Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

‘If I die, I want a loud death’: #Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/gaza-photojournalist-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-fatima-hassouna "Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed." more senseless slaughter of decent people by #israel

Back when I was in college, it was the credit card companies that were predatory toward students. Now it’s the AI companies. Get them young and get them hooked. Make an entire generation of students dependent on this tech, unable to think and create for themselves, and then you’ll have customers for life. Not out of loyalty, but out of necessity.

Friends pool money to build Scandinavian ecovillage in self-owned factory

https://faircompanies.com/videos/friends-pool-money-to-build-ecovillage-in-self-owned-factory-coop/

Unsettling but useful advice on the risks of bringing your phone with you, or posting on social media, if you'd like to exercise your right to protest governmental abuses in an unfree society - such as [checks notes] the United States: https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-how-americans-are-surveilled-during-protests/

UK national parks warn of ‘catastrophic’ risk from wildfires this Easter - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/18/uk-national-parks-risk-wildfires-easter this is the reality of #climatecrisis

"In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones.

This is the first time that Japan has issued such an order against any of the major U.S. technology companies referred to collectively as GAFAM — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.

“By binding smartphone manufacturers and telecommunication carriers, Google has made it difficult for other competing search engine applications to be used on Android phones,” Saiko Nakajima, a senior investigator for digital platform operators at the commission, said.

“Google's conduct in this case has created a risk of impeding fair competition concerning transactions — thus, we have determined that this is an act in violation of the Antimonopoly Act,” she added."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/16/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/

#Japan #Google #Android #Monopolies #Antitrust #Competition #BigTech #Antimonopoly

‘I don’t want to give money to this America’: tourists’ fears of US travel under #Trump - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/america-tourists-fears-us-travel-trump "With US visits down 11.6% in March compared with last year, people share their views and experiences on the US border" don't go

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Dear tech people.

NOW is absolutely the time for you to reach out to your friends and colleagues in places like Palantir, Microsoft, Meta, etc., and start propagandizing them.

They are participating and facilitating the destruction of human lives.

They are collaborating with fascists for a paycheck.

Convince them to choose a side. Not by being passively silent. But actively *choosing* the world they want to see.

Force that moment.
Invite them to leave the Death Star.

Because this fucking apparatus *needs to be stopped.*

BAMP.

Good morning Fedi friends!

Today is a palpitations-inducing sort of day: my Ghost (Pro) #blog - that hosted all the posts for #TheFutureIsFederated, up to March of this year - is now slated to be deleted from Ghost's servers. Why?

I'm now #selfhosting my Ghost blog on a VPS at this address:

✨ https://news.elenarossini.com ✨

Time to update your RSS feed (if you're following the blog that way)... and I invite you to check out my latest post in its new home: https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/

have a nice day

#Library Study Shows It’s Just Politicians And Activist Groups Trying To Get Books #Banned - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/library-study-shows-its-just-politicians-and-activist-groups-trying-to-get-books-banned/ "What’s been noted before has been confirmed yet again: there is no widespread concern about the books kids have access to in public libraries. "

“Trump is hungry to walk through this door of lawless autocracy. But it is the conservative legal movement, embodied in the Federalist Society, organized by Leonard Leo and others who opened the door. They manufactured the fraudulent idea that presidents cannot be constrained by the law. They imported it from abroad, from the degenerate ideologues of autocracy. They did this.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/scotus-can-let-the-president-break-the-law-they-cant-change-it

UPDATE: We've added 11 more names to our DOGE tracker, bringing the total to 77 staffers affiliated with Musk.

Plus, you can now filter our database by federal agency. Check it out ⤵️
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#DOGE #ElonMusk #Musk #Government #Data #Research #USPolitics #Trump

More Trump world corruption: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/politics/ed-martin-failed-to-report-media-appearances-senate/index.html

It's hard to make it even a few paragraphs in to the various articles about Musk's eugenicist breeding program, because as far as I can tell, the women involved are all *also* MAGA fascists, and the only thing that makes them victims in this story is that, after agreeing to be breeding stock, turkey-basted by Übermensch Musk Spunk™, they didn't think that the leopards would eat *their* faces too.

Many thanks to Humble Bundle and their community of supporters who used purchases of books and games to raise money for digital rights! We at EFF are deeply grateful for you.

Their Social Impact Report is out now: https://blog.humblebundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/HumbleSocialImpactReport2024.pdf

Molly White (https://mastodon.social/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) is by far the best journalist covering the always-sleazy cryptocurrency "industry" -- and in her latest newsletter she connects the dots in Trump's totally corrupt crypto dealings: https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto-empire/

Her lede should be in an indictment. "In an unprecedented abuse of presidential power, Donald Trump is dismantling federal cryptocurrency oversight while building a sprawling family crypto empire worth billions."

Trump owns 53% of the Trump Media company, which has recently announced it’s getting into crypto. Three days after Trump Media announced a partnership with Crypto.​com, Crypto​.com got the news that the SEC was dropping its investigation into their company.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol