Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Join us for our fifth annual Filmmakers Digital Security Clinic, hosted with Field of Vision.

Learn about digital security, travel safety, and more at free, virtual once-a-week sessions from July 15 to August 5.

RSVP: https://airtable.com/appFv6wWYBl3l34YN/shr7XJHjH4Q1X2sdE

https://fieldofvision.org/news-and-resources/digital-security-clinic-2025

I've seen leftists talk about the need for leftists to embrace LLMs, and it's another example of a failing of the left, in accepting capitalist ideology and insisting it's brave and visionary to do so.

LLMs aren't just automation. They're a direct attack on human dignity.

Technology is not neutral.

Check out Eric King's powerful episode on This is Actually Happening from @WonderyMedia— and preorder his book, A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, for a firsthand look inside the darkest corners of the U.S. prison system.
Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ObJCLC6ON2ZUEIMBQwDGP?si=2Kz-_m8oQ46bId5ZMVXyPA
Pre-Order Here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1872

Anyone with a #ThinkPad X250 or X240, does your touchpad show as a USB device?

#askfedi #computers

What are non-scam repositories to find #popular #piano #sheetmusic ? Does not need to be free, I am happy to pay. I just want to find my way out of this crazy jungle of scammy sheet music websites and simply be able to download #notes as #PDF.

#Forgejo 11.0.2 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

Luigi is charged as a terrorist for tagging a CEO, but a man who targeted 3 individuals, including 2 senators, is not charged as a terrorist.

Do you guys see it now? Yet?

SLC Tribune - The Colorado county sheriff’s office whose deputy pulled over a student during a traffic stop — and let her go with a warning — has discovered its info was secretly shared with ICE, leading to the student’s federal detainment just minutes later. https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2025/06/17/ice-detains-utah-student-after/

Hey #xmpp fans.
I want to write a #bot which passes presence events around.

When I log in, I get presence events for my contacts.

Except when the contacts are offline.

How am I supposed to distinguish between a contact being unavailable and the presence being slow to come? Must I have a timeout?

I tried sending probes, but my version of #ejabberd doesn't respond for offline contacts :/

#jabber #programming #chat

US Customs and Border Protection kidnapped cooperative colleague — news via the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives:

USFWC member co-op in Vermont, New Frameworks Natural Build/Design, worker-owner Jose Ignacio “Nacho” De La Cruz of was violently detained by Border Patrol on June 14.

He was driving with his stepdaughter, Heidi, when agents pulled them over, smashed their car window, and violently detained both community leaders.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/free-nacho-free-heidy-not-one-more-deportation

#MPs vote to #decriminalise #abortion in step forward for #ReproductiveRights | #Politics | The Guardian

Finally, #England and #Wales may be edging towards moving abortion laws from the 19th century to the 21st. This should have been done decades ago but at least it’s happening. (For those of you wondering why this excludes other parts of the #UK, namely #Scotland and #NorthernIreland, they have their own legislatures to decide these matters.)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/17/decriminalisation-abortion-vote-mps

Are you a software engineer with management experience and a passion for open-source projects and press freedom?

@freedomofpress is hiring an engineering manager for its @securedrop team.

Learn more and apply here:

https://freedom.press/careers/job/?gh_jid=4571168005

…but happy the shell/console would just be a single touch away and that the system is introspectable without any hackery.

Day out with #phosh and the #OP6

- Woke up with #gnomeClocks ⏰
- Looked up the address of the 🍟 via #Firefox and its mobile config
- picked my way via #puremap's offline map feature
- Send #SMS via #Chatty
- Replied a toot via #tuba
- Listened to 🎵 via #gapless
- Looked up the appointment time on #phosh's lockscreen 📆 plugin backed by #eds
- Checked 💗 pulse via a simple pacer up using #phosh's lancher plugin for the short 🚶

No console needed.

#LinuxMobile

Helpful reminder for existing on the internet: Only a fool argues with fools.

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at parades 'n' protests
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https://boingboing.net/2025/06/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-political-protests.html

There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407/scientists-may-have-found-a-big-mysterious-carbon-sink-in-the-south-island

The bodies weren't even cold before MAGA spun up a conspiracy theory, deflecting blame for the Minnesota shooting and saying no, it was actually Democrats who did it. To themselves.

It makes no logical sense. But it does encourage more MAGA violence.

https://www.salon.com/2025/06/16/conspiracy-theories-about-minnesota-shooter-arent-just-deflection-theyre/

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com

From the U.S. Press Tracker

Los Angeles immigration raids protests began on June 6. The Tracker is investigating:

- 47 assaults on journalists
- 8 detainments/arrests of journalists
- 5 equipment damages
- 2 equipment searches/seizures

View our database:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?date_lower=2025-06-01&tags=immigration&endpage=