Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz), page 2

https://act.pfaw.org/sign/senate-reject-ed-martin/

US citizens: Call on the Senate to reject Ed Martinâ as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. His praise for a notorious January 6 rioter should disqualify him from any position in the government; in this position, he will leave Congress exposed to physical violence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/amy-klobuchar-samuel-alito-trump-immigration
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker

*[Senator] Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold Trump officials in contempt.* I hesitated to call for that particular action because I was not sure it was tactically wise. It might just play into the wrecker's hand. But if a senator thinks that we have come to this, I suppose it is so.

[2/2] teach themselves to believe the bully's lies so as to convince themselves that what they did was right. Or they may instead join the resistance to make up for the harm they did.

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully

Deportation thugs lied to Aditya Wahyu Harsono, saying they had revoked his permanent visa weeks before so he was "late" in leaving the US, then pressured his coworkers to fake a work meeting so they could surprise and arrest him. Those coworkers may be ashamed of this for the rest of their lives. Worse, they may

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/donald-trump-nobel-prize

Ariel Dorfman imagines new kinds of honors that might be bestowed on the bullshitter.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite

*Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs.*

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-69d

Robert Reich: mass rallies to condemn the bully are a display of courage, which inspires courage in those who felt helpless to resist.

[2/2] and (2) the prisoners now in Venezuela want to go to El'Salvador and would be safe there. I can't tell from the article whether any of that would be so.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/el-salvador-president-nayib-bukele-prisoner-swap-venezuela

The persecutor has sent hundreds of Venezuelan refugees to El'Salvador which engaged to hold them in prison without trial. Now El'Salvador is offering to release many of them to Venezuela in exchange for Venezuela's political prisoners. Such an exchange might be good, if we could assume that (1) the Venezuelans now in El Salvador want to go to Venezuelans and would be safe there,

[2/2] do your computing, those servers control it. So Don't entrust your own computing to a program that isn't libre or a server whose operator isn't a loyal friend. For your own computing, insted of a server that might mistreat you, use free software on your own computer.

[1/2] https://stallman.org/talks.html#04-24-2025

Oxford on Tuesday I will give a talk at the Lecture Theatre, on Thursday, April 24 in Oxford, England. The topic is free/libre software and freedom in the digital society. We understand that the uses of computing can be unjust. Most do not realize that the mechanisms of computing can be unjust in other ways. If a program that the users do not control does your computing, it controls your computing. When servers that the users do not control

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/trump-state-department-foreign-disinformation

The wrecker has eliminated an agency whose mission is to detect and counter disinformation campaigns, especially Russian. I suspect this is one little part in the establishment of the axis of dictators, to start with the wrecker and Putin. But it may be more than that. The wrecker depends on disinformation too, and some of that originates in Russia.

[2/3] Sharing aims to stop users from sharing copies of published works. Computers for voting make election results untrustworthy. Other threats come from use of web services, implemented by companies that can impose any conditions whatsoever. Finally, most internet activities (aside from those which existed before 2000) are precarious, dependent on permission from one company. All of these threats originate more or less in the use of nonfree software. That is why free software is the first

[3/3] battle in the liberation of the digital society.

[1/3] https://stallman.org/talks.html#04-22-2025

I will speak about free software and computing freedom, and about related issues that affect whether your computing respects your freedom. This talk will be at King's College, on Tuesday, April 22 in London, England. There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They include nonfree software, massive surveillance, and censorship. Nonfree programs are often designed to restrict users, control users or manipulate users. The War on

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/trump-coal-mining-health-cuts

The saboteur in chief wants to expand coal mines, and is cutting programs that try to protect the workers from getting sick from working in a coal mine.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/19/uk-military-bases-chemical-leaks-forever-chemicals-drinking-water

*Fears that UK military bases may be leaking toxic "forever chemicals" into drinking water.*

[2/2] dangerous and taxi passengers should be able to switch them off.

[1/2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106

Canadian friends riding in a Lyft car found that their conversation had been recorded and sent in the form of text to the phone of one of them. This is supposed to be illegal, but Lyft says it shouldn't have been possible and it doesn't understand what happened. I can't draw any specific moral conclusions about Lyft from these fragments of understanding, but it is clear that microphones in cars are

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/trump-remove-endangered-species-protections

The wrecker plans to change endangered species protection to enable reckless habitat destruction.