Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The latest in my #Signal Desktop saga: An annoying little banner has appeared telling me to launch Signal on my phone.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9021007554074-Open-Signal-on-your-phone-to-keep-your-account-active

Apparently I'll need to download a new version of signal-cli (my "phone") every month or two and access my account that way, or Signal might stop working on my laptop.

What a load of bullshit.

This 90-day pause on tariffs (not you, China) is just giving other countries enough time to divest from America.

The world becomes USA: United, Sans America.

Our weekly newsletter is out! #Community #MutualAid #Security #Privacy

https://newsletter.geo.coop/archive/newsletter-4-8-25

160 years ago today, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces in Richmond Virginia.

There are a lot of reasons the Confederates lost. Among them, its leaders didn't know how to run a functional economy.

Crippled by hyperinflation, trade deficits, & inability to industrialize, the Confederacy tore itself to shreds in just four years.

Democratic governors hit back at Trump order blocking state climate policies - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/09/donald-trump-tariffs-full-effect-executive-orders-coal-us-politics-latest-updates-news?page=with%3Ablock-67f67d578f08f6017755e37b#block-67f67d578f08f6017755e37b "The federal government cannot unilaterally strip states’ independent constitutional authority."

Solar panels and pristine forest: how one Amazon village is adapting to protect itself – in pictures - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2025/apr/09/brazil-amazon-environment-indigenous-capoto-jarina-kayapo-chiefs-raoni-metutkire-climate-illegal-mining-in-pictures "Metuktire, in the Indigenous Capoto-Jarina territory in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, is a pocket of resistance against mining, which has devastated the landscape in nearby areas. "

Strange to see people on here in this day and age talking about web3 as if it were 1) still a thing (we've moved on to AI hype, get with the program), and 2) not extremely conservative coded at this point. Trump is beloved of the crypto-bros, so if you are publicly crypto-broing, a lot of us are just going to assume you're also fan of this admin, rightly or wrongly. I'd have thought Trump going full crypto would have made it toxic for "progressives," but alas...

The BBC report there is aggressive sale of US government bonds happening https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8vyy35g3mt?post=asset%3A88198ce0-2ff6-4aef-b68a-221046550789#post

If #AI #Agents Catch On, Expect The Legacy #Copyright Industry To Turn Them Against You - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/08/if-ai-agents-catch-on-expect-the-legacy-copyright-industry-to-turn-them-against-you/

> "When a politician promises to bring back American manufacturing with tariffs, ask them: who’s going to rebuild the ecosystem Wall Street torched three decades ago? Tariffs won’t fix decades of deindustrialization driven by elite consensus. Only massive, consistent investment in R&D, education, and infrastructure ever could... say the quiet part out loud: America was deindustrialized not by China or Mexico, but by its own ruling class chasing yield.” #WilliamHuo, Intel’s first rep in Beijing

I'm interviewing Eiad Husham for @thefirethesetimes about his piece on #mutualaid in #Sudan and the resistance committees. What are things you want me to ask?

This is his article: https://newint.org/resistance/2025/revolutionary-aid-sudan

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It’s a sad day in America when student journalists must resign or write anonymously because they fear government reprisals.

This is the opposite of free speech.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/student-journalists-remove-stories-trump

‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet? - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/08/legal-action-climate-crisis-monica-feria-tinta-law you bet: "The more cases she has worked on, the more Feria-Tinta has come to see commonalities in how seemingly very different communities relate to their natural environments."

‘Magical realism’: how a fake #Hindu nation tried to take over Indigenous land in #Bolivia - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/08/fake-hindu-nation-kailasa-indigenous-land-bolivia-contracts "after he fled India while facing charges of abducting children for his ashram and one of raping a follower." bonkers

Many native #NewZealand species face threat of extinction, report finds - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/08/new-zealand-our-environment-2025-report-native-species-face-extinction-threat amazing how this ecoparadise has fallen...

We already knew that Clearview is a supremely cynical purveyor of facial recognition software that is becoming a core part of the surveillance state. Now, thanks to some great reporting just published in Mother Jones, we also know how transcendentally evil it is.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/