Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hello Minnesota!

This is a new server directed at people who live in Minnesota. We hope to connect people in the state and the greater fediverse.

#Minnesota #MN

It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera system won the “Worst in Show” for privacy at #CES2026 for “doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @AssociatedPress. https://apnews.com/article/ces-worst-show-ai-0ce7fbc5aff68e8ff6d7b8e6fb7b007d

You thought you lived in the United States of America but you actually live in a Judge Dredd comic book.

Standard eBooks celebrates public domain day: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

Two years ago we dropped the years from all copyright mentions in the #curl project: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/

With the federal government threatening to send ICE "door to door", here's a reminder:

"If an officer knocks on your door: Do not open the door. Teach your children not to open the door. Officers must have a warrant signed by a judge to enter your home. ICE “warrants” are not signed by judges; they are ICE forms signed by ICE officers and they do not grant authority to enter a home without consent of the occupant(s)."

https://immigrantjustice.org/for-immigrants/know-your-rights/ice-encounter/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/vance-ice-door-to-door

#USPol #immigration #immigrants #ICE

"By now we have become so accustomed to reports of exploitation of gig workers that it is almost quaint to think back to the mid-2000s when Big Tech marketed the gig economy as unshackling workers from the scrutiny of micromanaging bosses while bringing entrepreneurship to the masses."

Indeed.

He also discusses our report, by former Amazon delivery driver Adrienne Williams, @alex & Sandra L. Barcenas Fuerte, on Amazon's wage theft through surveillance..

https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/

Callenson had the courage and conviction to stay with the scene and keep filming. Not to run away, but instead to follow the scene. To continue documenting what was unfolding.

I’d like to think I’d have done the same. I’m not sure at all that I would have.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/lets_call_a_murder_a_murder

I posted on Boing Boing about the crimes J6ers have committed since their pardons.
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/08/where-are-the-pardoned-january-6ers-now-how-many-have-been-charged-with-child-sex-crimes.html

Shortly before Christmas I got myself the Fair Mouse from @fairit as a DIY kit. Today I put it together. It was fun building soldering the mouse myself.

The Fair Mouse is now on my workshop/lab computer as a daily driver

Sick bookstore gig tonight if you're in or around PDX:

The Intima (tour kick-off!)
Horsebag
Piggy Bank

Mother Foucault's Bookshop (715 SE Grand)
7pm doors, $10-15 sliding scale, all ages

(two-color risograph print on paper, by me.)

#Punk #PostPunk #ArtPunk #SynthPunk #Risograph #Portland #TheIntima #Horsebag #PiggyBank

Oh good grief Jensen, just cut to the chase and call them "guilt-free slaves" already, your target audience already know exactly that you mean
https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484

Hot off the presses 📖 🔥

Chapter 15 of Luis Razeto Migliaro's 'Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy' (translated by @Matt_Noyes )
#Cooperatives #Economics

https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-15

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Weld/115860474005082793

"You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."

still true, 40 years later...

stay curious!

See BS, only on Bari Weiss' CBS. https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Big Brother is watching; don’t forget to 🖕

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115856547823045590

NOPE