Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I've always thought "I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." is a great quote. It's often attributed to Mark Twain, but according to Snopes he never uttered it. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasure/ Ah well. I like it anyway, whoever coined it.

Susan Edmunds on RNZ just asked 'why would you want an Apple device'... and she talked about 'all my photos are on the iCloud', and then "I guess it's the 'loyalty tax'"... ugh. It's lock in that oblivious and credulous people fall for. As a species we need to sharpen up. A lot.

NFTs are going just great

https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-scraps-digital-art-department-2685784

The right in the US has a lot of fractures, as should be clear by now (MAGA vs Elon on immigration, MTG vs Trump on Israel, etc.), so this additional context shouldn't come as a surprise - Kirk's murder may have been over-determined, so to speak. Plenty of people have things to gain from this kind of event...and it's really got me thinking about things like "strategy of tension" and "years of lead." If you know, you know; if you don't, well...

Google is re-writing current events. Everything is working as intended.

https://gizmodo.com/google-is-telling-people-doge-never-existed-2000657051

#ChatGPT may start alerting authorities about youngsters considering suicide, says CEO - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/11/chatgpt-may-start-alerting-authorities-about-youngsters-considering-suicide-says-ceo-sam-altman just the start; expect it to "report" more things that you ask or say.... #privacy #surveillance

Delighted to share with you a brand new version of my video: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" ... with Finnish voice-over narration 🥳

https://peertube.wtf/w/dD9r3Nfn2jCfB9sUov2pRT

🗣️ VO by @zeggo
🎞️ produced & mixed by @jopa (who originally did the Finnish subtitles) 🏆

Thank you SOOO much Johannes! 💙

Feeling anxious today because... the state of the world.

One thing that I keep thinking about - to maintain hope - is the cyclical nature of history.

The past decade have felt like a modern version of the Middle Ages (or Dark Ages).

But what followed that? The Renaissance and the Enlightenment. The Age of Reason.

I need to read up on all this to cultivate a positive outlook. To stay hopeful.

Big virtual hug to everyone who's having a hard day.

Hello all. I am very bad at asking for money. I find it very awkward. I have a paid subscription tier on my otherwise free newsletter, but it's not a popular one tbh. But if you have a few spare pennies and would like to support what I do I also have a Ko-fi too. Thank you!
https://ko-fi.com/designthinkingcomic

Yes, we should despise Big Tech/Telecom's vile CEOs. But as @pluralistic says in his latest Pluralistic post, first blame the policy monsters -- among them, Robert Bork, Bruce Lehman, and Ajit Pai -- who enabled Tech's vicious and destructive monopolists https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/

I love how the second part of Banksy's newest mural, which is a comment on censorship and oppression, was done by the very people he is critiquing.

Their response was predictable, and relied upon, and imho has created a masterpiece.

Is this solvable? Of course it is.

We're a big country with a lot of good farmland, skilled people, and wealth to invest in doing the job right.

The only thing standing in our way is ourselves- a fear of trust-busting, and nostalgia that blinds us to how agriculture & wealth really work.

Turning Point USA's history of racism and white nationalist ties | Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/turning-point-usas-history-racism-and-white-nationalist-ties #kirk #WhiteSupremacy #DidNaziThatComing

Re the murder of Charlie Kirk, please read this thread by Ken White, a former prosecutor and strong defender of human rights in the age of goon-filled regimes like our current one:

https://mastodon.social/@kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/115181576166347676

Screenshot of first post:

📢📢📢 abra v0.11.x is here 📢📢📢

TLDR; `abra upgrade` 👍

Upgrade docs:
https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/

Changelog:
https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/abra/releases/tag/0.11.0-beta

0.10.x-beta 👉 0.11.x-beta migration guide:
https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/#10x-beta-011x-beta

A huge thanks to everyone who helped get this release done ❤️‍🔥

Happy Hacking 🫂

-- @decentral1se

It’s unsurprising that Eugene police have been crediting all their successes to license-plate readers, EFF’s Sarah Hamid told Lookout Eugene-Springfield; police often do that when Flock contracts are the subject of public outrage. “That is play-for-play from the playbook.” https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/justice/2025/09/10/voices-grow-louder-in-debate-over-license-plate-reader-technology/

Journalists are being massacred in Gaza and the U.S. is doing nothing to stop the bloodbath it’s bankrolling.

Use our easy new tool to tell Congress you’re fed up with the government’s inaction.

https://freedom.press/issues/israelgaza/

* When searching for support online, you will get wide ranging advice. Often multiple suggestions might solve a problem. But if a suggestion starts with "Now open a terminal..." put a pin in that one, and start with one that solves your problem with graphical tools.

* With a modern Linux distro, a regular desktop user should be able to do everything they need to use their computer normally without ever opening a terminal. If not, it's a shortcoming in the distro. 2/2

A giant in the civil liberties field! We all owe a debt of gratitude to Cindy Cohn for her indelible leadership at @eff for so many years (and for being our legal counsel at FPF since our founding in 2012).

https://www.wired.com/story/eff-cindy-cohn-stepping-down/

Can't wait to hear Kansas prison officials explain how newspaper subscriptions threaten incarcerated people's safety.

https://kansasreflector.com/2025/09/08/kansas-prisons-reject-newspaper-subscriptions-blindsiding-publishers-and-cutting-off-information/