Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

US shutdown of #HIV/#Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’ - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/28/usaid-funding-health-development-hiv-aids-antiretroviral-mothers-lgbt-sex-workers-south-africa "USAid cuts to clinics dispensing antiretroviral drugs will be ‘death sentence for mothers and children’, expert warns" #trump #musk

The unprecedented exposure of large swaths of personal financial data by DOGE hackers as well as the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mean every American should take action to protect themselves against fraud, identity theft, and economic instability. https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/25/how-to-protect-your-money-during-a-coup/

@mathew @davidgerard @ikanreed I have a PhD and I can tell you there are many idiots with those. The skills required are perseverance, commitment, being able to write your thesis and making it more or less intelligible, and complete and utter lack of regard for trauma and PTSD.

For anyone who thinks it's good progressivism to mock victims of climate disasters because of their (assumed) politics, Jim Hightower has a message for you.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bwmd6iF10Jg

Manual focus control on @postmarketOS never was so easy (slider is not a part of camera app)

https://gitlab.com/NekoCWD/cameractrl

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming.
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The Trump administration has launched a portal where you can report DEI in schools, "ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination."

You know what to do: https://enddei.ed.gov/

Eh; let’s do another post. Hi friends, I am currently looking to get a job that will sponsor a visa for a US citizen. My primary skillset is in the land of SRE, devops, and related modern-ops things, but I also have some experience doing full stack dev w/ Typescript and even skill with C and C++. I know some Rust but don’t have formal experience there.
I’m looking for a gig in any country that looks safer for trans people than the US right now. I currently only know English (native) and Japanese (approx. JLPT N3 level, am actively studying), but am willing to learn whatever.
#getfedihired

Great news everyone! I have infodumped all my job search advice into a gigantic article, and I have channeled all my benevolent sociopath energy on your behalf. Godspeed!

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ludics-guide-to-getting-software-engineering-jobs/

https://defenseofdemocracy.org/

If you think abortion information isn’t being censored, think again. Advocates have had their accounts suspended and posts removed. It’s time to fight back. https://www.eff.org/uncensored. #StopCensoringAbortion

For folks who think BlueSky's a good option, this is a most useful analysis: https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/ and for folks in Aotearoa NZ, this analysis has a nice key nugget on the 'real future of social media': https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/27/nothin-but-blue-skies-from-now-on/

Poverty.

How do you reduce far right support? Social spending.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2025.1516985/full

"... economically deprived individuals have systematically lower political dissatisfaction in municipalities with higher social spending compared to those with lower social spending."

Tell companies to stop tracking you by installing Privacy Badger today! https://privacybadger.org/

If confirmed as U.S. Attorney for D.C., Ed Martin will prioritize “anti-speech prosecutions and petty retribution rather than the pursuit of justice," Seth Stern said.

We co-led a letter to senators with Demand Progress urging them to reject his nomination.

https://freedom.press/issues/senate-must-reject-ed-martins-bid-to-be-top-dc-prosecutor/

Hey #libobscura fans!

Did you know that the project is actually made up of 11 crates maintained here?

Some new ones, some heavily modified forks.

There are several crates for video hardware support, but even if you're not a #camera fan:

- error-backtrace (can you guess what it does?) https://libobscura.codeberg.page/private-api/error_backtrace/
- const_enum for easier bindings gneration https://libobscura.codeberg.page/private-api/const_enum/
- crispy, a bunch of #shaders for image processing https://libobscura.codeberg.page/private-api/crispy/

Check them out too!

#rustlang #rust

Of course the press can publish pictures of prison guards, and any law that says otherwise is unconstitutional.

We don't have secret police in the United States — including behind bars.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/nevada-supreme-court-sides-with-rj-in-jail-surveillance-video-case-3311891/

"Journalists are always hesitant to write about press freedom, for fear of making themselves the story, but the time for that is long gone. You’re not making yourself the story, Trump is," Seth Stern tells FAIR.

https://fair.org/home/fccs-knives-are-out-for-first-amendment/

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“Love and anarchy go hand in hand, for love is the greatest rebellion against authority. To truly love is to reject domination and to embrace freedom.”
-Errico Malatesta

Seized, settled, let: how #Airbnb and #Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land - https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/27/seized-settled-let-how-airbnb-and-bookingcom-help-israelis-make-money-from-stolen-palestinian-land "As Israel deploys tanks in the West Bank for the first time in 20 years, we reveal how two of the world’s biggest travel companies are helping settlers commercialise stolen land" #shame #palestine