Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

‘Parents’ rights’ groups gain ground in Canada amid Alberta book ban - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/27/alberta-book-ban-canada-parents-rights-groups "a host of books face being purged, including George Orwell’s 1984" bigots on the move... #censorship

Looks like I'm going to #MRMCD ! Anyone wants to share a hotel room?

Did you know there are variants of common Linux shell tools that have decompression function built in? For example, instead of first uncompressing a file to then view it in `less`, you can simply use `zless`.

There's also `zcat`, `zgrep`, `zcmp` and`zdiff`.

#Norway wealth fund sells #Caterpillar stake over Israel allegations - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/norway-wealth-fund-excludes-caterpillar-over-israel-allegations that's the way to do it... #gazagenocide #israel

@DrALJONES Doonesbury in 1982
@palestine

Must-read:

So-called "age verification" laws are spreading.

They will not protect kids.

They are grossly insecure.

They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression.

They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read.

We have to stop this.

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

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"Any story that quotes an Israeli official or references Israeli allegations should say that Israel does not allow the international press to verify its claims and kills the local journalists who try," we told Al Jazeera.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/global-outrage-following-israeli-attack-that-killed-five-gaza-journalists

David Graeber warned a few years back about the dangers of so-called "Centrist" politicians.

Pro-#Israel lawyers investigated over alleged legal threats to suppress support for #Palestine - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug/21/pro-israel-lawyers-investigated-over-alleged-legal-threats-to-suppress-support-for-palestine "UK Lawyers for Israel accused of sending ‘vexatious and legally baseless’ letters to silence support for Palestine" from last week

Politico Management Insists “AI” Shouldn’t Be Held To Any Sort Of Human Editorial Standards Because It’s Built By Coders, Not Journalists - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/25/politico-management-insists-ai-shouldnt-be-held-to-any-sort-of-human-editorial-standards-because-its-built-by-coders-not-journalists/ "most U.S. media is owned by affluent older, white, Conservative men who generally see AI not as a way to make their products or employees’ lives better or more efficient, but as a way to cut corners and undermine already underpaid labor."

#Flock cameras says that it has “paused its operations with federal agencies” because their system has been used for ICE enforcement.

“Pausing” operations means that they HAVE BEEN ALLOWING IT until now.

Flock makes money per query. They are incentivized to allow “law enforcement” types to query their systems for as many things as they want, including tracking people down for violating anti-abortion laws, suspected “immigration” issues, and who knows what else.

Your tax dollars are paying for this. Flock cameras should be taken down.

#surveillance #kakistocracy #enshittification #FlockCameras #ALPR

“License plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies among investigation concerns”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/license-plate-camera-company-halts-225436172.html

Google increasingly locks down its once-open mobile OS, and today took a major step in that bad direction.

If Google is going to be as control-freakish as Apple, AND continue to run a spyware-based mobile ecosystem, why not just buy an Iphone?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

The UK welcomes #refugees
We desperately needs foreign skilled workers, but you wouldn't know that from reading most UK media, who this morning are offering free uncritical publicity to #Farage lethal nazi plans

Neither was there any news coverage of the #AntiRacism counterprotests to the small fascist protests this weekend.

Thanks to @therightarticle for sharing this: Anti-racist mobilisations push back the far right
https://www.counterfire.org/article/anti-racist-mobilisations-push-back-the-far-right/

#UKPol
#RefugeesWelcome

Of course it's laughable -- in the most ugly way -- that Trump thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

I hate to bring this up, but it's worth remembering that one of history's bloodiest war criminals, Henry Kissinger, got one.

University of Melbourne used WiFi location data to identify & target on-campus student protesters.

A bit unclear whether the process of locating student devices involved raw RSSI measurements, or say Monte Carlo sampling, or ToF & trilateration.

If MAC addrs are tied to a user ID (as with, say, an Eduroam account) then identifying owners of phones paired with AP's local to the site is drag & drop.

Curious. If any have leads, keen to hear of them.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/melbourne-university-privacy-palestinian-protests-wi-fi-data/xeeuuxn64

#privacy #opsec

Not one major American news organization has had the spine to lay out, as succinctly and convincingly as historian Garrett Graff does here, our dread new reality -- much less lift a finger to save democracy.

The United States has gone fascist.

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d

Trump's takeover at Federal Reserve is GUARANTEED to undermine the economy -- which is what most of the regime's policies are doing in any case.

For the non-corrupt, there will be no safe harbors from this malicious destruction. But corruption won't guarantee safety either.

Fight this. Now.

This is actually terrifying. The dictator establishing his Palace Guard.

[from today’s Executive Order, h/t @heidilifeldman]

Another Democratic governor -- and former VP candidate -- who's not afraid to call fascism what it is: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tim-walz-trump-fascist-policies-1235415337/