Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

On this day in 1912, the Paint Creek–Cabin Creek Strike began. It resulted in a 13-month labor conflict that would become one of the most violent chapters in American labor history. Explore related titles at pmpress.org.

Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/17/trump-is-literally-negotiating-with-himself-over-how-much-taxpayer-money-he-gets-because-his-taxes-were-leaked/

All I'm actually saying here is that (waves broadly) a lot more people who have never opened a PR or maintained a project being in a position to either open a PR or maintaining a project is going to result in them not behaving within the social norms we've developed as a group that is, to be fair, far less insular than in the 90s but is still somewhat insular compared to society as a whole and yes we are going to have to get used to the equivalent of HTML mail and top posting

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA

Hundreds of people have escaped arrest after taking to the streets of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, to show support for Palestinians by singing a classic Australian rock song containing a banned phrase in the state.

#Brisbane #Protest #Solidarity #Palestine #AntiGenocide #AntiApartheid #FromTheRiverToTheSea #Banned

@floatybirb @xgranade Well, some people already can't use US credit cards precisely because of US politics. Notably some members of the International Criminal Court.

So their list of everyday annoyances expands to not being able to use most of the Internet in the UK I guess.

A local coffee shop that is set to open soon only has a TikTok and Instagram account... I was a bit surprised, then, to see a bunch of reviews of various menu items and descriptions of what customers love and don't love.

It was TikTok and Instagram using AI to generate "summaries." None of those products exist yet because the coffee shop isn't open yet.

Fashtech is not empowering. I don't care how good you think your one good use case is. The ethical arguments will always matter.

I am so angry and disappointed at all the left- and center-wing commentators who bought into the right-wing framing of "parent's rights" as being more important than children's rights.

Like, I'm sorry, but parents have *responsibilities to* kids, not *rights over* kids. Kids aren't property, they're living, breathing *people* who deserve care and love and privacy and dignity.

@zzt “software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like”
The entire industry is now betting everything on software that only (and barely) works if you act as if licenses and copyright laws don't really matter if your investors are big enough.

if your proof is that I should trust that the people currently complying will suddenly grow a backbone and it’s actually very punk rock to have a database field with PII in systemd: go fuck yourself

“it’s just a column in a database” said presumably a full grown adult whose ability to live under capitalism is a column in their bank’s database

ICE detention is killing one person every six days. Here's a graph of every custodial death since the start of the year. Remember that research shows that many/most of these deaths are preventable.

Prediction.
A decade from now, low-Earth orbit will be inaccessible after Starlink (now bankrupt) precipitates a massive #Kessler catastrophe. Years/generations will pass before new launches to #space are possible.
No #Moon missions; no #Mars missions.
#Musk's name is cursed (even more...).

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...

Have a good Friday everyone!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib_millions-of-people-look-up-to-steve-jobs-activity-7450947453085749248-K1w-

We need a law that either allows families to opt out of using online services that the school selects, or a law requiring them to meet industry best-practice standards for security. Probably need to require them to stop all the creepy data broker shit, too.

https://manchicken.com/2026/04/15/open-letter-to-fellow-parents/

Yet again the Associated Press normalizes the most corrupt presidency, by far, in American history. This story about Trump's kabuki-theater shakedown of the government he controls barely mentions that until the very end.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-irs-lawsuit-tax-whistleblower-c710244db618b066f3070a65e75820a5

All corruption in Trump world, all the time.

🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity.

This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:
https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/04/trump-hates-pope-leo-because-he-sees-himself-as-the-real-vicar-of-christ/

Don't forget to salute everyone you see in their Boston Athletic Association tracksuits this weekend.

Ok, fellow hackers, I propose a pact: That new EU age verification app thingy ... do NOT help improve it.

Don't publish findings. Don't responsibly disclose insecurities. Don't facilitate them making it bulletproof.

If personal data is directly at risk, by all means, slam their asses into the ground. GDPR them into oblivion.

But on its core functionality this needs to be, to become, and to stay, the most insecure, the most easily circumventable piece of shit code on the planet.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415821939972420

The Bluesky mothership failure allowed to get a glimpse of realy how the other skys are independent from it, the black and the euro one.

I was looking for the answer to this question for a long time. This thread has it.

[Spoiler : I will stick to the Fediverse]