Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Made a video on the whole "the Chinese just smuggled in bioweapons to kill our crops!!" panic.

Good to send to friends & family who caught the hype.

https://youtu.be/5knlkykCS8Q

World’s biggest sand battery to heat Finnish town without fossil fuels - https://thenextweb.com/news/worlds-biggest-sand-battery-heat-finnish-town-fossil-fuels " The device could help regions across Europe wean off natural gas "

We're thrilled to announce our new project:
https://docs.coop/

Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/home/), we are offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🥖 (DINUM) and German 🥨 (ZenDiS) governments which represents a paradigm shift in the way open source software is funded.

#workercoops #coops #FLOSS #privacy

Wow, this is surperb: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=1Wcaoyow6AU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wcaoyow6AU

Good morning Fedi friends!

A HUGE thank you for all your enthusiastic comments to my Fediverse promo video. I'm delighted to hear you're finding it useful, as a tool to spread the word about the Fediverse.

I put together a FAQ page for the video as:
1) I was often getting the same questions
2) I'll be offline / in mommy mode for the rest of the day 😅

https://elenarossini.com/2025/06/my-fediverse-promo-video-frequently-asked-questions/

I just realized that I started my blog #TheFutureIsFederated exactly a year ago today. What a journey it has been! ❤️

My takeaway: Satellite launches are undoing the recovery of the ozone layer that should be happening now that CFCs are banned. And this study doesn't even take into account metal deposition from reentries, which might be even worse!

When I teach climate change in my astro classes, I always give the recovery of the ozone layer as an example of how countries can work together to fix a giant problem (Montreal Protocol). I guess satellite companies are now destroying that too.

Gone, reduced to ash.

Follow-up on my #piwo2025 talk:

malleable software

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

My talk was all about control=agency.
I push for #freesoftware because there's no #agency without permission. But permission is not enough to gain agency to modify things. They also need to be built malleable.

#malleablesoftware #opensource @piwo

PLEASE VIEW THIS! Jimmy Kimmel's monologue from his show today. BRILLIANT!

"Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s Disgusting Abuse of Power and What’s REALLY Happening in LA"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baR4logaaOQ

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

Wow. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin My opinion of LinkedIn and those exclusively publishing to it was already load, but this is a huge imposition on people. It's the sort of thing that should cost those responsible their jobs at the very least.

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/