Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"In this session, we explore Internal Capital Accounts (ICAs) — a cornerstone of financial participation in worker co-ops — and how they support member wealth-building, engagement, and sustainability." #WorkerCoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtr4wOXpjGk

Seahorses is both a vital resource for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive communities and an invitation for readers of all genders to get a glimpse of trans joy and resilience that will stick with you and inspire you to love a little deeper. This book is an essential addition to conversations about gender, pregnancy, and family. Check out the full review @publishersweekly. Now available for pre-order: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1828

Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home - https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-workers-leave-silicon-valley/ "Chinese-origin tech workers are abandoning the American dream and returning home, where state-led incentives and ambition are plentiful. "

#DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ #DNA for Years - https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-has-been-collecting-us-citizens-dna-for-years/ "Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality."

"The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council has banned the sale, use and possession of kratom, an unregulated plant-derived substance that can have addictive properties from the tribe’s reservation in north-central Montana."

https://montanafreepress.org/2025/09/23/blackfeet-tribal-council-bans-kratom-on-reservation/

“Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into #ReformUK, #Conservatives and #Labour”

by Nafeez Ahmed in The Byline Times @BylineTimes

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian @Independent @thetimes

“A Byline Times investigation can reveal how Donald Trump’s key backer is now exporting discredited race science into mainstream politics in the UK”

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/18/peter-thiels-race-science-network-extends-its-reach-into-reform-uk-conservatives-and-labour/

#Press #Thiel #FarRight #Trump #Starmer #Palantir #Tech #Partnership #RaceScience #NeoReactionary #Yarvin

This is why I have so little respect for the intellect of mainstream economists. How wild it is for a supposedly serious scholar to say this, out loud, in front of gawd & everybody? 🤦‍♂️

'The Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who helped publish the original 2012 PNAS article, confessed his disillusionment to The New York Times: “When I see a surprising finding, my default is not to believe it. Twelve years ago, my default was to believe anything that was surprising.” '

https://archive.ph/pElUu#selection-2757.135-2775.143

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Peter Thiel is competing with Elon Musk for most evil tech lord, with a different strategy.

Musk is doing a lot of his foul work in plain sight. It seems that Thiel is trying to keep the public from understanding what he's doing until it's too late to stop him.

https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion?ref=theframelab.org

The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source

https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-budget-open-source

One of the nice things about living on the Reservation: every now and then the Tribe sends a box of food to everyone in town, tribal member or not. Produce, meat, even some frozen Flathead cherries. CSKT ftw.

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug:
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Here’s what we’ve got planned for October. See you there!

For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting.

He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job.

We demand his immediate release.

freedomformario.com

man when people were telling me that smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, I thought that was because they recorded what you watched using their built in media-player OS.

NOPE! Apparently Roku TV's will give you popups based on what DVDs you're watching through them, because they screenshot the HDMI-in and compare it to a database.
that's a few steps creepier than I was expecting from a garden variety privacy invasion

@lwriemen regardless, one thing is for certain, it's way easier to get away with being lazy and/or incompetent at a desk job than it is in the building trades.

From the book Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatization of Life, by Neal Curtis (2012)

Why the politics of "you should make better/more ethical lifestyle choices" is misguided and counterproductive.

[note: in Curtis's book, 'idiot' and 'idiotism' refer not to a lack of intelligence, but rather the insistence that everything is a private/personal matter - as in the original Greek 'idios,' which means private]

We all want the same thing.

New year's resolution: file one actively annoying bug report per day.

Instead of, you know, learning to live with suck.

#freesoftware #OpenSource #bugs