Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Happy Bloomsday! Enjoy your grilled mutton kidneys. As always, if you’ve ever bounced off the book then I can’t recommend the 1982 RTÉ full-cast, unabridged performance of the text enough. It’s so good. It brings out the musical and literally multi-vocal character of the novel so beautifully.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1517040628

If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.

Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.

Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."

That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."

Pentagon City mall, shot and chaser

Why philosophy of physics?

Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful

By James Read

https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=708ceef367-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Philosophy of physics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7005

#ebooks #philosophy #physics

my favorite story in all of art history

church commissions a statue of lucifer, it's too sexy. so asks original sculptor's younger brother to make it less sexy.

... new one ends up hotter and far more iconic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_g%C3%A9nie_du_mal#'This_devil_is_too_sublime'

Converse, the in browser #xmpp client has a new release.

Introducing Converse 11: A Major Leap Forward for XMPP Webchat | Opkode - https://opkode.com/blog/2025-05-21-converse-11/

Question: do you really have control over your data? Depending on the formats you use, that answer might be no. Here's why the Open Document Format (as used by LibreOffice and other suites) is important: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/23/why-is-odf-important/ #openstandards

A truly free education means DRM-free. Together, we can build a future in which everyone will be able to learn in freedom and will know their rights as a user. Donate to the FSF to help bring free software to every learning environment around the world. https://donate.fsf.org/ #LearnLibre #EndDRM #DRMFree #Education

Don't drive when you can relax on your way to and from your next outdoor adventure. Two local hiking clubs charter buses to bring people on outdoor adventures outside of DC on most weekends.: https://ggwash.org/view/99116/take-a-hikeby-bus

A while ago I learned that Balatro is made in a fun game engine called #love2d, which turns out to be quite the cross-platform beast.
This of course meant I had no choice but to run it on my #linuxmobile phone running #postmarketos and #plasmamobile
Runs at a locked 60fps on my OnePlus 6T and plays really well besides needing some persuasion to accept screen rotation!
No movie magic, no translation layers, no virtual machines.

Our next meeting is Saturday.... join us. https://novalug.org/presentations/19-april-2025-linux-mobile/