Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Latest comic on "solving" the problem of fascism by insulting the very people trying to fight it.

#comic #cartoon #humanrights #democracy

Apropos @peertube the french developer collective @Framasoft are currently trying to raise the (for #bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

Gabriel Kuhn joins The Assistant Professor of Football for a new episode to explore “Red Vienna” in the 1920s: antifascism, workers’ sports, sober politics, and what they offer us today. Centering the life of Julius Deutsch, Kuhn sheds light on a time when soccer wasn’t just a game—it was part of building a better world.
Listen at the link in our bio, and shop related Kuhn titles at https://pmpress.org. Right now, all e-Books are $1.99 with code READ at checkout. Pre-orders exclusions apply

One thing that bothered me since some time is that for switching between different 🎶 players required to🔓 the 📱 .

So e.g. pausing #gnome podcasts to listen to music via #gapless needed ever so many steps. I've thus added a lockscreen plugin to #phosh that tracks all currently running media players that use #mpris and allows to interact with them.

This is all pretty rough still but I can hopefully brush it up for 0.48 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1729).

#LinuxMobile

Where does ICE get all that goofy gear anyway? https://www.patreon.com/c/BrianMcFadden

Has anyone had luck getting #MacVenture games to run on Linux *outside* of the #BasiliskII Mac Classic emulator?

#retrogaming #MacClassic

"Competent Cop" is a more fantastical creature than any dragon garbage.

Society went wrong when pop culture stopped making dipshit cops the baseline depiction. Barney Fife, Rosco P. Coltrane, things of that nature. Dick Wolf is a fascist.

Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of #water, report warns - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/kabul-could-become-first-modern-city-to-run-out-of-water-report-warns "aquifers have dropped by up to 30 metres over the past decade owing to rapid urbanisation and climate breakdown" #afghanistan

Two upper-caste 'left thinkers' discuss on the Left’s growing irrelevance in India, blaming technology for its disconnect from the masses. How typical. It's not surprising then that they do not mention the near total absence of #Dalits and other oppressed communities in Left leadership since 1957. Think-tanks like #ProgressiveInternational should first send their folks to live in our communities—without income—for at least 5 years before they’re allowed to pontificate.

https://act.progressive.international/the-internationalist-issue-4/

Even a former prime minister of Israel admits his country is committing war crimes.

Meanwhile, defenders of these crimes are saying, essentially, that anyone who criticizes the Netanyahu regime is anti-Semitic.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-ehud-olmert-thinks-his-country-is-committing-war-crimes

DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts
Staffer had no medical experience, and the results were predictably, spectacularly bad.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/doge-used-flawed-ai-tool-to-munch-veterans-affairs-contracts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#FediForum premiere for my Fediverse promo film = done.

How did it go? So well that I've been fighting back tears for the past half hour.

Getting such warm, positive comments from builders and champions of the fediverse is EVERYTHING ❤️ Thank you @j12t for this opportunity.

I'm almost tempted to "deploy on a Friday" and share the link to the video now 😅 But nah, I know better. Tuesday it is! (Monday is a public holiday here)

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

#EleFediVideos

Fiver Fridays are here all month long! Each weekend get select titles for $5 each - no code required. Swipe to see this weekend’s eligible titles, and shop them all at pmpress.org.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The attached media release is from the Lax'yip Firekeepers and outlines the youth's profound disappointment with the Government of British Columbia's decision to determine the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline as substantially started.

You can also find it on our website by clicking the News tab. http://laxyip.com/news/post/2334358/prgt-media-release-firekeepers
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKiizMVtQQf/

Oh no I just got some bad news: Monday is a public holiday in France; my daughter's pre-school will be closed. So I will have to wait till Tuesday to release the Fedi promo video on my site 😭

Launching it on a public holiday is the same thing as deploying software updates on a Friday afternoon.

How much time to work will I have on Monday? 0 minutes. And I want to be on top of things in case there are any issues... and respond to people's feedback.

So Tuesday morning? 🥲

#EleFediVideos

Oil giant funds computer game that promotes fossil fuels to schoolchildren - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-06-05/oil-company-uses-computer-game-to-promote-fossil-fuels-to-uk-schoolchildren outrageous; must be thrown out

‘It’s goodbye to French fishermen’: Macron under pressure as crucial UN ocean summit opens - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/06/fishing-ocean-un-summit-france-macron-bottom-trawling-french-marine-protected-areas bottom trawling must be banned - it's so destructive

Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

@lightweight yeah, LLM's ... Been thinking about that a lot lately. They're a useful tool once you've built up a large body of knowledge and have healthy skepticism. I'm concerned about a future where students and workers just rely on their output without being able (or willing) to question their output.

Feels like creeping ever closer to idiocracy