Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116244910829656538

A dangerous precedent for sure, but anarchist in the US must remain steadfast in their convictions. Giving into fear or despair is exactly what the Trump administration wants.

A smidgen of Elia Ayoub's insights from our March 15th interview on the state of the global order and the spreading war and disruption in west Asia. Check out more at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/15/the-us-israeli-war-with-iran-spreads-nuclear-weapons-lebanon-anti-imperial-solidarity-with-elia-ayoub/

National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/ "State attorneys general won’t get climate chapter removed from a legal manual." damn right #climatecrisis

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Happy Evacuation Day, when Washington prevented the construction of housing and forced to British to flee Boston's unaffordable rents, a tradition that continues to this day.

Privacy hot take: It should be illegal to harvest location data for any purpose other than ones where the data subject themselves directly benefits, and is aware of and desires the benefit.

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/revealed-world-worst-methane-leaks-global-heating "Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts" such a simple fix

I hope you will enjoy the orange stickers I have brought to #FOSSBack sticker exchange.

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” RBG

Feel free to spread the message. 🚀

#fossbackstage #dei #deib #Diversity #Leadership

An employee quit after learning his architecture firm was helping design an ICE detention center.

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has done since the Japanese internment camps during WWII.”

His coworkers revolted. The firm quickly reversed course. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dlr-group-detention-corecivic-contract-worker-resistance-trump/ #press

yt comment:

> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.

Some quick tips for fediverse creative newcomers!

* Make an introduction post and tag it # introduction. Include hashtags of your interests. It's a great way to start making connections.

* When you post your work, include some art hashtags (e.g. # MastoArt , Art, FediArt) and tags of the medium (e.g. # watercolour , writing , composing, photography). People follow hashtags of content they want to see.

* Include alt-text! Accessibility is valued here. Guide linked below!

Meta's latest consent-for-ads model still unlawful according to consumer groups’ analysis - https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-2026-021_Analysis_of_Meta_2026_changes_to_its_consent-for-ads_mechanism_against_EU_law.pdf

Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.

Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.

Where did the traffic come from?

meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).

I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.

#AIcritic #NoAI

Writing this up again so I can pin it: AI is literally a fascist project. Friends don't let friends use it.

Before I go into this, there are two types of responses to this that I have taken seriously so far.

One I'll call HashTagNotAllAI, which yields the obligatory "sure", but has the same smell. I'll leave it at that.

The other is that an anti AI stance also throws some assistive technology under the bus, making such a stance intrinsically ableistic. The easy thing to do is to refer...

In the context of the @DigitalCoup and #AuthoritarianTech, can we find an answer in #DemocraticTech? Something that goes beyond mere free/libre open source software, and combines #cooperativism and #commoning. Communities who govern their shared resources, and commit to shared responsibility.

I wrote an article about it, tracing the intellectual origins of the term "democratic technology", connecting to various intersectional critiques of the currently dominant model of surveillance capitalism from feminist, ecosocial perspectives.

For plenty of #neudivergent folks, having to listen to music in an already painfully distracting open-floor plan office is pure hell.

If workers feel that “[t]his studio is so quiet, it's like a morgue sometimes,” just put your own headset on and listen to whatever you enjoy. But please be so considerate to not play anything over speakers.

If you're really lucky, maybe there could even be quiet and a “noisy” zone in an office, so folks can freely choose. 🤷‍♂️ https://mastodon.cloud/@designthinkingcomic/116238150599295122

it seems the ai boosters really dislike to be reminded that openai and anthropic are working very closely with the concentration camp administrators.

"For all the fine talk at Substack about how easy it is to leave, the reality leaves something to be desired."

https://funeralsandsnakes.net/p/say-hello-to-buttondown-and-a-new-chapter-for-funerals-snakes/

The United States is at war with Cuba, but our weapons are aimed at further impoverishing -- and starving -- the population. Destroying the electrical grid will have that effect. It's all blatantly illegal, not to mention immoral. Big Journalism has kind of, sort of noticed, but doesn't really care.

Am I the only one who finds the sombre, weighty talk of sportscasters talking about a sacked coach or a team failing to reach its potential weirdly incongruous coming immediately on the heels of similarly sombre media discussing current events where thousands are dying and world war three is emerging (i.e. actual, real stakes).