Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It looks like Purism finally got around to deleting my WordPress account, which unfortunately means the years of articles I wrote there no longer list my byline. It's a shame. I admit I'm pretty proud of some of those articles. End of an era I guess...

Due to the way the site is generated, the static copy of my WordPress author page still provides some sort of index to the articles I wrote for those of you who are interested.

https://puri.sm/posts/author/kyle-rankin/

@civillibertynz opposes the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill as an unwarranted intrusion on our civil liberties.

The bill allows search and detention without reason. The roadside tests used only show the presence of a drug and those tests are not reliable.

We do not have the technology to meet the standards of evidence in the principal act. Rather than accepting that, this act seeks to lower our standards for justice to match the available technology.

https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-land-transport-drug-driving-amendment-bill/

@stevesilberman wrote this: "When I die, please don't say that I've crossed over into the spirit realm, gone to the Other Side, moved on to a better place, rejoined my ancestors, or any other of those comforting fables. Just selfishly or selflessly use my own impermanence to WAKE UP to your own."

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How Exxon chases billions in US subsidies for a ‘climate solution’ that helps it drill more oil - https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/29/exxon-mobil-carbon-capture-government-subsidies "Climate experts raise red flags as oil giant spends millions lobbying while touting ‘underperforming’ carbon capture" #exxon is pure evil

If there are going to be climate-justified subsidies for owning electric cars, there should be subsidies for not owning cars at all.

#Forgejo v8.0.2 and v7.0.8 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

This is very cool to see this from #GNURadio... a case study of a sensible (principled - for all the right reasons) move from Slack to Matrix: https://www.gnuradio.org/news/2020-04-27-moving-to-the-matrix/ And it happened 4 years ago...

Is it just me, or when you hear someone talk about something being 'impactful', do you think... what happened to excellent words like 'important', 'vital', or 'profound', among many others? To me that word is vacuous corporate/government-speak. Yuck.

Last call to get a PM Press/Autumn Leaves tote when you become a Friend of PM in the month of August: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1

@NanoRaptor Check on those pawpaws every day, because they're riper than you think.

(Not a lot of critical decisions this month.)

To answer the headline’s question: No, it's not even close to legal.

Journalists can record police up close and cops can't get around that by declaring an encampment a crime scene.

It's not the first time we've seen this tactic, and it needs to stop.

https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/article291551465.html

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You can now reserve tickets for the Los Angeles run of our documentary, Vigilantes Inc: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen

Where: Cinelounge | #Hollywood
When: Friday, Sept 6 - Thursday, Sept 12
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#VotingRights | #Documentary | #VigilantesMovie

Corporate greed screws up the military when soldiers want to repair their gear -- maybe Congress will care?

https://www.404media.co/email/5650ce6e-7df9-4887-a02a-cfdb4244f8bc/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Donald Trump’s campaign forced its way into a restricted area of Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, physically assaulting cemetery staff and staging a political event in violation of federal law.

[fixed your lede, NYT]

Because this is the internet, I should be clear, this is irony. Satire of a certain brand of war hawk argument

Scientific American is the oldest continuous publication in the U.S. and it's our birthday! We're 179 years old. Here's a gif showing how our logo has evolved from 1845 to today:

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