Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I think a lot of people are attracted to "Sora" the AI video and serve use generating application because it will put your face in a video.

But, I'm terrified of this for a few reason. There is a privacy angle. It wants to scan your face from every angle which I assume they will sell to the cops.

Getchyer protest costumes now! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/10/2347903/-Cartoon-Protest-costumes

Latest comic: What does not belong?

#cartoon #comic #politics #democracy #firstamendment #monarchy #authoritarianism #uspol

I’m still smiling from ear to ear after yesterday’s convo with @ozoned on @firesidefedi. Speechless over the intro in Italian - I hope I didn’t ruin it with my giggles 😅🤣 Grazie Antonio! https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/21bC2eX9wvznPCcda5wPbA

Hey @kde you heard that I made a #kdeplasma plugin.

How the heck do I publish it correctly?

I managed to guess my way around, but when I try to install the archive I uploaded, I get this:

> Installation of /tmp/ZAxSMp-master-kwlejka.tar.gz failed: The new package has a different type from the old version already installed.

???

Maintainers: would you link/include my tutorial somewhere prominent if I wrote one? (But please help me make that work first.)

#askfedi #kde #linux #linuxdesktop

People uploaded their photo IDs to Discord for age verification. Discord leaked at least 70,000 of them.

The people affected haven't just had their privacy damaged; they're also at risk of being impersonated now, which further means they might have to submit to even more invasive measures in the future, just worsening their exposure.

https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach

Don't submit to age/ID verification. Just walk away.

Censoring the press isn't enough for the Trump administration. Now they're even trying to censor court records that discuss the press's reporting.

This is unheard of.

https://americanoversight.org/opposition-filed-against-doj-effort-to-strike-context-from-complaint-about-qatars-gifted-jet-to-trump-administration/

ps. If you're worried about how small farmers going bankrupt... most small farmers are millionaires with a 6-figure income. From a day job off the farm. Small farms don't have enough acreage to lose real $$.

It's the bigger farms that will suffer the most. That's why they're hollerin for bailouts. https://youtu.be/mD50nJzDFLA

Totally unrelated! Here's a chart of soybean exports over the same time period.

source: https://unitedsoybean.org/hopper/total-u-s-soy-exports-add-39-8-billion-to-u-s-economy-in-marketing-year-22-23/

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

source: https://www.fb.org/market-intel/farm-bankruptcies-down-for-now

Tomorrow night in Sacramento!

Big First Amendment win in Chicago: A federal court told the government it can’t target journalists at protests.

But it still allows officers to order reporters to leave protests in some circumstances. We wrote about why that needs to change.

https://freedom.press/issues/court-backs-chicago-reporters-but-leaves-door-open-for-dispersals/

Wow this sucks so bad.

a person posted on /r/datahoarder that they have created an archive of the Epstein files with added metadata like mentioned people and etc. But everything is LLM-generated.... Including the "full text" of the documents.

Rather than OCRing them, they were fed to chatGPT with a system prompt that told it that it was an expert at OCR.

https://github.com/epstein-docs/epstein-docs.github.io/blob/b92183bb667afd636872d9f854de8154d61f68b4/process_images.py#L102

Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine.

https://www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sovereign-Tech-Fund.html

Someone calling for a US invasion of their own country winning the Peace Prize is pretty on-brand, both for the Nobel Committee itself and the world in general 😕

As I have noted on more than one occasion: it's easy to get an American liberal to support reactionary conservative politicians - just so long as they are from some other country, ideally one with a left-leaning government.

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Just an FYI: Machado winning the Peace Prize is the committee kowtowing to Trump without actually giving him the prize directly - they are helping the admin make the moral case for a military invasion of Venezuela.

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/top-trump-officials-ramp-up-pressure-for-military-strikes-in-venezuela-to-oust-maduro/

And what is it that the conservative "Iron Lady" of Venezuela so opposed to? You know, nasty things like this:

https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/chavezs-legacy-in-action-the-palmarito-afro-descendant-commune-part-v/

The Guardian buries the real story in the last two paragraphs of their article (quote below)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/10/venezuelan-politician-maria-corina-machado-wins-nobel-peace-prize

Depending on your definition, you might say that crypto is having a bit of a glowup moment rn, with all the official adoption by the current admin (which would have likely happened much the same had the other party won, fwiw). And yet, while the speculators are banking W after W, I don't hear A THING from the DAO people. Where did they all go? Have they all just blocked me, or are there still some true believers out there trying to "trustlessly" do...something or another?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/time-bomb-how-uninsured-stablecoins-and-crypto-derivatives-threaten-financial-and-economic-stability.html

Can I ask people to send me some spare good vibes, prayers and juju tonight?

I’m facing a few very serious threats to my survival and baseline right now that I haven’t been able to talk about.

I’m working on an article.

I’m trying to ask for help.

But right now I could just use some hope from anyone with spoons to spare.