2026-02-26 17:49:51
Hochkarätige Podiumsdiskussion zu #DigitalrSouveränität an der #UZH
Hochkarätige Podiumsdiskussion zu #DigitalrSouveränität an der #UZH
The Allen Institute for AI launches SERA, open-source coding agents including 32B- and 8B-parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/27/ai2-launches-family-open-sou…
Dass das im Finanzbereich immer noch so einfach geht? #EinmalMitProfis
https://www.reddit.com/r/Revolut/comments/1rfauj9/na_revolut_metal_suppo…
Hi everyone,
I’m very happy to announce that Aya (@…) will be joining our little team of volunteers at Gaza Verified¹ to help us carry out verification calls.
Aya is in Gaza herself with her family (she’s @…’s daugher) and s…
Wormy Food, Intimidating Guards, Sick Kids: Inside ICE's Only Family Detention Center (Julia Lurie/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dilley-family-detention-center-immigrant-children-liam-ramos-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p119#a260325p119
Amerikanische Pfadfinder dürfen sich nicht mehr für Diversity einsetzen und der "Citizen in Society Badge" wird abgeschafft.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/27/the-department-of-war-just-put-scouting-america-on-notice/
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Ben Johnson wanted to add grit to the Bears. He found it in Kalif Raymond https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7140741/2026/03/26/kalif-raymond-bears-lions-family/
His family says he designed Hall of Fame's gold jacket, claims 'NFL erased him from history' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994306/2026/01/27/pro-football-hall-of-fame-gold-jacket-designer-lawsuit/
We’ve never had a president who used the White House as a real-time venture capital accelerator for his family.
In Trump’s first term, his children at least pretended that they weren’t trying to profit off the presidency.
This time around, they’re selling Trump-branded crypto tokens.
The Trump kids don’t want to ride their family name into political office.
They want billions of dollars in cash
— and they want it now.
His family says he designed Hall of Fame's gold jacket, claims 'NFL erased him from history' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994306/2026/01/27/pro-football-hall-of-fame-gold-jacket-designer-lawsuit/
i implemented Ascon-Hash256 in Amaranth! (as well as laid the groundwork for the rest of Ascon family functions, including Ascon-AEAD128)
it comes at 1268 LUTs for iCE40 in the "compact" configuration, processing an average of 5.3 bit/cycle. a little expensive, but modern and cheaper than many better known alternatives
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital - oregonlive.com https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2026/01/ice-detains-family-seeking-emergency-care-for-child-at-portland-hospital.html <…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/115959504834441195
She's got several good points, notably including the fact that the food biz is highly monopolized; the only big grocery store in walking distance for our family is one of Jimmy's.
‘I thought my whole family were killed in the Holocaust - until a DNA test found the relatives I never knew’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/holocaust-memorial-day-reunion-lost-relatives-b2907565.html
Netflix plans to debut Dynasty: The Murdochs, a four-part docuseries about Murdoch's rise and court battle over control of his media empire, on March 13 (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/26/rupert-murdoch-dynasty-net…
„I cannot believe that is a sentence I just typed in the year 2026.“
Email from Family in Minnesota https://inessential.com/2026/01/21/email-from-minnesota-family.html
“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”
It has come to my attention that some people here still believe/fall for the idea that something like "a family" is somehow fundamental to this universe.
The whole concept of "a family" is a rather recent fad: it's only about 4000-5000y old and is a pretty weird idea that is exclusive to the human species.
It was devised to establish/enforce the patriarchy and to so suppress and control you.
Some 2000y later, it was adopted by the church, and cast i…
From Translink
Family Day Holiday Schedule
Bus, SkyTrain, and SeaBus services will run on a Sunday/holiday schedule, and West Coast Express will not operate on Monday, Feb. 16.
https://link.etranslink.ca/c/443/61496…
Regularly, I use the following for near-realtime communications ("text messages”).
- SMS/RCS/iMessage (friends, family)
- Facebook Messenger (friends, family)
- What's App (friends)
- ActivityPub/Mastodon (friends)
- Matrix (friends, work)
- Discord (work)
- Mattermost (friends, locals)
I'm sure I'm missing some.
The fact that no one is allowed to make a single piece of software (for wide distribution) that talks on all of thes…
Apparently Timothy Doyle, a well known Marvel artist has been making some Anti-ICE art using The Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider.
(h/t to https://bsky.app/profile/roterote.bsky.social)
These cretins aren’t going to stop until they’ve stolen every last ounce of agency and autonomy from our city. And even then they won’t be satisfied. They cannot stand that #Memphis is its own beautiful, vibrant, Democratic self.
Hey folks, we’re almost at 50% of the monthly pledges we need to get Aseel and her family out of their precarious existence in a tent and into stable accommodation in an apartment.
We have six patrons so far (thank you all so much), including me, who have pledged $270 a month towards covering the $600 rent of the place they found but can’t afford.
I’ve pledged $50/month myself. Will anyone match that today so we can get past the half-way mark? If so, just reply to the thread with…
Renewables (e.g. solar panels) and (used) electrical vehicles are up 50-100% in UK, France.
"Used EV purchases in Europe are up as fuel prices rise; one French retailer told Reuters that it doubled EV sales between February and March. And a UK electricity firm boss said solar panel sales had risen 50% since the war began."
