Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Rioting has broken out across Indonesia.

In the midst of economic hardship and historic inflation, lawmakers voted to give themselves a housing allowance 10 times the minimum wage.

By August 28th, protests and riots had spread to Jakarta, Makassar, Bandung, Medan, and Pontianak

Police have arrested over 700

and killed a motorcycle taxi driver, running him over with an armored vehicle.

As the situation continues to escalate, anarchists are raising funds to establish a network of safe houses for protesters and frontline activists at risk.

Funds are being raised through Firefund https://www.firefund.net/indonesiansafehousenetwork

https://kolektiva.media/w/nah2LMZWUVa2XUsJnn6KzG

Vibe-coded build system NX steals vibe-coders’ crypto

a clown car of clown cars that deploys another clown car, that explodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFKkBBzpVg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250829-vibe-coded-build-system-nx-steals-vibe-coders-crypto - podcast

text coming in a bit!

"We have been taught to believe that if we help someone else, we lose something, that putting others first somehow hurts us. In my experience and research, it is the opposite."

I do not want to be like the billionaire who is praised for being “self-made.” I want to be like the people who visited me in the hospital and kept hope up for my parents. I want to be like the man who stops to help you when your tire is flat. I want to be like the woman who notices you are struggling and brings you a hot meal. I want to be like the friend who takes your grandkids out for a special day when you cannot afford it, or the stranger who offers a smile when you are hurting inside.

We need your support to fight against:
Censorship 🗣🚫
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Attacks on encryption 🔑
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There is an ongoing low-grade crisis of political manipulation on twitch, X, and youTube.

Here are three stories:

Rightwing twitch streamers were "botting"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/08/27/huge-drop-in-twitch-streams-explained-platforms-crackdown-on-viewbotting/

MAGA bot network on X
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/maga-ai-bot-network-divided-trump-epstein-backlash-rcna219167

Secret Payments For Centrist Dems on YouTube (some conditions may apply)
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

I created a repo @Codeberg for my really simple #XSL-weblog:
https://codeberg.org/harlows/xsl-weblog

It's part of my tiny attempt to preserve #XSLT and very much a work-in-progress. Thus far it's really just a repackaging of Evan Widloski's example:
https://github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website

You can see it evolve here:
https://blog.harlow.net.nz/
or follow the #RSS feed:
https://blog.harlow.net.nz/feed.xml
Transformed by the magic of #XSLT!

@Sarahp

One option for Bluesky users who are concerned that they might be blocked from the Bluesky network is to "Bounce" to Mastodon.

Bounce is a cool tool from the makers of Bridgy Fed that allows you to migrate your Bluesky account to a Mastodon account and retain all your follows and followers.

You will still be able to interact with bridged Bluesky accounts and won't have to worry about geographic blocks.

Check it out: https://techboltx.com/bounce-social-media-migration-tool/

When the Washington Post asked 604 DC residents about Trump’s takeover, Post editors didn’t like what they said, so they took it out of the headline.

https://fair.org/home/wapo-editors-doing-their-best-to-conceal-reporters-vital-work-on-dc-occupation/

@dangillmor #ICE #usPolitics #trump

remember kids, just say “ask again later” to drugs

"Open"AI is scanning its users' chats and reporting them to the cops.

https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police

notice this new tax. Why? Because they spend proportionally less on essentials, and far more on investments or luxuries untouched by tariffs. Their wealth insulates them from feeling any pain, while higher prices crush everyone else.

So forget the hype. Tariffs are just a back-door tax shift, punishing those with the least cushion while insulating those with the most. A reverse-Robin Hood scheme wrapped in patriotic branding, being aggressively peddled by conservative politicians, …

First confirmed case of screwworm in the US. What does it mean?

This news is somehow being treated with both way MORE PANIC and also LESS SERIOUSNESS than it deserves. Let's talk about flesh-eating maggots wooooooooo

https://youtu.be/tdM1_lsYPAI

For #BlackAugust we're rewatching the first ever episode of System Fail, Riots Across America.

This episode chronicles the rise, repression and recuperation of the George Floyd uprising and interviews Oluchi Omeoga of the Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block.

https://kolektiva.media/w/5qAAeiNhB7z5uY2GUZSU3z?start=0s

I'm handing https://activitypub.rocks over to the community! And I wrote a post about it https://activitypub.rocks/news/handing-off-activitypubrocks-to-the-activitypub-community.html

I did the original design of activitypub.rocks 9 years ago and I haven't done much to keep it up to date. So the W3C SocialWG is taking over instead!

As a nice sendoff, the blogpost also includes some fun AP history, which I detail a bit in this thread too 🧵

Now that he signed an executive order about it, all I want to do is burn a US flag, but I also don't want to burn all that plastic.

Maybe if I just pee on it? That's better for the environment, and because it's reusable, I can do it as often as I want!

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