Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I just murderized our old Squarespace website and made a cool, new one. Enjoy my bold stance of refusing to sell AI as the literal first heading on the page, which will no doubt bring us all great catharsis before I starve to death:

https://www.hermit-tech.com/

I am open to hate and styling suggestions because I have no idea what I am doing.

I am now free to write a billion words a day again!

“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told Norfolk's WAVY NBC10. https://www.wavy.com/news/disturbing-data-personal-information-being-bought-and-sold-how-you-can-stop-it/

Local officials can disagree with a newspaper's coverage, but they have no right to retaliate.

“It’s very much unconstitutional for the government to in any way punish the press over its editorial or content decisions,” Seth Stern told the Phoenix New Times.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/fountain-hills-officials-punished-paper-negative-coverage-21848425

Public employees have a right to speak to the press. The government can't gag them and certainly can't force them to mislabel verifiable facts as their opinions.

Greene County, VA, needed a reminder of these First Amendment basics, so FPF, SPJ, and numerous other press rights organizations gave them one.

https://freedom.press/issues/rights-organizations-object-to-entirely-absurd-virginia-gag-policy/

🏳️‍🌈 Cafe Euphoria got it's start soon after the pandemic closures ended as a welcoming place for trans and gender non-conforming people...and it's still going strong today! Check out this article from YES! Magazine for the inspiring story. #Coops #Pride

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/work/2022/08/16/cafe-upending-capitalism

Letting the cat out of the bag:

My Fediverse promo video will premiere at #FediForum on Friday, right after @cwebber's keynote. I'm SOOO EXCITED!!! And honored beyond words.

I just had the opportunity to do a test of the tech during @fediforum's meet & greet and I was thrilled to see so many familiar faces! I'm really moved by everyone's support. Thank you @ozoned @tommi @sturmsucht @reiver @alexisbushnell @anca and ESPECIALLY @j12t for this incredible opportunity. I LOVE this community ❤️

Victory! Austin's ALPR contract will be allowed to end by our city council at the end of the month. The battle is won, but the fight continues. Join us and other activist groups for a victory press release tomorrow at 11:30am at city hall! https://www.fox7austin.com/news/austin-city-manager-removes-item-automatic-license-plate-readers

Police are using privacy concerns "to withdraw a variety of information that’s really the bread and butter of how people know about not just what police do in their communities but also active emergency situations,” EFF’s @aaronmackey told @KPBSPublicMedia https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/06/03/encrypting-san-diego-police-calls-protects-privacy-withholds-info-about-police-activity

Signal aspires to explore the complex ways that socially engaged cultural production affects us, our communities, our struggles, and our globe. Now’s your chance to collect them all: every e-Book is just $1.99 through 7/1 with code READ at checkout. Shop here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=80
@justseeds

Navy set to rename USNS Harvey Milk, mulls new names for other ships named for civil rights leaders - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-new-name-usns-harvey-milk-ships-named-for-civil-rights-leaders/ spite and pettiness is all trump and his minions have got

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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"A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport"
after Richard Scarry
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https://boingboing.net/2025/06/04/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-busy-busy-day-at-the-airport.html

Nice, the first Mastodon 4.4.0 beta is now available:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.0-beta.1

- "Followers you know" widget
- a "featured tab" on profile pages, with "endorsed accounts"
- reminders about missing alt text
- warning if the language of your post doesn't match the selected language
- "experimental support for verifying and displaying remote quote posts"

And plenty more.

"We expect 4.4.0 to be released by the first week of July, possibly sooner."

Official announcement: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114625074809479231

#mastodon #MastodonBeta #fediverse

10 days until we gather again.

Over 200,000 people are signed up to hit the streets on No Kings Day. While Trump has tanks rolling through DC for his authoritarian parade, we’re mobilizing everywhere else on June 14 — because there ain’t no kings in the USA. Join us: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

Only half way through this and it's already worth sharing. The thing that hit me the most about working a lot of manual labor jobs, was how humiliating they were often made to be by ppl looking down on you for being a janitor or the like.

[Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
By celebrating "common sense" over expert authority, populism performs a dramatic status inversion. It gifts uneducated voters the power of knowledge and deflates those who look down on them.]
https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/status-class-and-the-crisis-of-expertise

Hey Fediverse, I want to have an incognito account where I post long form (2000chars+), and which is federated with as many places as possible.

What would you reccommend?

#askfedi #fediverse #mastodon #federation #friendica

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Booms as Economic Pressures Mount - https://www.wired.com/story/bnpl-booms-as-economic-pressures-mount/ this will not end well... #bnpl

Ask not what you Free Software can do for you, ask what you can do for Free Software. Okay, but seriously, there are several ways you can help Free Software forces and keep #FreeSoftware a viable option for future generations. The Digital Freedom Foundation is dedicated to celebrating and supporting Free Software. We can't do it alone. Your contributions are vital.
#DFF #SFD2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025

Free in ~27 hours, at 12 UTC on Thursday, June 5th?

Join the Co-op Cloud Community for our informal, weekly(ish) drop-in "Kite-flying hour"

This week, we have 2 (TWO!) things so far, possibly in parallel if we can figure out breakout rooms:

1. Tagging maintenance issues with Abra (that's our command-line tool) for funded fixes, using our exciting new (&, for now, secret) grant money (hosted by decentral1se)
2. Collaborative co-operative Abra user troubleshooting (hosted by @autonomic)

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We usually learn a lot about this on conferences but let's try it here as well:

If you're daily driving #phosh we're keen to here on which phone (or other device)? Which distro do you use and which phosh version are you currently running?

#LinuxMobile

Do any of the the open source / Linux admin people out there have any advice/ideas for how to manage a classroom of Ubuntu Linux laptops? The aim is to authenticate against the school active directory. Are there ways to manage software and re-image machines without managing them individually?