Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's #FediForumFriday- your reminder to check in with projects you're excited about, ask for or offer help, or just chat with the folks you met and refresh the joy and motivation you felt at #FediForum.

#Trump’s big bill achieved what conservatives have been trying to do for decades - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/trump-spending-bill-conservatives-law "34% of the country’s population will be negatively affected by the bill, mostly through the Snap and Medicaid cuts, while just under 2% of taxpayers are in the income bracket that will get most of the tax relief."

Good morning Fedi friends!

Now that my Fedi promo video is out and I'm no longer spending 7 hours a day doing motion graphics, I have time to pick up again writing for the blog #TheFutureIsFederated.

🔗: https://news.elenarossini.com/tag/the-future-is-federated/

This morning I will create a roadmap for the rest of the summer. There is so much I have yet to explore and write about.

At the top of my list: trying out #BookWyrm and the #Friends plugin for #wordpress

Any other requests? 👀

Wishing everyone a great day! 🌞

Shane Jones said to get a real job, so we did.

In all seriousness, bottom trawling has to stop in the places it does the most harm.
Sign the petition now:
http://greenpeace.nz/BBT

Get a real job Greenpeace!
https://youtube.com/shorts/A8qdoeY0xHw

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

The #Israeli Plot to Extinguish the #Journalists Documenting #Genocide

By Neha Madhira, July 3, 2025

Ibrahim Abu Ghazaleh: “In Gaza, a camera is a threat. When you witness the truth, you become a target.”

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/03/israel-palestine-journalists-killing-gaza/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FluyZ

#Israel #IsRealHell #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #Journalism #TruthTelling

This is the kind of stuff that finally made me quit Threads, just as I have X. Also see my recent post about the various ways Threads fails to federate at even the most basic level: https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114744386097094353
https://mastodon.social/@toddalstrom/114783119075435828

This is how we celebrate the 4th of July here in Aotearoa... With an Ōtautahi-brewed America Pale Ale, and gratitude that we took the precaution of drifting to the other end of the earth over the last few hundred million years.

Help a journalist out? I'm looking to talk to researchers, engineers, students or entrepreneurs who are considering leaving the U.S. because they lost funding or are worried about visas or anything like that. I'm at mimsical.94 on Signal

Via Judd Legum, companies that publicly supported Trump-GOP bill that (among so much other foulness) will wipe out health care for millions, brutalize countless people, take food from children, despoil the planet, and further enrich billionaires. #pitchforks

https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3lt3o32tqts2w

I'm not sure I've ever changed anyone's mind with finger-wagging or reasoned debate. Even my best agitprop has been inconsistently effective at best.

But propaganda of the deed has genuinely never failed me to at least grab someone, even if just one person.

Not the Luigi kind that everyone thinks of when they hear that, but the broader kind. Do as I do, not as I say. Doing the things that need doing, with a smile on my face and an openness to folks pitching in. It really does work.

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Past presidents pretended they had real "national security" reasons to harass journalists who report on leaks. Not this one.

"You go up and tell the reporter, 'National security, who gave it?'" he says.

Just magic words — no basis in reality needed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/02/trump-journalists-source-leaked-iran-intelligence/

Oh my word, what the hell are we doing? https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114790992610205091 Feels like the 'corporate open source' cadre (as opposed to the #libre communities) have nailed their colours to the mast. They're doubling down on this insanity.

https://kolektiva.media/w/qkLkjFkWnacUYy5JSnsqQD

In this quiet reflection, Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas from Kanehsatà:ke walks the streets of Bethlehem and sees something familiar. Despite the occupation that surrounds them, people live. They laugh, open their shops, weave through markets. Life goes on—not because the conditions are easy, but because refusing to disappear is a kind of resistance.

A Red Road to the West Bank is a documentary-in-progress exploring the deep connections between Indigenous resistance in Turtle Island and Palestinian struggles for liberation. Grounded in lived experience, the film follows Clifton’s journey to Palestine and the echoes he found there.

Support the project and help us complete this work:
👉 http://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

#RedRoadToTheWestBank #IndigenousSolidarity #Palestine #Kanehsatake #Decolonize #IndigenousResistance #Bethlehem #DocumentaryFilm #AmplifierFilms #LifeAsResistance

Welp. Between this and the earlier AI-"written" book, I am thisclose to recommending that we cease purchasing titles from Springer

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

"Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors."

#ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_phishing_websites/ "Crims have cottoned on to a new way to lead you astray" not so clever

This is a serious data question for Mastodon nerds -- is anyone aware of a single data governance product that actually does anything useful? I'm reviewing everything I can find for a client, and not a single one seems to offer any serious benefits over dbt lineage. They don't even seem to support access models more sophisticated than just like, keeping a big table mapping users to tables they're allowed to read.

Trump, Musk, and their apparatchiks will have caused the deaths of more than 14 million people by 2030, and more than 4.5 million of them will be children.

This is a crime against humanity. In a just world, the perpetrators would die in prison.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext

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Today marks 2 years of incarceration for Peppy and the work continues! In solidarity with Krystal and Peppy and towards liberation!

https://freepeppyandkrystal.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/30/two-down-but-we-stay-up/