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Global News Podcast - #Climate boost as #China's #CO2 #emissions fall - BBC Sounds

So, just as the #US has just signalled a U-turn back to the 19th century, China is doing some things which give some hope for the future.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n0rh33

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

These charts show how #Trump is isolating the #US on the #world stage | #UnitedNations | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/13/these-charts-show-how-trump-is-isolating-the-us-on-the-world-stage

#Politics #China

If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

“People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife.

Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/11664538/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-mrinank-sharma-quits-concerns/

#Privacy #NoAI

Sometimes I just sit down and realise:

Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense

Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.

Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.

"In a time when political divisions and economic uncertainty threaten to divide people, worker-owned cooperatives are choosing solidarity and cooperation."

https://www.info.equalexchange.coop/articles/la-siembra-integration

@jamie I *am* an IP lawyer and I (along with many others) have been saying it for a while, that if the position the “AI” co’s are taking with respect to the legality of scraping “publicly available” materials were true (that all “publicly available” materials are “public domain” free to be used as raw materials without consent required), then copyright ceases to exist and all their own materials will be free for everyone else to use the very first time they’re leaked. That’ll be fun for the co.

People with a residence permit in Sweden get a child in Sweden and the child is about to be "remigrated" to the country whose citizenship the parent(s) hold, the country which the child has never visited, and perhaps has no relatives in: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/migrationsverket-vill-utvisa-atta-manaders-bebis

#Sweden #absurdistan #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Es bleibt die unausweichliche Realität, dass es immer einfacher sein wird Migrant:innen, Einwander:innen, oder Asylbewerber:innen den Sprach- und Integrationskurs zu zahlen, als ein neues menschliches Leben großzuziehen und auszubilden.

Genau deshalb wird diese Tatsache so unbequem, da wir in einem Land leben welches darauf pocht Kinder zu kriegen aber feindlicher gegen Migrant:innen kaum sein könnte.

Da bleibt die Frage im Raum ob es wirklich um die Wirtschaft und das fehlende Geld für Integration geht, wenn das Bekommen von Kindern eine weitaus größere wirtschaftliche Belastung für die ersten Jahrzehnte ist...

This. So much this.

Don’t serve them. Don’t date them. Don’t treat them like human beings. Make them pariahs. Break their morale.

Make them do the “sad Charlie Brown” walk out of every store they go into.

Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler are a pair of anarchist economists whose work I’ve plugged before. Their approach to capitalism draws on Marx’s previous work, but rejects his labor theory of value and concept of socially necessary labor time as ways of explaining capitalist exploitation of labor.

Instead, their work draws on Thorstein Veblen’s concept of industrial sabotage to explain exploitation. Capitalists are not just unnecessary for production, the argument goes, but actively hostile to it, because they can only collect income by threatening to interfere with, or to sabotage, production.

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Huh, interesting. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/586712/ai-researchers-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-their-way-out-the-door Who would've thunk.

One who eats two meals before lunch wouldn't called both of them breakfast. You only break that 8-hour (hopefully) fast once a day.

In my first language, Croatian, there are two words for meals before lunch:
1. "zajutrak" - meaning "for morning", compare Swiss "Zmorgen"
2, "doručak" - meaning "until lunch"

Most Croatians do not eat both of those breakfasts in a day. Many do not even eat one, only have 4 coffees and 12 cigarettes before lunch.

Forgive me for not being a Tolkien fan, I have to ask, are Hobbits translating words from their language into human language (English)? Is that why they call both "breakfast"?

#language

These people are worse Valentines gifts than gas station flowers. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

“I don't think there's a reliable way to get hold of a human,” EFF’s @cmcsherr told First Coast News. “All of the companies, for the most part, are highly automated. And they're that way on purpose.”
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/investigations/two-mothers-false-child-exploitation-claims-meta-st-johns-county/77-fa810f14-7c3d-428a-a6c5-b17e98f9673b

“WBD shareholders should push back against any transaction that would result in CNN being controlled by people who have already shown willingness to sell out journalism and journalists to benefit their other interests,” FPF's Seth Stern told Al Jazeera.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/2/10/paramount-expands-offer-for-warner-bros-amid-hostile-takeover-bid

@anderseknert the LLM agents really don't take no as an answer do they?

It takes your breath away looking at that issue and the blog post.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

Just made a few new posts on the DIY Conspiracy forum. There's not much activity at the moment but still trying to keep old-school message boards alive. I've always preferred this way more than twitter-like places.

https://diyconspiracy.net/board/

The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

#Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

We rejected this in its entirety.

In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

And now we see each other in court.

But why all this?

Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

All of this is making Palantir nervous.

We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

The truth.

All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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