Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

#science #CapitalismIsADeathCult

Someone just told me I'm "not the second coming of data engineering Jesus just because I wrote code once and got popular for swearing a lot in a blog".

How do I effectively rebrand as data engineering Jesus to irritate one specific person

Love the headline:

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

(I don't believe the "AI" companies are technically stealing from us, but their behavior is grossly unethical in many ways -- they're engaged in a giant digital land grab.)

Kash Patel wants to "come after" the press.

The Senate shouldn’t give him the keys to the FBI to do it.

https://freedom.press/issues/senate-should-not-confirm-patel-for-fbi-director/

#cargo question.

Use case: the application is going to distributed with a couple extra files alongside.

Their final location will be in /usr/somewhere. Thy are generated in target/debug or target/release while developing.

How do I force `cargo run` to give the application the right path to the target dir?

#rustlang #programming #AskFedi #rust #coding

Americans REALLY got used to Dems holding back the damage Republicans gleefully inflict, then shitting all over them & refusing to vote them into any position to hold back the damage Republicans gleefully inflict.

They can’t fucking help us, guys. America said it didn’t want them to.

More like the scapeGOAT amirite?

I'm not trained in #Marxist theory, but I feel like there could be some interesting Marxist analysis of the surplus value / surplus labor implications of widespread federal layoffs in the U.S.

Do any #Marxists have thoughts on how this plays out and/or can anyone point me to existing analyses?

Discussions that explicitly connect the dots between the #socialtheory and implications for community organizers be especially interesting, if such things exist.

(boosts welcome)
#Marxism #uspol

Hey fellow Tech Writers!

The Society for Technical Communication is dissolving and filing Chapter 7. It's the only professional society I've ever willingly joined (though I almost always wound up paying late fees to renew my membership).

Sigh.

https://www.stc.org/

Read the lates comics section at In These Times with Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen, mariah-rose marie, and Ruben Bolling.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-la-fires-jen-sorensen

My original post was generated by an overly-helpful WordPress plugin that didn't include everything I wanted. Plugin deactivated, back to artisanal social media posting!

New Help Desk: A Very Specific Focus

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/01/a-very-specific-focus/

New post: A Very Specific Focus https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/01/a-very-specific-focus/

Best explanation for why Trump wants to gut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which does absolutely essential work:

A key part of CISA's mandate is to keep elections secure and honest, and it's done this brilliantly.

No wonder MAGA wants to kill it.

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-little-known-federal-agency-helps-secure-elections-trump-wants-to-gut-it/

Everyone involved with this should be ashamed.

"We care so much about the climate that we wrote a whole book on grassroots climate activism. However, we don't want anyone to actually read it, so we priced it appropriately."

Routledge doesn't care about climate change, and they don't care about activism. They care about getting $280 out of your pocket and into theirs.

Please share: Our Max Planck Institute recently left X and is present here on Mastodon. Give them a follow! Beautiful pictures from the science of light!

#Mastodon #Physics #Science #Light #Quantum #Optics #Photonics #Pictures

@maxplanckgesellschaft

From: @MPI_ScienceOfLight
https://wisskomm.social/@MPI_ScienceOfLight/113906463840724222

Oh and if you're in a rush to switch earlier you're welcome

#Prav #GlobalSwitchDay

Okay, putting my hand up to help potential switchers. If you're thinking of switching to #XMPP this #GlobalSwitchDay, drop me a private mention and I can help you figure things out! Offer valid till stocks last

(I've been using XMPP-based federated messaging since forever, and know a bunch of servers including some I can invite you to, as well as a bunch of apps depending on your needs. This is just me though so I'll have to close if I get too flooded!)

#BoostsAppreciated #GuidedSwitch

Trump and his wholly owned Republican congressional majority are preparing legislation that is blatantly designed to prevent MILLIONS of Americans from registering to vote.

More from the Brennan Center for Justice, which closely tracks this stuff:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/restricting-freedom-vote

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Of course, we'll be broadcasting on our self-hosted Owncast instance – which you can follow right here on the Fediverse to get notified of this and any future streams @cast

And, we'll be uploading the stream to our Peertube channel afterwards, which you can also follow here! @coopcloud@tv.undersco.re