Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@dangillmor Our channel, ad-free, no accounts, no bs, is at https://live.retrostrange.com/

@dangillmor Meanwhile on RetroStrange TV we are showing the best of the public domain, for $0, and doing great

Brazilians being deported from the US were handcuffed, beaten, and mocked by ICE agents on the plane. Even scarier, the plane had technical problems that forced it to land in Panama and Manaus, and the deportees were only able to make it to Belo Horizonte (the capital of the state they were from) after the Brazilian government intervened and forced ICE to switch planes.

https://g1.globo.com/google/amp/mg/minas-gerais/noticia/2025/01/26/um-inferno-uma-tortura-desde-que-saimos-relata-brasileira-deportada-dos-estados-unidos.ghtml

Happy birthday to Marius Mason, who has faced relentless state repression for standing against environmental destruction, corporate greed, and systemic oppression. As a vocal advocate for transgender rights, even from behind bars, Marius continues to amplify the fight for ecological justice, trans liberation, and solidarity for all marginalized communities.

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all?

"Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to...meet human needs...while ensuring universal access to key goods and services...At the same time, in high-income countries, less-necessary production should be scaled down to enable faster decarbonization..."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

In a major win for creator communities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has once again handed video streaming site Vimeo a solid win in its long-running legal battle with Capitol Records and a host of other record labels. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/second-circuit-rejects-record-labels-attempt-rewrite-dmca

GM will be banned from selling driver behavioral data and geolocation. Good, but all automakers need privacy regulation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/ftcs-ban-gm-and-onstar-selling-driver-behavior-good-first-step

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My new opinion piece at Scientific American has just been published.

"Our refusal to aggressively cut greenhouse-gas emissions isn’t a problem for some distant uncertain future; it has become our present-day reality. It is time to disavow climate denial and accelerate building disaster resilience in our cities and homes.'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/los-angeles-fires-force-us-to-confront-our-dystopian-present/

After his executive order on sex, is #Trump legally the first female president? - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/25/trump-executive-order-sex so let's call her "Mrs President" now...

This week's comic: Your New Order Has Arrived

#cartoon #comic #politics #media #authoritarianism

Now is the time to know our antifascist history. Get a FREE e-Book copy of It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History with code ANTIFA at checkout. Get your free e-Book and check out the @itdidhappenherepodcast at the link in our bio.

@kims short version: an eccentric Chinese billionaire set out to try to make something better than ChatGPT, apparently accomplished it with way fewer resources than the U.S. companies are throwing at things, made some breakthroughs, published a paper revealing all the secrets, and showed that you can do what they do for a fraction of the price and resources, which is going to mean that the U.S. companies are going to struggle to raise as much money or will be expected to do much more with less, which means an AI winter might be coming, or that we really can’t compete as well as we think. But also frankly a lot of weird ‘I can’t believe the Chinese can actually do anything’ in this narrative.

While VPNs may be able to disguise the source of your internet activity, they are not foolproof—nor should they be necessary to access legally protected speech.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/vpns-are-not-solution-age-verification-laws

Someone I know is learning to program. I looked at the resulting code, and, unsurprisingly, it was bad :D

What did stand out was the inconsistent indentation.

I only fail to indent when I copy-paste the worst dreck, to throw away with disgust 5 min later. I spend maybe 30min per year with badly indented code.

(And I consider it consistently-indented code even if it's a style I don't like.)

And you, experienced coders? Do you worry about indentation as much as I?

#askfedi #programming

This is why the media wants to keep you angry about immigrants and trans people and all the other culture war bullshit.

"Off-the-shelf governance models for small FOSS projects?" by @pintoch (2024-12-20)

https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/off-the-shelf-governance-models-for-small-foss-projects/

Sigh, another writer I otherwise respect is all in with Substack, thereby limiting the links -- and foregoing the money -- I'd otherwise send his way.