same old holiday schlock? Here's some new garbage. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/12/12/2358073/-Cartoon-More-schmaltzmark-channel-holiday-specials

Heavy rain in Montana in mid-December...totally normal...☹️

The Public Interest Research Group purchased a load of Generative AI kids toys flooding the US market, and found they tell kids Chinese propaganda and have no guardrails for topics like sex etc. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956

Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/ai-bubble-mass-layoffs-income-inequality

As the former Managing Director of the OER Foundation, I am saddened to share that our mission to widen access to educational opportunity around the world through the implementation of the UNESCO #OER Recommendation will come to an end, as the Foundation is being disestablished.

For more information see: https://openeducation.nz/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115709127848563259

And the states rights crowd goes 🦗 🦗

I support the right of the oppressed to defend themselves.

NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets.

I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html

The message to the Patent Office is unmistakable: don’t hide bad patents from review. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/thousands-tell-patent-office-dont-hide-bad-patents-review

More on U.S. health insurance and HSAs:
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1890494.html

"Effective with plan year 2026 all bronze level and catastrophic plans are statutorily now HDHPs and thus HSA compatible. You may get and self-fund an HSA if you have any bronze or catastrophic plan, as well as any plan of any level designated a HDHP."

"The workers of Abundance Food Co-op in Rochester, New York recently voted to form a union with Workers United following a recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election."

https://foodtank.com/news/2025/07/co-op-values-in-action-abundance-staff-win-union-vote/

"In 2024, rent for a three-bedroom apartment in the co-op was $828 a month, a very affordable price compared to the $1,687 for a much smaller one-bedroom apartment listed on kijiji.ca in the same city."

https://thewalrus.ca/why-co-ops-are-the-solution-to-our-housing-crisis/

As one of the "fallen professionals" who ended up in a nonprofit, but who worked in the trades for many years prior, I can tell you this guy knows what he's talking about.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/benjamin-studebaker-on-the-chronic-crisis-of/id1607255944?i=1000740672437

The modern, European right winger is socially nazi, but infrastructurally liberal

Wonderful people from Barcelona: a friend of mine got mugged of her smartphone, and buying a new one is difficult for someone who just got an asylum. If you have an old smartphone that still works OK that you don't need, please get in touch with me...