Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@mipsytipsy Was buying a copy of Observability Engineering, thought the name was familiar, stumbled onto your blog for the tenth time.

Your latest post on DEI was an absolute banger, but the comments section ate my very long message in praise of it with a "nonce failure" or something.

So here is a short message in praise of it. And a link for other nerds to read it:

https://charity.wtf/2025/02/10/corporate-dei-is-an-imperfect-vehicle-for-deeply-meaningful-ideals/

@FreeScholar #PublicBudgeting, #publicBanking, #PublicAssemblies, #cooperatives, and all the activities advocated by the movement for #solidarityEconomics guard against corruption. And, then also, there are suggestions about how to be antifascist (i.e. "Don't obey in advance.") and antiracist (i.e. recognizing internalized Whiteness, or conducting an equity audit). What do you think?

If you are still actively participating at Musk's vile platform, you are actively supporting him.

Journalists, this goes triple for you. At least be honest about your hypocrisy. You mock your honorable craft.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/elon-musk-calls-mark-kelly-traitor-support-ukraine-rcna195738

From 2021 to 2024 we witnessed things like RICO charges being levied at protesters fighting against "cop city" in Atlanta, mask bans that lock disabled people out of public life, and young college students facing federal charges for peaceful protests, again, all under Democratic leadership. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-attacks-on-free-speech-should

“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too.” https://newrepublic.com/post/192558/aoc-ocasio-cortez-arrest-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil

As an American Jew, let me be clear:
-Criticizing Israel is not being "antisemitic"
-Defending the human rights of Palestinians is not being pro-Hamas
-Arresting someone for these things is a violation of our 1st Amendment
-Violating 1st Amendment rights, and bragging there's more to come, is bad

Trump regime ICE didn't merely "detain" Khalil for daring to exercise freedom of expression. It kidnapped him.

Everything about this situation is straight out of Kafka -- and that's the point.

Meanwhile, in Canada:

Dear Elon Musk, protesting is not a crime. Organizing online to protest isn't a crime either, even if you don't like the protesters' goals. We oppose any efforts to mislabel peaceful protesting as illegal—protests are foundational to our democracy.

If you're wondering about why things in the 'west' (esp the US) are the way they are, this is quite a remarkable explanation: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gqtrNXdlraM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtrNXdlraM Very compelling and utterly terrifying. We (all of us) need to understand this stuff.

Columbia has a journalism school, a First Amendment institute, and a journalism magazine. But instead of listening to any of them before investigating an op-ed writer, Columbia's administrators took their cues from Trump and their own cowardly hearts.

Shame on them.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-campus-protests-trump-congress-ba0eddec4679d70287202831c52ebed6

#USAid cuts could create untreatable #TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/10/us-aid-cuts-tuberculosis-tb-untreatable-bug-drug-resistance-stop-tb-partnership-who #trump is a global criminal

Turmoil within #DOGE spills into public view as #Musk’s group confronts a PR crisis (free link) - https://wapo.st/3DqNera excellent, more please...

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No method of age verification is both privacy-protective and entirely accurate. Introducing these laws is dangerous, and expanding them to things like skincare, dating apps, and diet pills has enormous unintended consequences for your personal data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

Authorities in Lake County, IN are inadvertently furthering both Trump’s anti-press and anti-immigration agendas by prosecuting a journalist arrested at an ICE protest.

Seth Stern explained in the Post-Tribune.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/guest-column-lake-county-prosecutors-must-drop-charges-against-photojournalist/

I’ve posted a detailed explanation of why the claimed ESP32 Bluetooth chip “backdoor” is not a backdoor. It’s just a poor security practice, which is found in other Bluetooth chips by vendors like Broadcom, Cypress, and Texas Instruments too. https://darkmentor.com/blog/esp32_non-backdoor/

A backpacker was snatched by ICE. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3yx1jdyo

#BeckyBurke

People. Do not come to the United States. It isn't safe.