Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Good reminder that lawmakers can read classified info into the congressional record with no legal liability.

If the government is breaking the law in secret, members of Congress should have the moral obligation to expose it!

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-hegseths-alleged-war-crime-will

Why do business with Trump-collaborating retail conglomerates or Trump-complicit online behemoths?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tomhead/115659063277687683

Yep this exactly. Like, this is the whole problem with ~rural reporting.~

People like to get up in arms about stories about this because we get to show everyone how much!! we really care!! about rural areas!!

But the only way most people actually pay attention to "rural problems" when it's their own pet peeve dressed up in a cowboy hat.

So to sell a story on rural corruption, you have to make it about Amazon.

And then nobody notices the rural corruption part.

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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The Republican Circus:
When they came for you, did I speak out? "Not me."👻
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P-type semiconductor? N-type? NPN? #CMOS ? #silicon is dope!

And you can build and simulate #transistors yourself: https://app.siliwiz.com/?preset=nmos

I bought Last Call BBS from Zachtronics to learn, but it's a game, simplified to the point where capacitors discharge instantly.

Meanwhile, siliwiz is used as a tutorial for designers of actual circuits in Tiny Tapeout:

https://tinytapeout.com/siliwiz/resistors/

Brb, redoing game challenges in simulator.

#electronics #circuits #chip #cad

The threat from such vague classifications is broad, especially as terrorism designations include financial connections.

Read the full story at https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/the-war-on-terror-turns-left/

Hey everyone, you can now follow @codebergstatus to get more granular notifications about our current system. We decided to keep the main account clear from the noise of smaller issues and allow you to explicitly opt-in to such notifications.

Important and positive news will continue to be shared on this account 😉

Sources: #Meta plans deep budget cuts to its #metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s-zuckerberg-plans-deep-cuts-for-metaverse-efforts oh look: a waste of time and money, as we predicted... #ai will be next

UK Government’s plan to “ramp up #facialrecognition” - https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/uk-governments-plan-to-ramp-up-facial-recognition/ "government need to focus their resources on real criminals rather than spending public money turning the country into an open prison with surveillance of the general population."

Ashamed to say that I never knew who Fred Hampton was or understood his impact until I was an adult.

History that isn’t taught is history that didn’t happen. The FBI, in collusion with the Chicago Police Department, assassinated Fred Hampton on this day in 1969. We can only imagine what kind of world we would be experiencing had he lived:

https://digitalchicagohistory.org/exhibits/show/fred-hampton-50th/the-assassination

#BlackMastodon #history #WhiteSupremacy

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.

Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.

So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.

Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.

Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.

Always Own Your Data.

#OwnYourData #SelfHosting

In case you didn't already know, plastic recycling has always been a lie.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/12/report-shows-how-recycling-is-largely-a-toxic-lie-pushed-by-plastics-industry.html

This course looks interesting and is a good example of the kind of ambitious solidarity economy organizing being done in Latin America that goes unseen and unrecognized in the English-speaking context.
https://solidarius.net/info/apresentacao_curso_redes.pdf

man, it sure is cringe that as AI is flop-sweating, it's getting propped up by huge contracts with educational institutions

(guess whose employer laid off 1000 people since july but announced "we have subscribed to chatGPT for everyone left" today)

Half of Europeans see #Trump as enemy of Europe, survey finds - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/04/europeans-trump-enemy-of-europe-russia-war-poll "Nine-country poll finds half of people believe risk of war with Russia is high and three-quarters want to stay in EU" only half?

Once again, we are fighting with an ongoing DoS attack. We are very sorry for the disruption of the service and hope to bring the service back online soon.

When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE

A Guide from Chicago Organizers

https://crimethinc.com/StandUptoICE

Are masked agents stalking your town, looking to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don’t know where to start?

This guide is based on the knowledge that an array of people have accumulated in Chicago over the past several months during “Operation Midway Blitz.”

As federal agents expand their assaults on communities across the country, it is crucial to share and build on these practices.

Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/

Quoting @morloi and re-sharing this here (translated) for you my Fedi friends:

“Today I fulfilled a desire. Thanks to @_elena and @niccolove, I brought a little piece of the Fediverse to the stage at Social Media Strategies, perhaps the most important event in Italy dedicated to social media professionals. Surprised faces, a gesture of annoyance, and hopefully a bit of curiosity too….”

Thank you so much Morloi! 💖

#fediverso #advocacy https://livellosegreto.it/@morloi/115657932664318057

“I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes. If you’re doing something unlawful and ruthless, there is a consequences. That’s why the military says it won’t follow unlawful orders”

Is this a Democrat saying this? Senator Mark Kelly?

No. It’s Pete Hegseth.

An old video has surfaced of him saying exactly what Senator Kelly and others said.

They got called “seditionists”

So let’s take Pete’s advice.

There should be consequences for war crimes.

Lock him up.

#uspol #hegseth #warcrimes #fascism