Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

German Elections 2025: We demand public code, secure funding for Free Software, and transparent measurement of progress! - https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250206-01.en.html "The next German government must finally push for the controllability, security, and sovereignty of the public digital infrastructure. " #opensource #opencode

Democrats Should Be Stopping A Lawless President, Not Helping Censor The Internet, Honestly WTF Are They Thinking - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/democrats-should-be-stopping-a-lawless-president-not-helping-censor-the-internet-honestly-wtf-are-they-thinking/ why are the Dems so utterly useless? #trump #musk

Norwegian firm lobbying to open #Rosebank oilfield halves green investments - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/norways-state-oil-firm-lobbying-to-open-rosebank-oilfield-halves-green-investments "State-owned #Equinor becomes latest fossil fuel firm to backtrack on clean energy pledges with move to halve budget to $5bn" another reason to stop rosebank

#Israel's defence minister says countries which opposed military operations in Gaza should take Palestinians leaving voluntarily - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/06/middle-east-crisis-live-white-house-walks-back-trumps-gaza-takeover-comments-in-face-of-widespread-international-anger?page=with:block-67a4701e8f08f09ce15ea054#block-67a4701e8f08f09ce15ea054 what a stupid argument: carry out a #genocide then try to offload victims elsewhere #ethniccleansing

It's Thursday, Co-op Cloud Kite-Flying time once more 📢📢📢

Starting later today at 7pm / 19 UTC 📅

Agenda: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

Call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying

Docs: https://docs.coopcloud.tech/federation/organisers/#kite-flying-hours

- @decentral1se

Oh look, using promises of (unsustainable) nuclear power to stave off the end of fossil fuel - exposing AU election skulduggery https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JBqVVBUdW84 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqVVBUdW84

The US has so deeply embedded itself in every global system. Banking, finance, telecommunications, shipping and air traffic, regulations on every industry, everything.

Its abrupt collapse would devastate just about everyone in some way.

Which doesn’t mean that it’s good or that we should keep it around to prevent harm! It’s just that I wasn’t expecting Elon Musk to potentially blow up the whole thing within a few weeks of Trump’s inauguration.

https://www.crisesnotes.com/day-six-of-the-trump-musk-treasury-payments-crisis-of-2025/

With 40 states under single-party control in 2024, tech regulations moved faster than ever. State-level policies are shaping the future of AI, privacy, and digital rights. Get the full breakdown of how 2024 tech policies set the stage for 2025: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/how-state-tech-policies-2024-set-stage-2025

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE.

I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.
https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/113953007466779969

U.S. Government agencies have been ordered to enact sweeping takedowns of information— but technologists, librarians, and open access organizations have mobilized a preservation effort. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/ddosed-policy-website-takedowns-and-keeping-information-alive
#censorship #lgbtqia

#Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK - https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/tesla-sales-plummet-in-the-uk-france-and-germany/ " EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla." well done #ev buyers...

Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist "Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree" oh dear, if he says it, we are in trouble...

A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a-25-year-old-is-writing-backdoors-into-the-treasurys-6-trillion-payment-system-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/ "Let’s be clear about what we’re seeing: deliberately obscured payment-blocking capabilities being added to absolutely critical government infrastructure by an inexperienced developer with minimal oversight." #musk

The FCC cannot deem constitutionally protected journalism outside the "public interest" whenever it wants to censor the press.

The slope is even more slippery with an unprincipled partisan hack like Brendan Carr in charge.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/fcc-launches-probe-soros-backed-radio-station-revealed-live-locations-undercover-ice-agents?intcmp=tw_fnc

The First Amendment permits identifying and harshly criticizing government workers, even when the world’s richest person doesn’t like it.

We shouldn’t have to remind sitting U.S. attorneys of that, but here we are.

https://freedom.press/issues/groups-demand-us-attorney-for-dc-respect-first-amendment/

While news giants with armies of expensive lawyers capitulate to the powerful, independent journalists represented by rights orgs and law profs fight back and win.

Congratulations to Jack Poulson.

https://sf.gazetteer.co/judge-tosses-sf-lawsuit-that-spurred-streisand-effect-for-tech-execs-arrest

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USAID getting shut down is, quite frankly, probably the least of our concerns right now.

"Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base," via Talking Points Memo 👇

My retired civil servant father was worried about his retirement payments getting cut off under a Trump admin. Seemed far fetched to me 6 months ago. Now, not so much.

These people are absolute clown-shoes.

So good to see Hakeem Jeffries staying on message while the opposing party is doing an administrative coup. Don't worry about Treasury or the NLRB, we need to focus on bombing Iran! Fucking goon.

These people are unhinged. The Democratic Party leadership is absolutely useless.