Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council has banned the sale, use and possession of kratom, an unregulated plant-derived substance that can have addictive properties from the tribe’s reservation in north-central Montana."

https://montanafreepress.org/2025/09/23/blackfeet-tribal-council-bans-kratom-on-reservation/

This is why I have so little respect for the intellect of mainstream economists. How wild it is for a supposedly serious scholar to say this, out loud, in front of gawd & everybody? 🤦‍♂️

'The Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who helped publish the original 2012 PNAS article, confessed his disillusionment to The New York Times: “When I see a surprising finding, my default is not to believe it. Twelve years ago, my default was to believe anything that was surprising.” '

https://archive.ph/pElUu#selection-2757.135-2775.143

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Peter Thiel is competing with Elon Musk for most evil tech lord, with a different strategy.

Musk is doing a lot of his foul work in plain sight. It seems that Thiel is trying to keep the public from understanding what he's doing until it's too late to stop him.

https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion?ref=theframelab.org

The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source

https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-budget-open-source

One of the nice things about living on the Reservation: every now and then the Tribe sends a box of food to everyone in town, tribal member or not. Produce, meat, even some frozen Flathead cherries. CSKT ftw.

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug:
5️⃣ Jimmy Kimmel & STRIKE FORCE FIVE!
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Moonboy & new member Mike M.
( tomthedancingbug.com )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Here’s what we’ve got planned for October. See you there!

For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting.

He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job.

We demand his immediate release.

freedomformario.com

man when people were telling me that smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, I thought that was because they recorded what you watched using their built in media-player OS.

NOPE! Apparently Roku TV's will give you popups based on what DVDs you're watching through them, because they screenshot the HDMI-in and compare it to a database.
that's a few steps creepier than I was expecting from a garden variety privacy invasion

@lwriemen regardless, one thing is for certain, it's way easier to get away with being lazy and/or incompetent at a desk job than it is in the building trades.

From the book Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatization of Life, by Neal Curtis (2012)

Why the politics of "you should make better/more ethical lifestyle choices" is misguided and counterproductive.

[note: in Curtis's book, 'idiot' and 'idiotism' refer not to a lack of intelligence, but rather the insistence that everything is a private/personal matter - as in the original Greek 'idios,' which means private]

We all want the same thing.

New year's resolution: file one actively annoying bug report per day.

Instead of, you know, learning to live with suck.

#freesoftware #OpenSource #bugs

For more on the “big autism announcement” and what it means for the disability community, check out my latest article.

I attempt to highlight the eugenicist intent behind their message while also appealing to the non disabled community to help fight for us: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/trumps-big-autism-announcement-and

Disabled people are not expendable

Autistic people are not expendable

We aren’t lazy, we didn’t choose this & aren’t getting a free ride.

Disability is not a moral failing

It happens to almost everyone eventually

Join us & fight for disability justice

Your future self will thank y

News: Sinclair Won’t Air Jimmy Kimmel’s Return on Its 38 ABC Stations

"Jimmy Kimmel may be returning to ABC Tuesday night, but his show will remain dark in a large swath of the U.S., with Sinclair Broadcast Group saying that it will preempt the show.:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sinclair-preempt-jimmy-kimmel-live-return-abc-1236377475/

If you live in a Sinclair TV station market, perhaps they and their advertisers would appreciate hearing from you.

John Oliver does it again.

"Look, at some point you’re going to have to draw a line. So I’d argue, why not draw it right here? And when they come to you with stupid, ridiculous demands, picking fights that you know you could win in court, instead of rolling over, why not stand up and use four key words they don’t tend to teach you in business school? Not, ‘OK, you’re the boss.’ Not, ‘Whatever you say goes.’ But instead, the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away. And that is, ‘Fuck you. Make me.’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPToBog_-g

Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared

Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism

He encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain

He praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines

These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community.

My latest looks at the threat to our lives, as well as how we can support one another.

We must not give up hope, but we need our non disabled allies to fight with us.

Refuse to see us as expendable and help us demand better:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/trumps-big-autism-announcement-and

#uspol #autism #eugenics #disability #fascism #maha #rfkjr #tylenol
#vaccines #ableism