Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This isn't going to get any better until we break our complete dependence on them: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/540236/as-the-digital-oligarchy-grows-in-power-nz-will-struggle-to-regulate-its-global-reach-and-influence

Debian is the most significant Linux distribution for many reasons, and its decision to leave Musk's site makes me respect its leaders even more.

https://news.itsfoss.com/debian-logs-off-twitter/

Wanna know what's new in #phosh? @devrtz will give a short overview in the FOSS on Mobile devroom at #FOSDEM this weekend: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6323-phosh-yet-another-year-around-the-sun-/

The devroom has a bunch of interesting talks on #LinuxMobile (and other #foss OSes): https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/mobile/

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

Co-op Cloud kite-flying coming to you once again, in about ~7 hours at 12 noon UTC

Agenda: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

Call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying

Docs: https://docs.coopcloud.tech/federation/organisers/#kite-flying-hours

– 3wordchant

♲ @waynerad@diasp.org:

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"We are no longer publishing new signatures to the pledge on this website, but you can still support our movement."

neveragain.tech

#solidstatelife #domesticpolitics

Unions don't owe their existence to labor laws that protect organizing activities. Rather, labor laws exist because once-illegal unions were formed in the teeth of violent suppression, and those unions demanded – and got – labor law:
All bets are off
https://buff.ly/4gjQ2nn

Newsletter writers who use Substack should ask themselves whether they're comfortable supporting a platform where management thinks what Musk and Zuckerberg are doing is just fine.

Example: "[Musk] deserves a lot of credit for advancing freedom of speech on X, before it was popular" --

Warn your friends about Substack.

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

#science #CapitalismIsADeathCult

Someone just told me I'm "not the second coming of data engineering Jesus just because I wrote code once and got popular for swearing a lot in a blog".

How do I effectively rebrand as data engineering Jesus to irritate one specific person

Love the headline:

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

(I don't believe the "AI" companies are technically stealing from us, but their behavior is grossly unethical in many ways -- they're engaged in a giant digital land grab.)

im thinking about how much better off we would be now if the work of making gender marker changes possible and stuff had instead been used on restricting the ability of the state to collect and store gender information in the first place.

passports and drivers licenses simply shoudn't have gender on them, for example. they should not be allowed to collect that information. i'm a gender privacy extremist but it feels like that would have been better. imho.

Kash Patel wants to "come after" the press.

The Senate shouldn’t give him the keys to the FBI to do it.

https://freedom.press/issues/senate-should-not-confirm-patel-for-fbi-director/

#cargo question.

Use case: the application is going to distributed with a couple extra files alongside.

Their final location will be in /usr/somewhere. Thy are generated in target/debug or target/release while developing.

How do I force `cargo run` to give the application the right path to the target dir?

#rustlang #programming #AskFedi #rust #coding

Americans REALLY got used to Dems holding back the damage Republicans gleefully inflict, then shitting all over them & refusing to vote them into any position to hold back the damage Republicans gleefully inflict.

They can’t fucking help us, guys. America said it didn’t want them to.

More like the scapeGOAT amirite?

I'm not trained in #Marxist theory, but I feel like there could be some interesting Marxist analysis of the surplus value / surplus labor implications of widespread federal layoffs in the U.S.

Do any #Marxists have thoughts on how this plays out and/or can anyone point me to existing analyses?

Discussions that explicitly connect the dots between the #socialtheory and implications for community organizers be especially interesting, if such things exist.

(boosts welcome)
#Marxism #uspol

Hey fellow Tech Writers!

The Society for Technical Communication is dissolving and filing Chapter 7. It's the only professional society I've ever willingly joined (though I almost always wound up paying late fees to renew my membership).

Sigh.

https://www.stc.org/

Read the lates comics section at In These Times with Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen, mariah-rose marie, and Ruben Bolling.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-la-fires-jen-sorensen

My original post was generated by an overly-helpful WordPress plugin that didn't include everything I wanted. Plugin deactivated, back to artisanal social media posting!

New Help Desk: A Very Specific Focus

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/01/a-very-specific-focus/