Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This fall, Hawaii's supreme court rejected an argument that recording interrogations is burdensome for police: “If children can record everyday events with ease, law enforcement cannot claim hardship to record perhaps its most consequential investigative act.”
https://boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-court-police-interrogations/

Cory Doctorow summarises his forthcoming book "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI" in a speech to the University of Washington.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

'AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.'

The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law.

https://www.somo.nl/the-secretive-cabal-of-us-polluters-that-is-rewriting-the-eus-human-rights-and-climate-law/

'While Europeans were told that their governments were negotiating a landmark law to hold corporations accountable for human rights abuses and climate damage, a secretive alliance of US fossil fuel giants was working behind the scenes to destroy it. Collaborating under the innocent-sounding name ‘Competitiveness Roundtable’, eleven multinational enterprises have worked closely to eviscerate several EU sustainability laws, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). This Competitiveness Roundtable may be unknown, but its members are a who’s-who of polluting, mainly US, multinationals, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Dow. The group seems to have run rings around all branches of the EU and the Trump administration to get what they want: scrapping, or at least hugely diluting, the CSDDD.'

Join PM Press authors, PM tables, and much more at the Howard Zinn Book Fair on Sunday, December 7th in San Francisco! Several sessions feature PM authors, learn more below!

https://www.zinnbookfair.org/

"can u explain the gaps in your CV" yes those are spaces they help you know what's a word and what's another word, it's the long bar on the keyboard here gimme your phone I can help u it's easy

Dates for the #Phosh contributors meeting 2026 is now confirmed: 2026-05-22 to 2026-05-24.

Please help us reach our funding goal for the event with a donation: https://ev.phosh.mobi/blog/pcm-funding-25-11/

#pcm2026

A first glimpse of @CollaboraOffice running on #Phosh

#LinuxMobile

For sale, Antitrust Act, never used.

📢 Currently, our friends from @bonfire are searching for supporters to be able to sustain their amazing work. They are building a modular social web as part of the Fediverse and they have big plans for the future. Luckily they took #LAUTI on their journey with them.
Now we ask you to support them, and therefore also us to a small degree by contributing to their crowdfunding campaign. It lacks less than 10% of it's first goal which runs until 15th December. 💸
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

The Oxford Word of the Year is "rage bait" 🙁

In a world seemingly filled with "rage bait", we're building technology that lets you connect authentically. That's why we carefully designed consent-respecting Quote Posts. Free speech isn’t about giving hate a megaphone, it’s about protecting the voices that need it most.🛡️

Mastodon’s community-driven moderation proves we can foster open dialogue and safety, without algorithms or agendas.

Donate #SupportMastodon https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

Another grand jury realizes it can say No to being used as a political pawn.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/grand-jury-declines-indict-ny-attorney-general-letitia-james-less-two-rcna247310

It is vital that as many members of the public as possible learn that if they are serving on a grand jury or trial jury that they can refuse to be political pawns.

GEO is in print for the first time in 18 years!

https://givebutter.com/nPrjTp

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-newsguild-cwa-journalists-and-demand-news-not-slop-2

Sen. Kelly: You're right that the Trump administration shouldn’t hide its legal justification for killing people at sea.

Luckily, you can help force transparency by reading the document into the Congressional Record.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/sen-kelly-read-the-boat-strike-memo-into-the-congressional-record/

Fucking yes… finally! Thank you, Ireland!

“Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part.”

Now… any more European countries with a backbone?

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1204/1547300-rte-to-boycott-eurovision-song-contest-over-israel/

#eurovision #genocideVision #boycott #EU #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally
L: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/04/eus-top-court-just-made-it-literally-impossible-to-run-a-user-generated-content-platform-legally/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152098
posted on 2025.12.04 at 14:55:04 (c=0, p=4)

I'm a member of the Boulder Valley School District's "District Accountability Committee" or DAC. Each school in the district has a representative that meets once a month at district headquarters to hash out policy, budget, and other recommendations to the school board.

At last night's DAC meeting, during the Q&A period following our Superintendent's briefing (in which he brought up the ongoing problem of kids vaping in school bathrooms), I mentioned an amazing talk I saw at this past @defcon #DEFCON33 called "Unmasking the Snitch Puck: The creepy IoT surveillance in the school bathroom" - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCnojaEpF2I

You see, New Vista High School, which just opened a brand new building, has installed these devices, called a Halo 3C Smart Sensor, in all the bathrooms and elsewhere inside the school building, and has made a measurable impact reducing the number of vaping-in-school incidents. But, as I told superintendent Anderson, the sensor itself brings along with it some seriously problematic security vulnerabilities, in addition to the undocumented capabilities that the researchers in the talk exploited.

The superintendent's response to that made the whole room bust out laughing: "Andrew, you never fail to bring to my attention things that scare the hell out of me" - to which I responded, literally my job, Rob. It's why they call it "Threat Research" my guy.

This is why every community board, council, committee, etc. needs a thoughtful hacker present, to relay important information like this to policy implementers and policy makers who just don't keep up with this space.

#BVSD #schoolboard #edtech #edpolicy #techpolicy #Boulder #COpolitics

What could go wrong? https://www.404media.co/nuclear-rian-bahran-iaea-international-symposium-on-artificial-intelligence/

We had a similar philosophy when setting up the “Librem AweSIM” service at Purism, but this service goes to the next level by the minimalist approach to retaining personal data (just a zip code). With AweSIM, Purism would still have mailing address and credit card on file, and you essentially still had to extend trust to Purism. Not so with this new service.

Merrill’s history with Calyx also gives extra weight to his claims to defend privacy.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/

Co-op Cloud Assembly @ #39C3 is set!

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/assembly/detail/coopcloud

Shout out to the friends @ @klasse_methode for organising it.

See you there!