Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If you don’t speak to people’s emotions—their anxieties, identities, fears—you lose.

And right now, Democrats are still epistemically flat-footed.

Want to fight fascism? You need to win the narrative war.

That means learning how people feel their way to political decisions.

You don't need to lie. But you do need to connect—viscerally and succinctly.

There's lots more to the conversation. Please click through and share: https://plus.flux.community/p/americas-political-divide-is-psychological

As promised, the @peertube fundraising campaign seems to be storming ahead, so here's a new - and rather hastily edited - video from NW #Greenland fieldwork just up on @tilvids Just in case anyone finds it interesting and fun. I made this in shotcut. At some point I'll work out how to annotate them properly I guess...

Enjoy!

https://tilvids.com/w/nY8US6AsGDnsVeUXPqBixq

The Threat Beneath: Hidden In-Chip Operating Systems

Modern CPUs from Intel and AMD ship with undocumented, embedded operating systems (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that run below your OS—at ring -3—with full system access and zero user control.

The Alternative?

Librem 5 Phone running PureOS, a Debian-based, fully auditable Linux OS, built for security from the silicon up.

✔️ No Intel ME or AMD PSP
✔️ No telemetry, tracking, or backdoors

Read more at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating-systems-in-chips-vs-secure-auditable-oses-a-cybersecurity-comparison/

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

CNN national correspondent Jason Carroll was detained along with his crew and escorted out of a protest zone by police officers while documenting anti-deportation demonstrations in LA June 9:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/cnn-correspondent-detained-removed-from-protest-zone-in-la/

Here's my writeup of #FediForum, in which I ask the question: is the fediverse making meaningful progress vs. centralized platforms? The post includes @_elena's excellent video and has discussion of @cwebber's presentation, Bounce (by @quillmatiq & @snarfed.org), Surf (by @mike & @marci), Channels.org (by @michael & @newsmast team), & Bandwagon (by @benpate). Thx also @j12t & @anca for FediForum. The headline is via Christine: "we can’t succeed without joy." https://thenewstack.io/bringing-joy-back-to-the-web-fediverse-vs-centralized-apps/

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Southlander cofounder and journalist Ben Camacho was shot twice — in the knee and elbow — with crowd-control munitions while covering protests in the LA suburbs of Compton and Paramount June 7:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-shot-with-crowd-control-munitions-at-immigration-protest-near-la/

Ron Desantis is baselessly accusing the press of "coercing" people to say negative things about his wife's initiatives.

We assure you that no one is coercing us to say that Ron DeSantis is an anti-speech wannabe authoritarian.

https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/state/2025/06/10/reporting-on-desantis-hope-florida-triggers-clash-over-press-freedom/84114090007/

With a rising tide of authoritarianism in the US and around the world, sharing information with trusted journalists safely is more important than ever. If you're active on Reddit, we (@freedomofpress) are hosting an AMA on the subject there momentarily:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1l840zn/we_are_digital_security_experts_at_freedom_of_the/

👋 Join @freedomofpress on Reddit at 2 p.m. EDT for an AMA with Harlo Holmes, our director of digital security, and Kevin O’Gorman, a staff engineer @securedrop

Ask us anything about whistleblowing or sharing information with the press.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1l840zn/we_are_digital_security_experts_at_freedom_of_the/

Do I know anyone who's really good with #GNUCash?

If I have an invoice with a partial payment applied to it, but I realize that a line item on the invoice is incorrect and needs to be removed, is there an easy way to do that? The only way I can see is to unpost the invoice, delete all the partial payments from the bank account or wherever, fix the invoice, re-post it, then re-create all the partial payments, backdating them to whenever they were made.

Surely there's a better way to do this?

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

#TheFutureIsFederated

#Trump, #ICE Have Earned Every Bit Of The Hatred They’re Now Facing - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/09/trump-ice-have-earned-every-bit-of-the-hatred-theyre-now-facing/

#NewZealand government sued over ‘dangerously inadequate’ emissions reduction plan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/new-zealand-government-sued-over-dangerously-inadequate-emissions-reduction-plan-ntwnfb #climatecrisis

What would you have done? Today's cartoon by Daniel Medina. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#ICE #deportations #Trump

Irony that #Trump pardoned the actual insurrectionists who tried to overthrow their democracy on Jan 6 while sending in the marines to brutalise its own citizens for believing the rule of law & due process extends to all Americans including migrants, the cornerstone of democracy. #la #marines #trump #usa #migrants #losangeles #nationalguard

From 2018
"ICE Training Day"

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

@indivisibleteam Not a single Mastodon account? Really? I mean, granted, it’s not your fault that they lack a well-known relay method, but still, you could at least have included the biggest of the ActivityPub platforms, no? (Mastodon.Social).

Trump deployed forces against American citizens to chill dissent, spark confrontation, and create an excuse to seize even more power. We won’t back down, but we need to be prepared to handle encounters with law enforcement and de-escalate tense situations.
Attend tomorrow’s “Know Your Rights” training with the ACLU to help keep No Kings protests safe and non-violent: https://act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-training-2

También disponible en Español: https://act.aclu.org/a/taller-para-conocer-sus-derechos

Writing in Rust gives me such https://xkcd.com/1425/ vibes.

🧠 Rewrite the application's entire cryptographic and network protocol, with no major bugs once it compiles...
⚙️ Sure, gimme a few hours.
🧠 ...and update the tests to concatenate some byte arrays inline.
⚙️ I'll need a research team and five years.

(Yeah, it's kind of like this in every programming language sometimes. Just finding Rust to be... more so.)

#RustLang