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“On labor and AI”
https://buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/on-labor-and-ai/
“[M]aybe large numbers of us should come to a common conclusion that these bubble-boy charlatans shouldn’t just get to decide that the world’s economy (not to mention its ecology) sh…

On labor and AI
Happy Labor/Labour Day/bank holiday to you. Seems like a good day to talk about the elephant in the room again. The predominant storyline around labor, of...

Ed Yong is one of, if not the top science writers in the world today. Here’s his latest blog entry. https://buttondown.com/edyong209/archive/the-eds-up-unbreaking/
Recommended.

The Ed's Up - Unbreaking
My face all the time I hope you’re all hanging in there. In the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, people knew that the coronavirus that reached the...

Putin betont gute Beziehung zwischen Russland und China
Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin hat bei Gesprächen mit dem chinesischen Staatschef Xi Jinping die guten Beziehungen zwischen beiden Ländern hervorgehoben. "Unser enger Austausch spiegelt den strategischen Charakter der russisch-chinesischen Beziehungen wider, die sich derzeit auf einem noch nie da gewesenen Niveau befinden", sagte Putin bei dem Treffen mit Xi in der G…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Bisher offenbar 2.000 Soldaten aus Nordkorea getötet ++
Chinas Staatschef Xi und Kremlchef Putin sind in Peking zu Gesprächen zusammengekommen. In der Region Kiew ist bei einem russischen Luftangriff nach Behördenangaben mindestens ein Mensch getötet worden.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#BetweenTheEars
- Miniatures
In this edition of weather-inspired miniature Between the Ears, Kristina Loring explores points of human connection in the eye of the storm.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dyht

Midea PortaSplit: Fremde Klimaanlagen ferngesteuert
Die Hitzewelle rollt an – und die PortaSplit-Klimaanlagen von Midea haben zum Teil Probleme. Die App bedient fremde Geräte.
https://www.

from my link log —
How AI botnet DDoS attacks use compromised end-user devices.
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/
saved 2025-05-23

Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken
I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!

I also updated my newsletter
https://buttondown.com/seedling/archive/august-2025-update/
I am down to sending an email like every 4 months

As everyone, the #FSF infrastructure is suffering because of 'AI' crawlers:
«Our infrastructure has been under attack since August 2024. Large Language Model (LLM) web crawlers have been a significant source of the attacks»
«the server behind the Free Software Directory, has been under attack since June 18. This likely is an LLM scraper designed to specifically target Media Wiki sites with a botnet. This attack is very active and now partially mitigated.»
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

Das Programm der #datenspuren25 ist ja schon ein paar Tage raus. Ich freue mich sehr, ein Teil davon zu sein.
Für die #bitsundbaeume Ausgründung Konstruktive Digitale Diskussionskultur (#KDDK

from my link log —
Why I prefer reStructuredText to Markdown.
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-i-prefer-rst-to-markdown/
saved 2025-08-18

Why I prefer rST to markdown
I will never stop dying on this hill