2026-02-23 05:55:00
"Freies Wissen braucht Freiwillige – Verbessert die Wikipedia mit Referenzen"
#Wikipedia
I’m also aware that not everyone can do this, for various reasons—please be advised that this is a shitpost and you do in fact not have to take it seriously or write essays about how I’m wrong or evil or whatever.
Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automation-uber…
MapToPoster is a beautiful utility to create minimalist posters of the (water)ways of a city.
If you have uv installed, it takes a moment to get going
#python
For caturday here is an elderly kitty who thinks she owns the sofa. Periodically I need to go out and show her the heating pad is on so she stops howling. If I just click it and do not show her the green light she will begin to howl again shortly after I leave the room. Her main goal in life appears to be sleeping on a warm heating pad.
I want to teach her what a squirt gun is for but the wife will not allow it. Says she is to old to train. OK at 20 she is technically older than m…
Tom Forth considers the Graduate Premium in the UK
https://tomforth.co.uk/graduatepremium/
Making Connections with Alec Watson by Still TBD Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve_k8pNY1sQ
Danke an den Spiegel, dass er seinen Trump-Davos-Ticker mit Faktenchecks und Bewertungen versieht. Das macht einen riesigen Unterschied zu "he said"-Tickern. https://www.spiegel.d…
Transcript: U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 22, 2026 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-waltz-un-ambassador-face-the-nation-transcript-03-22-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p35#a260322p35
RE: https://mastodon.online/@quiosque/115934913796611759
LOL!
E as apostas são feitas onde? No Polymarket?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Francesca Dego, London Symphony Orchestra & Jonathon Heyward:
🎵 Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 5, No. 2: III. Rondeau
https://open.spotify.com/track/6EFFghwTiNwqTutY1d4Dqr
RE: https://ioc.exchange/@eprint/115765997635431677
speaking from experience, RC sucks in so many ways, not surprised this is yet another one.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Yazoo:
🎵 Don't Go (Tee's TNT radio mix)
#Yazoo
https://botanika.bandcamp.com/album/yazoo-dont-go-ndv-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/098JUtp63d1Hsge11VuoD2
Gomez has looked really solid. Cut out a decent looking counter before it could get started.
#LFC
Other species migrate to survive, only humans criminalize it
I would literally *pay* to go back to iOS 18 at this point.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115766665024442971
The author (Edmund Berkeley) is the co-founder of the ACM (I’m a member), he definitely did some other good stuff like being a peace activist and coming up with concepts that highly influenced the personal computer revolution 25–30 years after the book was published.
But the extreme toxic positivity about computers that “will solve all social problems” because “humans are so irrational” remains a huge problem with AI stans since the late 1940s.
"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one “liberate” that? What’s the case for open source violence?"
(Original title: Acting ethically in an imperfect world)
@eminem 無関係の人が利用すると問題が多いですが、本人が再取得するなら解放してもいいですよ。
In Bloomberg: ‘Aristo-Populists’ May Prove to Be MAGA’s Undoing
https://archive.is/zxaSV
One thing I didn't understand 4 years ago, but which I think is clearer now. Ukraine is fighting for all of us in Europe. We should be grateful and support them more.
https://dendanskeukrainekomite.dk/
Do spend a moment with my assertion that this is the intended effect. If it’s clear who the secret police are targeting, then it’s clear whether you are safe, whether you should be afraid. If the secret police are randomly targeting everyone, then •everyone• has to be afraid.
•That• is what an authoritarian regime wants. The systems that created ICE’s chaotic, violent behavior are not accidental.
„Man lagert das Denken aus“
https://taz.de/!6161476/
Wird dümmer, wer KI-Chatbots wie ChatGPT verwendet? Nicht unbedingt, sagt der Forscher Michael Gerlich. Zwar sei die Gefahr real – aber es gibt eine Gegenstrategie
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
ff00ff:
🎵 Mamoru
#ff00ff
https://ff00ff.bandcamp.com/track/mamoru
The suicide pod now has a built in AI to check any user's wellbeing to see if they're fit to commit suicide. That has to be the easiest peace of software to ever exist, because if anyone trusts an artificial intelligence with their own life, they're certainly not mentally fit and need help.
