Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Happy birthday to Samuel R. Delany, born April 1, 1942. A visionary in science fiction, Delany redefined the genre. His explorations of language, identity, and queerness continue to influence writers and readers alike - a true literary pioneer. Check out The Atheist in the Attic here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=897

SignalGate has gotten lots of attention.

But an important point is being lost. A strong argument can be made that the chat is a presidential record.

This would be the clearest proof yet that the White House isn’t appropriately saving its records (again).

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/the-signalgate-problem-nobody-is-talking-about/

Why is Illinois State going on strike? Because the admin is all in on "AI," from the sounds of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWHWiYOnHU

@lwriemen The theme song for the present age:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_7Bmz73w-U

"As we hand over more and more of the learning process to artificial systems, we risk training a generation of humans who are informationally saturated but cognitively underdeveloped...This creates a dangerous recursive feedback loop: AI teaches children, children lose depth, and the AI of tomorrow is trained on their shallow thinking. The result is a slow but accelerating decline in the quality of both human and machine cognition"

Supporting AI=supporting senescence.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/160268470

A reminder that France brought out the guillotines right about now.

it brings me no pleasure to inform you that the AI bros are still on their bull shit

@williampietri

@blogdiva @raganwald @davidgerard just delete your LinkedIn profile. I once fell victim to the thought that LinkedIn was somehow a legitimate platform to be on. It's not.

Some thoughts about Mastodon compared to other social media platforms that I posted in response to a thread by myrmepropagandist / futurebird:
#^https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/display/a458a5a0-a1f6-4e71-a2d8-aa4e35926c36

dynamic_hubzilla wrote the following post Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:36:22 +0200 @damon @AJ Sadauskas @myrmepropagandist

Mastodon was designed as a Twitter replacement.  In my opinion, it does *very* well in that capacity.

But Twitter was never designed for the kinds of social interactions that can be had on Livejournal or even Facebook, so Mastodon wasn't either.  Friendica is designed as a Facebook replacement, with Facebook-like ways of interacting.  If you add and change enough features on Mastodon, you could eventually get something better engineered for social relationships, but ultimately it's taking a tool intended for one thing and trying to turn it into a tool intended for something else.

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!

#TDOV #TransVisibilityDay

"Should Americans face devastating legal, financial, and emotional consequences simply for speaking out on a matter of public concern?"

Nope. Every state needs a strong anti-SLAPP law like the one that protected this journalist in Indiana.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2025/03/26/iowa-anti-slapp-bills-free-speech-protections/82671223007/

phosh 0.46.0 is out 🚀📱 :

There's 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.46.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

1/N

It's in the beautiful Peak district countryside, and it's going to be the best ever. There are 15 bursaries of up to £100 each for members or supporters who need help with the cost of a ticket - register now at https://www.workers.coop/civicrm/event/info/?id=94&reset=1

#MarineLePen #banned from running for #PublicOffice after #guilty verdict in #embezzlement trial – Europe live

The French show the way to do it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/31/france-marine-le-pen-embezzlement-verdict-europe-news-live

#France #Politics #Fraud

If your city's police department is working with copaganda "First 48" TV show, your city's priorities are screwed up. Fine reporting from @ProPublica --

https://www.propublica.org/article/first-48-reality-tv-police-minneapolis-wrongful-conviction-barrientos-quintana

I used the 1-year anniversary of moving my newsletter off of Substack (they monetize Nazis among other things it turns out) to write a few thoughts on the lessons I've learned from the experience.

https://www.the-reframe.com/1-year-after-substack

The words "detain" and "detention" have definitions that are mostly benign -- e.g. "detained by traffic on the way to lunch" and "grade-school kid has after-class detention..."

That's why using "was detained" is carrying water for ICE when the reality is "was kidnapped off the street..."

Journalism needs to be much more precise, but that would require less stenography and more thinking before publishing.

America under Trump isn't feared for its strength.

It's avoided for its ignorance.

It's the drunk, belligerent, painfully racist uncle at the party that nobody wants to get stuck talking to.

It is, in fact, the perfect representation of Trump's own voters.

https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-too-weak-to-understand-soft-power/

New, by me: How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack

In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought
free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the
president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of
journalists, students, universities, government workers, lawyers and judges.

This story explores a slew of recent actions by the Trump administration that
threaten to undermine all five pillars of the First Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, which guarantees freedoms concerning speech, religion, the
media, the right to assembly, and the right to petition the government and
seek redress for wrongs.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-each-pillar-of-the-1st-amendment-is-under-attack/