Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets.

I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html

The message to the Patent Office is unmistakable: don’t hide bad patents from review. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/thousands-tell-patent-office-dont-hide-bad-patents-review

More on U.S. health insurance and HSAs:
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1890494.html

"Effective with plan year 2026 all bronze level and catastrophic plans are statutorily now HDHPs and thus HSA compatible. You may get and self-fund an HSA if you have any bronze or catastrophic plan, as well as any plan of any level designated a HDHP."

"The workers of Abundance Food Co-op in Rochester, New York recently voted to form a union with Workers United following a recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election."

https://foodtank.com/news/2025/07/co-op-values-in-action-abundance-staff-win-union-vote/

"In 2024, rent for a three-bedroom apartment in the co-op was $828 a month, a very affordable price compared to the $1,687 for a much smaller one-bedroom apartment listed on kijiji.ca in the same city."

https://thewalrus.ca/why-co-ops-are-the-solution-to-our-housing-crisis/

As one of the "fallen professionals" who ended up in a nonprofit, but who worked in the trades for many years prior, I can tell you this guy knows what he's talking about.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/benjamin-studebaker-on-the-chronic-crisis-of/id1607255944?i=1000740672437

The modern, European right winger is socially nazi, but infrastructurally liberal

Wonderful people from Barcelona: a friend of mine got mugged of her smartphone, and buying a new one is difficult for someone who just got an asylum. If you have an old smartphone that still works OK that you don't need, please get in touch with me...

Waymo cars ignored stopped school buses in Atlanta. What happens now?
L: https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/12/waymo-cars-ignored-stopped-school-buses-in-atlanta-what-happens-now/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46246683
posted on 2025.12.12 at 12:58:33 (c=4, p=6)

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Ralph is not pulling his punches.

https://nader.org/2025/12/05/open-letter-to-zohran-mamdani-political-moderate/

Gandi refuses to delete my account unless I upload a government ID, claiming that this is required under GDPR.

Pretty sure this is bullshit, especially because there's nothing for them to compare the ID to.

Stop making a commodity of artistic expression. There is no "good" and "bad" for art. There is only the expression, and whether or not it clicks for you.

The middle school band doesn't suck, they're building skills. The sculpture isn't terrible, you just don't see what the artist was going for, and that's OK.

Let expression just be expression; no need to give it a rating out of five stars. Doing so limits the power of human expression and cheapens the very concept of culture and the human experience.

Another reason to buy via eBay versus Amazon:

USPS treats it's employees respectfully and most of my transactions via eBay ship through USPS.

TIL that there is a World Porridge Making Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Porridge_Making_Championship

#food

Must watch for all co-op people, imho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMa63wautfg

Liam Neeson Narrates #AntiVax, Pro-#RFK Documentary - https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro so Neeson turns out to be a moron. I shall avoid his films in future...