Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Why the heck do I have blocked people on my account? I'm pretty sure I never blocked anyone.

#Mastodon can be really paternalistic sometimes. I don't want to be protected according to someone else's preferences.

/me unblocks and unmutes 145 people

Honestly, how the hell am I supposed to know which ones are the 20 I muted for good reason?

#socialmedia

We have published a new zine (De-monopoly DiscoTech 101) with a Japanese version (requested by comrades in Japan who were interested in running their own DiscoTech events)

Shout out to RTM members who made reading a zine on our website easy and fun!

https://resisttechmonopolies.online/projects/zines/

~ ammar

Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.

Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

But my main question is still mostly this: Am I primarily going to cause headaches for devs and users, or is this really a thing with pretty widespread and stable support?

(I'd like to do some experiments of my own, but I can only test so many servers and so many libraries in various languages!)

6/6

"#ICE🚨deported a 5-yr-old US citizen from Texas to Honduras. Reports say no alternative placement was offered, CPS was not notified, & relatives were not contacted.

Not to be confused with a sep case last year where a fam was given the option to let a US citizen child stay with relatives, this deportation occurred on Jan 11, 2026.

Nat media hasn’t picked it up.🚨Many cases like this stay confined to local reporting."
-WarMonitor
#Deportations #Sadism #Protest #DHS #USPol
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/article/ice-deports-austin-girl-honduras-21298653.php

@tante glad you brought that up. The increasing complexity is an issue for self hosting or community hosting.
One mitigation approach is @coopcloud. we create configuration commons together for easy deployment and are currently ramping up dedicated maintainers for popular software. everyone interested check it out and join us in creating configuration commons for open source software with democratic decision making.

Bill Gates charity trust’s holdings in fossil fuel firms rise despite divestment claims - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/19/bill-gates-charity-trusts-holdings-in-fossil-fuel-firms-rise-despite-divestment-claims gates was never one of the good ones, no matter what he wanted us to believe... #windows #microsoft

January is FEDIVERSE PUNK MONTH! We took steps to get off the meta platforms, created our new account here and are currenty working on a newsletter. Exciting things are in the works!

We also took some time to do an interview with COUNTERFORCE about all of it. You can read it here: https://the-counterforce.org/k-town-hardcore-fest/

... please sign up for the newsletter - we promise it's one that you'll be looking forward to opening every time! https://ktownhardcorefest.org/newsletter/

@pluralistic "Corporate Social Media" is just "Corporate Media" nothing else. As you said the social component is not wanted as it doesn't generate dollars.

With the rise of AI even the last human element - the content creators - have been replaced.

I strongly believe that social media/web/connections can only truly exist when people - not corporations - with the interest in it own and host it. Like the discussion boards of the past or the fediverse of now. .

We have recorded from about 10 minutes of downtime, we apologize for the disruption.

In recent days, we have repeatedly encountered high memory usage from Git processes.

Today, the system was restarted in an unfortunate moment and left a corrupted (probably incomplete) service file that required manual intervention and delayed recovery.

We are continuing investigation for the root cause and improved detection and automatic correction for unexpected memory usage.

Remember when FB got busted trying to manipulate people's emotional states through their feed? I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't something similar. Definitely wouldn't put it past them.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens

Armin Ronacher, who even very recently has previously has been very pro ai agent vibecoding to the point of criticizing critics, seems to have stepped back and asked the question: are AI coding agent users all experiencing mass delusion... including himself? https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

Conversation on lobste.rs is also interesting https://lobste.rs/s/0pxvyd/agent_psychosis_are_we_going_insane

How do you train the dumbest guys in the country? You don't! https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/01/19

"Code is now disposable, you can regenerate systems in minutes", he says as I watch him going round and round in circles trying to get Claude to fix a bug.

@trumpwatch.bsky.social

They should consider rescinding Machado's #NobelPeacePrize for treating it disrespectfully & degrading its value, meaning & prestige, derived from the respect & prestige w/which the global community holds the Nobel Prize Committee & its processes.

Without them, it's worthless.

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?