Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@sarahtaber I was told this is the gig with the "truck driving around with cheap meat" company. i.e. they sell it as "here's this REALLY CHEAP MEAT! LOOK HOW QUALITY IT IS" but it's not USDA rated, low grade stuff. They rely on the truck being movable so that once you have purchased that meat you'll never be able to track down the driver who sold it to you. (though someone here I think worked for that company and said he loved it, so not going to name names LOL)

BF's really not unique. They're doing what every other family with land & ambition is doing right now.

They just happen to have billionaire money as well. So they've got an advantage when it comes to building a platform.

This also helps explain why places like BF lean so hard on Nice Mommy branding.

If you're gonna build a multimillion dollar business on overcharging people for mediocre product, you need an air-tight reputation management strategy.

"Awww I'm just a hardworking mommy" is about as good as it gets.

I wanted to say "it's the same meat you'd get at the grocery store" but then I realized that's probably not even true.

It's quite likely that BF's role in the greater northern Utah meat ecosystem is "selling the meat that the grocery stores won't take, to suckers on the internet."

So the meat being sold here is nothing special. Ignore the branding. Look for any actual certified marks of quality, organic, humane conditions, etc.

There aren't any.

That strongly suggests BF is just buying & re-selling bog-standard, conventional grade meat.

There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot | The Guardian

#PurpleMoor-Grass is a bugger to traverse when #Hiking.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-deserts-dead-zones-purple-moor-grass

#UK #Nature #Ecology #Ecosystems #MoliniaCaerulea #Ecology #InvasiveSpecies

I haven't had time to see any new movies this year. Probably for the best. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/6/6/2326305/-Cartoon-Summer-stinkers

The scientists warning the world about ocean #acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/the-scientists-warning-the-world-about-ocean-acidification-evil-twin-of-the-climate-crisis "until the buildup of CO2 is addressed, the consequences for marine life will be devastating"

“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated.”

https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/09/israeli-military-attacks-madleen-in-international-waters-weeks-after-bombing-of-conscience/

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #GazaFreedomFlotilla

The use of the US military on US residents & citizens is the thing I've dreaded (on behalf of my homeland) since the return of Trump. I hope my dread is misplaced, but I fear it wont be.

Protest is not illegal. Protesters are not illegals.

[Source: U.S. Constitution]

There are no riots in L.A. The city isn't burning. Anything you hear to the contrary is wrong. Don't be fooled.

#USpol #ICE

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

― Malcolm X

(I typically don't like quoting the same author or thinker back to back, but some of the media coverage of the fascist invasion of LA and the surrounding area by Trump's Gestapo and the National Guard made this a particularly important moment to share this quote in particular.)

We need a few more voices like Brian Schatz, U.S. Senator from Hawaii. Silence will only embolden the regime.

#Politics
5/n

ABC is punishing a reporter for saying an obvious truth out loud -- that Trump and his henchman Miller are "world-class haters".

What's most telling about this episode is that the Big Story is about ABC and its response -- not about Trump and Miller and their vile loathings.

It's official! Me, @Beowulf, @famfo and @Thelie will carry out a Forgejo Contribution Workshop during GPN23 in Karlsruhe.

📆 Friday, June 20th 2025
📍 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
🎫 Gulaschprogrammiernacht '23 (https://gulas.ch)
🕐 12:00 - 13:00 CEST

Happy to answer any questions. :)

https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn23/talk/A7MU9Z/

#GPN23 #Forgejo #Codeberg

Israeli defence minister threatens to use ‘all necessary measures’ to stop #Gaza-bound aid ship - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/israel-katz-threatens-to-use-all-necessary-measures-to-stop-gaza-bound-aid-ship does that include one of #israel's 13 nuclear bombs?

I guess people at the Universities aren't worried about disinformation anymore. "Hallucinations" are just fine, you see, and we should have sympathy for the AI's mental health struggles...or something.

The fact that the heads of the named schools have not already been defenstrated shows just how borked higher ed is. It used to be about education. Now it appears to just about social signaling and nobody cares about being able to think critically...or at all. Weee!!! What a time to be alive!

Out here speedrunning the prologue to Idiocracy, smdh.

"Some schools are already buying in, despite the educational world initially greeting AI with distrust and outright bans. Per the Times, schools like the University of Maryland, Duke University, and California State University have all signed up for OpenAI’s premium service, ChatGPT Edu, and have started to integrate the chatbot into different parts of the educational experience."

https://gizmodo.com/openai-wants-to-get-college-kids-hooked-on-ai-2000612915