Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Last night, President Trump said he wants to sign the Take It Down Act into law, then use it to remove content about him. He won’t be the only one.

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

https://kolektiva.media/w/1knET2arztjo6kapZo9Q89

Coming this April. The long-awaited premiere of subMedia’s new documentary series: Interrebellium.

InterRebellium #1 : The Estallido Social

In October 2019, protests against a transit fare hike in Santiago erupted into a nation-wide insurrection against the Chilean state. For six months, the streets were transformed into vibrant laboratories of self-organization, creativity and resistance, before ultimately being cleared by the promise of a new constitution and the spread of a global pandemic.

In the opening installment of Interrebellium, subMedia traces the history of the Estallido Social through the first-hand experiences of it participants, as they share battle-tested street tactics, and hard-won lessons about the lengths that the state will go to repress and recuperate challenges to its rule.

Interested in organizing a local screening with comrades, or at your anarchist infoshop, squat or social center? Get in touch!

You heard the man, America.

The Democrats big idea for combatting a billionaire controlled opposition:

"Move away from the dominance of small-dollar donors whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate."

🤦‍♂️ What a joke these people are. Anybody sticking with them after this...well...you know what you're getting 🙄

"That’s where we are now, ruled by monstrous men using both political parties to work their will. From this there are only two outcomes, centrifugally opposed: the people rebel and the rich lock down control (think the Stasi and their DDR), or the people rebel and tumbrels start coming out (think Luigi Mangione)."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/capitalism-in-decay.html

Ooc: I grew up in a union household. I owe my life to organized labor. At some point during my life, dems stopped doing fuck all for labor and became a party that modeled itself around the motherfucking Cheneys. These people basically agree with the right wing in substance but not style. I can't work with this half-hearted performative nonsense. This is a serious time that deserves a serious response, not unserious morons fiddling while the republic burns.

Do your bit to help advance the AI revolution by sitting in the dark, drinking less water, and showering less. - Save the AI https://savethe.ai/

Huh, could it be possible that Microsoft, in addition to being almost entirely unable to write software, has expanded their incompetence diversity to include quantum computing as well? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE

Right, just upgraded 4 Mastodon instances from 4.3.0 -> 4.3.4 (due to a critical security issue) in about an hour. Fairly well scripted. This stuff isn't that hard (if I can do it 🤪 )...

Meanwhile in NYC...

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/nomore24busts

Huh, imagine, gov't IT systems vastly over priced: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/543767/acc-s-botched-it-project-needed-overseas-expertise-to-help and imagine - the soluion: "buy more off-the-shelf". 🤦 How about pay local providers to build #libre / #FOSS solutions that can be used across gov'ts around the world! We're not competing with other gov'ts! What if they did the same & most of our gov't IT systems came from other countries' libre efforts, supported by our *local* industry, not Trump's BigTech puppetmasters (or minions, depending on your POV).

“Your driving data goes to a half a dozen companies you’ve never even heard of for reasons you’d perhaps never agree to if asked directly,” EFF’s @Thorin told @ConsumerReports. https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-information/how-to-stop-your-car-from-collecting-sharing-driving-data-a1233378612/

Investigating journalists for accurately reporting comments critical of the Dear Leader is something we used to expect from North Korea, Iran, and Russia, not the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/media/voice-of-america-trump.html

Secret police, secret arrests, secret jails, and secret courts.

If that sounds un-American to you, that's because it is.

https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2025/03/secret-arrests-hidden-jail-rosters-shrouded-records-immigration-court-lacks-the-transparency-of-other-courts-experts-say.html

I don't really know how to shout this from the rooftops any louder: If this actually happens, it would spell the end of U.S. numerical weather prediction--the scientific models, run on supercomputers, used to create virtually all weather forecasts. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump

All corruption, all the time in Trump world... https://gizmodo.com/sec-drops-charges-against-chinese-billionaire-after-he-pumps-30-million-into-trumps-crypto-scheme-2000569966

Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/03/google-well-reach-artificial-general-intelligence-if-you-slackers-just-show-face-in-the-office-60-hours-a-week/

Hearing someone unironically refer to the US and Western Europe as "The Free World" is just hilarious.