Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Interested to hear Dr Taiuru and the Microsoft rep explain how moving Family Court data to the Microsoft cloud is acceptable... RNZ's Ninetonoon just after 9.

“You want to destroy a people, destroy their education.” -Murad Tamini, Teaching Resistance

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Invest in me for the next tech bubble. I can make an app that makes everything worse too. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/02/24

Some good historical perspective for the current moment

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/weve-been-here-before-a-review-of-thomas-franks-the-wrecking-crew.html

I'm going to go ahead and guess that Western media has largely ignored what is going on in Serbia and reduced it to "anti-corruption protests" because it's not a story that fits into the favourite Balkan narratives.

All major universities in #Serbia have been occupied. Higher education is practically paralysed. 80% of Serbian citizens support the rebellion of the students; no other political force, not the SNS, not the opposition has ever seen such popularity.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/23/the-protests-in-serbia-are-historic-the-world-shouldnt-ignore-them

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“Nobody wants violence, but nobody wants Nazis to roam free, either. If Antifa is a waste of time, then everything else is a waste of time.” - Josh Fernandez, The Hands that Crafted the Bomb

Latest comic: What's the point of an economy that no longer serves the interests of human beings?

#labor #workers #economy #oligarchy #technology #automation #uspol #uspolitics #plutocracy

Map Reveals How Obesity Rates in the U.S Compares to Europe https://www.newsweek.com/map-reveals-obesity-rates-us-compares-europe-2034188?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-hegseth-joint-chiefs-cq-brown-jr which also what you would do to make sure the army doesn't contest your coup....

Texas #measles outbreak reaches 90 cases; 9 cases in New Mexico - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/texas-measles-outbreak-may-have-spread-to-new-mexico-total-cases-near-100/ " The Texas cases are largely in children. Sixteen cases have been hospitalized." #antivaxxers

DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever - https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government "an unprecedented number of critical government systems, including those at the nation’s nuclear research labs, have been exposed to the open internet" this is serious

If you didn't already know that anyone who works at least 1 hour per week, and makes at least $20, is counted as "employed" for purposes of headline unemployment statistics, you probably shouldn't be opining in public about the state of the economy.

https://archive.is/KoguR

In conclusion, my state (North Carolina) hasn't been a real democracy for years. We still have the best women's healthcare access & among the top education in the South, because we just can't seem to stop giving 'em hell.

"We're speedrunning a climate disasters because these companies are shoving these tools in our face that nobody wants." ~Angela Collier
#AI #LLM

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

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of the worst people you've ever seen. https://www.patreon.com/c/BrianMcFadden

Obligatory doom on a M5Stack Cardputer. I am amazed how much stuff is already available for this little thing. #opensource #community #m5stack #cardputer #esp32

#Qt6 is in. I should probably upgrade.
But #QtQuick Controls 1 is gone. 2.x sucks: it doesn't pick up my theme, the widgets work different and the differences feel like the #desktop side was an afterthought.

What should I upgrade to? Is #Kirigami providing honest desktop widgets?

#AskFedi #kde

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Chris Kluwe, a former Minnesota Vikings NFL player, was arrested yesterday for protesting against Huntington Beach City Council's decision to allow the California city's library to display a plaque spelling out the word "MAGA." Kluwe spoke at a public meeting, describing MAGA ideology as "profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly...explicitly a Nazi movement." After taking a few steps toward the council dais he was arrested, carried from the room and taken to city jail where he was given a misdemeanor citation for disturbing an assembly. Here's NBC's story about the episode. Kluwe later told @LATimes: "I have the responsibility to step up and do something ... That's what I also hope to see from other people who enjoy that position of privilege and power ... that they take this example and say, 'You know what? I can do that too. I can help protect the oppressed.' Because it shouldn't be on the people who are being oppressed to fight by themselves."

https://flip.it/y_4o1T

https://flip.it/NY9kgC — LATimes story, may be paywalled

#Football #NFL #ChrisKluwe #Protest #TrumpAdministration #MAGA #California #HuntingtonBeach

Microsoft is paywalling features in NOTEPAD. Let me say that again so it sinks in. Microsoft is _paywalling_ features in _NOTEPAD_.

My god this is so stupid.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2614943/microsoft-is-paywalling-these-features-in-notepad-and-paint.html