Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Ross Douthat is one of those tumors with teeth and hair in it. The fact it can write at all was so incredible the NYTimes never bothered reading its essays.

Thankfully, public pressure has once again pushed the EU Council to withdraw its dangerous plan to scan encrypted messages. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/once-again-chat-control-flails-after-strong-public-pressure

Speaker Mike Penis's Food Bank https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/31/2351444/-Cartoon-Mike-Johnson-s-food-bank

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We need better accessibility software for vision-impaired people on Linux. My blind friend is stuck using Windoze because apparently whatever Linux has isn't even close to up to par with what MS has on offer. This seems like a massive fail to me. I know it's probably a hard thing to develop, but still...

A visual summary of inequality. Cartoon from last year.

#wealth #poverty #inequality

As Tim Bray aptly puts it, Grokpedia -- copied from Wikipedia and then junked up with right-wing advocacy and LLM slop -- is "the encyclopedia that Elon Musk’s LLM can edit, with sketchy citations and no progressive argument left un-attacked.”

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedia

MIT Technology Revew: "I get it, I get it—calling AGI a conspiracy isn’t a perfect analogy. It will also piss a lot of people off. But come with me down this rabbit hole and let me show you the light."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1127057/agi-conspiracy-theory-artifcial-general-intelligence/

This is unbelievable. So Europe is not even allowed to discuss how to be more independent from Big Tech? #Nextcloud

The history on how the Netherlands returned to paper ballots after it was shown that voting machines cannot be trusted sounds rather boring on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_by_country#Netherlands

"In September 2007 a committee chaired by Korthals Altes reported to the government that it would be better to return to paper voting. The deputy minister for the interior Ank Bijleveld said in a first response she would accept the committee's advice, and ban electronic voting."

Trust me, it was quite the drama at the time :)

Bingo: "awareness is growing that digital autonomy is no longer a luxury but a prerequisite for a well-functioning democracy." https://ginaplat.com/posts/20251031-digital-sovereignty-and-gov/ Thanks for this, @Gina - the world really needs to be moving away from BigTech and in a much different digital direction.

"The irony here is those of us in the military swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution" and the First Amendment, David Lapan, a former Pentagon spokesperson, said on France 24.

Now press freedom is "being degraded by this administration."

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/scoop/20251031-penta-gone-why-legacy-media-walked-out-in-protest-at-new-reporting-rules

10 Principles of Next Economy Enterprises: A Guide for Designing a Regenerative Future

https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/2025/10/22/10-principles-of-next-economy-enterprises-a-guide-for-designing-a-regenerative-future

He can add as many slippery floors and sharp edges as he likes. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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Five years of struggle, blockades, and solidarity across Nehirowisiw territory.
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It should always be a holiday, but no one's getting quality work done on a Halloween Friday. Except for me. The cartoon I'm finishing is not half-assed! My costume is "Hunched over Cenobite forced to draw Mike Johnson for all eternity."

An #AI slop farm stole my #identity - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/an-ai-slop-farm-stole-my-identity/ fascinating and troubling tale... #journalism