Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The LLMentalist effect: Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms used by (fake) psychics to gull their victims: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

Judge To Trump: No You Can’t Just Kill All The Lawyers You Don’t Like - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/05/judge-to-trump-no-you-cant-just-kill-all-the-lawyers-you-dont-like/

Democratic-led states sue Trump for blocking wind energy projects - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/state-lawsuit-trump-wind-energy-policy "Lawsuit also filed over administration’s cuts to health and human services that destroy life-saving programs" more, please...

it's so fucking excruciating to watch everyone slowly get lobotomized by a dumb pile of linear algebra that burns forests to lie

Drones, robots, and automated license plate readers - These are just some of the technologies we've explained for you in our Field Guide to Police Surveillance, Street Level Surveillance. https://sls.eff.org/

'60 Minutes' Airs Scathing Segment on 'First Felon in the Oval Office' Despite Pressure to Avoid Sensitive Stories About Trump

#PresidentialScrutiny #60Minutes #MediaPressure #LawFirmInterference #FirstFelonInTheOvalOffice

https://www.mediaite.com/news/60-minutes-airs-scathing-segment-on-first-felon-in-the-oval-office-despite-pressure-to-avoid-sensitive-stories-about-trump/

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is "going through a laundry list of Trump's enemies and finding frivolous legal bases to harass and intimidate them," Seth Stern said on the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA's 2025 World Press Freedom Day panel.

Watch:

https://foreignpress.org/educational-programs-learning-takeaways/takeaways-from-afpc-usas-2025-world-press-freedom-day-panel

The parents want (1) the garden to be open even when their are no volunteers to keep an eye on things and (2) few plants and more room for kids to run around in, including a play structure. The volunteers who currently manage the space (as part of an agreement with the city, mind you) argue that (a) this random group can't just come in and dictate how the space they have been taking care of should be used and (b) this is a unique space with a unique focus on biodiversity and calm greenery and more playgrounds shouldn't come at the expense of already existing public space.

This is their petition to try to slow the roll of the participative budget process and not lose the garden: https://chng.it/Z5MbyLSTpx

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#viladegracia

HBD to Karl Marx - philosopher, economist, historian, and revolutionary, Marx devoted his life to analyzing capitalism and advocating for the liberation of the working class. His collaboration with Friedrich Engels produced The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, foundational texts that continue to shape political thought and social movements around the world. From theory to praxis, Marx’s work challenged the status quo and laid the groundwork for struggles against exploitation.

@wellingtonrock @lyndamerry484 there's a wider problem in this country (and America as well) with folk who are constantly angry not even voting to make society better for themselves, but to make it worse for their enemies - they are the ones voting Reform (whose only coherent policies are pushing back against immigration and environmental regulation)

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