Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If anyone can afford to support @yunohost I highly recommend forum.yunohost.org/t/donation-… - even small donations count.

I personally donate 10 Euros a month, despite our projects being underfunded and us providing a lot of services for free.

But hey I use Yunohost a lot and they deserve some help!

#yunohost #foss #selfhosting #opensource

Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-tariffs-foreign-movies "President calls films ‘national security threat’ and claims he called on commerce department to immediately enact tariff" another industry he will mess up for no sane reason #films #cinema

#Trump says he will reopen #Alcatraz prison for ‘most ruthless offenders’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/trump-plan-reopen-alcatraz-prison #trump wants to take #murica back to the 1930s

Spin doctors: #gambling firms adopt hard tactics to flood towns with 24-hour slot machines - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/04/uk-gambling-firms-adopt-hard-tactics-to-flood-towns-with-24hr-slot-machines "Companies deploy highly-paid lawyers and appear to mislead councillors – but local authorities are fighting back" sick stuff

Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/texas-goes-after-toothpaste-in-escalating-fight-over-fluoride/ this is all that #trumpies have go - fights over toothpaste

UK wins £500m in science grants from EU #Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/05/british-scientists-eu-horizon-research-funding-programme probably a tenth of what we would have had inside the EU

@strypey

I would also point out that at the Social coding commons, which is affiliated to SocialHub community, @helge started an initiative to re-envision for a vNext AP protocol, or rather look at the requirements of social protocols in general.

And in follow-up I created a proposal to form a dev portal and fellowship to follow social web tech trends in general.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/proposal-start-a-fellowship-to-explore-the-social-web/571

https://discuss.coding.social/t/wiki-vision-for-a-fedi-specification/563

Matrix chatroom: https://matrix.to/#/#groundwork-matters:matrix.org

Anyone most welcome to participate.

“I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems — we quantify things, as if converting human suffering into Excel cells might render it more manageable.” Via @gvwilson.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-school-lunch-debt-relief-free-student-meals_n_681258fbe4b03207b5ba49fa/amp

All day every day with these guys.

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (18/2025): Mobile Overlord adds Desktop Mode

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-18-2025/

#LinuxMobile #postmarketOS #Mobian #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #Phosh #PlasmaMobile #FuriLabsFLX1 #PinePhone #Librem5

A big thanks to the awesome folks from @thebeautifulidea for having us on to talk about the history and future of subMedia, and to shoot the shit about anarchist media more generally.

https://itsgoingdown.org/a-discussion-on-interrebellium-with-submedia/

Apparently, Farage has issued a statement to UK councils saying anyone working on climate change projects should start looking for another job.

And he wants to set up a UK style DOGE to reduce waste. Does he know most councils are stripped to the bone and can barely pay for anything? Plus DOGE has been such a success in the US! [Sarcasm]

Fuck off you frog faced [c word expletive]!

#UKPolitics

France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/04/france-eu-us-based-scientists-come-to-europe-emmanuel-macron-ursula-von-der-leyen "Macron and von der Leyen expected to announce protections for researchers seeking to relocate amid #Trump’s crackdown" #shrewd

So much of the destruction in the USA is away from the spotlight at grass roots level. But the foundations of a modern society are being smashed. The National Science Foundation has just stopped awarding new grants and funding existing ones. That effectively means that work on all existing NSF grants has to stop immediately. Universities are telling researchers to stop spending on those grants right away. That's jobs and progress and opportunity just being eradicated.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

Fireside Housing Coop, associates of #RadicalRoutes, seeks a new member to join the thriving Sheffield community.

Applications welcome from single parents - a smaller room is available which could suit a child.

For more info or to apply for membership email fireside_housing_co-op@riseup.net

You’ll have the chance to meet current members, ask questions, and get a sense of how they live and work together, to create secure, affordable, and community-focused housing.

https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/fireside-housing-co-op

May the Fourth be with you.
Attack the Death Star every day.
(https://tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/the-inner-hive/)

Why #Balcony #Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US - https://www.wired.com/story/why-balcony-solar-hasnt-taken-off-in-the-us/ "In countries like Germany, balcony-mounted solar panels are all the rage. But from breaker-masking to voltage mismatches, America’s grid isn’t ready for it—yet." #renewables

Biden didn’t “fail” to stop the Gaza genocide—he helped run cover for it. Now his own staff are admitting what we knew all along: there was never a ceasefire plan. Just lies, weapons, and mass death. #GazaGenocide
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION:

I don't care about the environmental cost of AI.

I care that unscrupulous sociopaths have convinced enough gullible fools that LLMs *are intelligent* to create a damaging economic hype bubble that, like all such bubbles, causes environmental damage as a side-effect! Along with mass-deskilling and unemployment and profits for trillionaires.

Get people to realize that it's not intelligence at work, it's just statistical modeling, and tackle the root of the problem!

"Liberal analysts refuse to confront their own complicity in this dynamic. Instead, we have Michael Scherer in the Washington Post outrageously lumping together the baseless and dangerous conspiracies of the hard right with Bernie Sanders’s ... apparently because Sanders sees a society in crisis and 'points to the ultrarich' – as if stratospheric wealth concentration and legalized corruption are mere figments of the Vermont senator’s imagination."

#NaomiKlein, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/ignoring-robert-f-kennedy-jr-not-an-option