Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

When people speak of traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present thinks they can radically change the future by doing something small.

Barbara R. Nelson

The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/chat-control-back-menu-eu-it-still-must-be-stopped-0

Apparently Stephen Miller, Trump’s unelected chief of staff, is behind the assaults on the Venezuelan boats.

Those bombings have killed 17 people.

A man who no one voted for is making life and death decisions.

The one silver lining? He has no Presidential immunity.

He can (and should) be prosecuted for his crimes against humanity.

#uspol #fascism #stephenmiller #trump #venezuela

Governor Pritzker just announced that Homeland Security has directed the Department of War to deploy 100 military troops to Illinois.

Why?

To protect ICE agents and facilities from a problem of their own making.

They could stop terrorizing communities. They could stop disappearing people.

They would rather declare war on their own soil.

“Why should my taxes pay for YOUR healthcare?”

Because you live in a society. Part of being in society means contributing to ensure everyone is taken care of

I wish more people would realize the tax dollars they would spend on Universal healthcare would be far less than private insurance premiums

I have had remarkable care from our medical system in Canada. From my daughter's diagnosis at age 13 with Congestive Heart Failure through the development of arrhythmia & the implantation of ICDs (2), a stroke & a heart transplant at age 32. All at the cost of parking fees. My bro-in-law, hit by a truck while biking had a torn aorta, broken spine & shattered pelvis. Airlifted to a major centre for care & back to biking 6 mo later. Again, no real cost. I cherish our health system.

Newsletter: Democratic lawmakers sound corruption alarms while crypto PACs gear up for the midterms

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-93/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

#Wikipedia #AI

This is magnificent and harrowing: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qGXcDz8PU4A or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGXcDz8PU4A I've long thought we need to break the taboo about questioning what our peers do for work, and what 'markets' corporations choose to fulfil. And, to be clear, BigTech is just another head of the white military industrial complex hydra.

The Mexican government wants to pass an indiscriminate, dangerously vague surveillance rule granting authorities real-time access to data digital platforms have in their systems. RD3mx and ARTICLE 19 México y Centroamérica urged Congress to reject the proposal.👇 🧵 https://articulo19.org/reforma-al-codigo-fiscal-pretende-acceso-permanente-a-datos-de-plataformas-digitales/

The National Security Agency ‘expedited’ a FOIA request — then took 1,827 days to process it.

The Defense Department ‘expedited’ another — it took 1,119 days.

The list goes on.

Now, Trump wants requesters to pay $50k if a court expedites a FOIA lawsuit?

No way.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/expedite-a-foia-lawsuit-trump-administration-wants-50k-first/

Here you go you crazy kids...

Years ago I said software development was the new shop class--something kids were taught in high school to secure a high-paying career, only to have the industry replace those jobs with automation.

The professor in this article has the right idea: you should be good at multiple things (and learning new things), because you can not predict where the industry will go. Many people will have to change careers multiple times in their life.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/leading-computer-science-professor-says-095502798.html

#ai #automation

“I can’t think of anything more chilling to First Amendment activity, or more designed to prevent coverage of high-profile, newsworthy events, than to criminally charge reporters for being present on the scene.”

https://www.cjr.org/news/madeline-fening-lucas-griffith-cincinnati-citybeat-journalists-arrested.php

ICE is getting cozy while committing crimes. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/09/29

Can't you tell they're on the same team? They fight with each other over who gets to be in the starting line-up and who gets to be team captain, but they are both obviously playing for the same fucking team. Until enough people figure that out, we will continue to be stepped on by that ol' Iron Heel. The so-called Democratic Party is neither democratic nor is it any fun at all -- much less a party. We need to flush them ALL and start from scratch, imnsho.

What it's like posting comics online.

A message from Portland City Councilor and US Army veteran Mitch Green, urging Oregon Guardsmen to remember their oaths to the Constitution and refuse deployment to Portland.

#PDX #ICE #Antifa

Google deletes history: https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/

At least eight ICE thugs chase down one guy who was just trying to deliver food in Chicago.

This is your tax dollars at work.

These bullies get six figure salaries to hunt down people in the streets.

To kidnap and disappear them.

It’s not about crime. It’s about power and fear.

That’s why there’s so many of them.

I’m glad this guy got away, but so many others don’t.

Many won’t survive.

#abolishice #uspol #ice #chicago #fascism #immigration