Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Colorado Wants Your Operating System to Card You

step 1: type any birthday you want. step 2: app decides you're lying based on "vibes". step 3: the app's guess is now legally binding. this is the actual plan 🪪🎂

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/23/colorado-wants-your-operating-system-to-card-you/

Are you looking for an experienced software and security generalist to help you with your project? Reach out, I know someone who can help (it’s me; I’m the someone.)

LISTEN: EFF’s @cooperq joins @thefinalstrawradio to talk about Rayhunter, the open-source firmware to turn hotspots into scanners that detect fake cell-phone towers (Stingrays) used by law enforcement. https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/22/rayhunter-with-cooper-quintin-plus-debanking-the-movement-in-germany/

I am BEGGING you.

Please, PLEASE, do not try to talk your way out of an arrest or detention. Do NOT talk to cops.

"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT."

Say that and SHUT UP.

Other Tech Worlds are Possible - via Brazil's Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST)

https://digilabour.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Other-Tech-Worlds-Are-Possible-Vol.-1-Homeless-Workers-Movement-in-Brazil-English.pdf

"Rupay is an employment lawyer in Germany, fighting for workers’ rights. Frustrated, working in a system rigged against workers, he sought out more empowering alternatives and discovered worker cooperatives. After years of researching and advising them as a lawyer, he went on to write A Practical Guide to Democratising Companies and to co-found a cooperative for cleaners."
#WorkerCoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3UyPC7L8b4

"Bharat Taxi, a platform co-op designed as a driver-owned alternative to capital-extractive models like Uber, was launched this month in New Delhi by India’s Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah. The platform is run as a multi-state co-op, with drivers, known as Sarathis, joining as members, shareholders and co-owners."

https://www.thenews.coop/indias-co-ops-minister-officially-launches-driver-owned-bharat-taxi/

So, in my circles, the phrase "purity culture" refers to the harmful & abusive attitudes & behavior around sex & sexuality in religious communities (especially within evangelicalism).

I'm seeing discussion of Cory Doctorow's use of the term "purity culture" to mean something like people who are (supposedly) so obsessed with being perfectly ethical that they harass others and...I dunno...halt progress. I guess he's not the only one who uses it that way, but it's news to me.

Fresh 20th Anniversary Fundraiser Merch Mugs are available now!
Shop new merch and help us secure our warehouse for the future of left ideas here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=255

Really awesome talk by friend of the project, @jadehopepunk on behalf of @coopcloud !!

Features a cheeky shoutout to common.guide if you watch till the end.

Neighbourhood-first software definitely fills a void we've been feeling as of late and are very keen to see that space develop!

Please give it a watch <3
https://tv.lumbung.space/w/nzuB248U2LQA1LCn7vYmER

I have decided to stay with Zoho. I know it is not ideal because the server for users in the EU is in the Netherlands and both the Netherlands and Norway (Runbox) are Nine Eyes countries. I might change the provider after 1 year.

📢📢📢 abra v0.13 is here 📢📢📢

TLDR; `abra upgrade` 👍

Upgrade docs:
https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/

Changelog:
https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/abra/releases/tag/0.13.0-beta

0.12.x-beta 👉 0.13.x-beta migration guide:
https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/#012x-beta-013x-beta

A huge thanks to everyone who helped get this release done ❤️‍🔥

Happy Hacking 🫂

-- d1

the future is still old news

#unix_surrealism #technomage

https://kolektiva.media/w/vjyo5hzJZ3cZJZaZD4G6vJ

For years, a massive decentralized network of neighborhood councils known as Resistance Committees has existed in the lands ruled by the state of Sudan. Anarchists in Sudan have been active participants in these Resistance Committees, surviving against all odds through a brutal civil war, as armed factions compete for power.

Comrades at the Dugout Podcast, a Black anarchist media project based in the US, have created a fundraiser to get money directly to anarchists in Sudan. These Sudanese anarchists are building people’s power from below, through mutual aid initiatives, food distribution networks and medical clinics. This is an ongoing fundraiser intended for the long term support of anarchist organizing in Sudan. Donate individually, share within your networks or organize a fundraising event in your community.

Our comrades in Sudan are an inspiration to what anarchist organizational methods are capable of achieving as society around them breaks down and fails to meet the needs of the people. It’s imperative that we support their efforts from afar.

Find out more: https://www.thedugoutpodcast.com/sudanese-comrades
Donate: https://opencollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

The FCC's new mandatory TV recommendations: https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/02/23

I just completely embarrassed myself in front of my 5-year-old for failing to get the printer to work... she is now VERY skeptical of my computer skills.

Troubleshooting this Canon Pixma and very eager to get it to work to restore my honor and dignity.

Hope you're having a better day than me 😅

> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

The examples included here are horrible. Not just the sex-shaming, but that too.

I'm far from convinced that a social media ban is the answer, but the comment is still well worth reading - especially by men.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse

#Introduction Hi there, we've just set up our first account in the Fediverse!

We are a local, #grassroots campaign, supported by #Medact Sheffield, and part of a national network founded by Health Workers for a Free Palestine working to make South Yorkshire's NHS a Palantir-free zone.

We hope to reach out to others on the Fediverse who support this!

We're revving up for a demo on the 12th of March in Sheffield Town Centre. See you there!

#UK #Sheffield #Palantir #NHS #SouthYorkshire #Medact

Popular YouTube creators hold so much power in raising awareness about alternatives to Big Tech platforms.

I felt hope while watching Johnny Harris's latest video "The Internet Didn't Fail. It Was Taken"... which ultimately launched a new initiative: crowdsourced journalism on a site called NewPress.

Looking at screenshots I thought the site was hosted on #Ghost and thus federated.

Alas it's on SquareSpace and filled with trackers 😭

Who can we get on the Fediverse? Maybe Vanessa Wingårdh?

Everyone wants to build panopticon.

They're just claiming it's to "protect children" or for "antiterrorism" efforts or immigration screening or whatever bullshit they think you're most likely to swallow.

"AI" is about automating surveillance and if you think "AI" makes mistakes now, wait until it's what the government relies on when heavily armed masked men raid your home in the middle of the night.