Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

We published this yesterday on FOSS Force, in case you missed it: We Look at Debian 13.3 ‘Trixie,’ the Latest From the Crown Jewel of Linux Distros - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2026/02/we-look-at-debian-13-3-trixie-the-latest-from-the-crown-jewel-of-linux-distros/

Moments ago, Israeli airstrikes hit four buildings in the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon, leaving several killed and injured, according to Lebanese sources

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Lebanon

@libewa @rysiek Prior to React, even stuff like Facebook followed the document model, where the document is semantic and the AJAX stuff just updates the semantic document.

React is what ruined the web with the despicable ideological position that the primacy of the document model is a bad thing and that you're supposed to write everything as an "application" that "renders" to the DOM.

A few months ago ago @pluralistic described the AI bubble thusly:

"The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100b IOU."

I've been thinking of it as a check-kiting scam, but it's really simpler than that: it's a game of Hot Potato. Whoever has the IOU when the bubble pops loses the round. The rest scavenge the parts and then start shaking VC trees for the next round.

When I mentioned above that Pam Bondi and the Trumpenreich wanted to turn the entire US counterterrorism apparatus on anyone who criticized the regime's fascist agenda on social media, I was not exaggerating in the slightest. Over the past week, evidence has emerged that the Department of Homeland Security has been using bullshit administrative orders to subpoena posts and identifying personal information about critics of the ICE Gestapo online.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dhs-orders-tech-giants-to-unmask-anti-ice-accounts/ (archive: https://archive.ph/QW78b )

DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts

"The agency has fired off hundreds of subpoenas demanding names, email addresses, and phone numbers tied to anti-ICE social media accounts, the New York Times reported Friday.

Unlike traditional warrants, administrative subpoenas do not require approval from a judge before they are issued. Instead of seeking court authorization first, DHS can sign and send the demands directly to tech companies—a power civil liberties advocates say is now being deployed far more aggressively.

Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord received subpoenas targeting anonymous accounts that posted about ICE activity, the Times reported."

If you've been reading my writing about the fascist Trumpenreich's ethnic cleansing project, you will by now be quite familiar with the regime's use of administrative orders, issued by fake "judges" who actually work for DHS directly and are subject to virtually no relevant oversight; especially from a Trump mass deportation machine that purposely purged (and didn't replace) most of its oversight employees almost immediately after the Swine Emperor returned to office. These orders are literally DHS, saying they authorize DHS, to violate the US constitution, because DHS says so. Furthermore, if you've been reading the NSPM-7 stories in this thread, you will also be familiar with the rampant use of right wing "newspeak" to describe Americans exercising their legally protected civil rights.

"In court filings, department lawyers have argued that the subpoenas are intended to help “investigate threats to its own officers or impediments to their officers,” and to keep ICE agents safe in the field."

Again, please keep in mind that these are lawyers working for a Trumpenreich administration that calls protest an insurrection, filming ICE officers doxing, and both of those things fucking terrorism; often in official (and actionable) government documents and memos. By "impediments" they mean "telling your neighbors not to go outside because ICE is in the area disappearing brown people" and by "threats" they mean accurately calling ICE Gestapo goons nazi slavecatchers on social media.

As ridiculous as that is, this Daily Beast article is *still* doing a lot of nasty work to cover up Big Tech's collaboration with a fascist regime targeting the protected speech of Americans here. As this Boing Boing post that goes deeper into how this played out makes very clear, big tech companies like Meta are only making the barest pretense of protecting users constitutional rights, and practically speaking they are simply turning your data over when DHS says they want it.

"A neighborhood Facebook page called Montco Community Watch had been doing what neighborhood pages do — posting tips about ICE sightings near specific streets and landmarks in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in English and Spanish, for its roughly 10,000 followers. In September, DHS served Meta with an administrative subpoena for the names, email addresses, and postal codes of whoever ran it. Meta notified the account owners on October 3 with a form letter: "If we do not receive a copy of documentation that you have filed in court challenging this legal process within ten (10) days, we will respond to the requesting agency with information."

That's the deal DHS is now offering Americans who post about immigration enforcement: find a lawyer and get to federal court in 10 days, or your social media platform will identify you to the government. The New York Times reports that DHS has sent hundreds of these administrative subpoenas to Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord in recent months, targeting accounts that criticize ICE or note where its agents are operating. Google, Meta, and Reddit have all turned over at least some user data."

Naturally, many will dismiss these stories; either because thus far the regime is only wants to identify social media users, or because in their mind this story is "only" about immigration. The reality however is these quasi-legal maneuverings to expose Gestapo critics are of a piece with Stephen Miller's ravings about criminalizing the left, and the regime's attempts to make antifascism the same as terrorism, legally speaking. In other words: all of this is NSPM-7. Which means the Trumpenreich Gestapo police state isn't "coming" for us all anymore; it's already here.

#Fascism #ICE #Gestapo #PoliceState #Trump #DHS #Dictatorship #MassSurveillance #SocialMedia #BigTech

En juin 1973, l'extrême-gauche française avait manifesté assez violemment à Paris contre la tenue d'un meeting du groupe fasciste occident ; quelques flics avaient été blessés. Le gouvernement en avait profité pour dissoudre la ligue communiste. Alain Krivine, Porte-parole de l'orga se rend au siège du PS et c'est entouré de Mitterand, Hernu et d'autres dirigeants socialistes qu'il sera arrêté.
Et un meeting unitaire de toute la gauche aura lieu pour protester contre la dissolution (y compris le PC qui pourtant haïssait les trotskystes de la LC).

Les dirigeants actuels de la gauche devraient prendre quelques leçons.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/19/police-seize-art-posters-depicting-trump-putin-and-netanyahu-in-nazi-uniforms-from-canberra-bar-ntwnfb

I want to thank the Canberra Police personally and officially for playing their part so well in this piece of performance art.

This brilliant interdisciplinary, socratic piece was enacted with accomplished precision making the artist's point with great clarity.

#Minnsolini faces a revolt in the ALP branches. 'The Enmore-Camdenville, Dungog, Harris Park and Parramatta branches all passed motions calling on the Minns government to repeal protest laws, including restrictions rushed through parliament in the wake of the Bondi massacre.' https://archive.md/0OHhi #NSWFascism #auspol #StopIsrael #Palestine

This is one of the pictures the ACT cops confiscated when they shut down a gig at Dissent bar in Canberra last night. Obviously you should not share it.

#Canberra #ACAB #AusPol
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9178481/canberra-bar-raided-over-trump-and-netanyahu-posters/

Overproduction

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

#auspol #australia

The Australian federal government innovating again in using computers to kill vulnerable people.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/17/australian-aged-care-algorithm-tool-home-support-funding-packages

It's Doctorow's shitty technology adoption curve.
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/

First it was the poor and disabled (robodebt scam, then gutting the NDIS), now the elderly.
You are next.

Naturally, Ziofash frame free speech by artists who criticise apartheid Israel and its rancid Zionist political ideology as a 'provocation' - good on the Sydney Writers' Festival for continuing to host Randa Abdul-Fattah despite them. It is Zionism and criminal #Israel which are destructive "provocations" to people with a conscience.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-18/randa-abdel-fattah-to-feature-at-sydney-writers-festival/106357178 #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #IsraelFascism #auspol

The Israeli occupation army continues its large-scale offensive in the town of Salfit, in the central West Bank, targeting Palestinians and their property after forcing several families out of their homes, while bulldozers closed multiple entrances to the town.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Palestinian