Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

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

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