Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Wilderness 4WDing is a 'hobby' no one should be allowed to have. It's simply wasteful and destructive. It's like having the hobby of demolishing other people's buildings. It's just stupid. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582370/devastating-in-all-ways-sand-dune-ecosystems-on-tokerau-beach-being-destroyed-by-vehicles

More Americans are slowly catching on to the realization that when fascism gets voted into power, or assumes power, you probably just can't simply vote your way out of it in normal free and fair elections as if nothing has fundamentally changed to the system. It may take a little more than that.

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff https://www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatbot-runs-your-store/

Update: Gandi support says to use the GDPR form for account deletion, and that an ID won't actually be required, even though that's what the form says.

I gave it a shot. It wanted my first and last name (which I just put my username into) and I got a confirmation. Apparently it will take a while to actually take effect...

Fox News debunks #Trump's "600 percent" price cuts - https://boingboing.net/2025/12/18/fox-news-debunks-trumps-600-percent-price-cuts.html when even #fox calls out your mathematical stupidity, you know it's really stupid

Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a #simulation after all - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021052.htm "Using #Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding,” something no computation can replicate." exciting stuff

REVOLUTION!
REVOLUTION AGAINST THE TECH OLIGARCHY RIGHT NOW!
ARISE!
NOW IS THE TIME!
REBEL!
DESTROY WHAT DESTROYS YOU!
TODAY IS THE DAY!
FLY THE BLACK FLAG!
OUT IN THE STREETS!
ARISE!

Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive in 2026!

#PublicDomainDay is nearly here. From first appearances of yet-to-be-named cartoon stars to landmark films and music, works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be free to reuse.

Enter our film contest, join our events, and have a blast! All the details on our blog ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

#PublicDomain #event #contest #filmcontest

Hi, I'm a scifi/fantasy artist in the ligne claire tradition. I'm in the process of leaving instagram and wish I had some followers here.

Forest Riders (2021)

I've written a summary of the year 2025 for powRSS.

It's a summary of the stats, milestones, costs, and history of this #indieweb project you have all helped me build.

Thank you!

https://enocc.com/2025/12/14/powrss-numbers.html

@timnitGebru I LOVED the latest issue of your DAIR newsletter... especially the part about "Our Future is Self-Hosted." Congratulations!!! I hope many more organizations will follow your example 🙌

The Puerto Rico Social Solidarity Network is a platform that connects people and organizations to promote and foster the social solidarity economy. (ft. @ecosentido )

https://geo.coop/articles/puerto-rico-social-solidarity-economy-network

Disagreeing with the logic or strategy of BDS is fine, but it's always too obvious these critics have no understanding of the boycott: we don't claim that all Israelis as monsters, we simply know that Israeli academia is actively complicit in apartheid, and therefore should not be engaged with.

Full article: https://archive.ph/57SJS

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #TelAviv #BDS

Inside The #Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/18/inside-the-trump-administrations-man-made-hunger-crisis/ "They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections, ProPublica found while reporting in the camp. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed."

[Full-time] Team Lead for Project and Grant Management at Tor Project https://www.fossjobs.net/job/11590/team-lead-for-project-and-grant-management-at-tor-project/ #GetFediHired #fossjobs

Among the countless Trump deceits in his deranged speech the other day was the reality of the so-called bonus for military personnel: The money had already been promised to them, as part of another program.

With this regime, lies and the default.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/trump-rebrands-congressionally-approved-troop-housing-subsidy-warrior-dividend-bonus/410250/?oref=d1-featured-river-top&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

“Do LinkedIn users understand how their data is getting used and what’s going to happen with it, and what protections they do and do not have under LinkedIn’s own terms of service?” EFF’s @cmcsherr mused to Bloomberg Law. “I suspect they don’t.” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/linkedins-war-against-bot-scrapers-ramps-up-as-ai-gets-smarter

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

As we approach our 20th anniversary, the mortgage on our warehouse (the cornerstone of our operation) will jump dramatically.

Every donation, big or small, helps us keep the shelves stocked and the stories spreading. Join us in preserving a cornerstone of progressive publishing and in building a lasting legacy for radical thought. Shop fundraiser merch: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=255

Are there any librarians here with time to read something I wrote?

DM me.