Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Watch a masked ICE sniper shoot a priest in the eye while he pleads with them to reconsider their actions.

No peace. No justice. This is war.

In the hope that this might reach someone who might some day be in a position to decide whether to allow #VPN traffic to their app…
Please understand that this does not just impact your app.
Most devices run background apps that use the network frequently, including privacy-critical apps like Signal.
When you make someone turn off their VPN to use your app, the background traffic for all those _other_ apps also stops using the VPN.
Don't be an #infosec asshole. Stop blocking VPN traffic.

Came back to looking at Ad Week magazine after a long hiatus. The overwhelming impression I get from articles is how completely the advertising industry has embraced relentlessly spying on people who never, every chose to be spied on.

https://www.adweek.com/

Here's a handy video on how millionaires like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are EXACTLY the kind of person farm bailouts are for.

pls pardon the clickbait thumbnail, it does have real math in it

https://youtu.be/3kEr0jb6zhU

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/08/green-groups-criticise-plans-weaken-protections-english-national-parks self-harming madness: parks are already under huge pressure

Britain's ban on supporting #PalestineAction also a ban on criticizing the ban - https://boingboing.net/2025/10/08/britains-ban-on-supporting-palestine-action-also-a-ban-on-criticizing-ban-on-palestine-action.html #starmer has made UK a global laughing stock

Don't trust cloud services with your creative work.

#enshittification #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity #writing #art

🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2025/1008_Chatkontrolle.html

The Trump Action Tracker is brilliant already, keeping track of the regime's bad acts. The UI could use a few improvement, and I'd urge several more categories (or emphasis of sub-categories), but I'm blown away now. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info

@lwriemen @lightweight yes, maybe not even a new phase. since the days of the power loom in the days of the uk industrial revolution, this kind of automation is a means to transfer the value in the skills of the worker to the factory owner.

🚨 BREAKING: Chat Control BLOCKED in EU! 🎉

Germany just refused to back the EU's mass surveillance "Chat Control" regulation after public pressure! This blocks the required majority in the EU Council and derails next week's planned vote.

NICE JOB EVERYONE! 💪

Back in the height of the crypto-craze, they had an acronym for this: WAGMI - we're all going to make it. The AI shark has been officially jumped.

'“We are in a phase of the build-out where the entire industry’s got to come together and everybody’s going to do super well,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the Wall Street Journal...'

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/circular-deals-bay-area-tech-21089538.php

This probably sounds a little out there, but just hear me out: how about we don't ever again elect a political party that provides material and moral support for a genocide?

"The mass killing in Gaza with US weapons has pushed a growing number of Americans to oppose military aid and weapon sales to Israel. However, the growing opposition...did not lead President Joe Biden or Donald Trump to curtail the flow of arms to Israel."

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/07/the-us-spent-over-31-billion-aiding-israel-in-the-past-two-years/

Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government

vibe compliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJVXS_E6iU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251007-deloitte-australia-retracts-chatgpt-report-refunds-government - podcast

time: 3 min 28 sec

I liked the internet more when it was an optional fixture in society.

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

NewsGuard is becoming a serious problem in the way it rates websites. Example:

https://www.levernews.com/reporting-reality-thats-partisan-now/

Ted Cruz picks a fight with #Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/ bad luck, ted, facts have a left-wing bias....

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting agents outside a Chicago ICE facility ... The rejection of charges by a grand jury, once extremely unusual, is growing more common in cities targeted by Trump's ICE and military...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-two-chicago-area-ice-protesters