Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

My fellow Americans, ours is a rogue state.

I demand the immediate impeachment, arrest, and trial of all Trump administration officials involved in the war crimes which took place in Venezuela over the last several months. This is a clear abuse of power, and it obviously amounts to war crimes.

Donald Trump, and his administration, is a clear and present danger to all civilized people throughout the world.

"Millions of people are using AI! It's the world's most popular technology. People clearly want it."

Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every business deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, so none of these user numbers can actually be trusted

Anybody who trots out the "this is an incredibly popular tech used by millions, be careful about regulating its harms" is being a manipulative dick. They know it, so you should remember it too.

This is a very good point, and something I need to keep at the front of my mind. Even if there was somehow a magic use case for LLMs and other AI bullshit machines, that would not justify:

• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture behind corporate ownership.
• Giving fascists a giant disinfo machine.

https://toot.cat/@zkat/115773741492078349

„I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.“

That’s so wild, if it’s true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/s/S8WTkwkvN8

Next up for PM we have Mason in to talk about their setup, influences and memories from their favourite shows.

https://askapunk.au/articles/pm-mason
#punk #pfm

Building Social Wealth through Mutual Aid: An Interview with Stephanie Rearick

https://geo.coop/articles/building-social-wealth-through-mutual-aid

🎆🎇WINNER🎇🎆
2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR

So out of the blue I got a request for access to a 10 year old Google Docs file. This request also came from someone who actually might be interested in that file, so I contacted him. Turns out he was making **exercise schedules** and had asked Google Gemini for help, and Gemini decided it needed access to my document on a new government law (from 2015). So be careful out there!

New phone, new phone OS to break the duopoly. Thanks @agx @z3ntu for the work in progress.

#Phosh #postmarketOS #Fairphone #Fairphone6 #LinuxMobile

Hey #Punk ! Happy #Fediverse Punk Month !

Check for more for info:
http://allpunkspleaseleavemeta.com/

#fediversepunkmonth

Happy New Year! Our Holiday sale is being extended thru 1/5/2026. There’ s just a few days left to get 50% off all books and e-books with code GIFT at pmpress.org!

It’s New Years Eve and that means a predictable glut of articles about “How to save money this year” with dumbass tips such as “Get those birthday freebies most restaurants give out” and “Declutter: make money from your unused junk.”

Hey, I’ve got an idea… how about we TAX BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE! They and their children could never spend their hoarded wealth in multiple lifetimes even if they tried!

With that money we could *easily* feed the hungry, house the homeless, provide universal healthcare, free college education, and free childcare.

A better society is possible, but not while billionaires exist.

#TaxTheRich

Until Kari Lake seized control of USAGM and collaborated with Elon Musk’s DOGE to dismantle the Voice of America, the VOA Persian Service had a 24/7 satellite TV channel, multimedia website and five social media platforms reaching ~16% of Iranian adults.

MAHA says that “Year One” has brought back “gold standard science”.

The truth?

2,000 measles cases

The first paediatric measles deaths in a decade

28,000 pertussis cases (500 in Arkansas alone)

A gunman & MAHA supporter targeted the CDC because vaccines “harmed him”

Forever chemicals added to food

Formaldehyde limits in the air doubled.

“Gold standard” eugenics.

ICE ripped a full time caregiver and father away from his disabled and bedbound son.

Without his father to take care of him, the son has ended up in the hospital.

This is cruel and unusual punishment.

Caregivers are an extension of us.

If they’re suddenly taken away, disabled people will die.

Shame on ICE for making this man suffer more than he already was.

#ice #uspol #fascism #disability #ableism #eugenis #abolishice

"omg why isn't this on #spotify" shut upp shut uppp use an illegal downloader website and put it on ur phone. burn it onto a cd with the media player on your shitty laptop. get a refurbished mp3 player and put thousands of songs on there. im kissing u on the forehead and leaving behind a lipstick mark shaped like a usb drive. stop letting spotify define your music listening habits.

oh my god https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 14 (by @luisrazeto, translated by @Matt_Noyes)

"...we move to the question of cooperative integration in economic operations, with the author proposing the creation of four intercooperative bodies: an exchange for cooperative shares, a labor exchange, a financial entity, and a research and development arm."

https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-14