Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Apparently my Fedi promo video is giving error messages on YouTube (shocker).

So I just logged on YouTube Studio for the first time in months to see what's going on... and found some interesting comments.

I'm not caffeinated enough to deliver zingers but I hope my response was adequate.

On the upside, I also saw a few comments of people who set up new accounts here, so yay.

As for the unplayable problem: no clue. But this is why I LOVE #PeerTube and on my website I'm using the PeerTube embed

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IDK seems fun to post this.

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by CBP/ICE.

Agent Charles Exum shot her five times. She miraculously survived.

DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist.

She went to court to get the body cam footage released.

It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn.

Saying “do something b*tch”.

Ramming her car.

Shooting her.

Hours after the shooting, Greg Bovino emailed the agent and offered to delay his retirement in light of his excellent service.

The email said “you have much left to do”.

Other agents praised the shooting.

Said they should celebrate.

Exum bragged… “5 shots, 7 holes”

Ms Martinez showed incredible courage by fighting to ensure this footage was released to the public.

Everyone should watch it. Make sure the world sees this.

She’s standing up for Silverio Gonzalez.

For Keith Porter.

For Renee Nicole Good.

For Alex Pretti.

For everyone murdered by this regime.

She’s exposing ICE/CBP for who & what they are.

Thank you Marimar.
#uspol #ice #abolishice #cbp #immigration #fascism #marimarmartinez

Themed Co-op Cloud kite-flying, coming up in ~7.5 hours at 12 UTC today, Thursday 11th February 🪁

Today, we'll be talking about automating Co-op Cloud using Ansible (and maybe other tools).

Voice/video call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying#config.disableAudioLevels=true

Collaborative agenda / notes: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

– 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech

Gallup polling organization joins the quislings, announcing it'll stop doing presidential approval surveys, not coincidentally just when Trump's negatives are super-high.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"

The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!

“ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.” https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/

Californians need to know that a "Democrat" running for governor is basically a tool of the worst tech barons. Gil Duran explains. https://www.thenerdreich.com/palantir-for-governor/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

Please check on the trans people in your life today.

The anti trans rhetoric is everywhere.

Those on the right are purposefully stoking fear and division in an attempt to destroy an entire marginalized group.

We can’t let them get away with it.

Trans rights are human rights.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Underwhelming turnout for 'pro-billionaire' march ... https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/san-franciscos-pro-billionaire-march-draws-dozens/

Wikipedia is written by volunteers—but defended by lawyers when necessary. We spoke with Wikimedia about legal threats, global takedown demands, and why Section 230 remains essential. https://www.eff.org/pages/internet-still-works-wikipedia-defends-its-editors

“Free” surveillance is a trap. Vendor trials, private donors, and federal grants hand police no‑cost tools that quietly build massive databases on all of us and feed ICE and DHS pipelines. Cities can and should refuse the bait.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/free-surveillance-tech-still-comes-high-and-dangerous-cost

It’s always fun when you get to use more advanced techniques when programming.

@lwriemen
This 👇

"I describe ChatGPT as “the opposite of good software”. As in, it’s not just bad software, it’s as if they wrote up an inventory of what makes software good and then decided for each and every entry in the list to implement the exact opposite in their app and service design."

Help us, big, beautiful stroke, you're our only hope.

AI-"enhanced" tools are making surgeons worse. Part of me thinks this is all part of the plan, given the Silicon Valley billionaire freaks legit seem to want most of us to die.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/reuters-finds-ai-using-surgery-devices-harmed-patients-nature-magazine-and-reuters-find-medical-chatbots-not-beating-patients-own-internet-sleuthing.html

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

It's shockingly cheap to dismantle surveillance systems. You can poison them in your free time.
https://youtu.be/AJf4SNuDnoI?si=2_qOUwL2QjQMwTks

Some of my favorite international political cartoons from @cartoonmovement this week, by Matthew Fuller, Deb Milbrath, Gatis Sluka and Franco Juri.

More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#PoliticalCartoons #PoliticalSatire #EditorialCartoons #CartoonMovement