Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Ownership is not a status. It is a system."
#WorkerCoops #Cooperatives

https://www.icagroup.org/blog/how-ownership-actually-works-in-a-worker-cooperative

Trump admin's:🚨suspension of certain #immigrants' work authorization renewals is sidelining ~1000s of foreign-born doctors.

Policy:🚨could worsen access to care in a #health sys already facing physician shtgs. ~25% of the US physician WF are IMMs. Rural communities esp depend on IMM drs to fill WF gaps.

The change has affected work authorization renewals, green card processing & naturalization.

#TrumpRegime: wants us DEAD. Shortsighted -we pay our taxes.
#Protest #USPol
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/trump-visa-policy-immigrant-doctors

The Pentagon's revised policy adds mostly meaningless window dressing while retaining the core constitutional violation — subjecting journalists to punishment for doing their jobs.

It is not a good faith effort to comply with the judge's order.

Read our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/meet-the-new-pentagon-press-policy-same-as-the-old-pentagon-press-policy/

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/24/epic-river-migrations-of-fish-rapidly-collapsing-un-report-finds "Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%" #depressing #stupidhumans

Big news! Today we’re launching the GNOME Fellowship: funded positions for contributors to work on the GNOME project’s long-term sustainability. 🎉

We are starting with one 12-month fellowship; applications are open through April 20.

Find out more: https://fellowship.gnome.org/

#GNOME #OpenSource #GetFediHired

I hate being stuck shopping at CVS. Their tech is slow and buggy, their privacy policy is creepy, and the way they treat their workers is abysmal.

Yay; the new DHS secretary is an unstable monster, just like the last one.

US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/trumps-latest-anti-wind-effort-pay-companies-to-abandon-offshore-leases/ trump's petty vandalism just disgusting at every level; shame on #totalenergies for accepting

Libraries need to get "AI ready" in the same sense that cooking pots needs to get "dioxin ready".

@gwynnion LLMs truly are the boss's nephew.

@whitequark accept only genuine american backdoors

I need tips for apartment hunting while COVID cautious!

I’m losing my housing and the stress of it has utterly destroyed my baseline. It’s so difficult to find safe housing as a disabled individual.

I’ve finally found a few units to view, but my concern is if I wear my respirator I can’t adequately assess smells and triggers like mold or VOCs.

My MCAS is very severe. I usually know quite quickly if I’m going to react to a space … but I can’t always tell right away when I’m masked up.

No one is living in the units so they will be empty and it’s just me and one other person going to the viewing.

If I can convince that person to wear an N95 and keep their distance… do you think it’s safe if I remove my mask for a few minutes?

I basically just want to smell around things like the hvac, under sinks, anywhere there’s plumbing and the walls in case there’s been new paint.

I know it might be moderately risky but it would be catastrophic to get locked into a year lease somewhere making me sick.

Appreciate any tips if there’s something I’m not thinking of!

#COVIDcautious #covidisnotover #covidisairborne #longcovid #n95 #disability #ableism

Whoa, that escalated quickly. This just got sent out by the press folks at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC says it has decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are henceforth prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the United States.

"Update Follows Determination by Executive Branch Agencies that Consumer-Grade Routers Produced in Foreign Countries Threaten National Security

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2026—Today, the Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List to include all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries. Routers are the boxes in every home that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet. This followed a determination by a White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise that such routers “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.”

"The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure and directly harm U.S. persons.”

"This action does not affect any previously-purchased consumer-grade routers. Consumers can continue to use any router they have already lawfully purchased or acquired."

"Producers of consumer-grade routers that receive Conditional Approval from DoW or DHS can continue to receive FCC equipment authorizations. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit applications to conditional-approvals@fcc.gov."

Not sure how many consumer-grade routers will be left for sale if it really is a ban on approvals for any foreign-made consumer routers like they said, and not just a bunch of already restricted Chinese makers like Huawei and ZTE.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-include-foreign-made-consumer-routers

FCC's "covered list" of "thou shalt not entities": https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

Google's profound contempt for journalists is on display as it rewrites publications' headlines in search results, sometimes altering the meaning and intent of the original. https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

The company calls it an "experiment" -- as if that makes it OK.

I'm looking for full-time work!

I work at the intersection of social and technical systems, and specialize in building up people, programs, partnerships, and organizations around open source.

I have a deep track record in complex community relations, am fluent in the nuts and bolts of many technologies, and have spanned governance, org development, nonprofit and people management, comms, marketing, events, and beyond.

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#FediHired #GetFediHired #OpenSource #FOSS

"Thanks to opposition from inside his own party, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to delay a vote on President Donald Trump’s request to extend a major domestic spying law — but Democrats could ride to the rescue."

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/23/trump-domestic-spying-fisa-702-democrats/

Debord's 6 films were hidden 20 years after their producer's 1984 assassination. Rereleased in 2001 and translated by Ken Knabb, they challenge passive consumption. This edition includes revisions and Debord's final video. Get 20% off with code MARCH here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1874

@Em0nM4stodon @Tutanota What’s this, conservatives having trouble understanding consent, you say?

If you think the administration doesn't have a plan for this war, you don't understand Zero Dimensional Chess. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/03/23

The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.

Some politicians have already stated this plainly.

This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.

This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.

This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.

This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.

This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.

Do not let them do this to us.

#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights