Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Doctorow - "Complexity is an unavoidable attribute of all complicated processes."
I wonder how this might fit in with cynefin?
Is complicated an attribute of clear? etc.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/

Yes we need better choices -
"If the new normal is chaos, the old normal wasn’t that great, either. We have had over 30 years of economic policies that have – deliberately... – sacrificed secure well-paying jobs and replaced them with low paying insecure ones, relentlessly prioritised shareholder profits over the social good, deferred investment in people, technology and infrastructure, sacrificed environment wellbeing on the altar of economic growth..."
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2504/S00052/on-the-trump-upside-and-peters-persecution-of-trans-people.htm

Baffling that the Marriott website blocks its hotel price pages even when I'm logged in and have disconnected all ad trackers/blockers. How to lose business...

Fascession-proof jobs. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/04/18/fascism-career-fair/

Where are the #XMPP / #Jabber users on Fedi? Any recommendations on finding fun Jabber communities to chat with?

@nazokiyoubinbou exactly! And yet, here I am, an academic and scientist in a university, and other more senior people, who should absolutely know better, have told me "our job now isn't to teach the students science, our job is to teach them how to use LLMs" 😬

#Universities with #Mastodon accounts have steadily increased their follower numbers. ↗️ ↗️
The image shown here can be downloaded as PDF from
👉 https://tubcloud.tu-berlin.de/s/X4Yb4sXs9Mj7zRj
with logos directly linking to the Mastodon accounts.

The #fediverse 🕸️ is becoming a cornerstone of 🗣️ #SciComm.

We just need to use it to establish our #digital #sovereignity. 💪

#Unis4Mastodon 🐘 #SaveSocial #SocialMedia

No responses on this question yet, beyond one person saying that end-to-end encryption should theoretically work for calendar events.

Does *anybody* have thoughts, recommendations, or words of wisdom on privacy-respecting scheduling and calendar tools?

@smicur "AI" was always just a package of marketing pitches for a series of unrelated technologies over time. different tech, same pitch: your plastic pal who's fun to be with, especially when you don't have to pay him to work for you.

long, long version https://www.boundary2.org/2022/04/david-gerard-creationism-on-the-blockchain-review-of-george-gilder-life-after-google/

"Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs"

People would rather buy older processors that aren't that much less powerful but way cheaper. The "AI" benefits obviously aren't worth paying for.

https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-admits-what-we-all-knew-no-one-is-buying-ai-pcs/

New zines available

Doing some home tech support the other day and made the mistake of trying to do a search on the client's computer using the url bar of her Brave browser. It just gave an #LLM generated response...like, there weren't any links anywhere that I could find. wtaf? 😱

@purism Small correction: The crimson suite was created in 2023 already. See e.g. this librem5-base upload: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5-base/-/blob/pureos/latest/debian/changelog?ref_type=heads#L90 and lots of packages were uploaded afterwards. There was a stall in between but the foundations for crimson are about 1y older.

Special shoutout to film-maker Elena Rossini who is working hard to promote the Fediverse, runs the "Future is Federated" newsletter, and is writing about how to self-host Fediverse services from a novice's point of view.

Rossini's blog about the Fediverse is at:

➡️ https://news.elenarossini.com

You can follow Rossini's main account at:

➡️ @_elena

You can also follow Rossini's self-hosted accounts:

➡️ @elena (GoToSocial)
➡️ @ele@videos.elenarossini.com (PeerTube)
➡️ @ele@photos.elenarossini.com (Pixelfed)

#Fediverse

Happy Indie Bookstore Day! Did you know PM Press owns @autumnleavesbooks, an independent bookstore in Ithaca, NY? This Indie Bookstore Day, support spaces that keep radical ideas alive—and thriving. If you’re local, stop in and pay the Autumn Leaves Crew a visit!

@kvuzet

You know what, the whole software industry deserves to collapse.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/vibe-coding-the/9798341634749/

Failed-State Media. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/4/25/2318656/-Cartoon-White-House-approved-programming

Thinking of moving my existing Patreon to Ghost – both because it’s been recommended to me by someone I trust, and because, well…Patreon. 🤢

Do any of you have experience with Ghost, and suggestions about whether/how best to make such a transition? It’d be a big lift, but I’m willing to make the effort if it’d be a more pleasant experience for me and my readers.

Just seeing that they are threatening Wikipedia's tax exempt status. The one good thing on the internet, the one healthy way we have of interacting with information.
https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threat

#USPol #Wikipedia