Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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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Apparently my Fedi promo video is giving error messages on YouTube (shocker).

So I just logged on YouTube Studio for the first time in months to see what's going on... and found some interesting comments.

I'm not caffeinated enough to deliver zingers but I hope my response was adequate.

On the upside, I also saw a few comments of people who set up new accounts here, so yay.

As for the unplayable problem: no clue. But this is why I LOVE #PeerTube and on my website I'm using the PeerTube embed

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IDK seems fun to post this.

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by CBP/ICE.

Agent Charles Exum shot her five times. She miraculously survived.

DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist.

She went to court to get the body cam footage released.

It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn.

Saying “do something b*tch”.

Ramming her car.

Shooting her.

Hours after the shooting, Greg Bovino emailed the agent and offered to delay his retirement in light of his excellent service.

The email said “you have much left to do”.

Other agents praised the shooting.

Said they should celebrate.

Exum bragged… “5 shots, 7 holes”

Ms Martinez showed incredible courage by fighting to ensure this footage was released to the public.

Everyone should watch it. Make sure the world sees this.

She’s standing up for Silverio Gonzalez.

For Keith Porter.

For Renee Nicole Good.

For Alex Pretti.

For everyone murdered by this regime.

She’s exposing ICE/CBP for who & what they are.

Thank you Marimar.
#uspol #ice #abolishice #cbp #immigration #fascism #marimarmartinez

Themed Co-op Cloud kite-flying, coming up in ~7.5 hours at 12 UTC today, Thursday 11th February 🪁

Today, we'll be talking about automating Co-op Cloud using Ansible (and maybe other tools).

Voice/video call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying#config.disableAudioLevels=true

Collaborative agenda / notes: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

– 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech

Gallup polling organization joins the quislings, announcing it'll stop doing presidential approval surveys, not coincidentally just when Trump's negatives are super-high.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"

The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!

“ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.” https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/