Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/sharing-sensitive-leaks-press/

Tūhura Tech – Lead Mentor Wanted
📍 Location: Wellington, NZ
💰 Pay: $40/hr (Fortnightly pay)
📄 Job Type: Permanent, Part-time

Tūhura Tech runs hands-on tech sessions for rangatahi. We need a Lead Mentor to run sessions, create content, and inspire students

What You’ll Do:
Lead after-school tech sessions
Develop content
Engage with students and schools

What You Need:
Tech skills (Scratch, Python, etc.)
Passion for mentoring
Strong communication

To apply, email: contact@tuhuratech.org.nz

Anarchy in the Big Easy is an anarchist graphic history of the quest for freedom in radical and revolutionary New Orleans.

These stories are recounted by surregionalist writer Max Cafard and brought vividly to life through the striking images of comix artist Vulpes. You can help these hidden histories come to life by backing the Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/bigeasy

looking for a new colleague in my team:
https://go.uvt.nl/22644 "Linux IT Infrastructure Engineer" , Debian GNU/Linux , Tilburg .nl , 0.8 or 1.0 FTE , remote work partly possible

Deep dive on the US administrative coup from Lambert at Naked Capitalism:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/tankus-kelton-on-musks-doge-seizing-the-treasurys-payments-chokepoint-where-are-the-lawyers.html

Went to the annual seed swap that the local Master Gardeners put together at the beginning of each growing season.

Free seeds. All of them.

The library was there as well and gathered up all of the thousands and thousands of seeds that were not claimed so that they could put it in the seed library!

Anyhow....

A local Beekeeping group is offering a series of classes on beekeeping!!!

I have an idea...

You know how we have community gardens? You can claim a plot and grow in the garden even if you don't have a lawn?!

What if...

What if we had COMMUNITY APIARIES?!?!?!

How cool would that bee?

#solarPunk #communityGarden #communityApiary #beekeeping #mutualAid

Last call - offer ends 2/7/2025!

So in summary, it is not as if DeepSeek is running inference on some crummy cheap outdated hardware. Their cluster is close to state of the art and outperforms an A100 cluster on almost all points.
(5/n)

A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general...

➡️ https://tech-coops.xyz/

To paraphrase Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean (minus gendered language),

"The only rules that matter are these: what a person can do, and what a person can't."

I can pressure my congresspeople not to comply with any congressional appointments while any of this BS is going on.

https://www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/752544/

They rely on the perception of power, but we outnumber them by a LOT. Also, these people are brutal and kind of petty but mostly not so smart.

I know this is not all about me, but I am here and it affects me. And I have a responsibility to decide how I react to it, and this thread is about that.

There's a lot of stuff that Musk has done. One of those things he has done is taken control of the way federal contractors get paid.

1/who knows

https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/5/special-articles/governing-tribal-towns.html #indigenous "Tribals in South Asian countries share commonalities with counterparts in North America, New Zealand, and Australia in terms of marginalisation and subjugation. ... Cities, like Aizawl, Shillong, Kohima, Dimapur, and Itanagar are dominated by tribal populations...unlike other parts of the country, the question of tribal land dispossession is minimal in North East India. .. an intriguing question: How does urbanism operate in small tribal towns and cities?"

Let’s be clear.

These are Trump’s tariffs. Anybody else who knows how tariffs and economies actually work would never have jeopardized the American economy. Little wonder Trump was responsible for seven bankruptcies as well as for crashing the economy in2019.

The more you know.

#economy #tariffs #trumptariffs

Hey WordPress admins: my site keeps pestering me to use persistent object cache to improve performance. I used Redis for a while but it made it impossible to schedule future updates - i.e., WordPress lets me schedule a new comic (for example) to show up on the site at some future date, but with Redis running, Redis doesn't notice the update and the site doesn't actually display the new post until I manually clear Redis cache.

Is there some way to fix that? It is not desirable behavior.

Punching the twerps installed at various government agencies is ideal, but there are other ways to stymie them. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/02/03

This is also an excellent time to reach out to less unhinged people in "red states" to get them to lean on their representatives:
https://www.mobilize.us/workingfamilies/event/752152/

Here's the script I used:

"Hi, my name is [NAME], and I’m a constituent from [ADDRESS].

"I’m calling to express my outrage over Elon Musk’s unlawful takeover of the federal government, and I ask that [REPRESENTATIVE/SENATOR] [THEIR NAME] do everything in [HIS/HER] power to resist. Please refuse to cooperate, and support any legal challenges or investigations into Musk and his organization. Congress can stop this if we come together."