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This is quite a good interview with Prof Carl Bergstrom (from my alma mater, University of Washington) on 'AI' https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019023013/professor-carl-bergstrom-living-with-ai

This is the first in-depth study to trace the political trajectory of punk in post-Franco Spain.

Use coupon code "February" at check-out to get a discount and listen to the full Spanish Punk playlist (curated by the author) at the link in our bio. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1770

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Hey friends; if you know someone who needs help (paid) modernizing an older application please let me know.

I really wish that people who made automated code tests part of their hiring process would have people test them before handing them off to candidates. Maybe test them with people who haven't been involved in coming up with the question.

Typos and difficult-to-understand language are huge accessibility problems for applicants with disabilities.

Some impressions from this years #FOSDEM : https://ev.phosh.mobi/de/blog/fosdem-2026/

#Phosh #LinuxMobile

Important win for press freedom from the ACLU: a landmark settlement for photojournalists who had their First Amendment rights violated at the US-Mexico border by CBP and ICE

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/landmark-settlement-announced-in-lawsuit-challenging-unlawful-questioning-of-journalists-at-the-border

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