Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Ticketmaster just quietly changed its fine print so that the next time you buy a ticket to a concert or a game, you'll be forced to sign away your legal rights.

Pass it on.

https://www.levernews.com/ticketmaster-just-locked-you-in-a-new-legal-prison/

Department of War? Let's do them all.

Dept of Agribusiness
Dept of Ignorance
Dept of Industry
Dept of Fossil Fuels
Dept of Human Disease
Homeland Gestapo
Dept of Private Parks
Dept of Unpaid Labor
Dept of State Control
Dept of SUVs & Trucks
Dept of Bankrupt Treasury
Dept of Veterans Abuse
Center for Disease

@kees I think it's really cool you were like: I will wait no longer for this in GCC — might as well be a GCC developer.

That's what #FOSS and software freedom are about.

Thanks for your work!

“STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE!” is a great new documentary about the life & times of the brilliant Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!. She has fearlessly and faithfully been a beacon of journalistic truth and justice for years and this doc brings to life her incredible career and important work at a time when it is most needed.

#Media #Journalism #Democracy #DemocracyNow

https://stealthisstory.org/

Since bogus certificates are in the news, I thought I'd dredge up some ancient history about bogus certificates:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1444523/verisign-issues-false-microsoft-digital-certificates.html

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-017

https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/115148579131287213

Trump and his apparatchiks have a new rule: If they merely accuse you of being bad, they can order the military to murder you -- with impunity, as long as their criminal regime remains in power.

Coming soon to America's streets and homes if we don't stop them somehow.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/04/trumps-killing-alleged-venezuelan-drug-traffickers

That dashboard camera you bought for your car is a spying on you and your movements -- and you have zero control over where the images go.

Congress -- which could do something about this -- is fine with the situation, because it has endless contempt for your privacy.

https://www.404media.co/this-company-turns-dashcams-into-virtual-cctv-cameras-then-hackers-got-in/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

FPF filed a FOIA request to find out if the Trump administration had a legal rationale for killing 11 people in an attack on a Venezuelan boat.

Our fight, even if successful, will take months.

It shouldn’t be this hard to find out 1) what the government believes the law is, and 2) how it intends to apply it.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/administration-kills-11-provides-no-legal-rationale/

You really cannot clean your way out of cows being poopy. They're perpetual poop machines.

As soon as you're done cleaning them... they've already pooped on themselves again.

Did a lil raw milk Q&A.

"But they use raw milk in Europe and it's fine! Because they're clean artisanal dairies, not the factory farms we have here!"

Nah... Europe still has outbreaks from raw milk *all the time.* At least two big ones in the last year alone.

https://youtu.be/_nt98kxOjaE

"For decades, the phrase “Year of the Linux Desktop” has been tossed around like a tech industry punchline. But now, it’s no longer a meme—it’s a movement.

This isn’t just about numbers—it’s about momentum. GNU/Linux’s desktop share hovered below 2% for years. But since 2020, it’s been climbing fast.

From the lens of @purism this shift is more than market share—it’s a cultural awakening."

https://puri.sm/posts/the-quiet-revolution-gnu-linux-crosses-6-desktop-market-share-and-its-just-the-beginning/

#GNULinux #Linux #marketshare #yearofthelinuxdesktop #privacy #freedom #desktop

"The unsettling feeling that your device is spying on you is real — but the culprit isn't a secret microphone. It's the data broker industry," EFF’s @evacide tells CNET. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/features/no-your-iphone-isnt-listening-to-you-heres-whats-really-happening/

How tf do people who came to the US *legally* to pick crops, wind up getting enslaved?

https://youtube.com/shorts/WliZZD1NvhA

Sources: https://prismreports.org/2023/04/14/h2a-visa-wage-theft-exploitation/

https://www.palabranahj.org/archive/caught-in-the-fields-the-h-2a-visa-workers-who-feed-america-and-the-system-that-traps-them

https://nwjustice.org/article/1965

https://westfaironline.com/courts/mexican-cartel-invoked-in-alleged-threats-to-putnam-h-2a-visa-workers/

Wow. This ripples far. https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502

so the founder of the federated blogging platform Ghost is one of the AI bros that’s tricked themselves into thinking the slop machine makes them 10x more productive in spite of all evidence to the contrary

if your site’s built on Ghost, it might be worth checking how much of the code you’re relying on is slopcoded https://john.onolan.org/.ghost/activitypub/note/751e39e3-365e-4398-830b-7cdf7ceb2882

edit: since Ghost links don’t seem to work properly, it’s John’s post in this thread https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115142592402628516

* Source: https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost-right-ai-code

If they can no longer use Alligator Auschwitz as a concentration camp, maybe they can use it for the iron lung facility after polio returns to Florida.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate

Trump regime apparatchiks and goons are engaged in an unprecedented, massive crime wave. It spans the entire nation, though its epicenter is in Washington.

Why are Democrats not loudly warning that these people could someday be held to account for their crimes?