Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Platforms die, open standards survive and evolve. I smell a revival of The Web the way it should be. Decentralised. Open. Fun.

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Details for my panel at Comic-Con with Lloyd Kaufman and tons of Ahoy creators:

AHOY Comics Gets Toxic!, Friday, 7/26/24, 5:00PM – 6:00PM, Room: 28DE. If you're in San Diego, come say what's up.

I've tagged version 0.0.1 of #libcmatrix - a #matrix client library.

The project was initiated and developed by
Sadiq (https://gitlab.gnome.org/pksadiq) in order to add Matrix support to chatty (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty) for @purism

It has been a bit 😴 over the past months but my recent interest in #unifiedpush derailed me and I had a look at the code base, cleaned up minor things and figured it might make sense to tag a release so here we go: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmatrix/-/releases/v0.0.1

Thanks @devrtz for the reviews!

J.D. #Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows - https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/ "reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist's close ties to the very elites he rails against." well, of course...

Imagine a robot you can trust. That's MiMi by Purism. Human-operated, AI-enhanced, privacy-focused. Fund the future of robotics! #MiMi #Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-announcing-mimi-robot-crowdfunding-campaign/

Both poles are now observing unusually low sea ice conditions, and therefore global sea ice extent is yet again near record low levels for the current date...

More sea ice graphics available at https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/

https://heathercoxrichardson-feed.dreamwidth.org/404480.html
Quote:
"Unable to continue without [the teleprompter], [Republican U.S. House Speaker] Johnson quickly left the stage. This was awkward, since two weeks ago, Johnson said on the Fox News Channel of President Joe Biden: 'Unless the president is reading off the teleprompter, I don’t think he’s capable of making these big decisions and that is something that should alarm all of us….'"

@EC_NGI and @nlnet make a dramatic impact to improve our sustainable, privacy and attention respecting #linuxmobile ecosystem. One of the very few answers we have to the duopoly of Android and iOS from Silicon Valley!

Because of that we are saddened about the @EUCommission not mentioning NGI programmes anymore in their draft of funding programmes for 2025. 😢

We signed the open letter, consider doing the same if your project received funding in the past.

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/17/news-on-grant-applications/

As an archivist, let me say clearly:

Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.

It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.

It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.

Silicon Valley where consumer protections go to die and scams & anti-democracy movements are hatched.
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/24/a-viral-blog-post-from-a-bureaucrat-exposes-why-tech-billionaires-fear-biden-and-fund/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-tech-venture-capital-execs-maga-1235060567/

https://www.wired.com/story/why-silicon-valley-falls-for-frauds/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/business/silicon-valley-fraud.html

https://www.pymnts.com/antitrust/2024/trump-running-mate-j-d-vances-antitrust-views-divide-business-leaders/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/07/11/jacob-helberg-trump-ai-palantir/

Don’t give up on the starting line.

My essay on the last week’s media madness & blue defeatism:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/keep-calm-and-fing-stop-this-s

as usual with this sort of thing, our take is pretty simple

execs have clearly forgotten that these programs exist to divert worker energy that would otherwise go to labor organizing

they should be reminded

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-microsoft-shuts-down-dei-team-ex-lead-claims-similar-programs-at-risk

No need to pay attention to the RNC. Project 2025 is their entire platform. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/07/12/trumps-project-2025/

We have just signed the letter by @ps to the European Commission to keep funding free and open-source software and hardware:

https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI

#EU #FOSS #opensource #NGI @EC_NGI

It’s reprehensible for UW-Madison police to threaten a $10,000 fine for sharing public records with the media.

And it’s unconstitutional to penalize news outlets for making (very little) money.

https://tonemadison.com/articles/a-reporter-asked-for-body-camera-footage-uw-madison-police-threatened-her-with-a-fine/

We’re halfway there. Thanks for all the support so far.

But we still need your help to get this crucial book on embodied resistance to Zionism into the world by sharing this project and preordering today.

Learn more and check out all the rewards at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/taking-the-state-out-of-the-body

#books #bookstodon #zionism

If you care about building a music library you can listen to for years to come, don't use Spotify, and buck against the trend of exploitative streaming services. Learn about where to get DRM-free audio on our DRM-free living guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #BoycottSpotify #Spotify

Kim Sherrell: “What’s the word for a guy who fears Trump is America’s Hitler but then a few short months later is working for America's Hitler?”

Steve Marmel: “Shillbilly.”

Holy shit; it’s perfect.

#ShillBilly #ShillbillyElegy #JDVance

Read the first five pages of THE TOXIC AVENGER comic I'm writing—where we drop you right into the story of an unfolding disaster.

https://www.thewrap.com/toxic-avenger-comic-book/