On a more serious note: the assisted suicide debate is an important one, where I clearly position myself on the side of it's legalization. However, I could only truly support it with a better health…
“Why are we hating on an EU tech startup?”
Dude, get all the way fucked.
*smdh*
A week after the invasion, I met a Ukrainian colleague. I asked after his family (all safe thankfully) and I told him then, in my view Putin had already lost when he invaded, the question is how many will need to die to show him that.
We now know the cost is horrifying, appalling, inconceivable..
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
The Courtneys:
🎵 Point That Thing Somewhere Else
#TheCourtneys
https://thecourtneys.bandcamp.com/track/point-that-thing-somewhere-else-the-clean
https://open.spotify.com/track/4fU18QxdvQkuUkDTA53rsp
MIT: Forscher 3D-drucken Elektromotor in einem Stück
Forscher des MIT verwenden verschiedene, auf das jeweilige Material optimierte Druckköpfe, um einen elektrischen Linearmotor ausdrucken zu können.
https://www.
Das schädlichste für die linke Bewegung ist nicht, dass sie nicht zusammenhalten, sondern das legitimer Diskurs und Kritik als Spaltung und fehlende Solidarität dargestellt wird.
Wenn die Grünen eine Software der Polizei erlauben, welche laut Gründer das Ziel hat Kommunisten zu töten, dann aber Kritik daran als unsolidarisch abgestempelt wird, ist der Begriff vollkommen verdreht.
Unsolidarisch sind Sozialkürzungen, Waffenlieferungen und Aufrüstung! Unsolidarisch war der Versuch d…
RE: https://sfba.social/@Sherifazuhur/115933808566395111
Sure, man, invite the guy who is carrying out the genocide. Sounds legit.
Yes, I know how bad nor’easters can be, I lived in PA for 7 years.
One year we had three feet of snow and no power for 4 days.
A big reason why we moved to Arizona.
Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais…
I think it is because so few have bothered to learn the history culture of our Eastern European friends. But in that sense it's hardly surprising that an invasion seemed such a frankly *bizarre* idea.
But Brexit had already taught us that weird misunderstandings of history ideology trumps logic
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Elon Musks X geht gegen Millionenstrafe der EU wegen DSA-Verstößen vor
Israel is the only country in history to regularly occupy UN buildings. The constant defamation against the UNRWA had the nice side effect that such occupations don't lead to any condemnation at all.
The law based order never existed, but whatever legitimacy international laws had in false promises alone is falling apart in front of our very eyes.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115933640842125104
PS. I just finished reading We after stumbling onto it at a local Italian cat-themed cafe that has an eclectic library. It’s excellent. On par with 1984. Well worth a read.
Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now a part of the design team at Apple, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ap
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Pender Street Steppers:
🎵 Falling (Vocal)
#PenderStreetSteppers
https://penderstreetsteppers.bandcamp.com/track/falling-vocal
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SyDxD1MnlsQNeHHhm2dpg
Funnily, in light of what this piece says, I never doubted that resistance would be fierce Ukraine would make Russia pay. How could it not? Ukraine has the heroes of the Maidan, and a lived experience of what Russian occupation means. How could UK/US doubt they'd fight to the last?
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Algorithmen auf Streife: Bremens Straßenbahnen werden zur KI-Überwachungszone
RE: https://chaos.social/@fragdenstaat/115939355108819297
Diese Menschen definieren was Antisemitismus ist und messen alle anderen nach diesem arbiträr festgelegten Standard, wobei es sie nicht interessiert ob tatsächlich Antisemitismus bekämpft, oder in…
EU chief says Europe needs to abandon caution after US treasury secretary calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’ – Europe live
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/21/europe-donald-trump-davos-speech-greenland-denmark-latest…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116117538935570668
“Joy—real joy, the kind of joy that you want to surround yourself with and bask in its transformative glow—is one of the most radical things there is.”
