Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I had to wait until I retired from university work to make a political donation this year, because I was involved in a research project that got a small amount of funding from the government.

There's a law about that, you see.

I can't understand how Musk can be openly working to help the Trump campaign, with his media company and his money, while his companies are getting billions in government contracts?

Hello, Big Journalism, anyone home? Why isn't this worth looking into?

So apparently after spending all that time and effort migrating Eviscerati.Org from Drupal to WordPress I need to think about maybe undoing all that and going back to Drupal because the head of WordPress has LOST HIS FUCKING MIND in this legal battle with WP Engine? The more I read about this back and forth the more I'm convinced he's gonna start just randomly burning shit down out of sheer spite.

#Musk’s ‘Free’ #Starlink For Helene Victims Wasn’t Free - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/10/musks-free-starlink-for-helene-victims-wasnt-free/ now, there's a surprise... it's almost as if this man is all mouth and no trousers

Every couple of years I give my kids the option of being beaten with a stick or a belt. "Make sure you choose the lesser of two beatings," I tell them. If they complain about the bruises and scars later, I tell them it would have been worse if they had picked the other option...or I tell them it's their own fault for choosing the beating they did.

Anyway, now my wife is suing me and demanding full custody of the kids, and for the life of me I can't figure out why.

“Hopefully this letter will send a clear message to LAPD top brass that officers do not have the right to obstruct members of the media from exercising their 1st Amendment rights during encampment clearings," says Lexis-Olivier Ray.

https://lataco.com/aclu-lapd-homeless-sweeps

If 23andMe tries to sell your genetic data along with its business, many of you have the right to say “no.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale-23andmes-data-would-be-bad-privacy-heres-what-customers-can-do

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

https://www.404media.co/the-editors-protecting-wikipedia-from-ai-hoaxes/

Great news everyone! I saw code so terrible yesterday that I quit my job on the spot, for realsies. Enjoy what should be the last post about me gazing directly into corporate-hell:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me-out-of-data-hell/

Future posts will be about the dystopian hellscape that I conjure into being at my own business.

Just saw a website that's an 'open educational resource' project database... it's built on a proprietary tool, CraftCMS. On the CMS website: "We use (and contribute to) some of the best open source tools out there, allowing us to focus on the parts that make Craft, Craft."

So the CMS, built on #libre is not libre. Not an approach I consider worthy of admiration. They're citing their open source dependencies (virtue signalling) but celebrating their lack of open sourceness. Not cool.

Here's why proprietary is not admirable: https://davelane.nz/proprietary

Online is full of monsters! https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/10/03/monster-influencers/

THE TOXIC AVENGER # 1 is out today!

It's been such a pleasure to revive this character with artist Fred Harper—we have a new take on Toxie that we think you'll love.

All done with the blessing of Troma and everyone at Ahoy. Pick it up at your local comic shop!

I can't find the video (apparently from the Turkish government) that this interview starts off with, but it should be being broadcast everywhere, imho. I think this will hit harder for a lot of people than whatever news coverage they are getting (especially for the NPR crowd in the US, or equivalent in other places). CW for brutal realism about Palestine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN1wIzFzcfc

Fucking seriously?

#AI #books #writing

#China to head green #energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years | #RenewableEnergy | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/china-to-head-green-energy-boom-with-60-of-new-projects-in-next-six-years

#Environment #Renewables

If a party says they'll do something shitty, and you vote for them because you hope your vote will make them be less shitty, what sort of chump is this called? Like, the technical term.

The “tragedy of the commons” is an idea that has so thoroughly seeped into culture and law that it seems normal for people and corporations to own land, water, and even whole ecosystems. But there’s a BIG problem: the “tragedy” part of it has been debunked – it really should be the triumph of the commons. Learn the origin story of privatization and explore the true meaning of commons and how to manage them for sustainability and equity.

https://geo.coop/articles/lord-swans-tragedy-enclosure-commons

Hey, here's a wild idea:

Let’s Stop Pretending That We Can Escape from Climate Change

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/lets-stop-pretending-that-we-can-escape-from-climate-change.html

I've been thinking for awhile now that if anyone were serious about climate change, we would be limiting air travel and transport to only absolute necessities. But no. The libs say they care about climate change, but goddess forbid it interfere with their American middle-class lifestyles.😒