Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Catalyst IT, with all it's open source philosophy, and its contract for PACT, and it's support of Mahara .. you think they'd have the foresight to push for Linux based laptops in schools over MS/Google captive-ware.

The thing is, the NZ government is known for legally domestically spying on all of you (I was there during the GCHQ protest, where John Key and Parliament retroactively changed the law to make domestic spying on Kim Dotcom legal). Chromebooks are all about spying on students and setting them up with Google accounts at a very young age (All schools monitor students in the US. It's insane). Win 11 will push the same with MS accounts. Under the covers, school systems probably want this, because it allows an insane amount of control and privacy violations.

Students and parents should have the option to opt out of both.

Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards) 1/n

I don't know whether the Trump-Musk feud is real or just an elaborate con. What is clear is that both of them are sociopaths who lie relentlessly, have total contempt for laws they find inconvenient, and view the rest of us with pure contempt. If they harm each other, that's a win for humanity.

The President of the United States promising to wield government contracts and regulatory authority to punish an ex-crony who has now hurt his little feelings … would have seemed improper, once upon a time. Illegal, even.

apply.coop is on Mastodon! Thanks for hosting us, @SocialCoop .

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#jobs #coops

Good. Surveillance and bogus legal attacks against Stop Cop City protesters endanger activists and journalists alike.

https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Press-Release.pdf

Crop disease just isn't on Americans' radar as a career path. We depend on international researchers in a big way.

If we're serious about "protecting American agriculture"?

Making a huge saber-rattling show of force by jailing scientists for doing ~normal scientist stuff is not the move!

It's pretty clear from all the evidence available that this couple brought F. gramineum samples to the US... to study them in a lab!

A University of Michigan lab for stopping the spread of plant disease!

If they really wanted to do bioterrorism by spreading new strains of Fusarium gramineum around the US, they would have just done that.

Instead of going through all the hassle of trying to courier them to a lab for FIGURING OUT HOW TO STOP CROP DISEASES.

So if you've seen headlines panicking bc "the cHiNeSe smuggled in bioweapons to kill our crops!!"

The Michigan Farm Bureau would like to remind everyone "Yeah they're junior scientists who are working to STOP CROP DISEASES. It looks like they just didn't do the paperwork for bringing in samples."

A quick #forgejo timeline at #flocktofedora

🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!

Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?

Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement.

More details and video demos: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_1_0_rc/

#BonfireSocial #FediForum #FOSS #ActivityPub #DigitalAutonomy

The Trump admin’s cuts to HIV research and prevention are a direct attack on queer communities, POC, and other vulnerable groups disproportionately impacted by the virus. Past funding led to major progress—now that progress is at risk.

Want to learn more about the fight for health justice in marginalized communities? Check out Bodies and Barriers and Crisis and Care by Adrian Shanker. All e-books are $1.99 thru 7/1 w/ code READ at checkout. (Pre-orders excluded.)

This week's comic is now up on Daily Kos
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"A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport"
after Richard Scarry
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/5/2325998/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-looks-at-a-Busy-Busy-Day-at-the-Airport

Donald #Trump Declares He Should Have Faced Trial - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/05/donald-trump-declares-he-should-have-faced-trial/ "The entire premise of this #EO is that things Trump and his White Houses have done — from lying about his weight and height to his theft of classified documents — must be prosecuted."

Purism is leading the charge with Quantum- PQC Security including the following:

Finalized NIST PQC standards

Liberty Phones with Made in USA electronics

Full control over your encryption keys

Verifiable open-source software

A secure, trusted supply chain

Learn more at Purism:
https://puri.sm/posts/rip-rsa-aes-the-immediate-need-of-quantum-resistant-cryptography/

I’m not too strong on history, but on reading an “on this day” I realise I have a fixed point (of about 100 years) that European history is divided by in my head.
It’s the “before/after potatoes” divide.
That old guy that did a thing? He lived without eating potatoes.

Skirrets were the winter storage starch before potatoes and it took 50-100 years before potatoes gradually ousted skirrets after their introduction.

No potatoes- can you imagine?
#skirrets #potatoes

#NewZealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/new-zealand-mps-who-performed-haka-in-parliament-given-record-suspensions this is racist bullying: this country belongs to the Maori people..

Embryo ‘adoption’ answered these families’ prayers. The Christian right is using them to attack IVF - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/05/embryo-adoption-ivf-christian-right christian nutters don't give a damn about people's suffering, just their twisted dogma

#Trump’s #tariffs have become his Vietnam – and the right is breaking ranks - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/05/trump-tariffs-republicans break some more, please

Please move along, nothing to see here 🙈

But yes I just uploaded my Fediverse promo video to my self-hosted #PeerTube in case tomorrow I encounter technical glitches and need to share a link. The video is set to private (for now!), I will change its status to public on Monday. Sooo excited, it's finally happeniiiiiing.

Thank you @samaaberg @TheLifeofTarzan for your help with this!

#EleFediVideos