Sources describe efforts to build and use internal AI tools at Meta, including Mark Zuckerberg building a CEO agent to help him do his job better (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-is-building-an-…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia
4 years ago I was listening to the news while gardening on an unusually mild day. I thought it completely mad that an invasion could happen, but nevertheless emailed my signal id to my Ukrainian colleagues just in case they suddenly needed something.
The torment nexus but make it European and use a different letter.
#W
Joy is an act of resistance
https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-02-22-act-of-resistence/
Aus für POP-Import in Gmail: Google verlängert Gnadenfrist
Die POP-Abfrage anderer Accounts und Gmailify wollte Gmail schon im Januar absägen. Nun erhalten Google-Nutzer etwas mehr Zeit für den Absprung.
https:/…
Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully acquire Telecom Italia; Poste is already Telecom Italia's largest shareholder (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/italys-poste-launches-12-bln-…
RE: #genocide
(by “machine” he literally means a chatbot)
Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencent-integrat…
AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/claude-code-cu
What really makes me irate about how LLMs are marketed and sold is that if these companies instead spend their time and money to make highly specialized versions for them we could have amazing and actually helpful tools without the ick.
This could both work much better for many use cases (for example for correlating documents and giving a list of results like a search engine instead of tedious palaver) and they wouldn't need to steal data (Professor Bender calls it succinctly "datasets too large to care")[1].
But they're pursuing "AGI" (which is provenly impossible to do with LLMs) and endless growth.
[1] https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116109627131276897
Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Apple accuses the European Commission of "political delay tactics", as the EC seems to be preparing to blame Apple for the shutdown of the Setapp app store (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by what officials called "selling young crops", a concern over cross-border transfer of emerging tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9496e2bc-f67a-4db7-b5af-f760fedeb666
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A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/21/canada-tiktok-court-ruling-00739237
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/an…
ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in "collaboration" with its Eleven Music AI model (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/elevenlabs…
Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific "creative houses"; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Anthropic overhauled Claude's "Constitution" to enable the AI to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-n…
Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/threads-rolls-out-ads-to-all-users-worldwide/
Sony launches the $230 LinkBuds Clip, open-style earbuds that sit outside the ear canal, with IPX4 water resistance and a 9 hour battery life, available now (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: Anthropic projected a 40% gross margin from selling AI to companies and devs in 2025, down from earlier estimates of 50% due to higher inference costs (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic…
Waymo launches its robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth market, initially covering a 60-square-mile area, and partners with Moove for fleet management (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/waymo-launches-robotaxi-service-in-miami-…
A look at Craig Federighi's approach to AI at Apple; sources say he led a push to use other companies' models to help launch a revamped Siri later in 2026 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-deal-apples-…
Circana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131661/yann-…
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-intervi…
Austin-based Neurophos, which develops a photon-based "Optical Processing Unit" to replace GPUs in AI training, raised $110M led by Bill Gates' Gates Frontier (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: the US and China approve a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/22/2026/china-us-sign-off-on-tiktok-us-spinoff
Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/snapchat-gives-parents-n…
Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised a $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M , says it has ARR of $10M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/…
Cambio, creator of AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, raised an $18M Series A led by Maverick Ventures at a $100M valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/real-estat
The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-
The US FCC bans imports, marketing, and sales of new foreign-made drones and components, including from China's DJI and Autel, citing national security concerns (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-secu
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-ships-its-openclaw-rival-connecting-claude…
Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which is building AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/indias-sarvam-launches-indus-ai-chat…
Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face "consequences," after she said corporations that "take a knee" to Trump would be held accountable (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Google is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users will lose access in Q1 2026, and existing users will keep both features until later in 2026 (David Nield/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gmail-killing-pop-and-gmailify-access-what-it-mean…
The curl project plans to end its HackerOne bug bounty program at the end of January, citing a surge in low-quality AI-generated vulnerability reports (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securi…
Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-financial-planning-co-datarails…
AheadComputing, which develops a breakthrough RISC-V CPU architecture for AI, raised a $30M Seed2 led by Eclipse, Toyota, and Cambium, for $53M in total funding (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/21/aheadcomputing-lands-3…
Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/adobe-acr…