Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Here are some drawings I found in my notebook from 2020, when my daughter was 12. We would write down the names of animals on pieces of paper and put them in a jar, and then pull out two names and draw a mashup of the two animals.

It was lots of fun. I'm not sure if my daughter has kept hers (they were great). Here are three of mine.

There's Tamandua ⨉ Octopus, Blobfish ⨉ cow, and wombat ⨉ armadillo.

If you've got young ones in the house, it's a great way to learn animals and have fun drawing.

#animals #drawing #art #mashup

Just wrote this up elsewhere... But this is what I think the US congress needs to achieve without delay, post inauguration:
1. kill Citizens' United with fire - the US (like NZ) needs a full campaign financing reset.

1/n

the Software Freedom Conservancy is fully and utterly an AI slop promotion org now

https://web.archive.org/web/20261106174553/https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/nov/05/foss-in-the-age-of-llm-gen-ai-assisted-reverse-eng/

lol

“Trump installs Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-miller-trump-chief-of-staff-susie-wiles/

The legacy of Bernie Sanders’ presidential runs was on full display in Democrats’ titanic midterm election results. The message from voters is clear: deliver on economic populism.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/midterms-election-democrats-bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism

"made with love"

looks inside

claude code

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117570361301630036

Fuck the #cybertruck and fuck the ugly menace that’s the #cybercab. I will 100% judge you as a chud and/or a dumbass if you use the latter.

And I’ll throw in a #fuckWaymo in there for free too.

#cars

Mehdi Hasan: “You know what I think the Democrats should do? First, get rid of the filibuster in the Senate. Making Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico states and adding four Senators should be priorities. Fixing the Supreme Court that was totally rigged by Donald Trump. You’re up against a fascist authoritarian movement. You must use every lever of power available to you to fight back.

I live in the U S A and I've never had a Muslim try to force me to follow Sharia law.

But I've had Christians spend my entire life trying to make their Bible my problem.

@mayintoronto
The bots suck compared to descriptions written by the poster (or a friend, in the case of AltText4You). Bots don't know what to emphasize, what details matter, why the joke is funny, or anything.

And it just sucks to be told that including me is so uninteresting to someone that they'd rather let AI do it. Nice to know how little I matter.

The tweet that crashed NASDAQ and AI stocks in the US and Asia. Lmao. I say bring on aggressive regulations for this AI bullshit. The first step must be forcing them to prove they obtained explicit permission for every single word, video, code and image they stole from others. We need to claw back every single penny from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest who stole data to train their shitty AI. They were so happy to see job losses & acting like brats. Fuck all of them

Some of the #permacomputing wiki people made a data centre family portrait on this day dedicated to #stopdirtydatacentres
BASTA DE CENTROS DE DATOS
MORATORIUM NOW!!!!!!

We wrote last week about the need to reform the Espionage Act by passing the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act.

This should be a slam dunk for the new Congress. Both parties have abused and been harmed by this archaic censorship law.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-comey-espionage-act-politicized-prosecution

Art and punk rock have never been mere mirrors reflecting the state of the world—they can also be active forces capable of reshaping politics, culture, and community from the ground up. Register Here: https://events.haymarketbooks.org/checkout/view-event/id/9254107/chk/92f45ebe4d34b9cb1b7edad63bde4871/

"I no longer believe that our technology will have a net positive impact on society. I think there's a fantasy world where AI can help decarbonise grids, cut waste, protect ecosystems, and benefit humanity. But it's not this world, and it's not this type of general-purpose AI we are racing to develop. Racing to deploy agentic AI in society as it is now and in this historical moment is a terrible idea, and will definitely be a net evil.

Technology is NOT a neutral tool. This assessment assumes we can separate technology from the context it's deployed into, but we should not: we have a responsibility to assess the tool in the context in which it's going to be used. It also assumes we can separate the technology from who owns it, builds it, controls it, and benefits from it."

The full letter:

https://stay-human.sofialiguori.com/

Some additional context and reporting:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/nice-face-of-the-devil-google-whistleblower-on-ai-gaza-and-breaking-nda/

RE: https://mastodon.cc/@dtm/117569611433364641

Read Howard Zinn's "A People's History".

I'm not sure how anyone who has read that book can look at today and be surprised. The state apparatus and capitalism work together as two components one system. The news media have always, ALWAYS, functioned to support and reinforce the status quo. ALWAYS. The narrative is created and controlled by a capitalist press. They well craft the narrative that they think will best serve the establishment which, in this case, is the old guard of Democrat Party.

But, the Democrats have long been a party that supports the establishment which is why they support capitalism, war, etc. They have to be pushed and pushed to ever come close to approximating the grass roots.

The two party system of electoral politics keeps everything locked up. At the very least it should be cracked open to easier access to other parties, other voices. That would be a solid step.

Otherwise, we can expect the establishment stranglehold to continue.
#US #Politics #Democracy

We're scheduling the upgrade to Forgejo v17 for tomorrow (Saturday, November 7), 11.00 UTC.

We do expect a period of downtime of Codeberg.org during necessary database migrations.

Susan Simensky Bietila is speaking on Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance at the Twin Cities Book Festival this Saturday, November 7 at 3pm. Learn more at https://twincitiesbookfestival.com/the-art-of-resistance/

📣 It's the
TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEW! This week:
🕺 Oh, happy day!
🧠 Dementia Donnie likes big butts and he can lie
👑 Subjugating the masses
🤖🔄 Giant Robot Aliens vs. Free Will
👀 Where's Wilbur?
💐 It'll Happen Every Ding-Dong Time
AND MORE!
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