Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

General strike, Friday January 23rd.

Finally.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-day-of-truth-and-freedom-economic-blackout-ice-operation-metro-surge/

@flng @pluralistic

How to create a harmful dependency on a hostile entity in one easy step.

1. Elon Musk's Starlink is deciding the fate of nations on behalf of petrostate despots & oil oligarchs.

https://cepa.org/article/should-elon-musk-decide-who-wins-wars/

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r4veg0rrzo

2. Chokepoint democracy
https://idtechwire.com/czech-digital-id-edoklady-election-failure-2025/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/what-do-when-voting-machines-fail

3. Addiction services combined with partisan indoctrination
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/22/teens-social-media-and-mental-health/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mcgill-expert-warns-youth-despair-isis-resurgence-and-ai-fuel-radicalization/

https://19thnews.org/2025/06/internet-culture-algorithms-alpha-males-tradwives/

If you're interested in trying out Project Aardvark - a totally new decentralized social app that doesn't require or use servers and gives YOU control of your social data... now is the time!

The linux release has dropped, and a MacOS release is being built as we speak.

You can find the bundle https://forge.hackers.town/Wrewdison/Aardvark/releases

It's early days, so don't expect things to be perfect. Bring a sense of adventure!

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115896285175783665

@pluralistic I hadn’t adequately considered how AI slop-coding tools might be used to allow our overlords to steer our art and our communities.

As the Trump regime steamrolls everything in sight, congressional Democrats are demonstrating weakness with more enthusiasm every day.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115895838276928275

NEW: A note apparently from AFSCME Council 5 says they confirmed Hennepin Healthcare is "complying with a request" from DHS "for access to employee I-9 forms" which could lead to the "potential targeting of workers based on immigration status".
Interim CEO of Hennepin Healthcare resigned Tuesday.

This suburban Denver cop's bogus accusation -- based on "evidence" from a Flock spy-on-everybody camera -- forced a woman to prove her innocence. The cop didn't care, and wasn't punished in any way.

Rogue cops plus Flock equals a cancer on our communities.

https://www.404media.co/cop-used-flock-to-wrongfully-accuse-a-woman-then-refused-to-look-at-evidence-that-exonerated-her-body-camera-shows/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

“F*cking b*tch”.

We all know what it means. Most women know exactly the type of man who uses that language.

Jonathan Ross wasn’t afraid for his life. He didn’t think he was in danger.

He shot Renee Nicole Good because she wasn’t afraid.

He took her life because he was angry that she didn’t cower in his presence.

Didn’t show him the deference he felt he deserved.

These are the men DHS gives unchecked power to.

I didn’t want to write this article. I didn’t want to watch her die.

But we can’t remain silent in the face of such atrocities:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/misogyny-murder-and-renee-nicole

#abolishice #ice #minneapolis #minnesota #reneenicolegood #dhs #uspol #fascism

“Officers may approach and confront you, closing that distance in an effort to accuse you of interfering and possibly assaulting an officer,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told TruthDig. “It complicates things and possibly creates the risk of violence.”
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/watching-out-while-watching-ice/

We are excited to announce our first open call: a 1 year term, paid position for a special someone who can support the Co-op Cloud Federation with our financial administration.

https://coopcloud.tech/blog/radmin-open-call/

Please spread in your networks and consider applying!

-- d1

How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
L: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5638908/walmart-prices-inflation-affordability-shrinkflation
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618272
posted on 2026.01.14 at 11:39:43 (c=1, p=7)

Six Prosecutors Quit over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow
L: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resignation-ice-shooting.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618513
posted on 2026.01.14 at 11:55:29 (c=1, p=4)

The GEO Merch Store is here! Spread the word about worker co-ops with a hoodie, hat, or t-shirt:

https://shop.worxprinting.coop/collections/grassroots

Big shout out to WorX Printing cooperative for making this possible, and to @stizzi for the new logos!

Oh no! I just unpacked and tried on the sweatshirt. It's a different hue of green than on the site (olive), the writing is HUGE compared to my mockup so I need to stretch it out to get the message read, and lower on the sweatshirt. In short, a fail.

I used to create custom apparel at a local shop (always support your local artisans) but it went out of business after COVID, sigh.

I need to find a new one before FOSDEM. I'm on a mission to get this made 🥲

With Forgejo's scheduled v14 release for tomorrow, we will do our final tests of v14 tonight on our test instance.

If we can't find any issues with v14, we might deploy it today. We will let you know ahead of time when this happens, so you can prepare for 10-15 minutes of downtime.

Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights - https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/article-article-how-big-tech-shaped-eus-roll-back-digital-rights incredibly stupid: handing *more* power to US digital giants - exactly wrong

I switched from #macOS to #Linux #Debian13 between christmas and new year‘s eve.
And already I ask myself, why I didn‘t switch earlier…

#UnplugTrump #UnplugBigTech #FOSS #OpenSource

I've mentioned this before, but one thing I've been closely watching for is when crypto people begin to distance themselves from Trump.

November 2024 vs. January 2026

#USpol #USpolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency

#Via Sarah Lazare / sarahlazare
5:30 PM · Jan 13, 2026

"Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions

After a solid track record of two successful book Kickstarter campaigns and fulfilling them, Kickstarter approved my third campaign.

It launched today, just now, on my birthday.

Technofascism Survival Guide.

Backer reward levels range from $15 to $99.

I got my first backer donation literally two minutes after launching. Wow.

--

Technofascism Survival Guide is my followup to Digital Safety in a Dangerous World.

Technofascism Survival Guide is informative and useful on its own. But reading both books is the most comprehensive experience. There are affordable backer rewards with eBooks of both if you don't have Digital Safety yet.

Digital Safety in a Dangerous World focused on cybersecurity and opsec advice for individuals, the history of technofascist corporations from Microsoft to Palantir, and the fascist origins of Silicon Valley. (Hint, Stanford University's first few decades were led by eugenicists.)

Whereas Technofascism Survival Guide focuses on cybersecurity and opsec for groups-- from families, to college clubs, to church, synagogue, and mosque groups, to political activism organizations.

And I will go deep into the history of the most prominent hacktivist groups, from Cult of the Dead Cow, to Anonymous, to Dark Seoul, to Shiny Hunters.

And we will also explore political activism groups, from the Black Panthers to current ICE resistance groups.

What can we learn from them?

Finally, I will explore the opposing side: the Pentagon, COINTELPRO, MI6, CIA, and so on.

Writing this book guarantees I will never try to enter the US ever again!

I have firsthand anonymous sources who have been spooks, in Anonymous ops, and who study Marxism professionally.

I will also scour academic research libraries offline, and the Deep Web.

I think the last day of my campaign is February 13th?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide