Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@reiunion we won! None of the corporate picked candidates won enough votes to get on the board.

https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/05/rei-co-op-members-reject-company-board-picks-after-union-campaign

#DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing #malware - https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/doge-software-engineers-computer-infected-by-info-stealing-malware/ " The presence of credentials in leaked "stealer logs" indicates his device was infected. "

‘Hollowing out’: #NewZealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/leaving-new-zealand-record-departure-numbers "Surge of departures – mostly fleeing a weak economy - fuels concern over the longer-term impact on the country as some small towns scramble for survival" never a good sign...

#Musk funds Texas group aiming to crush journalists with #defamation lawsuits - https://boingboing.net/2025/05/08/musk-funds-texas-group-aiming-to-crush-journalists-with-defamation-lawsuits.html "I am a free speech absolutist," Elon Musk declared on Twitter in 2022.

Police tech providers want to ensnare their cop customers in a web of surveillance tools and software. Read more about how these companies are locking your communities into years of privacy-invading technology.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/beware-bundle-companies-are-banking-becoming-your-police-departments-favorite

Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss #OpenSource

There's a lot of interesting stuff in this interview with Mansib Rahman and Dru Oja Jay! Radish is a local, multi-stakeholder food delivery #cooperative in Montreal, Canada that has been exploring supply-chain logistics for restaurants. #PlatformCoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTnPUPwfxkE

#DigitalSovereignty doesn't mean tech for sovereign nations, it means tech for sovereign people.

Tech in the hands of a European billionaire class is hardly any better than what we have now.

Free it up, give people control, open source it, decentralise it, remove choke points and gatekeepers, encrypt all the things, remove the #SurveillanceAds industry from the equation, enable #SelfHosting and #SmallTech. And then let's talk #GoEuropean.

3 THINGS I'm grateful for when it comes to the #Fediverse:

1: I (almost) never see any AI slop. I'm subscribed to @404mediaco and I'm constantly horrified by their articles on AI slop - so common on Meta platforms. Not here. So #ThankYouFedi.

2: I'm never force-fed content by people I don't follow – so common in other places where algorithms rule. My time & attention are treated with RESPECT.

3: People here protect the privacy of children / don't post their pics. Consent is BIG. #ThankYouFedi

Alerta! Due to a problem with our usual Jitsi server, we're falling back here https://meet.waag.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying 🤙

– 3wordchant

Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source - https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/us_dod_software_procurement/ it should be supporting #opensource better, not attacking it

I had someone tell me we shouldn't be using Scheme at Spritely because AI code generators aren't good at writing it

No no no

That's a huge feature

Inventing a reverse NDA so no one talks to me about #AI

when I find out someone's been using an AI assistant to compose replies to me they drop to the bottom of the queue of people I will talk to

I don't need someone to disrespect me like that. use words you mean

Save the Tapanuli #orangutans! - https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/save_the_last_tapanuli_lt_1/ "corporate giant Jardine Matheson is set to expand a gold mine that could tear down over 500 hectares of these great apes’ only home." appalling. please sign if you can #indonesia

This VE Day is not a reason to celebrate. It should all be about noting lessons not learned. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/08/this-ve-day-is-not-a-reason-to-celebrate-it-should-all-be-about-noting-lessons-not-learned/ Eighty years ago, we won a victory in Europe. Today, we are losing the fight against fascism at home, and those leading the celebrations are responsible for that.

Trump and the GOP are purging, deleting, censoring, moving, and hiding hundreds of government webpages, documents, and assessments that report on environmental and climate-change threats to U.S. national security and the military.
I've documented some examples here:

https://www.gleick.com/blog/censorship-deletion-and-purging-of-us-defense-and-intelligence-assessments

The statement “why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write?” almost perfectly captures so many peoples’ feelings about #AI.

And it evokes @pluralistic’s reminder that although AI probably can’t do your job, an AI salesman can probably convince your boss that it can.

In the end, this technology (or rather the market for this tech) is aimed squarely at its least noble use: cheapening and degrading human labor that doesn’t fit neatly into a balance sheet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzdjqxo

Despicable invasion of medical privacy, brought to you by the state of California and LinkedIn. "...broke every state privacy law in existence..."

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin

I donated to the University of Michigan for years after a fellowship there. After a lapse I was planning to start again, to support institutions that are standing against fascism.

But no, not another nickel.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/outgoing-umich-prez-santa-ono-pulls-his-name-from-academic-freedom-letter