Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

SCOTUS should toss the Fourth Circuit’s made-up ‘material contribution’ test that stretches contributory liability and pressures ISPs to cut off whole households from the internet on mere accusations of copyright infringement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-court-supreme-court-must-rein-expansive-secondary-copyright-liability

🔵 In this week's Tom the Dancing Bug:
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🧠🐛 RFK Jr.'s BRAIN WORM presents The History of Medical Science
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I drew this a very long week ago. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Just because CSS don't appear to be used to spy on protests in the US right now doesn't mean that is true everywhere. We are interested in getting Rayhunter data from every country to help us understand the global use of CSS and to refine our signatures. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far

I like being a lowbie for a while so I feel emotionally comfortable saying one reason I feel sad and mad but also quite sad is cuz I feel tricked by my ownself to think a company would ever say "actually it is the bad actor report swams who should be banned not the largely trans, disabled, Black & brown outspoken leftists dedicated to destroying fascism at its very root who should be banned" I feel naive and in times like this, naive feels dangerous

@criminalerin @kims I keep begging people not to move to Bluesky and skylight as TT kind of ends (or should. Jfc), and people need to migrate somewhere. No one will consider the fediverse and it’s so frustrating. Bluesky has censored posts about Gaza and now this. Why move to a place that’s already employing the things we’re trying to get away from?!

Think tank warns China's polysilicon subsidies are frying Western fabs - https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/china_polysilicon_monopoly/ "US boffins say Beijing's bargain wafers are burning rivals below cost"

#US officials plan to punish #foreigners ‘making light of #CharlieKirk death | Charlie Kirk shooting | The Guardian

A couple of days I had no idea of this person’s existence. Now, #FreedomOfExpression goes out of the window because it might hurt a few right-wing snowflakes.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/christopher-landau-charlie-kirk-foreigners

#Politics #FreeSpeech

A decade of US upheaval—Occupy, BLM, Trumpism, and more—captured by Jarrod Shanahan from the streets, prisons, and protests he experienced firsthand. Get 20% off with code SEPTEMBER here:https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1820

Did you know that the @internetarchive has been archiving TV 24 hours a day since 2000, or that it digitizes about 3,000 books a day? Learn more about how @brewsterkahle and the Archive team preserve history on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/podcast-episode-building-and-preserving-library-everything

https://kolektiva.media/w/eu5G6g99wfXmNbR4X5HDXt

Now is the time to build structures that can withstand the storms of tomorrow. Now is the time to extend and consolidate our connections. Our respective circumstances will continue to deteriorate, but tipping points of all kinds will create opportunities for change that we can turn to our advantage, provided we are ready. Every step we take, every obstacle we overcome, brings us a little closer to significant victories … victories that can offer some comfort to the souls of those we have lost in battle, who are waiting to rest in peace.

We are aware of the magnitude of the task. We are learning from the failures of our elders. We know the many threats we face. The odds are not in our favour. Perhaps we will not turn the tide, become that tsunami.

But as a Catalan friend once said: there are times when not to take risks is a risk not worth taking.

Video produced by subMedia, a proud member of The Peoples Want.

Read the full manifesto here:
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📣 The Tom the Dancing Bug Review just dropped!
"TOP TEN TOM THE DANCING BUG NEWSLETTERS OF 2025"
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😬 "Needs more guns..."
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I had a wonderful time yesterday talking to folks at the @fediforum book launch event for Move Slowly and Build Bridges! It was especially fun to see folks who were interviewed for the book!

As usual, I want to share the text of my talk as well as the slides. You can see them here:
https://robertwgehl.org/presentations/fediForumBookTalkText.html
https://robertwgehl.org/presentations/fediForumBookTalk.html

The latter has alt text for images, and there's a "presenter view" if you want to see the text and slides together. (Marp ftw).

Also, this:
https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com//images/discountBill.png

I do not know how this website works but I hope we can say our beliefs that jokes are fun to tell with our friends and Nazis are bad and the people allowing Nazis to attack and kill us and our friends and OUR CHILDREN should be both stopped and replaced by idk communism 😊

Hello I am very angry to be here 😊 after getting my good true jokes published by The Federalist, I, like many of our trans leftist peers, have now been literally suspended from bsky for literally saying "rest in piss Charlie Kirk." To be fair I also said a bunch of very funny true things that I will happily read on the stand at the Hague 2 with my lips DIRECTLY on the MIC

The new CBS might not quite be state media, but it’s certainly going to be state-supervised media.

Congratulations to Kenneth Weinstein on the title, but the real bias ombudsman is Donald Trump.

Read more from FPF's Seth Stern in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/12/cbs-bias-donald-trump

i feel like Ghost doesn’t get enough love for this feature

Violent right wing extremists are angry at Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk because they have not immediately created death camps and started executing millions of people.

There's a long record of ultra-right people committing or threatening violence against their own side.

Mitt Romney has explicitly says that fear of being killed by the far-right motivates many elite Republicans. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/romney-gop-members-feared-far-right-violence-ahead-key-votes-rcna105272

the party that's been wink-nodding political violence against their opponents my entire life cannot credibly demand a special exemption for Charlie Kirk, who himself explicitly said dead schoolchildren were a small price to pay for the 2nd Amendment

sorry! not buying it!

I really <sarcasm>love</sarcasm> how Windows lets me set a date and time for restarting after updates and then completely ignores my instructions and restarts earlier and wipes out work I was doing.

This is one reason I do most of my computing on a Linux machine...