We need an internet archive outside the US! We can't put all our eggs in one basket.
Oh, wait: we *have* an internet archive outside the US. Let's support it.
And now they have an office - a physical presence.
https://flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-sharing-at-the-internet-archive-europe/
✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀
"My Fediverse Starter Guide" for newbies, based on my video and articles about Fediverse software and culture.
🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/my-fediverse-starter-guide/
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If you share it with friends/family, let me know how it goes and if this guide is helpful to them 🙏
Today, in planet-eating machine cult news, OpenAI plans to build 5x 'Stargate' 'AI'-only datacenters, upping OpenAI's energy use at enough to power 5.25M homes.
CEO Sam Altman looks to a day where they can "create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week.”
Naturally the benevolent "cure for cancer" is cited as an all-justifying prize in all this, as if that really was their end-game
https://gizmodo.com/openai-announces-plans-for-five-more-stargate-data-centers-in-the-us-2000663145
(Thanks to @Christina for the pointer)
We hate to say we told you so.
When the Disneys and Paramounts of the world cave to Trump, they open themselves and others up to more ridiculous demands from the government.
Media companies should stand up for the First Amendment to end this vicious cycle.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/24/trump-jimmy-kimmel-return-abc
"Donald Trump is ‘racist, sexist and Islamophobic’, Sadiq Khan says after president’s attack on ‘terrible mayor’
The London mayor said he was ‘living rent-free’ in Trump’s head after he criticised the capital
Sir Sadiq Khan has dubbed Donald Trump “racist, sexist, misogynistic” and “Islamophobic” in the latest in a long-running war of words between the feuding pair.
It came after Mr Trump branded Sir Sadiq a “terrible mayor” in a stinging attack over immigration and carbon-reduction policies.
Addressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, the US president said: “I look at London, where you have a ..."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-sadiq-khan-london-sexist-b2832736.html
"In this session, we explore Internal Capital Accounts (ICAs) — a cornerstone of financial participation in worker co-ops — and how they support member wealth-building, engagement, and sustainability." #WorkerCoops
Seahorses is both a vital resource for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive communities and an invitation for readers of all genders to get a glimpse of trans joy and resilience that will stick with you and inspire you to love a little deeper. This book is an essential addition to conversations about gender, pregnancy, and family. Check out the full review @publishersweekly. Now available for pre-order: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1828
Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home - https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-workers-leave-silicon-valley/ "Chinese-origin tech workers are abandoning the American dream and returning home, where state-led incentives and ambition are plentiful. "
#DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ #DNA for Years - https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-has-been-collecting-us-citizens-dna-for-years/ "Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality."
"The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council has banned the sale, use and possession of kratom, an unregulated plant-derived substance that can have addictive properties from the tribe’s reservation in north-central Montana."
https://montanafreepress.org/2025/09/23/blackfeet-tribal-council-bans-kratom-on-reservation/
“Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into #ReformUK, #Conservatives and #Labour”
by Nafeez Ahmed in The Byline Times @BylineTimes
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
“A Byline Times investigation can reveal how Donald Trump’s key backer is now exporting discredited race science into mainstream politics in the UK”
#Press #Thiel #FarRight #Trump #Starmer #Palantir #Tech #Partnership #RaceScience #NeoReactionary #Yarvin
Hey #Boston: IceBlock app has sightings in Dorchester this AM.Be careful out there.
This is why I have so little respect for the intellect of mainstream economists. How wild it is for a supposedly serious scholar to say this, out loud, in front of gawd & everybody? 🤦♂️
'The Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who helped publish the original 2012 PNAS article, confessed his disillusionment to The New York Times: “When I see a surprising finding, my default is not to believe it. Twelve years ago, my default was to believe anything that was surprising.” '
It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"
Peter Thiel is competing with Elon Musk for most evil tech lord, with a different strategy.
Musk is doing a lot of his foul work in plain sight. It seems that Thiel is trying to keep the public from understanding what he's doing until it's too late to stop him.
https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion?ref=theframelab.org
The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa