Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“The real antidote to exclusion isn’t inclusion, it’s commoning.”

Said Dan McQuillan. (Because: “Adjusting the boundaries between the inclined and the excluded does nothing to challenge the fundamental premise on which exclusionary solutions are based.”)

Am just re-reading the end of Resisting AI for a talk tmrw.

#commons #civictech

Land Day, marked on March 30, commemorates the 1976 killing of six Palestinians protesting Israeli land confiscations in the Galilee. A symbol of resistance, it remains vital today as Trump vows to “take Gaza” and displacement intensifies. Stand with Palestine.

Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/

DOGE plans to convert social security COBOL to Java in just months is guaranteed to break it

My latest letter to my congressman today. Please feel free to use it to send to your senators and representatives

(full text in comments since it exceeds alt text)

I want to re-up this piece by Joel Simon for Vanity Fair which helps explain why those of us at the Voice of America are fighting back to preserve our journalistic autonomy — something actually mandated by law as a federal judge just illustrated. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism

“It’s this company that’s been subsidized in a lot of ways by the government, but now the CEO is trying to dismantle the government because he thinks he knows better than everyone, because he comes from the tech industry.” - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/tesla-protests-elon-musk-doge #musk the hypocrite

The mainstream press have *not* been doing a good job of covering the implications Rumeysa Ozturk's kidnapping.

I recently had a conversation with some strongly progressive family members who were concerned about the arrest and wanted to hear my perspective as someone living in the affected communities.

I sent them the Op-Ed, and---even as left-leaning progressives---they were startled by how inoffensive it is.

As far as anybody can tell, this Op-Ed is the *only* reason why Marco Rubio had Rumeysa Ozturk kidnapped by ICE agents and revoked her visa: #^https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

I think everyone should at least give it a quick skim.  I think it's especially important for liberals from outside of the Tufts University community to see.  Please do what you can to put the Op-Ed in front of more eyes.

Hegseth's Texts (Hegtexts?) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/28/2313002/-Cartoon-Hegseth-s-Texts

I should try this #GetFediHired thing…

Do you have a project or organization that could use some organizing and/or policy research muscle? I have a masters in public policy and a lot of experience in both community and online organizing. I like jumping in and helping out, whether short or long term and have a broad range of skills. I'm EU based but have dual EU/US nationality.

The full CV and all that: https://j-dv.com/

I have been working as a violin maker (yes, the whole thing starting from a lump of wood) so this is me looking to return to my roots. I'm more interested in a cool/worthwhile project than getting rich or anything like that.

Union boss Fain, who loves-loves-loves Trump's viciously counterproductive tariffs, denounces Trump's terrible targeting of unions. At least Fain gets it right about the latter.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shawn-fain-uaw-face-the-nation/

Looks like the government of Greenland is ripping off our designs. Get yours now before the tariffs kick in at

https://sub.media/product/maga-embroidered-hat/

I'm at a loss to convey how deep we're in it right now. To see the dumpster fire we're headed into, you have to know how farms, food, & money actually work.

And we don't even see it coming, bc US media has done a terrible job of reporting on ag for decades. I'm so sorry. You deserve better.

So that $10B bailout for farmers.

Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence!

But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making.

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/03/18/usda-expediting-10-billion-direct-economic-assistance-agricultural-producers

Let's talk about the payoff part first?

"Vance would make the case that Danish leaders had “spent decades mistreating the Greenlandic people, treating them like second-class citizens" - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/greenland-political-parties-agree-to-form-coalition-government-before-jd-vance-visit what, like the US has done and still does to the native tribes of the continent? #Vance is now a by-word for global hypocrisy

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

If you can avoid this dump, you're luckier than me! patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

India is creating the country's first university dedicated entirely to #cooperative #education and naming it after one of the founders of famed dairy co-op Amul.

[India's First Cooperative University Named After Tribhuvan Das Patel Passes in Lok Sabha]
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3323307-indias-first-cooperative-university-named-after-tribhuvan-das-patel-passes-in-lok-sabha

Hey, so it looks like we have a #permacomputing web forum now?

https://bbs.permacomputing.net

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