Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Anti-doxing laws, if not drafted carefully, could become tools to punish legitimate journalism and public advocacy.

Read the letter we signed with eight other organizations urging the Uniform Law Commission to pause potential legislation:

https://spj.org/spj-urges-caution-on-anti-doxing-laws-warns-of-threat-to-press-freedom/

U.S. invites Czech musician to play — then ICE traumatizes him at airport and sends him home - https://boingboing.net/2025/07/07/u-s-invites-czech-musician-to-play-then-ice-traumatizes-him-at-airport-and-sends-him-home.html why would any artist risk going to #murica now?

Top Economist Discovers Greed Exists and Might Be Bad

To Understand the Economy, This Fed President Is Ditching His Desk [Wall Street Journal]

https://archive.is/20250705042752/https://www.wsj.com/economy/tom-barkin-richmond-fed-profile-b800d337

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.

What’s at risk?

Persistent backdoors, remote code execution, firmware implants
Nation-state exploitation (NSA, China’s APTs, Shadow Brokers leaks)
Hidden microcontrollers that can operate even when powered “off”

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

Don't sue me, Nintendo. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/07/07

Ok, this story doesn't pass the smell test at all. Who is doing photo editing with ChatGPT? Is that even a thing?

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/07/02/maine-police-department-apologizes-ai-altered-evidence-photo/

"Westbrook police initially denied AI had been used to generate the photo before eventually confirming its use of the AI chatbot ChatGPT."

"The problem is that class is not, at least solely, an identity; it’s a relationship within a hierarchy. In other words, it would be strange for me to “identify” with my class, because to do so would be to tacitly endorse the hierarchy itself. I’d like to live in a society without class, insofar as that’s possible—not a society where class is reified as a cherished identity and treated merely as a problem of representation."

https://lithub.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-working-class-writer-at-iowa-writers-workshop/

It's early days and the project is still in beta but we have published an early version of a @coopcloud recipes (https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/lasuite-docs) that makes it easier to deploy Docs for smaller organisations (the La Suite deployment has apparently approx 15,000 users).

We are offering managed Docs instances with full support provided by us. Hosted in the EU by a worker owned tech co-operative.

No bosses, no CEOs and we pay all our taxes.

#foss #workercoops #coop #tech

Hi, everyone,

I am traveling so I haven’t been posting (or writing) much.

Here is a first for me: The New York Times Book Review did a full review on my latest book.

Thank you to @Dhmspector and @stevebellovin for the gift link.

I also posted screenshots in case that doesn't work, but I have no idea how to translate the screenshot Alt Text. If someone else knows how, I will repost.

Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/books/review/rebels-robbers-and-radicals-the-story-of-the-bill-of-rights-teri-kanefield.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk8.tprh.cuEsZxD661T5&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Reminder: If you're describing an award as "prestigious" it almost certainly isn't. A truly prestigious award doesn't need the adjective.

The excellent Zephyr Teachout is publishing a new newsletter called The Anti-Monopolist, and it looks terrific. Here's her interesting take on Mamdani's NYC mayor campaign: https://the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/on-zohran-mamdani-and-taxi-drivers/

I had surgery at #Montreal’s very high-tech glossy CHUM hospital a month ago. It is an impressive complex. They have excellent new tech.

But no one had pens or pencils on the ward. They were constantly borrowing from each other.

Orderly said it was due to the recent govt budget cuts.

I dropped off a big box of pens and pencils this week. The nurse on duty was so thrilled! With a huge smile, she said it was the most perfect gift they’d gotten all year!

The destruction of #Palestine is breaking the world - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/06/destruction-of-palestine-is-breaking-the-world "The #Leahy law requires restricting assistance to military units of foreign governments engaged in gross human rights violations. It has never been applied to #Israel."

Latest comic: Facing the threat

#cartoon #comic #uspol #democracy

One more reason to hate GenAI (as if we needed more): not only is the power demand huge, but it's also spikey! 👇

“AI data centres are very, very different from these office data centres because they really spike up,” he said. “If you start your AI algorithm to learn and give them data to digest, they’re peaking in seconds and going up to 10 times what they have normally used.

https://archive.is/tCVpK#selection-2225.0-2229.257

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down.

US President Donald Trump has decided to defund the observatory recording the data, as well as the widespread US greenhouse gas monitoring network and other climate measuring sites. #ClimateChange

https://theconversation.com/mauna-loa-observatory-captured-the-reality-of-climate-change-the-us-plans-to-shut-it-down-260403

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/05/cambridgeshire-a14-road-wildlife-environmental-disaster?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other what an utter, infuriating disaster; and more will come, doubtless

@_elena and Amsterdam! They're involved with our gov's Mijn Bureau (My Desk) initiative, building an opensource workspace together with Germany's OpenDesk and France's LaSuite:

https://github.com/MinBZK/mijn-bureau

https://www.opendesk.eu/de

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

The French city of #Lyon will also be replacing Microsoft for #opensource solutions. Really curious what #Linux distro they will choose 👀

Also featured; #Jitsi for video conferencing, #Nextcloud paired with #OnlyOffice for document sharing and co-editing, #Zimbra for email, #Chamilo for online training, and #Matrix for instant messaging. 🔥

https://news.itsfoss.com/french-city-replaces-microsoft/

If you're in California, here's all the rapid response orgs to push back against ICE tearing apart your community.

You'll need these numbers. Share them.

#USpol #immigration #RapidResponse

https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn