Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government #Surveillance, Police Records Show - https://www.wired.com/story/police-records-car-subscription-features-surveillance/ "law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features." well, obvs

Oh also the House GOP wants to cut $230B in farm spending.

INCREDIBLE

The ag lobby is begging for the USDA secretary to be put on the teams that are negotiating new trade deals.

And she's just.... not even in the room.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-agriculture/2025/04/28/farmers-plea-to-trump-00312065

I did another video on farm bailouts! As a small farmer in the US, there are some things I think everyone needs to know.

Here are the 3 most common reasons we hear on why farms need bailouts, & why they don't make much sense- especially right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1GVWpe6e_U

Failed state media. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/04/28

yup. The downsides of Linux are, at most, equivalent to the downsides of using windows (as far as annoyance factor) and after using Linux for even a few weeks, well, going back to windows is.... horrible.

Anyone that isn't forced to use Microsoft products should not be using Windows; It's just a better experience to not.

#MontyPython and the #HolyGrail at 50: a hilarious comic peak | #Comedy #films | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/28/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-50th-anniversary

#Humour #Art #Cinema #MPFC

Happy to have put together a first draft of my #now page ⏰

The concept is inspired by Derek Sivers' one from 10 years ago and I discovered it on @_elena's blog not long ago.

I plan on adding nice illustrations here and there, I love when concepts are visually displayed (and I love to draw Alsacians barns!)

https://www.illugination.com/now/

Good morning Fedi friends!

Exciting times: today I have the first production meeting with my 2 interns to make a video about the Fediverse 🎬

On the agenda this week: finalizing the script + creating a shot list.

My interns are students in their early 20s who know NOTHING about the Fediverse (aka my ideal audience). It’ll be fascinating to gauge their reactions and incorporate their feedback.

Would you be interested in a production diary (in the form of weekly blog updates?)

#EleFediVideos

I can't imagine anything going wrong with this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559244/police-warned-over-shifting-information-to-microsoft-cloud-services my goodness, we have such unsavvy tech people making decisions about gov't IT and the data - about NZers - that the gov't holds *in trust* for the people. So unacceptably cavalier. Do they even know what the US Cloud and Patriot acts are? Do they know who's 'in charge' over there? Such idiocy.

The existence of sacred geometry implies the existence of profane geometry

blasphemous geometry

heretic geometry

whoreful geometry

we should look into that

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