Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"This is the original sin of software dev: it’s a pop culture where we’re trained to accept gossip as evidence."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

📣A VICTORY FOR PERSONAL PRIVACY!📣

In our case against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and DOGE, A NY federal district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction. (1/6) https://www.eff.org/press/releases/privacy-victory-judge-grants-preliminary-injunction-opmdoge-lawsuit

@lightweight @captainepoch @djsumdog@djsumdog.com Nextcloud Talk has been production-ready for years. Companies, public sector, universities are using it as part of their Nextcloud Enterprise. I've been using it daily for 1.5 years for chat, video calls and webinars. It works 😁

New version with dashboard, virtual phone, and security improvements was just released last Thursday.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-talk-munich/

We made this 5 years ago in response to the George Floyd uprising but it is every bit as valid today.

Fuck the police. Fuck ICE. Let's overcome our differences and fight together.

https://kolektiva.media/w/5ym2Q6CSdQ4ULXb9Pn7qCi

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

We are actively reporting on multiple attacks against journalists covering protests in LA — including assaults, equipment damage, and other press freedom violations.

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Journalists face new restrictions while inside the Pentagon complex in Arlington, Virginia, under a policy announced May 23 by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, including needing escorts to enter areas that they used to access freely:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/pete-hegseth-restricts-journalists-access-inside-pentagon/

"Lawmakers want to crack down on college students' pro-Palestinian protests so badly that they literally passed a prohibition on talking," Jimena Pinzon and FPF's Caitlin Vogus write in the Houston Chronicle.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/texas-ban-universities-speech-talking-night-20361753.php

If Paramount settles with Trump, it would be "extremely damaging" to the company and CBS News, Caitlin Vogus tells France 24.

"How can viewers trust that CBS will go forward reporting the news independently, free of favor or fear?"

Watch the interview:

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/scoop/20250606-why-trump-s-attacks-on-60-minutes-threaten-democracy

@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.