Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2025/1008_Chatkontrolle.html

The Trump Action Tracker is brilliant already, keeping track of the regime's bad acts. The UI could use a few improvement, and I'd urge several more categories (or emphasis of sub-categories), but I'm blown away now. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info

@lwriemen @lightweight yes, maybe not even a new phase. since the days of the power loom in the days of the uk industrial revolution, this kind of automation is a means to transfer the value in the skills of the worker to the factory owner.

🚨 BREAKING: Chat Control BLOCKED in EU! 🎉

Germany just refused to back the EU's mass surveillance "Chat Control" regulation after public pressure! This blocks the required majority in the EU Council and derails next week's planned vote.

NICE JOB EVERYONE! 💪

Back in the height of the crypto-craze, they had an acronym for this: WAGMI - we're all going to make it. The AI shark has been officially jumped.

'“We are in a phase of the build-out where the entire industry’s got to come together and everybody’s going to do super well,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the Wall Street Journal...'

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/circular-deals-bay-area-tech-21089538.php

This probably sounds a little out there, but just hear me out: how about we don't ever again elect a political party that provides material and moral support for a genocide?

"The mass killing in Gaza with US weapons has pushed a growing number of Americans to oppose military aid and weapon sales to Israel. However, the growing opposition...did not lead President Joe Biden or Donald Trump to curtail the flow of arms to Israel."

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/07/the-us-spent-over-31-billion-aiding-israel-in-the-past-two-years/

Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government

vibe compliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJVXS_E6iU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251007-deloitte-australia-retracts-chatgpt-report-refunds-government - podcast

time: 3 min 28 sec

I liked the internet more when it was an optional fixture in society.

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

NewsGuard is becoming a serious problem in the way it rates websites. Example:

https://www.levernews.com/reporting-reality-thats-partisan-now/

Ted Cruz picks a fight with #Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/ bad luck, ted, facts have a left-wing bias....

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting agents outside a Chicago ICE facility ... The rejection of charges by a grand jury, once extremely unusual, is growing more common in cities targeted by Trump's ICE and military...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-two-chicago-area-ice-protesters

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If this is for you, DM Rob.

California consumer privacy complaints can spark investigations. It’s important for all of us to speak up, because it really does make a difference. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/how-file-privacy-complaint-california

@lightweight "and by jumping to the fun part you're denying yourself the process" <- there it is; the core of it. it is the struggle that defines us, but the tech bro never experiences any and so feeds on the borrowed sense of achievement of others like a vampire, until all our creations are reduced to a pale and shambling, undead corpse. that's the risk of AI - that it robs us of our inspiration to even try.

“OpenAI is very seriously underestimating people’s creativity when it comes to harassment,” EFF’s @evacide told the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/07/sora-cameo-deepfake-consent/

This is quite a thoughtful takedown of 'AI', especially in art. It helps characters/express something most of us feel but can't quite explain: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

And so are our gushing pro-space industry politicians - calling for Aotearoa to become part of the arms industry. They're souless shitmerchants. This woman needs a new job. One that doesn't involved making decisions. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574893/government-unveils-strategy-for-the-defence-industry

As a plane & space buff with engineering qualifications and piloting experience, I'm a big fan, in theory, of aerospace stuff... but I fully support these protestors - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575302/arrests-as-protesters-target-christchurch-aerospace-summit - though there seem to be a few 'good eggs', there're way too many elements of NZ's aerospace industry (especially RocketLab) who have betrayed our social values and have sold-out to US military interests. Not acceptable. RocketLab is particularly dishonourable: https://northandsouth.co.nz/2021/03/14/rocket-lab-military/

📢 LAUTI Release 1.1.1

Today we have published the newest version of LAUTI - Open Source Community Calendar.

This one is a bugfix release of which are important:
🪳 Fix for password reset
🪳 gzip compression fix

Complete changelog and release:
https://codeberg.org/Klasse-Methode/lauti/releases/tag/v1.1.1

As always, the release comes with updated @coopcloud recipe:
https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/