Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is to whom the German greens* decided to give our data: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115903573043956778

* A right wing party

#depol #uspol #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #surveillanceState #Germany #BadenWurttemberg

BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth #ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you.

In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID.
The man calmly asks the most basic, #LegallyProtected question: “Why am I being pulled over?”

They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him.

Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway.

An #agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.”

The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.”

Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it.

At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID.

This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified.

ICE’s own training materials explicitly state:

“Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.”

In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime.

And here’s the key legal issue:

Unless agents have:
• a valid arrest warrant, or
• probable cause that a specific crime has been committed

they cannot:
• use force
• break windows
• issue violent threats
• detain or arrest someone

#ProbableCause
means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions.

Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting:
“First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.”

The driver responds:
“Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?”

The agent replies:
“I don’t know. Hands up.”

Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands.

At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat.

Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?”

The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking.

The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men:
“How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?”

He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle.

This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse.

No probable cause.
No warrant.
No lawful basis for force.

And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents.

This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence.

So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?”

The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?
#uspol #Ripped

Also just updated the Directory on The Counterforce website, which includes punk websites, blogs, zines, podcasts/radio shows, etc. Anything punk on the internet that is outside of corporate social media. The biggest update is to the Calendars category!

https://the-counterforce.org/directory/

#AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur "every AI-created work is in the #publicdomain means that if Getty or Disney or Universal or Hearst newspapers use AI to generate works – then anyone else can take those works, copy them, sell them or give them away for nothing. " yup #copyright

Are the 12% of dems who oppose abolishing ICE all in Congress?

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/01/18

#Humour #Cartoon

Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project built on disregarding consent, being applied to dismantle public infrastructure and institutions, is fundamentally a dick move.

And debating dicks is pointless.

/fin

I stopped trying to debate software devs on LLMs a while back. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical

Debating people who look past "chatbot psychosis", the dismantling of the education system, the gendered abuse, the generated CSAM images, the overt attacks on the media industries, or the ultra-right's glee about "AI", by showing them a well-constructed academic study is never going to work 1/n

@mos_8502

> The Python it generated looks right, as far as my limited Python skill goes.

I've seen oh so many horrific stuff in prod generated by LLM merged by people who thought the code looked alright. The failure mode of this thing nowadays isn't "this stuff won't compile", it's "if your problem has been solved before, it probably can give you code that looks right, likely has bugs, and enables you to ship the code without understanding it". It's also massively damaging for your personal growth.

Yes, Mastodon has problems and problem people. That's because there's people on it. Have you met people?

I'm not sure how there would ever be a thing involving people that wouldn't have problems.

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/115910470198130888

Translated: All ATMs from all big dutch banks rely on Amazon AWS. So if there's a disruption with the US and you think to yourself "hey, I'm gonna pay with cash", you won't be able to get cash.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115909375706083994

Aside: this is a *major* reason why I quit Bluesky and deleted my account some months back.

I would block a baddie, and because that crap is PUBLIC on Bluesky (?!?), that basically creates a "hate list" that's easily exploitable. And of course folks were exploiting it!

If you're going to use Bluesky, strongly recommend not blocking folks unless they're specifically harassing you. And don't block big accounts, that crap can come back to haunt you.

I went the other way, and deleted my account.

Trump has killed over 100 people in the Caribbean to “stop drugs”.

He claimed to invade Venezuela for the same reason.

Yet he just pardoned another drug dealer.

This time it’s the son of Republican Rep Steve Womack who was sentenced to eight years for distributing methamphetamine .

Trump doesn’t care about stopping drugs.

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is the largest in the country and has spread to three other states.

It’s growing at an alarming speed.

Over 500 people in quarantine and 200 are actively infected.

This was completely preventable.

These people didn’t need to get sick.

Measles can kill. It can disable. It can leave you deaf and blind.

It’s a vaccine preventable illness.

Shame on everyone creating distrust in the vaccine and refusing to do their part for public health.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-cases-double-vaccines-quarantine-rcna253989

#uspol #measles #publichealth #disability #ableism

Zuck's nuts for wasting the GDP of most nations trying to come up with his first original idea that doesn't suck instead of buying another app people are addicted to. The gambling apps are right there.

Given the newly announced 10% Greenland extortion, can we please give @pluralistic suggestion of repealing anti-cricumvention (DMCA equivalents) across Europe and the world a go?

Latest comic on the broligarghs' extremist fantasies of colonizing #Greenland

#tech #authoritarianism #imperialism #autocracy

I used to have a vegan blog "Surviving as a vegan in Croatia" and I stopped posting when Croatia joined the EU and we got all the possible vegan products. I also stopped checking the mail account I linked there (masked, so that spam bots can't pick it up), and today Google threatened it would delete it, so I logged in. The mail I got in the meantime::
- a few people asking me why I stopped posting
- people asking "who deals with veganism" in a certain part of Croatia
- person asking me how to go vegan from an official email address of their business (kindergarten)
- someone offering me a guest post about dentistry and then getting angry when I didn't respond
- hate mail from a bodybuilder
- a graduate asking if I could write parts of their bachelor thesis about the "influence of the Internet on making athletes adopt veganism or vegetarianism"
- a phishing attempt in Esperanto from a domain registered without privacy, so I have the guy's name, phone number, and home address, in Zagreb

#vegan

Hey over on another social media site most of the people here hate that isn't X I saw a link that let you buy surveillance equipment on behalf of people in Minnesota who were monitoring ICE (body cams and dash cams mostly I think). I thought it was a good idea but irresponsibly didn't save the link. Anyone here know anything about that? Can you point me in the right direction?

#Forgejo 11.0.10, 13.0.5 and 14.0.1 were just released!

All of them use an upgraded Go version with security fixes. We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Additionally, 14.0.1 includes a fix for a regression discovered in 14.0.0

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease