Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Just discovered #Meta is using my purged #Facebook accounts (pre-2017) for #AI training. Getting emails about "account being used for AI" despite having terminated them years ago. Apparently "removing" just means they keep everything while locking you out. The kicker? To object to this use, they expect me to log into these nonexistent accounts! The audacity of exploiting data from accounts that should've been expunged years ago is infuriating. Meta's data practices remain as predatory as ever.

An assault on #science is an assault on ourselves. #trump https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/deepwater-horizon-trump-administration-attacks-on-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce #Trump agenda - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/anti-trump-rallies-protests "Organizers call for 11 million people to march and rally in this weekend’s effort to ‘protect democracy’" great; now ramp it up

I’m super excited to announce something I’ve been working on for many years! Brain: the natural intelligence engine that’s always with you.

Brain works on any platform, with any app. The more you use it, the smarter it gets! Brain trains only on data you feed it and it’s powered by a renewable caloric process. Start using yours today!

I love to see other creatives embracing Ghost.org as a publishing platform.

I'm really impressed by this blog post by photographer @sturmsucht - who is also embracing the NOW page movement - as it takes full advantage of Ghost's elegant features: its full width photos, galleries and bookmarks. Impressive content AND visuals: https://blog.sturmsucht.de/february-march-2025/

Just another day advocating for #Ghost vs. Subst*ck (for ethical reasons and so much more - see my latest blog post).

cc @johnonolan

Mom: "It costs nothing to be polite."

Billionaire Techbro: "Actually..."

Me: boo 😒 hoo. The environmental impact of this mess is unbelievable and sad

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We sold 4 goats to the Eritreans for their Easter feast. We processed them on-site. No fun at all, frankly. Then, after all that was done, Donkey walked around the woodshed and started braying to beat hell. I went over to check out what he was on about and discovered a slimy, wobbly, kid, not more than a minute old from the looks of it. Turned out the mom had had twins, so the herd yesterday lost 4 and gained 2. Such is life on the farm..and I'm still tired out.

A verified ID is required to access AI models in OpenAI's API to prevent IP theft. 😂 They went from stealing everything from everyone to now claiming it's their original work, despite hundreds of pending copyright cases against them in the courts. Why is this even allowed?

#ai

"We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law.”

New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 yr history of witch hunts & blacklists.

It chronicles how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance, and what we can take from that today

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/process-as-punishment--an-american-history-of-political-spectacle

Latest comic: Veneer of Normalcy

#authoritarianism #economy #cartoon #comic

Inspired a bit (or a bit more) by @_elena. Okay, and I also like playing around with tech stuff.

https://www.locked.de/myown-unplugtrump-to-more-digital-sovereignty/

#unplugtrump

Not much news on other mobile platforms but I needed a reliable clock that wakes me up even when the 📱 is suspended so I added some boottime clock support to #gnomeClocks.

This together with #feedbackd support can be found in https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/gnome-clocks and #phosh's nightly packages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VacOcS--zcs

We're excited for the French release of The People's Want manifesto. Read it here: https://thepeopleswant.org/

@davidgerard I just did a test against deepseek, for something for work, and it spent 10k+ words explaining its reasoning while adding up columns on a spreadsheet, only to fail to do the simplest math correctly. So incredibly dumb.

Good morning Fedi friends!

So it is decided (and thank you for voting in yesterday's poll!)

I will create a series about "People of the Fediverse" - doing short, written interviews with fascinating people posting on here - across ages, nationalities and professions.

The impetus behind it? In a week I will start production of videos promoting the Fediverse and I won't have time anymore to write 2,000 word posts for #TheFutureIsFederated. Q&As are more manageable for the next 2 months 😅

#blog

Watch this CounterSpy talk about surveillance on modern cloud platforms and how autonomous data infrastructure and projects like Co-op Cloud can help protect social movements from abusive authorities: Platform Surveillance and Data Autonomy
https://counterspy.zip/archive

If you feel like a blue dot in a red area, you’re not alone. Join our Rural Caucus to learn how you can take on Trump, Musk, and MAGA in your own backyard: https://secure.everyaction.com/dqLw5fx9SUmu21gJ-nM4Ww2

Wired headline says Trump regime is building "master database" to spy on immigrants. That's bad enough (and totally illegal).

But the real story is that the regime and its Big Tech partners in this crime are building the database to track ALL OF US.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/

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