Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@davidho

Reminder of who funds Project 2025.

"Bradley, Coors, Koch, Scaife, Seid, and Uihlein — all have long histories of fighting for financial and environmental deregulation."

https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/

These are the half dozen dynasties ending American democracy for their own greed & ideology.

If you want to know how the dismantlement of the US government is going, there’s a website for that.

https://www.project2025.observer/

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I think reporting out how the unpopulated penguin islands landed on the tariff list would probably answer a lot more questions than just that one.

I'm sure Booker intended to filibuster the genocide and vote in favor of some other bill, and just got confused. Yeah, that must be it...

@lwriemen I didn't mean it was brilliant in terms of making anything better. I mean it's exactly the kind of 11th dimensional chess move that the right dreams of doing, by forcing the left to have to explain how capitalism is supposed to work and how This Is Very Much Not That before they can start in on Why Capitalism Is Bad, Actually

Protip: There are a ton of creative commons licensed art, photos, etc. available with just a little searching. Therefore, you NEVER need to use an AI generated image to liven up your website or article.

Leading the charge: how a drive for electric vehicles is cleaning up #Nepal - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/04/nepal-kathmandu-health-air-pollution-who-transport-electric-vehicles- "With air pollution causing a fifth of deaths in Nepal, growing EV use could add nearly three years to #Kathmandu residents’ lives" excellent news

I'd like to understand how Android handles some QMI bits and found tooling by @joelselvaraj for that on the @postmarketOS wiki (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Modem_Debugging). That needs a patched Android kernel, so I took some notes how I got that to work on a Pixel 3a. Just in case this is useful to others: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Booting_an_Android_custom_kernel_on_a_Pixel_3a_for_QMI_debugging.html

#LinuxMobile #phosh #ModemManager

Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale.
Is this the way we want science to work?

Urgent: scraping help needed to preserve all #NOAA data services from catastrophic loss
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569/2

“Just press and hold the buttons on both sides. Remember that. Try it now. Don’t just memorize it, internalize it, so that you’ll be able to do it without much thought while under duress, like if you’re confronted by a police officer. Remember to do this every time you’re separated from your phone, like when going through the magnetometer at any security checkpoint, especially airports. As soon as you see a metal detector ahead of you, you should think, ‘Hard-lock my iPhone.’”

https://daringfireball.net/2022/06/require_a_passcode_to_unlock_your_iphone

You just know that this is true, don't you.

#Politics #Economics #tariffs #Trump

Debian MountainCamp in #innsbruck: an informal #debian hack meeting:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2025/MountainCamp

Hello, world! We are Bunk Computer Cooperative -- a worker-owned technology #coop in Western North Carolina. We're building local computing infrastructure that's of and for Western #northcarolina

We're still getting off the ground, but we've been hard at work the last eight months and we're ready to introduce ourselves. We wrote an #introduction blog post that you can read at the link in our bio, and we'd be thrilled if you did! Boosts Appreciated!

Yours in bits and bytes,
Bunk Cooperators

In one respect -- and in only one respect -- this whole tariff thing is an unintentionally brilliant maneuver (absolutely unintentionally) because it's so fucking insane it's forcing even diehard leftists to explain how Trump is doing Capitalism wrong. It's almost like the Overton window got pushed so far to the right the left has to move right just to start the conversation about moving left.

If any of you want to do just one thing to make your life better - and improve the world - here's a very very simple thing you can do (and encourage your friends)... maybe, like me, some of you already do heaps of it... great, it appears you're on the right track: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BV2PQjXbtXA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV2PQjXbtXA

#ReadingBooks #LongFormReading

Feeling some serious Weltschmertz today. Especially for the folks who're so busy scraping by that they don't even know what's going in the world - they won't have the chance to 'brace themselves' before the wave hits them. I encourage everyone to do what they can to protect & insulate themselves and those around them.

Gary is bringing on the heavy hitters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shz3mSMqW04