Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It’s Disability Pride Month and I’m mourning one of our elders…. Alice Wong.

Every year on July 1st she would talk about disabled rage.

She would remind us that it’s ok to be angry at the eugenicist, capitalist, patriarchal system we’re trapped in.

She would encourage us to embrace our disabilities AND our anger.

She would give us permission to be our true selves… to refuse to hide for the comfort of others.

She passed away last November but left an indelible mark on our community.

I want to honour her this month by continuing the tradition she started and inviting all my disabled peers to be proud, unapologetically themselves and angry if that’s what they feel.

Don’t hide.

Don’t smile and say “I’m fine” when you’re in pain.

Don’t settle for being treated as “less than”.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

#disability #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #patriarchy #capitalism

Looks like Grid (https://mygrid.app/) is a pretty good candidate for a privacy-respecting location sharing app.

Claims E2E-encryption, open source, minimal data collection (passkeys rather than email signin, own tileset rather than Google), de-Googled-compatible. Has a reasonable free tier.

There are also some other "soft" signs of trustworthiness: Donation page, communicative devs.

The encryption is via Matrix. (They let you specify your own homeserver, which sounds neat?) I'm pretty fed up with Matrix from both self-hosting and user perspectives, there are problems with the protocol and how it is managed, etc... but *how* Grid uses Matrix is probably more important than any of that. Might look into the details.

I'm not set up for an audit of a phone app but at a glance this does look more promising than others!

RE: https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/116851921742967393

And there goes freedom of the press.

Oh my. The two 'Slack' instances I use through gritted teeth due to historical bad decisions made by groups in which I want to participate (and, I hope, help migrate to technologies compatible with their values) have just got even more 🤮 with the unwanted appearance of a new 'Slackbot' ('AI' thing that no one needs). The enshittification proceeds unabated.

Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥

Archipelago mode means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to federate *only* with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers. Communities can link up into an "archipelago" of like-minded "islands" with shared rules, ideal for tight-knit groups, neighbourhoods, assemblies, co-ops, or orgs that want to connect with each other but not necessarily the whole internet.

We also added new admin throughput controls as our latest take on "calm empowerment": simple defaults first, curated overrides next, and full advanced control behind an explicit gesture. In practice, you can keep a busy instance responsive by picking a speed preset, prioritising certain kinds of activity, or fine-tuning each background task queue, no config files or restarts needed.

Also new in 1.0.5:

Faster search, now powered by Sonic
Broadcast announcements to everyone on your instance
Embeddable widgets: put your pinned posts on any website
PGP-encrypted system emails
Plus lots of improvements and fixes (federation, polls, media, accessibility, mobile)

Blog post and changelog: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@rra/116832830302593523

Another #peertube release fixing so-far undisclosed vulnerabilities:
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.2.2

@coopcloud recipe has also been updated!

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Thin-Skinned #Palantir Loses Its Bid To Bully A Swiss Magazine Into Publishing Its Rebuttals To Embarrassing Reporting - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/02/thin-skinned-palantir-loses-its-bid-to-bully-a-swiss-magazine-into-publishing-its-rebuttals-to-embarrassing-reporting/ "sure would be a shame if you decided to go read this critical reporting of Palantir’s relentless attempts to win business from the Swiss government...."

#Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally - https://readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bought-hundreds-of-stocks-the-day-before-he-paused-tariffs-and-sparked-a-historic-rally/ "trades weren't made public until yesterday, more than a year later than required by law"

On Saturday June 21, a 23 year old anti-fascist was stabbed by a fascist in Göttingen, Germany. As a result of his injuries, he was in a coma for three days. The following Saturday, June 27th, 1,5000 anti-fascists took to the streets of Göttingen in a show of solidarity with their injured comrade.

Solidarity means attack!

https://kolektiva.media/w/rWv8ugP2UsTXtmNPcaMtqj

"You can’t introduce somebody’s reading habits, or their library, their bookshelf, as evidence of a specific crime in court," FPF's Seth Stern told FAIR about Daniel Sanchez Estrada's 30-year sentence for transporting zines.

https://fair.org/home/anyone-whose-beliefs-are-inconvenient-becomes-a-terrorist/

Maybe it’s about time we add ‘no cryptocurrency’ and ‘no AI’ to the Mastodon features list

Right beside the ‘no ads’ and ‘no tracking’

Crazy we live in a time where the ‘no’ features make you a better alternative

Two new stickers available! If we were you, we definitely wouldn't buy these and put them on stop signs...
Shop all designs here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=247

Shorts with little anchors and lobsters on them should be MY thing, not yuppie guys named Bradley.

As nursing homes close, Medicaid beds disappear and healthcare costs rise, more people are being pushed into the shadows of the care system.

In Texas boarding homes, Ottavia Spaggiari reports on what happens when “care” comes with almost no guardrails.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/texas-boarding-homes-elderly-disability-justice-healthcare-investigation-nursing-neglect-abuse

Your dogshit AI image with the name of the malware, a lock, computer circuits, lightning bolts, and/or exclamation marks on a computer screen or a console makes me roll my fucking eyes. Please stop.

You know what would be nice? If there were a national public transportation policy -- if instead of shaming people driving cars, leftists and liberals demanded a system that doesn't force millions into the necessity of owning a personal vehicle.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't seen this being seriously pushed anywhere. Public transit is left to local governments to figure out (and pay for), and a lot of environmentalists seem to take pride in dunking on those of us driving ICE vehicles out of necessity, which does nothing to further climate goals.

People who get to experience good public transit systems tend to love them, but a lot of us were born in places where that's not an experience we've had. Rather than trying to shame people into less carbon intensive lifestyles, why not demand a system that makes that possible for everyone?

The Northeast is under a heat dome. The U.S. remains the world’s largest oil and gas producer. And more than 50 countries are beginning to chart a different course.

Basav Sen reports on the first diplomatic conference dedicated to phasing out fossil fuels. https://inthesetimes.com/article/santa-marta-colombia-climate-change-fossil-fuels

“ #Neuroscience journal editor resigns over #AI automation concerns.

The editor resigned after the publisher’s artificial-intelligence system overrode his selection of referees for a manuscript.

His move prompted an internal review of the system.”

https://www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/exclusive-neuroscience-journal-editor-resigns-over-automation-concerns/

OpenAI wanting the US government to take 5% is not "democratization" or something, it's a bailout. OpenAI can't get the money from private investors or the stock market and needs the hole in their budget filled so they are trying to take US tax dollars.