Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

How has everything gone so wrong in the last few decades? David Graeber gives us a clue as to what has happened!

"A vague notion of graduate employability that hasn't changed since the Cold War" hits mighty close to home 😭

An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-accurate-organizational-chart-of-your-university

Props to the admin assistants who keep the whole thing going.

Be like George.

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

"The rebellion against the rich and their misrule has been treated by national Democrats as a threat to the status quo, from which they get rich. Thus they force the rebellion to be led by Trump, where it’s badly misused."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/the-frog-or-the-scorpion-do-democrats-really-need-to-ask-who-caused-the-mess-were-in.html

Encryption shifts the economics of attack.

Plaintext can be slurped up by dragnet surveillance and analyzed at the attacker's convenience.

Transport-layer encryption makes passive attacks ineffective, forcing governments to attack the servers to spy on everyone.

End-to-end encryption like Signal forces governments to choose their targets and expend resources on attacking each one, proactively.

The more people that use E2EE for traffic the governments aren't interested in, the more goddamn haystack there is to sift through in search of needles.

The economies of scale go away if the E2EE makes popping servers useless to the governments. This is why I insist the centralization of Signal is a red herring.

Did you know:
*70% of NZers think commercial fishing needs to change. 🎣
*72% want stronger laws to protect oceans and marine life. 🐳
*74% support a ban of #BottomTrawling in the South Pacific high seas 🐙
*75% think more of the ocean should be protected. 🌊
*79% want ocean Sanctuaries to be established in the South Pacific Ocean. 🦈
*81% want cameras on ALL commercial fishing vessels. 🐬

The government is representative of who, exactly?

#ocean #ProtectTheOcean #fisheries #NZPol

I think this is my favorite build so far. Each of those stencils and the blueprint are getting 5X mult. Did great up to ante 12, where it immediately sputtered out. #balatro

“AI will replace X” is shorthand for “I don’t understand AI and I don’t understand X”
-- Gian Perrone

#AI

Big Tech is taking down posts that discuss abortion – even when they don’t violate content policies or guidelines. We can push back against this digital suppression: https://www.eff.org/uncensored. #StopCensoringAbortion

"... one thing is clear: the government doesn't want you to know what the public think of their draft bill. Which invites the question: what are they afraid of?"

@norightturnnz, 2025

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/02/national-doesnt-want-you-to-know-what.html

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Apt for NZ...

"It's the economy, stupid. Aim everything at that one issue. The DOGE firings: A billionaire is cutting your benefits. USAID: A billioniare is starving kids and endangering allies. The budget fight: Tax cuts for billionaires will steal school lunch money from your kids. Turn the overwhelming onslaught of everything into one thing....

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“You kind of need these encrypted services …l from the people that are making the (operating system) on your phone,” EFF’s @joemullin told @CNN. “That’s why so much of the encryption conversation is around what Google and Apple are doing.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/tech/apple-advanced-data-protection-uk-encryption/index.html

Listening to this guy talking about a 'sledgehammer' approach to emergency response radio/cellular networking, I'm struck by how cool it would be if those incredible communications devices (smart phones) most of us have in our pockets... could be untethered from their cell towers & so they could communicate directly with one another... they have the inherent capability, but then the telcos no longer control the interactions (& can't charge for them)... I think we need more forceful regulation.

I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better - Joan Westenberg:
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/im-tired-of-pretending-tech-is-making-the-world-better/

Welcome to my life! Mood!

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Whatever you're building right now that brings people together to make a small thing better, keep building it.

Whatever you're maintaining right now that supports your community, keep maintaining it.

May there be joy in that work.

Even if it feels useless, keep at it. You have no idea how far reaching the effects might be.

Anyone remember that 1988 John Carpenter movie "They Live"?

#ProtestArt in #Brazil riffing on #Trump and #Musk with that movie's central conceit, using lenticular printing (another image revealed from a different angle), no special sunglasses needed:

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