main interests: #programming, #music, #cooperatives
more specifically: #rust, #elm, #nixos, #guitar, #oldtime, #fiddle, #banjo, #cooperative, #linux, #musician
Man wins $835K after sheriff jailed him for a month over Charlie Kirk post
Sheriff loses fight with man he jailed for 37 days for posting a Trump meme on Facebook.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/man-wins-835k-after-sheriff-jailed-him-for-a-month-over-charlie-kirk-post/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
"Note to politicians: You can just do stuff regular people actually need and want and it's ok."
Here’s a list of things Zohran Mamdani has done in just four months by First Dog in the Moon
The single biggest scam in the history of the American presidency. And you’re paying for it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday that it is creating a $1.7 billion fund to compensate prosecuted allies of the Republican president after he moved to drop his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8
The Trump administration has announced the creation a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted. The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” was announced by the Justice Department on Monday as part of a deal to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns. Democrats and government watchdogs immediately pledged to fight what they called a “corrupt” and unprecedented resolution. Trump’s lawyers disclosed the dismissal of the IRS lawsuit in a filing in federal court in Florida, where the president sued earlier this year.
Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
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Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he says.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-leo-garcia-venegas-arrests-detentions-citizens-ice-dhs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
HAWAII JUST KILLED #CITIZENSUNITED
AND MORE GREAT NEWS THAT RUINED TRUMP’S WEEKEND
Hawaii found the one thing the court never addressed: corporations only exist because states allow them to. Which means that every power a corporation has was given to it by the state. Hawaii just took one of those powers off the list—starting next year, corporations in Hawaii can no longer spend money on state and local elections.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hawaii-just-killed-citizens-united
Signal Boost: If you are willing to fix any of the #Wayland related issues I describe in https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/, I am willing to sponsor the hardware you need for it, e.g. high-res monitor, GPU, PC, etc. and/or pay a bounty for the fix itself.
See https://lobste.rs/s/5pkjai/wayland_set_linux_desktop_back_by_10_years#c_4cpf8q for details and reach out; thanks in advance.
My goal is that #Linux works better, but I can’t do it alone. Let’s improve it together!
"Interviewing the Author of 'To Catch a Fascist', a searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist groups working to expose and stop these hateful factions."
Ars Technica
Heidi Li Feldman
McSpocky
The Climate Historian
Sam Litzinger
Electronic Frontier Foundation
ProPublica
KBSez
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺
It's Going Down