Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Data centres powering artificial intelligence (AI) in Scotland are using enough tap water to fill 27 million half-litre bottles a year, according to data obtained by BBC News.

You don't miss your water until your well runs dry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77zxx43x4vo

Yesterday at the Burlington #Vermont food shelf I gave away 32 pairs of used reading glasses. I wasn't sure if there would be much interest but they were pretty popular. All gone in about 2.5 hours. We set up a display by the check-in desk and people were constantly trying them on.

#Forgejo 13.0.0 was just released!

A new moderation tool is available to report inappropriate user behavior or content that should be looked at by instance administrators. Two factor authentication (TOTP, etc.) can be enforced on the entire instance for all users or instance administrators. Forgejo Actions usability was improved with static checking of workflow files and access to the logs of all run attempts.

Check out the blog post at https://forgejo.org/2025-10-release-v13-0/

#forgejorelease

"If armed, masked, federal agents are snatching US citizens off the street as they walk to work and throwing them in unmarked vehicles, you can only imagine what these agents must be willing to do to our immigrant neighbors" and people who dare speak out.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/chicago-ice-tv-producer-arrest

Give the KKK law enforcement authority and you end up with Trump's ICE good squads.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ice-fines-chicago-man-for-not-having-papers-on-him/

New Privacy Guides article 🔓👁️‍🗨️
by @jw and me:

Outside the Fediverse, you may have
encountered platforms where you were obligated to provide your "real" name.

These so-called "real-name" policies, often in fact requiring legal names, are horrible for everyone's privacy. But it's also important to consider how discriminatory and dangerous they are.

Pseudonymity isn't a trivial matter,
it saves lives.

Fighting against policies attacking
online pseudonymity, such as real-name policies, age-verification policies, and Chat Control proposals, isn't just a banal fight to keep using silly nicknames online. It's a battle for democracy, for civil liberties, and for human rights.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/10/15/real-name-policies/

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #RealNamePolicies #Meta #Facebook #MassSurveillance #Democracy #HumanRights

Today marks the anniversary of the Black Panther Party’s founding in Oakland, CA. In 1966 the Party promoted self‑defense, community programs and a bold challenge to systemic racism. Its legacy still inspires movements today. Explore related titles at pmpress.org

My cooperative development organization, Carolina Common Enterprise, lost federal funding earlier this year. We've re-engineered our business model to not depend on grants and internally to operate as a worker cooperative. There's a lot of need for our services. We have new projects in the pipeline and prospects to break even soon, but our cash has run out.
Please help us keep going for another month or two. Even a few dollars. Donate here:
https://givebutter.com/c/CCEBetterWorld

Supplies are limited. Get your protest costume today!
https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

A federal court just blocked a ridiculous law that banned almost all speech on public college campuses in Texas after 10 p.m., including student journalism.

Huge win by FIRE defending the First Amendment.

Free speech doesn’t have a curfew.

https://www.thefire.org/news/victory-federal-court-halts-texas-no-first-amendment-after-dark-campus-speech-ban

Good news: laws to tackle #AI #deepfakes are coming. Bad news: they are based on #copyright - https://walledculture.org/good-news-laws-to-tackle-ai-deepfakes-are-coming-bad-news-they-are-based-on-copyright/

Nearly 6 months after the premiere of our full-length documentary, InterRebellium 01. The Estallido Social we are still hearing of autonomous volunteers organizing screenings all around the world.

This week alone there will be screenings in Budapest, Hungary; Medellín, Colombia; and Valparaíso, Chile. These screenings are happening because people see the value in this film, the importance of studying revolutionary movements and relating our histories of struggle on a global scale.

Most of these screenings have been completely free, we do not profit off of them nor do we want to.

That being said, we are raising funds to cover production costs of the next film of the series: InterRebellium 02. Shut Down Canada.

If you see the value in these revolutionary films and would like to help us continue making them, consider a donation to our firefund here:

https://www.firefund.net/interrebellium02shutdowncanada

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug comic now up on Boing Boing...
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You won't believe what backward and brutally violent country boy adventurer Billy Dare's latest adventure takes place in!
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https://boingboing.net/2025/10/15/tom-the-dancing-bug-boy-adventurer-billy-dare-in-a-strange-land.html

A hiker took blurry footage of a "good" Republican in the woods near Bohemian Grove in 1961. Another one hasn't been seen since.

fucking lol. remember the rick astley attack on github copilot? same guy's found another one https://www.legitsecurity.com/blog/camoleak-critical-github-copilot-vulnerability-leaks-private-source-code (fixed 14 aug)

Someone tell Speaker Mike Johnson that there’s nothing threatening or radical about a naked bike ride.

You know what’s actually threatening and radical?

Refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva.

Someone who was freely and fairly elected over three weeks ago and who Mike Johnson is preventing from governing.

That’s the real threat. He’s interfering with the democratic process.

#uspol #fascism #adelitagrijalva

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts.

Six people are being deported because of what they said online.

Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.

It won’t stop with these six people.

Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/us-foreign-visas-charlie-kirk-social-media

NEW, by me, the one some of you have been asking about:

Months After Being Notified, a Software Vendor is Still Exposing Confidential and Sealed Court Records

https://databreaches.net/2025/10/13/months-after-being-notified-a-software-vendor-is-still-exposing-confidential-and-sealed-court-records/

I don't usually ask for boosts, but if you are in a position to help spread the word about this vendor and that its clients need to check their security, that would be great.

#dataleak, #incidentresponse, #infosecurity, #cybersecurity, #SoftwareUnlimitedCorp #FBI #CISA

@zackwhittaker @euroinfosec @campuscodi @therecord_media @GossiTheDog @briankrebs

Is it just my imagination, or did GitHub *completely* fail to patch the part where Copilot will happily leak secrets from unrelated repos?

https://www.legitsecurity.com/blog/camoleak-critical-github-copilot-vulnerability-leaks-private-source-code

It looks like all they did was patch one avenue that allows for the exfiltration to be quiet.

Some of the most prominent "Young Republicans" are fascists and overt racists, with violent plans for people they despise.

And they're really unhappy that their group chat just leaked.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146