Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

CDC struggling to fight raging #measles outbreak after deep funding, staff cuts - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/each-measles-case-in-raging-outbreak-costs-up-to-50000-cdc-official-says/ " In first 4 months of the year, US measles cases are over double last year's count. " totally predictable, totally avoidable #jfk

Three cases of a "100% fatal" mad cow-like brain disease just showed up in tiny Oregon town - https://boingboing.net/2025/04/16/three-cases-of-a-100-fatal-mad-cow-like-brain-disease-just-showed-up-in-tiny-oregon-town.html not now, 100% fatal, mad cow-like brain disease...

For the first time, I had real problems with #upgrading my #Fedora #GNU #Linux operating system. I ended up getting a useless system (by which I mean, it would boot but would never give me a log in screen, like #sddm, nor would the #keyboard respond, except the power button and there were no #VirtualTerminals to log in to either).

#Fedora42 #F42

Topics in my latest "Cornerstone of democracy" include:

-- It's a concentration camp
-- Next in line: "homegrown" Americans
-- Roberts Court snoozes, democracy dies
-- All corruption, all the time in Trump world

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https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-17-2025/

Congress’ investigative and oversight powers are in danger.

Protecting FOIA offices, which serve as hubs for all kinds of information requests, could help ensure the legislative branch has the information it needs to do its job.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/congress-investigative-powers-face-existential-threat/

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So I know of 3 pretty reliable web archive sites. Are there any other sites you know about?

🌐 web.archive.org
🗃️ archive.today + (:tor:Tor Onion)
👻 ghostarchive.org

Trump justifies his war on foreign students with false accusations of antisemitism.

It's a lie. They are kicking out people for speeding tickets and frog embryos.

Vance gave the game away by saying foreign students are "bad for the American dream."

https://www.salon.com/2025/04/17/jd-vance-exposed-the-truth-about-on-foreign-students-hint-its-not-about-antisemitism/

Amazing job opportunity for a Chief Communications Officer at the The Union of Concerned Scientists, one of the most crucial organizations for this time, who support the public and scientists to work hand in hand to put science into action.

https://apply.workable.com/union-of-concerned-scientists/j/448D6A9C50/

These wackos think that talking to a digital simulacrum of a no longer living relative would be comforting instead of creepy.

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/your-ai-digital-twin-can-take-meetings-and-comfort-your-loved-ones/

i just installed yunohost, what are the best apps i should not miss?
#yunohost #selfhosting

Long, thorough, and persuasive explainer about "Open"AI and its unsustainability -- and why that poses a systemic risk for some of tech's biggest companies.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/

"I was just following orders" will not hold up at the Hague.

#ICE #NYPD #SeeYouAtTheHague #US #USA #America #History #Remember

Back to #Wayland and input methods.

What's your favorite input method?

Cause for me it was the one on old #Nokia phones. I could type with my hands in my pockets! Handy in winter.

https://codeberg.org/dcz/stiwri

Tested with #cosmic and #GTK .

This is just the beginning. Actually useful stuff is coming in the future. #Mobile keyboards, #Chinese input is what it's for:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/396

#dumbphone #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #CJK

This week Semios/Almanac laid off an estimated 10% of headcount, including yours truly just today.
#GetFediHired #FediHirerprise, but that doesn't make it suck less.

Which is to say: I'm now 100% available for full time, contract, paid speaking, board, advisory positions. #OpenSource, #BusinessStrategy, #BizOps, #Standards, #Leadership, etc.

CV: http://vmbrasseur.com/resume.pdf

#GetFediHired #FediHire #PleaseBoost

Fraud seems to be a key part of the Tesla business model. https://futurism.com/tesla-accused-odometers

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Trump #Tax #IRS #News

The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ice-just-paid-palantir-tens-of-millions-for-complete-target-analysis-of-known-populations/

I've been making the common mistake of calling the slave-labor-and-torture facility in El Salvador a "prison" when, in fact, the correct expression is "U.S.-supported concentration camp" or "U.S.-supported gulag" -- and will use the accurate language going forward.

I urge you to do likewise.