Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

US Big Tech is conspiring with European (and American) fascists to wreck the EU's ability to even modestly regulate this rogue industry, which has unparalleled -- and growing -- power over people's lives.

Fascism and tech are an unholy, and maybe unstoppable, alliance.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules

In case it somehow wasn't already obvious how completely repellent the administration's legal harassment of Becca Good (Renee Good's widow) is, *six* senior career prosecutors in the local US Attorney's office resigned today because they wanted no part of it.

SIX.

Battery-based renewable electricity generation is pretty much unassailable now. No justification for gas or coal in Aotearoa NZ any longer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR--t-eMq_Y

Microsoft now paying customers to train in Copilot AI

Please use our lying chatbot. Please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIzRJ0eZoDs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260114-microsoft-now-paying-customers-to-train-in-copilot-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 04 sec

General strike, Friday January 23rd.

Finally.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-day-of-truth-and-freedom-economic-blackout-ice-operation-metro-surge/

@flng @pluralistic

How to create a harmful dependency on a hostile entity in one easy step.

1. Elon Musk's Starlink is deciding the fate of nations on behalf of petrostate despots & oil oligarchs.

https://cepa.org/article/should-elon-musk-decide-who-wins-wars/

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r4veg0rrzo

2. Chokepoint democracy
https://idtechwire.com/czech-digital-id-edoklady-election-failure-2025/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/what-do-when-voting-machines-fail

3. Addiction services combined with partisan indoctrination
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/22/teens-social-media-and-mental-health/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mcgill-expert-warns-youth-despair-isis-resurgence-and-ai-fuel-radicalization/

https://19thnews.org/2025/06/internet-culture-algorithms-alpha-males-tradwives/

If you're interested in trying out Project Aardvark - a totally new decentralized social app that doesn't require or use servers and gives YOU control of your social data... now is the time!

The linux release has dropped, and a MacOS release is being built as we speak.

You can find the bundle https://forge.hackers.town/Wrewdison/Aardvark/releases

It's early days, so don't expect things to be perfect. Bring a sense of adventure!

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115896285175783665

@pluralistic I hadn’t adequately considered how AI slop-coding tools might be used to allow our overlords to steer our art and our communities.

As the Trump regime steamrolls everything in sight, congressional Democrats are demonstrating weakness with more enthusiasm every day.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115895838276928275

NEW: A note apparently from AFSCME Council 5 says they confirmed Hennepin Healthcare is "complying with a request" from DHS "for access to employee I-9 forms" which could lead to the "potential targeting of workers based on immigration status".
Interim CEO of Hennepin Healthcare resigned Tuesday.

This suburban Denver cop's bogus accusation -- based on "evidence" from a Flock spy-on-everybody camera -- forced a woman to prove her innocence. The cop didn't care, and wasn't punished in any way.

Rogue cops plus Flock equals a cancer on our communities.

https://www.404media.co/cop-used-flock-to-wrongfully-accuse-a-woman-then-refused-to-look-at-evidence-that-exonerated-her-body-camera-shows/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

“F*cking b*tch”.

We all know what it means. Most women know exactly the type of man who uses that language.

Jonathan Ross wasn’t afraid for his life. He didn’t think he was in danger.

He shot Renee Nicole Good because she wasn’t afraid.

He took her life because he was angry that she didn’t cower in his presence.

Didn’t show him the deference he felt he deserved.

These are the men DHS gives unchecked power to.

I didn’t want to write this article. I didn’t want to watch her die.

But we can’t remain silent in the face of such atrocities:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/misogyny-murder-and-renee-nicole

#abolishice #ice #minneapolis #minnesota #reneenicolegood #dhs #uspol #fascism

“Officers may approach and confront you, closing that distance in an effort to accuse you of interfering and possibly assaulting an officer,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told TruthDig. “It complicates things and possibly creates the risk of violence.”
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/watching-out-while-watching-ice/

We are excited to announce our first open call: a 1 year term, paid position for a special someone who can support the Co-op Cloud Federation with our financial administration.

https://coopcloud.tech/blog/radmin-open-call/

Please spread in your networks and consider applying!

-- d1

How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
L: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5638908/walmart-prices-inflation-affordability-shrinkflation
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618272
posted on 2026.01.14 at 11:39:43 (c=1, p=7)

Six Prosecutors Quit over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow
L: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resignation-ice-shooting.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618513
posted on 2026.01.14 at 11:55:29 (c=1, p=4)

The GEO Merch Store is here! Spread the word about worker co-ops with a hoodie, hat, or t-shirt:

https://shop.worxprinting.coop/collections/grassroots

Big shout out to WorX Printing cooperative for making this possible, and to @stizzi for the new logos!

Oh no! I just unpacked and tried on the sweatshirt. It's a different hue of green than on the site (olive), the writing is HUGE compared to my mockup so I need to stretch it out to get the message read, and lower on the sweatshirt. In short, a fail.

I used to create custom apparel at a local shop (always support your local artisans) but it went out of business after COVID, sigh.

I need to find a new one before FOSDEM. I'm on a mission to get this made 🥲

With Forgejo's scheduled v14 release for tomorrow, we will do our final tests of v14 tonight on our test instance.

If we can't find any issues with v14, we might deploy it today. We will let you know ahead of time when this happens, so you can prepare for 10-15 minutes of downtime.

Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights - https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/article-article-how-big-tech-shaped-eus-roll-back-digital-rights incredibly stupid: handing *more* power to US digital giants - exactly wrong