Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

you know what's fun? the growing realization that a lot of Americans have no idea what rabies is

Old Yeller was necessary trauma it turns out : /

AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
L: https://christianheilmann.com/2025/10/30/ai-is-dunning-kruger-as-a-service/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45851483
posted on 2025.11.07 at 16:44:04 (c=0, p=13)

Trying to get a Thinkpad T430s working again.

It was working a few years ago, but now the only thing that happens when I push the power button is that the button light turns on, there's fan whir, optical drive click, keyboard light flash... and then nothing. The battery light also responds to AC connect/disconnect. Nothing on VGA port.

I left it unplugged for a while, replaced the backup battery (which was down to 1V), and same results.

What else should I be checking?

DOGE and others in the administration want to build a giant database of records by haphazardly combining info the government collected for one purpose, like paying taxes, and use it for another purpose, like targeting immigrants. We can't let this happen. https://takebackctrl.org/get-a-warrant

The body-worn camera “that was sold to us as a police accountability tool should not be turned into a shaming-random-civilians tool,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told Vox.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/466006/bodycam-youtube-viral-content-police-transparency-policy

My child in Gaza,after all hes endured,asks for nothing..just achicken. After a long absence,he saw chickens in the market.But now he sees them with his own eyesnot on our plates;their price is aburden on parents.Please,dont let our child go to sleep tonight with abroken heart&a hungry dream.Your help now is the price of hope,not the price of ameal🥺💔🙏
https://gofund.me/74c01145
#Gaza_Hunger_and_Resilience #Dreams_of_Children_of_War #Broken_a_Child's_Heart
@aral
@evan
@fabio
@neutrinoceros

Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts
L: https://gtaforums.com/topic/1004182-rockstar-games-alleged-union-busting/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849281
posted on 2025.11.07 at 13:22:09 (c=0, p=11)

112 yrs since Mr. Block debuted in 1912! Get a copy of Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1498

Maybe the only company on the planet that owns the browser and ad market shouldn’t be the one propagating a standards change that would undermine user privacy controls?

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/third-party-cookie-allowlist-header

Y’all might want to get in on the discussion.

FBI sources say #Epstein files "worse" than photos "showing #Trump with half naked teenage girls," says journalist - https://boingboing.net/2025/11/07/fbi-sources-say-epstein-files-worse-than-photos-showing-trump-with-half-naked-teenage-girls-says-journalist.html ""more than 100 Republicans" now planning to vote alongside Democrats to release the files"

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent

Check out this story by Michelle Zenarosa in Poynter:

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/la-public-press-journalists-covering-ice-raids-safety/

#30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Accessibility 🌍✈️

I mapped visa-free travel:
🛫outbound (where citizens can go) and 🛬inbound (who countries let in).

It reveals global mobility inequality and rising deglobalisation. Borders are tightening due to geopolitics, trade, migration fears & right-wing politics.

This affects researchers & global collaboration.

📊 Data: 2025 Passport Index
🛠️ Made with QGIS

#VisaFreeTravel #Deglobalisation #QGIS #GIS #DataViz

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug!
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LETTERS HOME FROM THE SECOND CIVIL WAR
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Brought to you by the fightin' Inner Hive, including long-time member Austin L. and new member newmanewman
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

From the article:

Richard warned that the missiles in the arsenal were so obsolete that their original designers were dead, and engineers no longer had some of the necessary technical documentation. That thing is so old that in some cases the [technical] drawings don’t exist anymore, or where we do have drawings, they’re like six generations behind the industry standard. And there’s not only [no one] working that can understand them – they’re not alive anymore,” he stated.

Next season of Strange New Worlds will take place entirely in orbit above Planet Sorbo. https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11/4/paramount-has-blacklisted-talent-deemed-overtly-antisemitic

These people are 🤡 🤡 🤡

Don't be like them.

https://gizmodo.com/why-is-the-ai-czar-already-saying-openai-wont-get-a-bailout-2000682693

I could probably scam a few billion by wearing a fleece vest and claiming to have invented a fridge that has a built-in food* replicator.

If you are unaware Perplexity is an AI company; the paper is owned by Bezos, one of the largest stakeholders in the industry

And this is just a snapshot of the problem

Earlier this week #TeenVogue was folded into #Vogue US and its parent company #CondeNast fired 6 reporters who fearlessly covered politics, speaking truth to power ("coincidentally" they were mostly BIPOC women or trans). Talk about capitulating to the current political climate.

I know it's not much, but this morning I canceled my WIRED & New Yorker subscriptions (also owned by Condé Nast)... and made sure to let them know my reason. Plus I added a note about their awful AI narrations #noAI

Catch Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen on Sun, Nov 09, 2025 @ 3:00pm at the Teaneck International Film Festival in NJ.

Feat. a talkback with Greg Palast, moderated by Anthony Johnson (ABC News).

Info: https://www.newjerseystage.com/events/2025/11/09/vigilantes-inc-americas-new-vote-suppression-hitmen-at-teaneck-international-film-festival-puffin-cultural-forum-in-teaneck-nj-on-2025-11-09/

#Documentary #Film