Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/115595771285058740

Sad to hear about the end of IGD. Grateful to make the list of resources!

okay fine if we're spilling tea, the thing that really pissed me off was when they finally got a bit of NLNET funding, they paid me a really quite small amount that is nowhere near even being minimum wage for the time put in.

they organised it through some french charity or other who did not talk to me and did not help me establish legals. so i had my taxes up in the air for 3 fucking years because the dickhead who couldn't not shit all over master refused to talk to me after he dropped me in the shit.

Latest comic: Climate Silence

#climate #climatechange #cop30 #media #journalism #uspol #oligarchy #climatecrisis

4,700 of the 14,000 people laid off by Amazon were in WARN states which allows us to get a more detailed breakdown of the eliminated roles.

500 of the 4700 were PMs while 1,800 were engineers - the largest discipline impacted. SDE II roles were most cut, contradicting the narrative this was about eliminating management layers.

This continues the trend of big tech eliminating junior roles due to “AI efficiency gains.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html

Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test
L: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016074
posted on 2025.11.22 at 11:49:15 (c=1, p=7)

#Transistors. How do they work?

I need to make a switch which has LOTS of resistance when off, but *little* when on. How can I thread that needle?

MOSFETs have great on resistance, but they leak a bit much current. I need <1µA.

Bipolars don't leak a lot, but they also don't conduct enough.

Both parameters eat into the same property of my circuit from different directions.

HELP!

#electronics #askfedi #mosfet

I blogged about the fediverse. A short (hopefully non-technical) overview to send to my non-fedi friends and colleagues:

https://blog.sturmsucht.de/fediverse-a-new-open-and-social-web/

A resident of Washington State has died from H5N5, a variant of bird flu never before seen in humans.

First known case, first death.

Wear a mask, ideally a well fitted respirator like an N95.

RFK Jr has gutted the CDC.

There’s no plan to deal with another pandemic.

No one is coming to save you.

Masking is an act of resistance and radical community care.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/health/washington-bird-flu-death

#birdflu #h5n5 #publichealth #rfkjr #wearamask #uspol #disabilty #chronicillness

Another immigrant has gone missing from ICE custody after suffering a medical emergency and losing consciousness.

ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event

If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”

Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.

He died soon after

#ice #abolishice #disabilty #ableism #immigration #uspol

Post: Still We Rise @_stillwerise

AOC: “MTG is carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have
not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes.”

#MarjorieTaylorGreene

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Everyone gets to pay for AI even if they don't want to, Coercive Capitalism on steroids.

https://www.techpolicy.press/how-your-utility-bills-are-subsidizing-power-hungry-ai/

https://www.businessinsider.com/data-centers-driving-up-electricity-demand-and-blackout-risks-report-2025-11

https://www.commondreams.org/news/utility-bills-data-centers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/meta-enters-power-trading-to-support-ai-data-centers

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-boom-bubble-power-utilities-forecasting-demand-2025-11

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/11/21/ai-data-centers-should-pay-their-own-way-letters/87394652007/

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/columns/pro-con-dont-let-data-centers-stick-us-with-expensive-bills

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/report-growing-public-resistance-data-centers-ai-power-bills-water-land-use/

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-data-centers-threaten-global-water-security

I made a tally of the total planned AI data centre capacity in Scotland and I am a bit shocked: it amounts to 7.3 GW, which is as much as the entire energy consumption of Scotland, electricity + gas in 2023.

To spend as much energy on "AI" as the entire need of a country is madness. And I have no doubt that this picture would scale if I did it for the entire UK etc.

#FrugalComputing #AI

If any San Francisco Bay Area folks in my feed find themselves in the North Bay this weekend, on Saturday I’m going to be giving a live, hands-on, interactive weaving demonstration at Fiber Circle Studio in Petaluma. Drop by and I’ll show you how to make fabric by hand! #weaving

Yup, cats, and their wandering predatory ways, are a huge problem, and getting much bigger: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/579669/why-are-there-so-few-rules-for-the-millions-of-cats-that-damage-our-biodiversity they need to be desexed, restricted to the owners property, and kept inside at night.

All books on our website are half-off with code "GIFT" .

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=187

VICTORY! EFF’s clients just ended a dragnet government surveillance program that spied on Sacramento residents’ electricity data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento

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I am writing a book

The USA shows it's true colors,
"Exclusive: US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal, sources say"
The US is clearly not an ally/friend of Europe.
#usa #ukraine #extortion #eu #russia #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-threatens-cut-intel-weapons-press-ukraine-into-peace-deal-sources-2025-11-21/

An employee well being survey indicates rollback of pandemic era flexible working conditions (RTO) and increased productivity demands have driven well being scores of workers down while managers report higher well being. Technology, healthcare and education show these trends the most.

I bet 2025 employee well-being scores will make 2024 look like a vacation in comparison given how much layoffs and AI replacement talk has ramped up.

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-employee-survey-reveals.html