Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Just as tech bros have spoiled the technology sector, cycle bros do likewise for the world of cycling.

Hello Fedi friends!

What I'm up to for the next couple of days: https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KBF76ZF4MJ9MAGFAQSK4JWTK

It's so promising to see growing interest in the Fediverse. I'm hopeful for the future of social media (and FOSS tools), now more than ever ❤️

Wishing you all a great day!

Sen. Mark Kelly: "When Trump was driving the Taj Mahal Casino into bankruptcy, I was being shot at over Iraq. When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts. When Trump was peddling conspiracy theories against Pres. Obama, I was sitting next to my wife’s hospital bed. I’ve been through a lot worse in service to my country. Pres. Trump & Pete Hegseth are not going to silence me."
copy: @renewedresistance #politics

There is going to be a flood of misinformation at the House E&C hearing of NINETEEN bills to regulate children's Internet usage. This article provides some helpful fact-checking of what we know and don't know about children and the Internet https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/jonathan-haidt-anxious-generation-right-about-smartphones

"Learn about the power of Los Angeles’s Measure ULA, New York City’s take on a shared services model, cooperation between conservationists and affordable housing development in New York’s Hudson Valley, and more."

https://geo.coop/articles/fueling-future-community-ownership

I’m having my housing threatened for being disabled and have no one to talk to about it.

I just want to say that the way disabled people are treated when it comes to the most basic human needs is absolutely appalling.

I will try and ask for help from the community in the coming days … but I guess I just wanted to put this into the world to ask for good vibes and thoughts because I didn’t see this coming at all and it’s massively destabilized my health.

Bullies are the absolute worst.

Illegal boat strikes.

“Kill them all” orders.

Senate investigations.

Cardiac MRIs.

The regime is working overtime to make us forget about the Epstein files.

We can’t forget. The Epstein survivors deserve justice.

My latest is on the push to normalize pedophilia, the misogyny that enables predators and the way the ‘othering’ of sexual assault victims closely mirrors the ‘othering’ of disabled people.

We are not others. We are not expendable. Do not look away.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/15-year-olds-are-children-and-they

#uspol #epstein #misogyny #disability #justice #patriarchy

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets
L: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/openai-desperate-to-avoid-explaining-why-it-deleted-pirated-book-datasets/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114303
posted on 2025.12.01 at 17:34:15 (c=0, p=8)

Friendly reminder to support Soma FM if you like great stations like Groove Salad or Defcon Radio.

https://somafm.com/support/

Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/italian-canadian-volunteers-beaten-robbed-israeli-settlers-west-bank "Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence" #israel #canada #italy #palestine

EFF 🤝 @nostarch. Support the fight for privacy and free speech online when you grab this @Humble book bundle today! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-books

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing
L: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113232
posted on 2025.12.01 at 16:08:07 (c=1, p=4)

Authoritarians use technology to spy on us and silence our voices. We're pushing back to defend democracy. Learn more and Take Back CTRL today: https://takebackctrl.org/fight-for-democracy

Charter schools cost $153 million for 427 students, or $358k per student

<p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580561/charter-school-agency-reveals-enrolment-numbers-after-telling-schools-to-keep-figures-under-wraps" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">427 students</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2025-07/b24-maj-spend-rep-30-jun-2025-charter-schools.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">$153 million</a> </p>
<p>To be fair, that’s $153m over 4 years and the student numbers will probably increase. Let’s pretend there were 1000 students, so that’s 153,000,000 / 4 / 1000 = $38k per student per year. </p>
<p><a href="https://oag.parliament.nz/2024/educational-outcomes/docs/educational-outcomes.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">For the rest of the school system, the govt spends ~$10k per student per year, see page 10, point 1.2</a>. So Charter schools still cost nearly 4x as much and <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/578157/implementation-of-boot-camp-rushed-report-concludes" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">they don’t even work</a>.</p>
https://piefed.social/c/politics/p/1528069/charter-schools-cost-153-million-for-427-students-or-358k-per-student

2025 has been a year unlike anything we've seen in the US.

In the second Trump administration, attacks on journalists are no longer sporadic. They're systematic.

This #GivingTuesday, consider donating to support press freedom, so we can keep on fighting: freedom.press/donate

It wasn't even the soybeans that had the problem.

The cargo ships that carried the soybeans had OTHER cargo holds with wheat in them. The wheat had pesticide levels that were too high.

So the grain terminals that filled those ships have to clean up before their shipments can be accepted in China.

If you're seeing headlines about how China is "switching back to US soybeans" after Brazil's turned out to be contaminated

LOL no. It's like 5 facilities and 69K tons of soybeans.

Out of ~2,000 facilities and ~100M tons of beans shipped from Brazil to china.

https://www.thepoultrysite.com/news/2025/11/china-bans-five-brazilian-soy-exporters-after-cargo-issue

😂

I learned that some people are using AI to generate a summary of my book!

I therefore decided to compete with AI by writing my own summary, which I am calling Over the Cliff Notes.

The Over The Cliff Notes are here:
https://terikanefield.com/over-the-cliff-notes/

I also linked to them on the main page:
https://terikanefield.com/whyextremismhappens/

But nobody ever reads just the Cliff Notes, right?

As Aotearoa New Zealand considers the undue influence of the petro-chemical and tobacco industries on its current government, spare a thought for Ireland, where the newly-appointed Data Protection Commissioner cannot even legally criticise Meta.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/erin-go-blagged/#big-tech-omerta

'If you'd asked me a year ago, I would have said that this is as terrible as things could get. But now that Ireland has put an ex-Meta exec in charge of deciding whether Meta is invading Europeans' privacy, without confirming whether this dingo babysitter is even allowed to criticize Meta, it's clear that things could get much worse than I ever imagined.'

On this day in 1952, Christine Jorgensen became the first widely known American to undergo gender‑affirming surgery.
“We didn't start the sexual revolution but I think we gave it a good kick in the pants!” – Christine Jorgensen
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