Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

For distros using recent #pipewire and #wireplumber: We've released #phosh 0.52.1 to fix a crash in gvc when switching to #bluetooth output: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.52.1/

#LinuxMobile #linux #mobile

Most left organizations founded over the last half century no longer exist. Unlike the well-funded right, the left lacks enduring institutions to foster and disseminate ideas. Those that have survived tend to have one thing in common: they own their building outright, giving them financial stability and protection from the caprices of the market and/or government.

Every sweatshirt sold helps us get closer to paying off the building.
You can shop all fundraiser merch at the link in our bio.

WikiFlix is a streaming site for movies in the public domain, including Metropolis, It’s a Wonderful Life, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Charade. https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/

“WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest traces the last five years from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either.

https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

ICE agents just murdered an observer in Minneapolis in cold blood as she was trying to drive away, and are now shamelessly claiming self-defence.

An Act of Resistance

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

If your community uses Flock surveillance cameras, you are supporting increasingly obnoxious abuses of privacy and human rights. https://rangemedia.co/spokane-county-flock-cameras-immigration/

@nuintari @firefoxwebdevs @angelfeast @heptapodEnthusiast Also, the destiny of all software kill switches against a marketing-driven feature is to be removed a year later. Out dude seems to think Mastodon users have no experience of the computer industry.

🔴 This week’s comic is now up on Boing Boing
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A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at invading Venezuela
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https://boingboing.net/2026/01/07/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-invading-venezuela.html

Chuck Schumer has issued a sternly heavy sigh.

White House says using US military is ‘always an option’ for acquiring #Greenland - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/trump-greenland-control-us-military #europe should threaten to boycott US #worldcup - trump's weakest point is his vanity, this would humiliate him

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI", especially given all the boosters and AGI-cult members peddling their nonsense about imminent artificial minds. New from me & Nanna Inie on Tech Policy Press -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI":

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:

Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.

This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.

Thought it was worth sharing. And frankly, it's exactly such an exercise that made me disgusted with the tech. "It just says ANYTHING is wonderful and genius. I'm not special."

This is the document, Trump does not want you to see.

In 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, the United States signed the purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark, in a convention in which the United States recognised Denmark's right to the whole of Greenland.

Danish MP's of The Defence Committee will convene in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at 18:00 to discuss the defence of Greenland.

Full text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-39/pdf/STATUTE-39-Pg1706.pdf#page=1

@dvdhaven *First nations / indigenous people have entered the chat*

BREAKING: Denmark announces historical claim to North America 🇩🇰

Our Vikings were there in 1021 CE.
755 years before USA existed.

If we’re doing territorial grabs based on ”who was there first”... we’ll see ourselves in.

Vinland (Wineland, red. Han) remembers (original name we gave this piece of land in the Norse Sagas).🍷⚔️
#USPol
#Politics

It is absolutely *wild* to me that media organizations still do not put RSS/Atom feed info front-and-center on their websites.

One needs to dive into HTML code or use external tools to discover their feeds.

It is wild because this is one of the easiest, least-effort ways to reach their audience. Encouraging RSS/Atom use is a phenomenal way of becoming less reliant on gatekeepers like huge social media platforms.

Come on!

Dr Oz just announced that the regime will withhold Medicaid funding to the entire state of Minnesota.

This decision will kill people.

They’re going to force the most vulnerable to suffer to score political points.

There are other ways to address alleged fraud that don’t involve leaving the disabled, poor and marginalized without healthcare.

#uspol #fascism #medicaid #eugenics #ableism #healthcare #DrOz #minnesota

The solar PV story is pretty incredible. China's long term strategic plan (with all the negative things that went with it) is bearing amazing fruit that's changing the economic proposition around the world, especially in the poorer (colonised) global South: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8JFCJP70rg

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss