Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@broadwaybabyto Civil rights attorney Ben Crump's legal team arranged for the Colin Kaepernick “Know Your Rights Camp Autopsy Initiative” to fund an independent autopsy. Dr. Matthias I. Okoye of Nebraska completed his inspection before Reed's funeral on Saturday, Sept. 27.

On the afternoon of Oct. 2, the Crump team told The Clarion Ledger that the conclusive autopsy hasn't been finalized and no details would be released until it was. https://archive.ph/VVtLF

If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.

Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.

#Privacy #AgeVerification

A San Francisco Supervisor wants to amend a landmark surveillance law so it is harder to sue police when they spy on you illegally. Police are not above the law and this policy change will result in one thing: more illegal surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/hey-san-francisco-there-should-be-consequences-when-police-spy-illegally

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

#BeckyBarnicoat on the growth of #fascism in #Britain – #cartoon | Becky Barnicoat | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/04/becky-barnicoat-growth-fascism-britain-cartoon

#Humour #Satire #Politics #UK

Latest comic: Pundit bro doom loop

#comic #cartoon #media #journalism #authoritarianism

Sacramento folks! See you there!

I have a weekend blog post ready. I finished that thing I've been writing, which now has a new title:

Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen (and how to protect democracy in a divided world)

I take on some big questions. (See the screenshot)

The conclusions are what I’ve been trying to say for several years, but I believe now I've explained it better and with more context.

https://terikanefield.com/whyextremismhappens/

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@cstross @laird

For those who haven't been watching:

A load of AI companies are actually just OpenAI resellers. OpenAI is among the biggest investors in these companies, but NVIDIA is also big. The way it works is something a bit like this:

NVIDIA invests $10M in some AI company.
That company takes $2M in revenue for effectively reselling OpenAI models at well below cost.
That company buys $12M of OpenAI credits (from their revenue plus investor money).
OpenAI reports $12M of revenue and uses this to justify raising $100M more investor money.
OpenAI buys $100M of GPUs from NVIDIA.
NVIDIA reports $100M of revenue and an asset worth at least $10M.

Everyone wins! Money from thin air!

There's a more fun variant that is, roughly:

Investment firm has a $100M stake in NVIDIA.
Investment firm borrows $50 against this stake and uses it to invest in a load of AI startups (maybe even OpenAI).
Demand for GPUs goes up!
NVIDIA valuation increases significantly and now the firm's NVIDIA portfolio is worth $1B
Company slowly sells 20% of their stake (slowly, so it doesn't spook the market, but it's a fairly small fraction of market cap, so that's fine).
Company writes off the $50M investment in startups.
Company now has $150M in cash and an NVIDIA stake valued at $800M that they can borrow against.

If anyone except Trump were in the White House, I'd expect the end result of a bunch of SEC investigations to result in a lot of folks going to prison.

Choice is power.
Choice is freedom.
And I will never have anyone take that away from me.

@_elena kicks off Berlin #FediDay with something like a #Fediverse creed.

#SaveSocial

Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/trump-nobel-prize-academic-freedom this alone disqualifies #trump for any award (especially for "peace")

@hetzner now listed on https://jaz.co.uk/projects/orgs-using-ap?

Do you know a company or organisation running their own Fediverse service? let me know!

me, a small farmer: Small farmers in the US aren't peasants who need to be saved. Most of us are middle class at LEAST. Here's the data if you don't believe me

folks from The City(TM): are you sure? have you considered all the Details? this does not fit my worldview & causes me distress. so surely you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken

folks from farm country: haha yeah I know right

This is eugenics.

This is what disabled people are trying to warn you about.

People with learning disabilities had DNRs placed in their files, without consent, during the early days of COVID.

Now this man was left to die:

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-10-01/i-dont-want-to-die-downs-syndrome-man-starved-to-death-in-hospital

#disability #ableism #eugenics

Trey Reed, a 21 year old black student at Delta State University, was found dead and hanging from a tree.

He was the first in his family to go to college, and had only been on campus for a month.

His death was ruled a suicide within hours, despite concerns that it may have been a lynching.

Colin Kaepernick stepped up for Trey.

He paid for an independent autopsy.

He fought for the truth.

Today it was confirmed that Trey sustained massive blunt force trauma before he was hanged.

It was a lynching and it would appear they tried to cover it up. Racism is alive and well in America, and it’s being encouraged by the fascists in charge.

Thank you Colin Kaepernick.

Justice for Trey.

Adelita Grijalva won her special election on September 23rd.

Speaker Mike Johnson still hasn’t sworn her in.

She’s being prevented from governing.

Why? Because she’s the deciding vote to release the Epstein files.

Learn her name.

Call your reps and demand she be sworn in.

#uspol #fascism #epstein #adelitagrijalva

important note: the median small farmer in the US is a millionaire with a six-figure income

yes really

The word "democracy" has been poisoned by people who love dictatorship. BIg Journalism poisoned its own well. We need to talk up "local/community news and information" if we want people to care about saving both.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/dont-dwell-on-democracy-and-other-new-findings-about-how-to-market-local-news/

"With five congressional seats at stake, virtually all of our national legacy media made the choice not to send anyone" to cover a hearing on whether what Texas did was illegal.

Democracy Docket is there, however. More evidence that we now have to rely on small outlets.

https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/legacy-media-skipped-this.-we-didnt

When I keep saying that being on #streaming platforms is a pointless exercise, I get sometimes asked for numbers, or proofs.

Here you go. A single song of mine was played a MILLION times in 3 months, in 2022 (and, in later months, another 750k times), with a net gain of £33.

A million plays on streaming pays for a pizza night out for me and @silviamaggi

Took me FOUR sales on Bandcamp to reach the same amount.

So, ask me again, why quit giving out music to the techbros?

#IndependentMusic