Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Considering very seriously (again) to refuse to exchange emails with people who are using #Gmail.

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

This is the best, most concise description of US politics I've read in awhile.

"We keep looking for someone to unrig our system. Reagan sold optimism. Obama sold hope. Bernie sold revolution. Trump sold revenge. The public keeps upgrading the level of risk because nothing changes at the structural level."

https://www.americasundoing.com/p/how-to-rig-a-whole-ass-economy

Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, 60 minutes and such, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.

By @deccamuldowney and @emilymbender

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/openai-tries-to-shift-responsibility-to-users/

The deeply anti-semitic Trump regime tells Coast Guard to stop classifying the swastika as a symbol of hatred.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/u-s-coast-guard-will-no-longer-classify-swastikas-nooses-as-hate-symbols/

This is an important document, about the growing entanglement of Big Tech's most evil people/companies and the US government -- and increasingly, the EU.

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info

Trump and Putin are planning Ukraine's surrender. It's all happening in plain sight. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-peace-plan-europe-witkoff-33545b140c5bfbbc5e9061a739802e54?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-20-Breaking+News

“It looks like these officers believe transparency itself is obstructive to their operations, which is a pretty good indicator that their operations are in need of obstruction … The First Amendment is intended to obstruct government abuses.”

https://freedom.press/issues/immigration-agents-claim-routine-reporting-violates-federal-law/

Zork I, II and III now open source! Very cool. #retrocomputing
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115500031591516706

Recorded just a few months after police killed George Floyd and then brutally reacted to protests, 73 videos worn by 45 Minneapolis Police officers showcase three dozen hours of officer interactions and tactic discussions while illustrating MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community.

On RNZ right now, they're talking about how the software used by pharmacists is not even remotely fit for purpose. Imagine that. Why isn't that sort of thing being sorted by an openly licensed (available to all) system developed by a consortium of companies - that can be scrutinised by anyone - because it's too important to be entrusted to the proprietary gain of any one company. This stuff is a no-brainer. Some things are far too important to be dependent on a profit motive.

Out this month. The anthology brings together essays, interviews, and roundtable discussions by and with 18 trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive birthing people, who share their experiences with conception, pregnancy, fertility treatment, and more. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1828

A new GTK 4 development snapshot with lots and lots of features is available: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/releases/4.21.2

#gtk #gtk4 #release #announcement

A reminder: today is the Trans Day of Remembrance. For those unfamiliar, this is when we remember trans people who were killed by acts of violence.

On a day like this, and in the current broader crisis as well: it can be hard to remember that you are loved and to allow yourself to feel that love. Please take extra care of yourselves today.

Practicing both compassion for ourselves and compassion for each other is incredibly important in grief. Although many of us have lost people directly, there are also many who have not and who want to support those in their lives who have.

Here are a couple of resources that will hopefully help.

Self-compassion in grief:

https://www.apenneyforyourthoughts.com/mental-health-topics-1/self-compassionduringgriefandloss

Compassion for others in grief:

https://www.cedarcounselingandwellness.com/kindness-in-crisis/

#TransDayOfRemembrance

Texas GOP Had A Legal Path To #Gerrymander. Trump’s DOJ Ordered Them To Take The Blatantly Illegal Path Instead - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/19/texas-gop-had-a-legal-path-to-gerrymander-trumps-doj-ordered-them-to-take-the-blatantly-illegal-path-instead/

A Chinese immigrant has died in ICE custody.

He was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind him in the “hog tie” position.

Deaths within these camps continue to rise, with more people dying in the last nine months than in the entire previous four years.

Chaofeng Ge did not deserve this

No one deserves this

His family are fighting for answers

One thing is clear… these camps must be shut down

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee-death-family-questions-hands-feet-tied-11066992

#uspol #abolishice #fascism #dhs

When Hegseth wanted the Pentagon Press corps to sign a document effectively violating their first amendment rights… they all walked out together.

They showed solidarity.

Imagine if the White House press corps did the same thing?

They should all walk out until Trump apologizes for saying “Quiet Piggy” to a fellow reporter.

Don’t cover him. Don’t give him airtime.

Full. Media. Blackout.

#uspol #journalism #misogyny #fascism

Children are not adults.

Girls are not “barely legal women”

Women are not “piggies”.

You can’t grab us by the p*ssy or touch our bodies in any way without our consent.

Enough misogyny. Enough disrespect. Enough changing the narrative.

Trump is a disgrace who’s already been found liable for sexual assault.

He needs to go.

RFK Jr has utterly destroyed the CDC and taken public health down with it.

Once again, vaccines do not cause autism.

Tylenol does not cause autism.

More importantly, autism isn’t a disease that needs to be “fixed”.

The way this regime speaks about autistic and disabled people is eerily reminiscent of the Nazi “useless eater” rhetoric.

They went after disabled people first because they knew no one would speak up for us.

Get your vaccines. Protect your health.

But also push back on the idea that there’s something “wrong” with us.

We aren’t useless. We aren’t expendable. We aren’t a problem to be “fixed”

#uspol #rfkjr #vaccines #autism #fascism #disability #ableism #cdc #publichealth

Another reason not to shop at Target

#target #targetboycot

New USPTO rules would make bogus patents much harder to challenge. The public deserves better. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable