Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Sneak preview of translations coming to Co-op Cloud's "abra" tool – including the sub-commands themselves! 🤘

You can follow along at https://translate.coopcloud.tech

–3wc

Funding local news by directing public grants through consumer coupons is a creative way to address the local news crisis.

Local governments must act to keep community news from dying.

https://51st.news/opinion-dc-must-invest-in-local-news/?ref=pressingissues.org

Following a recent NCBA event about Co-ops and "AI," I felt compelled to write this warning.

https://geo.coop/blog/avoiding-ai-hypetrain

(@steveediger I think you'll appreciate this)

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The federal government apparently believes that assaulting journalists covering protests is legal because "videotaping can lead to violence." The First Amendment says otherwise.

All Americans should be disturbed by this outrageous argument. We don't have secret police in the U.S.

https://courthousenews.com/news-groups-ask-judge-to-increase-protections-for-journalists-covering-la-protests/

‘Parents’ rights’ groups gain ground in Canada amid Alberta book ban - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/27/alberta-book-ban-canada-parents-rights-groups "a host of books face being purged, including George Orwell’s 1984" bigots on the move... #censorship

Looks like I'm going to #MRMCD ! Anyone wants to share a hotel room?

Did you know there are variants of common Linux shell tools that have decompression function built in? For example, instead of first uncompressing a file to then view it in `less`, you can simply use `zless`.

There's also `zcat`, `zgrep`, `zcmp` and`zdiff`.

#Norway wealth fund sells #Caterpillar stake over Israel allegations - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/norway-wealth-fund-excludes-caterpillar-over-israel-allegations that's the way to do it... #gazagenocide #israel

@DrALJONES Doonesbury in 1982
@palestine

Must-read:

So-called "age verification" laws are spreading.

They will not protect kids.

They are grossly insecure.

They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression.

They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read.

We have to stop this.

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

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"Any story that quotes an Israeli official or references Israeli allegations should say that Israel does not allow the international press to verify its claims and kills the local journalists who try," we told Al Jazeera.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/global-outrage-following-israeli-attack-that-killed-five-gaza-journalists

Hey #Boston --I think I have a scoop here. I believe Marty Walsh is going to endorse Josh Kraft for mayor. Read all about why I think this and what it means for the race: https://write.as/brendanhalpin/walsh-to-endorse-kraft

#MAPoli #BosPoli

David Graeber warned a few years back about the dangers of so-called "Centrist" politicians.

Pro-#Israel lawyers investigated over alleged legal threats to suppress support for #Palestine - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug/21/pro-israel-lawyers-investigated-over-alleged-legal-threats-to-suppress-support-for-palestine "UK Lawyers for Israel accused of sending ‘vexatious and legally baseless’ letters to silence support for Palestine" from last week

Politico Management Insists “AI” Shouldn’t Be Held To Any Sort Of Human Editorial Standards Because It’s Built By Coders, Not Journalists - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/25/politico-management-insists-ai-shouldnt-be-held-to-any-sort-of-human-editorial-standards-because-its-built-by-coders-not-journalists/ "most U.S. media is owned by affluent older, white, Conservative men who generally see AI not as a way to make their products or employees’ lives better or more efficient, but as a way to cut corners and undermine already underpaid labor."

#Flock cameras says that it has “paused its operations with federal agencies” because their system has been used for ICE enforcement.

“Pausing” operations means that they HAVE BEEN ALLOWING IT until now.

Flock makes money per query. They are incentivized to allow “law enforcement” types to query their systems for as many things as they want, including tracking people down for violating anti-abortion laws, suspected “immigration” issues, and who knows what else.

Your tax dollars are paying for this. Flock cameras should be taken down.

#surveillance #kakistocracy #enshittification #FlockCameras #ALPR

“License plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies among investigation concerns”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/license-plate-camera-company-halts-225436172.html

Google increasingly locks down its once-open mobile OS, and today took a major step in that bad direction.

If Google is going to be as control-freakish as Apple, AND continue to run a spyware-based mobile ecosystem, why not just buy an Iphone?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

The UK welcomes #refugees
We desperately needs foreign skilled workers, but you wouldn't know that from reading most UK media, who this morning are offering free uncritical publicity to #Farage lethal nazi plans

Neither was there any news coverage of the #AntiRacism counterprotests to the small fascist protests this weekend.

Thanks to @therightarticle for sharing this: Anti-racist mobilisations push back the far right
https://www.counterfire.org/article/anti-racist-mobilisations-push-back-the-far-right/

#UKPol
#RefugeesWelcome