Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/04/13

#Humour #Cartoon

Tech question: What event scheduling tools / platforms offer the best security against passive surveillance, and why?

(boosts welcome)

#InfoSec #cybersecurity #e2e #e2ee

The arguments brought forward by people saying #LinuxMobile can't be a thing sound about the same as why Linux on servers couldn't become a success back then.

"Only for enthusiasts/hobbyists", "Look at the security/usability/[whatever]", "Google is the thing" (formerly Microsoft or proprietary Unix).

This (as back then) fails to see already present upsides of the project and the enthusiasm of people willing to make it a success (independent from corporate money and product life cycles).

I just watched the most brilliant TED Talk by Carole Cadwalladr "This is what a digital coup looks like"

🔗: https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like

It's filled with memorable, superb quotes about the broligarchy. A must see, to be shared widely.

But then I looked up Cadwalladr's online activity. She uses Bluesky for social and Substack for publishing. This is impossibly incongruous after her incendiary TED talk.

Honestly, it made me sad. One place is owned by crypto bros, the other is funded by A16Z...

https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-trump-corrupt-126329753

A new study from the RAND Corporation finds that $79 TRILLION was taken from the bottom 90% of the country.

America’s problem is not a lack of “abundance.”

America’s problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance for themselves while everyone else suffers. https://www.levernews.com/abundance-is-how-dems-lose-to-trump/

WTAF?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dIL_Ljro8

We are so cooked. This is what societal dementia looks like.

Latest comic: A simple plan

#billionaires #cartoon #comic #inequality #authoritarianism

HBD to Dennis Banks, a key figure in the Indigenous resistance of the 20th century. Banks spent his life confronting colonialism, police brutality, and broken treaties. Targeted by COINTELPRO and imprisoned for his activism, Banks remained committed to sovereignty, land reclamation, and cultural survival until his death. His legacy lives on in today’s movements for Indigenous liberation and decolonization.

Check out - Setting Sights here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=886

"I can't believe people voted for a misogynist sex predator," Democrats say as they prepare to vote for Andrew Cuomo.

"I can't believe Trump is starting a trade war!" Democrats say as they talk about banning Chinese electric vehicles and electronics.

"I can't believe people would betray our country for Putin!" Democrats say as they help destroy international law, civil rights, due process, free speech, and education on behalf of Netanyahu and Israel.

‘As an environmental scientist, I’m horrified’: Should supersonic passenger travel be making a comeback? - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/12/as-an-environmental-scientist-im-horrified-should-supersonic-passenger-travel-be-making-a-comeback yet another toy for the rich boys and girls to play with...

Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/12/uk-counter-terror-police-nca-misogyny-com-networks "Police set up taskforce to tackle online violence as young men seek victims on eating disorder forums"

Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers

https://labornotes.org/2025/04/kentucky-unions-stand-halt-deportation-two-hundred-workers

#solidarity

Mutual aid is not barter/equal exchange, and mutual aid is not charity, as a whole lot more seem to believe. Mutual aid is not a single act like donating to a fundraiser, it is a web of relationship that people enact with each other in an ongoing basis.

For today’s #DWebFellowsFridays, we are presenting you @zapotic!

Kiado was a fellow at DWeb Camp 2024, and he is contributing to the INDIGITAL initiative, a collaborative project focused on ensuring access to information in indigenous languages and data.

Learn more about his work here: https://indigital.surcooaxaca.org/

An incarcerated journalist explains how journalists reporting from prisons nationwide face relentless retaliation for speaking truth to power and are systemically obstructed from seeking recourse from the courts.

https://freedom.press/issues/unjust-law-helps-prison-officials-muzzle-incarcerated-journalists/

‘The damage is done’: #Trump’s #tariffs put the #dollar’s safe haven status in jeopardy - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/11/the-damage-is-done-trumps-tariffs-put-the-dollars-global-reserve-status-at-risk "Experts say fears about unpredictable policy are creating crisis of confidence in US bonds once seen as ‘risk free’" work of decades undone in two days

Due to a lack of ISP options, low-income and rural communities end up paying more for broadband than those in high-income areas. "There's no one to compete against, so the providers can get away with it," EFF’s Chao Jun Liu told @cnet. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/the-fiber-advantage-for-homeowners-faster-and-futureproof-but-unequal/

The TAKE IT DOWN Act is headed to the House floor. Tell your member of Congress to vote No on this misguided censorship bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-takes-another-step-toward-enabling-broad-internet-censorship