Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Trump's official denouncement of former CISA director Chris Krebs (in the form of a "Presidential Memorandum") is chilling in substance and utterly Stalinesque in tone. By threatening anyone who hires him, it aims to render Krebs effectively unemployable.

I said it then, and I will repeat it now: There is no simply evidence that the 2020 election was "hacked". Krebs's forthright clarity about this in November, 2020 was a brave and important act of public service.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/

Poisoning GenAI music algos. More like this please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA

Community Repair Network: bringing repair to every community. "We’ve put together an extensive map of community repair groups in the UK. Use it to find your nearest Repair Café, Restart Party or similar group." https://communityrepairnetwork.org.uk/
#SolarPunkSunday #ReUse #RepairCafe #RepairCafes #Community #UK

New books chart #Biden’s downfall – and the picture is damning for Democrats - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/13/biden-books-democrats "Books detail president increasingly unfit to take on Trump, and party infighting that doomed Kamala #Harris’s chances" awful stuff...

HBD to Ben Fletcher, a brilliant Black union organizer and orator who helped lead the IWW’s interracial Local 8. In an era of exclusion, Fletcher stood fiercely for class solidarity and against racism. Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells his story through his speeches, writings, and legacy.
Get 40% off this title with code STRIKE through 5/1 here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1144

Learn more rom the blog post, “Ben Fletcher, Local 8, and Me (2007)” here: https://blog.pmpress.org/2020/10/05/ben-fletcher-local-8-and-me/

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

#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.