Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

After years of constant attacks from Trump, a man attempted to spray an unknown substance at Rep. Ilhan Omar during her town hall event in Minneapolis tonight. Police arrested the man that lunged at Omar and used a syringe to spray a liquid.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/ilhan-omar-sprayed-substance-minneapolis-town-hall/3882424/
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The new head of the Ellison family's CBS "News" is adding more commentators (mostly from the right wing, it seems) and firing actual journalists.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689849/after-rocky-start-bari-weiss-to-cut-staff-add-commentators-at-cbs-news

Sad to watch a once-fine organization sliding into the same category as the Murdoch family's odious Fox "News" --

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda

In the past year, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness. We join with many others in saying that Congress must vote to reject any further funding of ICE and CBP this week. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-statement-lawless-actions-ice-and-cbp (2/3)

As the people of MN take action to protect their community members, there are many efforts and organizations that people can show support for at Stand With Minnesota. https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ (3/3)

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“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from incredibly obvious LLM psychosis”

please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with apparent pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/

note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.

When companies do mass-layoffs and adopt "AI" one quarter and report a productivity increase the next, that's not because of the "AI" but because their productivity is an aggregate measure divided by headcount. They reduced the headcount while customer lock-in keeps the aggregate measure up 4/

This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis. A crowd with whistles chased them off.

Just in case you somehow thought they were leaving Minnesota.

Just in case Senators somehow thought maybe it’s OK to give them a military-sized budget after all just because they demoted that one guy.

Trump Does a Soft TACO as Republicans, NRA and Law Enforcement Officers Oppose ICE Thuggery. A Gambit or a Real Climbdown?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/trump-does-a-soft-taco-as-republicans-nra-and-law-enforcement-officers-oppose-ice-thuggery-a-gambit-or-a-real-climbdown.html

Calls for #WorldCup #boycott grow over #Trump policies - https://boingboing.net/2026/01/27/calls-for-world-cup-boycott-grow-over-trump-policies.html spread the word #greenland

Note that I am NOT saying that attracting VC is a good thing. I personally think that US style startup culture has had its peak and that transplanting it from the US to the EU would be very bad for our people. I'd much prefer a shift towards cooperatives, based on democratic principles that forego the "lonesome hero" myth. That kind of investment would be far more EU style :)

Many TikTok users recently reported problems uploading videos, sudden drops to zero views, or posts getting stuck “under review.” Almost all of those complaints involved videos criticizing ICE or discussing the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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@strypey there is always a lot we sysadmins don't know we don't know!
A mantra of the terrain really. Adversaries, including automated, make a game of this.

I myself am studying every day, in some shape or form. The learning never stops, and this is especially the case as regards server hardening/security.

Several of my own students over the years have been senior sysadmins (20+ yrs exp) and said they've grown much through the training.

There's always something!

You'd think that every news report of Trump's dispatch of Tom Homan to Minnesota would prominently remind people that Homan was caught on video taking $50,000 in cash, plainly an intended bribe.

Sadly, you would be wrong. I'm still looking for any mention of it.

Reminder: https://newrepublic.com/post/200788/tom-homan-50k-cash-bribe

"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," Young writes to fans. "My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos""

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-trashes-amazon-greenland-free-music-1235505119/

This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight. https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop

@lightweight wow, what a list!
That is a great manifest. I am impressed. I have a bunch of half finished projects or half started things, but that is great!
I am just purchased politicians.social in order to host my first mastodon instance for politicians to get off x - it will be au.politicians.social for Federal pollies here - then vic.au.politicans.social for Victorian (where I am I am) and others...
I would love to see nz.politicians.social for your ppl in NZ? Hosted in NZ...
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