Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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Because it worked so well last time.

A.I. actually stands for "Anti-Intelligence".

it's time to STOP shopping at businesses that allow federal agents to kidnap your neighbours.

DROP HOME DEPOT.

go to Ace and Lowe's instead. (and tell them why you're shopping with them.)

#Kidnapping #HumanTrafficking #Racism #democracy #HumanRights

Great news everybody, you can't block that new OpenAI Atlas browser because it uses an identical user agent to Chrome.

Absolutely incredible stuff coming out of Bozo The Clown School of Economics.

1. convince everyone you're going to fix the economy by slapping tariffs on everything.

2. Tell Americans that other countries will pay the tariffs, even though tariffs are paid by importers (you).

3. Americans gets mad when beef prices go up because as it turns out, importers do in fact pay the tariffs.

4. That's ok, the tariffs were really about rewarding companies who produce goods locally, so at least the American farmers are happy.

5. Wait, never mind. Other countries have started importing beef from elsewhere because US beef is too expensive now.

7. Don't worry though, it's all part of the plan. We will fix this by simply giving $20 billion dollars of taxpayer money to Argentina.

8. Ok, that didn't seem to have worked. Maybe if we announce we're going to give them $40 billion dollars instead?

9. Hmmm, bailing out Argentina doesn't seem to have fixed the US economy.

10. Lower Argentina's beef import tax rate to less than it was before you got into office, costing US farmers even more money.

11. Somehow all of this is actually good and part of a completely sane economic policy, I'm just too dumb to understand the grand plan.

MAGA - Make Argentina Great Again?

Sergei Brin and Larry Page couldn't have imagined when they were starting Google that they would be become enablers of fascism, wanton enemies of human rights. But if history is told by honest people, that is how they will be remembered.

(Not so sure about Larry Ellison...)

it's weird that as fuck ugly as the stock Cybertuck is it always looks ten times worse in any kind of wrap, like it must wear its shame or endure the god's scorn

Maybe the demolition will cause Taft's spirit to rise from the ruins of the Taftub and haunt President Fall Risk in the bathroom.

Every Legitimate News Agency Leaves The Pentagon Rather Than Agree To Act As Pete #Hegseth’s Stenographer - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/20/every-legitimate-news-agency-leaves-the-pentagon-rather-than-agree-to-act-as-pete-hegseths-stenographer/ more like this please

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

Good morning Fedi friends!

The results of yesterday's poll are in: 53% of you voted for #NextCloud – as in: the software I should showcase in my #YunoHost / #selfhosting for newbies step-by-step guide.

I've been self-hosting NextCloud for 4 months now and it has become absolutely essential to me, replacing Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive and WeTransfer. But it has so many more capabilities too!

I'm excited to do a show & tell.

Yay for #DigitalSovereignty and independence from #BigTech ✊

We’re better than fear.

We’re braver than billionaires.

We’re bigger than ever.

And we’re gonna win. #NoKings

I stopped shopping online at Target when it stopped being supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. So when Target announced layoffs today, I looked to see if the press mentioned this.

AP: Nothing
https://apnews.com/article/target-corporate-layoffs-minneapolis-india-f4d8100fa2bf4af67e4fb4e388cedf50

Reuters, 2nd paragraph: "The move, unveiled by incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke in memo to employees on Thursday, comes at a time its share price has lagged rivals and the company has faced backlash for pulling back from its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies."
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/target-plans-lay-off-1800-employees-wsj-reports-2025-10-23/

CNN, 3rd & 4th paragraphs: The layoffs, which come ahead of the critical holiday shopping season, are the latest sign of struggles at the Minneapolis-based company. It has been been reeling from slumping sales and fierce blowback to its retreat on DEI programs.
Its decision to end some of those initiatives angered supporters of diversity and inclusion policies, who felt blindsided. Target had staked out a reputation as a strong corporate supporter of DEI.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/business/target-layoffs

#Target #LGBTQ #journalism

Amid yesterday's #ExtremeWeather 💨, @bernardchickey.bsky.social was blown away by #NZmedia's reticence to use the C-word:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2OmZprpKo

If the driver of these hot & windy conditions is unusual Sudden Stratospheric Warming over Antarctica:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576739/antarctica-s-september-weather-driving-current-hot-windy-conditions
then #SeaIce loss over the Amundsen & Ross Seas may provide the link to #ClimateChange:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL115257

I wrote on Boing Boing about a new book by Bill "Zippy the Pinhead" Griffith: a graphic biography of his great-grandfather William Henry Jackson, Old West photographer and artist, whose photos of Yellowstone were instrumental in the creation of the first national park.

https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/legendary-cartoonist-bill-griffiths-new-graphic-biography-of-his-great-grandfather-william-henry-jackson.html

A bit concerning that the second largest TV station operator in the country thinks an FCC license requires Sinclair to "not bring any biases with us."

No, the FCC is legally prohibited from meddling in content and from being the arbiter of "bias."

https://deadline.com/2025/10/jimmy-kimmel-first-amendment-sinclair-abc-fcc-1236594347/

Unwary users might be risking their privacy by using OpenAI’s new web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, EFF’s Victoria Noble told ABC News Live. https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/privacy-concerns-new-open-ai-web-browser-126779458