Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Trump Fires Nation’s Top Librarian Over Made-Up Culture War Claims - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/12/trump-fires-nations-top-librarian-over-made-up-culture-war-claims/ "because she allegedly put “inappropriate books” in a library that basically gets copies of nearly all books and doesn’t even allow children to check out books."

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In October 2023, Mongabay traveled to Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park as part of a reporting series on protected areas in East Africa.

While there, we heard allegations that Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers have carried out extrajudicial killings of suspected bushmeat poachers inside the park.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/killed-while-poaching-when-wildlife-enforcement-blurs-into-violence/

How do history, human rights, and biodiversity intersect in conservation in East Africa? Mongabay’s new series, Beyond the Safari, dives deep: https://news.mongabay.com/series/beyond-the-safari/

This fireside chat between @cwebber and @vgrass is incredibly powerful - a must see: https://c-tube.c-base.org/w/2vHZ69an4Rck3mMfEs4w92

The conversation is highly informative and truly inspiring - Christine, you gave me goosebumps at the end. You are making a HUGE difference! Thank you for your work and advocacy 💜

Team meeting this morning to do some filming for #EleFediVideos & to discuss the next steps. An issue that came up beautifully illustrates the power of the #Fediverse & decentralized social media.

The 1st video introducing the Fediverse to people not familiar with it will discuss Silicon Valley's #Broligarchy.

#YouTube could take down the video if offended right wing people complain about it.

But if I upload the video to #PeerTube... who are you reporting the video to? To ME! I'm the admin 🤗

Are there #XMPP / #Jabber clients that allow you to set the avatar for multi-user chats, or does that need to be done through the server?

Forty years ago today, the Philadelphia police dropped an incendiary device from a helicopter onto the roof of a house in a working-class Black neighborhood of family rowhouses. The entire block burned to the ground in the conflagration that followed. Eleven people died. Five of them were children. How does the saying go? We do not forgive. We do not forget.

📣 Open Letter Update 2 📣

Work on the community fork is progressing rapidly!

The project's core principles are Transparency, Community Decision-making, Not-for-profit, In the public interest, Fully Open Source and Privacy-focused. Read more about the project's essence and direction at our new home at https://codeberg.org/comaps (Thanks @Codeberg!)

We are now focusing on building the foundation, and work is proceeding on the first release!

Full statement: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/

Matthias posted an update on the current state of Accessibility in GTK and GNOME on the development blog: https://blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/an-accessibility-update/

#gtk #gnome #accessibility #a11y

To describe Trump's actions as “potential conflicts of interest” misses the point. A “potential conflict of interest” sounds like an unfortunate situation in which it’s possible that Trump might choose his own personal interest over the nation’s. Stated this way, the problem is the conflict.

But Trump isn’t conflicted. He repeatedly chooses his (and his family’s) interests over the nation’s. He is using the authority and trappings of the presidency of the United States… https://www.instagram.com/p/DJkGMJwuYLK/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech

<p>At the International Journalism Festival, Mastodon joined forces with Save Social to make a case for journalists and publications to join the network.</p>
https://wedistribute.org/2025/05/mastodon-journalism/

With so called center lefts like Keir Starmer in the UK doing an Enoch Powell on migrants, and Newsom outlawing homeless - the GOP can happily stay fascist and watch the opposition come to them

Where's the empathy, where's the fight?

#UKpol #USpol #USpolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/newsom-california-homeless-encampments.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products

#3dprinting #diy

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/philips-debuts-3d-printable-components-to-repair-products

In my latest Theory of Change episode, Adam Becker joins to discuss his new book "More Everything Forever," a detailed look at the history and ideas of right-wing oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and how much of their worldview is based on bad readings of fiction.

https://plus.flux.community/p/creationism-ai-and-techno-oligarchy

writing a crypto newsletter.

there is no news except crime being legal now. nobody is getting into crypto because of Trump except to bribe him.

coinbase retail volume is down 17% from last quarter, lol. nobody even believes in crypto as a get rich scheme any more.

so! any questions about crypto?

MAHA: it's a sales pitch.

A lot of MAHA's rise came from small businesses using magical health claims to compete in what they felt was an unfair marketplace.

As a small farmer, I have some thoughts on that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJdO6mepeRA

Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/online-tracking-out-control-privacy-badger-can-help-you-fight-back

The IRS has a long history of keeping tax information confidential. But a new data-sharing agreement with ICE breaks that precedence and betrays the trust of immigrant communities in ways that could bear consequences for decades. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/irs-ice-immigrant-data-sharing-agreement-betrays-data-privacy-and-taxpayers-trust

Hello Fedi friends!

I've been busy filming and doing motion graphics for my first Fediverse video. Things are going splendidly so far and I cannot wait to unveil it - target release date: May 29th.

Super thankful for the excellent work of my interns @samaaberg & @patel.riyen

Even if I hadn't done any motion graphics in 3+ years, it all came back instantaneously. I even remembered all the shortcuts right away 😅

Wishing you all a fantastic week!

#EleFediVideos