New Wikipedia article on the 1971 Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover ✅

At midnight on January 1, 1971, over 100 women occupied 330 East Fifth Street, a derelict building in Manhattan that had previously been a welfare office. A coalition of 40 feminist groups had asked city officials if they could start a women's center in an abandoned government property. When it became clear the city wasn't interested in giving women the resources they needed, they decided to make them.

They occupied the building for 13 days, establishing a food co-op, daycare, medical clinic, and lesbian center. Women gave and received practical demonstrations in carpentry, plumbing, first aid, karate, and art. The group operated non-hierarchically, with women rotating shifts as guards, facilitators, and coordinators.

City officials were initially open to negotiating with the feminists, but abruptly changed course after the organizers refused to give the welfare office information about women who came to Fifth Street to receive services. The police shut down the women's building a few days later. 24 women were arrested, but most of their charges were dropped because they turned their backs to cameras and came to court wearing makeup, high heels, and coiffed hair. The police didn't recognize their alleged attackers. 330 East Fifth Street was demolished and turned into a police parking lot. (Truly you cannot make this shit up.)

#Wikipedia #Feminism #History #WomensHistory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Street_Women%27s_Building_Takeover?wprov=sfla1

> Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots.

https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/

Q: We all know Lesbians drive Subarus, but what do Enbies drive?

A: They don't care, so long as it gets them/their.

(I am so... so sorry. You deserve better jokes from me.)

I have a question for people who have been through really hard times. Not a bad day or a bad week, but extended periods of grinding, crushing hardship. (If you know, you know.)

My question is: what did other people do to support you that helped? Especially long distance friends (cf pandemic).

So many people I care about are struggling and deeply suffering. I want to find ways to be a better friend.

#AskFedi #Polycrisis

As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies just to pay your own taxes, I suggest you sign this UK e-petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769610

#UK #UKPol #software

Would anyone here happen to have an “MSI B760 Gaming Plus WiFi DDR4” motherboard?

From what I can tell, it’s exactly the same as “MSI Pro B760-P WiFi DDR4” with slightly different heatsinks.

If you do happen to have one, I would appreciate if you could test if this boots on it:

• https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/93127
• https://f.sakamoto.pl/elly/coreboot/msi/wip_bios_region.rom (if you don’t want to build it yourself, something something don’t flash binary builds from strangers or something)

PCIe clocks are not hooked up yet (figuring them is a PITA, but I might have a new strategy of doing it) so you would need:

• 1.8V-capable SPI flasher (i.e: Glasgow Interface Explorer or ch347 with level shifter)
• USB stick with Linux to boot from
• Monitor connected to iGPU

Sadly flash can’t be done internally due to ME, for that IFD region has to be pet with ifdtool after dumping the chip:

./ifdtool -p adl -u <path/to/dump>

Overall, it boils down to:

PCIe 5.0 should work with ME disabled (have a small local patch for it that gets rid of VBOOT API dependency, will push it later), as well as S3 suspend/resume.

I don’t expect issues there without modifying IFD to set HAP bit though (which you shouldn’t do on stock firmware, as it would break PCIe x16 slot since Synopsys PCIe 5.0 firmware is loaded from HECI and stock firmware doesn’t have logic to replace this mechanism).

Thanks!