Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

CBS, soon to be owned by Larry Ellison and family, is wasting no time turning into just another right-wing media company.

Paying Trump's extortion, trial-ballooning a "Free Press" buyout, canceling Colbert (and soon Stewart?) -- there's nothing mysterious in this pattern.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/17/nx-s1-5471581/cbs-stephen-colbert-late-show

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Disabled people make easy targets for ICE thugs.

What’s worse, the detention facilities are designed to maximize cruelty.

They worsen existing disabilities and can create new ones.

I wrote about two ICE victims, Alma Bowman and Rodney Taylor.

Both are still being held: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/disabled-people-are-being-mistreated

#ice #immigration #abolishice #uspol #fascism #disability #ableism #eugenics

Another immigrant with serious health issues is being detained and mistreated by ICE for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Emma De Paz is a street vendor in LA who sold food outside a Home Depot that was raided by the Gestapo

She’s lived in California for decades and has worked hard to make a living selling pollo asado and carne asada to people on Sunset Boulevard. She’s never committed a crime.

After being grabbed, she had to be transported to White Memorial Hospital for serious medical issues

She’s now in a detention camp where detainees are apparently being given a pack of cookies and a capri sun daily… nothing more

Her family fears for her health and says her medical conditions are not being properly treated

This is the cruelty of the Trump regime

Detaining people who’ve done nothing wrong, and causing them harm and potential disability in the process

Free Emma De Paz

#immigration #ice #abolishice #fascism #uspol #trump

Adoption is an alternative to parenting, not to pregnancy.

Abortion is an alternative to pregnancy.

People need to understand the difference.

Pregnancy is not a health neutral state. It can cause serious harm.

No one should be forced to remain pregnant who doesn’t want to be.

Colbert being cancelled should enrage everyone.

We’re witnessing the erosion of free speech and the free press.

Trump’s billionaire oligarch friends already control much of the legacy media.

Many orgs have taken a knee.

If you’re waiting for your “oh shit” moment, this is it.

This is fascism

The first big debunk of a US farmer suicide epidemic was back in 2016.

https://thecounterorg.wpengine.com/farmer-suicide-crisis-cdc-study/

But a lot of folks are still out there pushing the story. Because "farmers are killing themselves!" is such a darn effective talking point.

#Trump supporters burn #Maga hats after he dismisses #Epstein files furor as ‘hoax’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/trump-jeffrey-epstein-republicans-maga "Mike #Pence is latest prominent figure to call for release of files on sex offender once close to president"

If you are enabling an AI feature scanning all your emails, consider this will also scan the emails people have sent you. This information could include personal or otherwise legally protected information.

If this data leaks later (as it regularly happens with these systems), this could mean severe legal consequences for you down the road.

YOU are responsible for protecting the data of others under your custody.

This includes the messages and emails others send to you.

#NoAI #AI #Privacy

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#Forgejo 12.0.0 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

"Prisoners provide slave labor for states and for corporations. Prisons have no air conditioning in extreme heat and lag in providing medical care. The U.S. also has the most draconian sentences in the world...The current moment is one that requires telling the truth about U.S. history. Exceptionalist rhetoric claiming that Trump has brought the nation to a new and unprecedented low point is dangerous nonsense."

https://www.blackagendareport.com/trumps-concentration-camps-are-not-new-us

2 Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE: The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust

"Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention...But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America."

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/two-days-talking-to-people-looking-for-jobs-at-ice/

It was anarchy out there. People were growing vegetables in the street

Zitron announced this which means I can talk about it. Crossover episode inbound!

Yeah, the ISP offers an ONT for a symbolic price, but I don't want another #WiFi enabled device in my house.

If it's administered remotely, then because of IEEE 802.11bf motion detection BS.

If I have to administer it, it's because I already have enough routers. The additional device must be as simple as possible.
And I don't need to create more #electrotrash .

Finally, there's #fiber optic #internet connection at my building!

Germany's internet is slow to come and expensive, but it did finally come. A decade after my friends in Poland got fiber in a similar place, lol (theirs is faster and cheaper).

A question to experts about German ISPs.

Does the law here let me connect using my own fiber terminal (ONT)?

#askfedi #ISP #ONT #germany

European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in #Gaza - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/european-missile-group-mbda-selling-parts-for-bombs-that-have-killed-children-in-gaza "Britain has paused some weapons sales to Israel, but a Guardian investigation shows revenues from the GBU-39 bomb generated by the US arm of MBDA flow through the UK"

Seems like every time Netanyahu's corruption trial resumes, he bombs a neighboring country, and the trial is delayed again...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-trial-paused-as-syria-bombed

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not going to get hired for any jobs that I've applied to over the past year. And at the age of 58, I don't think anything is going to change. No company wants to hire anyone my age. I've been talking with my wife and I might try to start doing some Linux and Open Source consulting work. Maybe even start an actual business. I am absolutely sick and tired of working my ass off getting resumes edited, writing cover letters, sending them off to companies with the hopes that someone will actually give me a change, to only get a rejection email telling me they are going with someone else but keep an eye on future openings.

A message to younger folks in the Tech industry: Make sure you're well know in the industry and don't get old. Not getting old is, of course, impossible but what I've found is that even though I have been in the Linux and Open Source world for more than 30 years, I am a complete unknown and that is one of the reasons (of many) I'm not getting a chance.