Der "Big Tech Tobacco Moment", analysiert von @… :
"Es geht um viel mehr. Das Urteil könnte die Big-Tech-Konzerne in ihrem Innersten treffen, weil es nicht auf die Inhalte, sondern die Plattformlogik zielt: Infinite Scroll, Autoplay, Benachrichtigungen, Filter Bubble und Echokammer."
und:
"Wenn die Plattform bei den Teenag…
Dude who runs a (largely family-produced) radio show about advertising on the national (commercial-free) broadcaster — for which he's presumably paid — nevertheless runs 4 full minutes of ads at the start of his 36-minute podcast of the same show, plus 1–2 in two separate breaks and at least 3 at the end. Friends have a running gag to identify the obvious (and we believe unintentional) error(s) in each episode, e.g. misnaming the "Love Boat" ship as the Island — instead of Paci…
Low Carbon Family Holidays - Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck -
Deepinder Goyal, who stepped down as Zomato's CEO, raised $54M at a $190M valuation for Temple, which aims to make high-performance wearables for elite athletes (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/after-zoma…
Bills' massive bison statues anchor Highmark Stadium's Family Circle in new renderings https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48291577/buffalo-bills-new-highmark-stadium-bison-statues-family-circle
Investigation links Putin family to stake in Max messenger as Russia curbs WhatsApp and Telegram: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/investigation-links-putin-family-to.html
Nearly 300 years after Immanuel Kant proposed that our solar system’s family of planets condensed from a flattened disk of gas and dust,
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed that such planetary nurseries are common across our galaxy.
Now, Hubble has identified the largest known protoplanetary disk
—spanning an astonishing 400 billion miles,
roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system
"Aber solche Modelle sind mit Vorsicht zu geniessen. Sie funktionieren oft besser im Rückblick, wenn Wendepunkte bereits sichtbar sind.
[…]
Aber natürlich enthält der Index auch ein Fünkchen Wahrheit. Denn es ist ein valider Punkt, dass der Druck auf die amerikanische Regierung im wichtigen Wahljahr vor den Midterm-Wahlen auch innenpolitisch gross ist."
New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000 (Reed Abelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/health/obamacare-health-insurance-rollbacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.3zk5.sSOngyzrtNA3&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p22#a260226p22
RE: https://mastodon.social/@funnyjokes/116294338826446091
Hat jemand eine gute Bezugsquelle für Bluetooth-Typ-A-Verlängerungskabel?
Thanks to a $20/month pledge by our newest donor, @…, we’re just $225/month in pledges away from getting Aseel and her family out of a tent and into an apartment.
(Our goal is to have enough monthly pledges from patrons to cover the $600 rent for the apartment they’ve found.)
I really hope this little experiment becomes a precedent in how we can support…
"Das adoleszente Gehirn reagiert stärker auf soziale Belohnung und ist anfälliger für Suchtmechanismen […].
Wer daraus schliesst, dass ein zeitlich begrenztes Verbot – kombiniert mit echter Regulierung – sinnvoller sein könnte als Regulierung allein, denkt nicht zwingend falsch.
Aber auch das ändert nichts an der Grundfrage: Solange die Plattformen so bleiben, wie sie sind, ist jede Schutzmassnahme pure Symptombekämpfung. Und keine Lösung."
@…
Die @… spricht sich gegen den geplanten Android-Lockdown ein:
"Obwohl Google es als Sicherheitsmassnahme darstellt, handelt es sich tatsächlich um die Einführung einer verpflichtenden und zentralisierten Überprüfung der Identität sämtlicher App-Entwickler:innen durch Google. […]
Google hätte damit die Position, alleine zu entscheiden, welche Apps …
Habe am Bancomat 60 Franken bezogen. Er hat mir zwei Angebote gemacht: "gross" oder "gemischt"; 3*20 oder 50 10.
Die Bank behauptet darauf, 3*20 sei "gemischt". Darf ich ihr auch bei ihren anderen Rechenkünsten glauben?
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to deport nearly
300 veterans and their family members in Donald Trump’s first year back in office,
despite protections offered to those officers when they joined the military.
Between Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, and January 26, 2026,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 125 people who were former members of the Armed Forces
— two thirds of whom did not have active criminal warr…
RE: https://smnn.ch/@nohillside/115962247338547543
"Finally, it matters that this was the second broad-daylight murder, and that it came after weeks of horror stories about kidnapped children, citizens pepper-sprayed in the face, and more. I already knew, …
[Pledged: $100 of $600/month. $500 to go. Patrons: 2]
Let’s try something different: Looking for pledges to become patrons for one of our volunteers at Gaza Verified*, @…, so we can move her and her family out of living in a damp, unsafe tent and into an apartment.
Aseel’s family needs to pay $600/month rent if they’re to afford the apartment …
Travel Advisory Update: Authorized Departure of Non-Emergency U.S. Government Personnel and Family Members of Personnel from U.S. Mission Israel. (U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)
https://il.usembassy.gov/travel-advisory-february-27-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p15#a260227p15
If only #FIFA knew …
Former President Barack Obama also said the Trump administration’s explanations
“appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence.”
And Pretti’s family members have accused the White House of spreading “sickening lies.”
https://www.pol…
Cowboys draft 2 defenders with NFL bloodlines in PFF's new mock https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/26/cowboys-sonny-styles-avieon-terrell-pff-mock/88364963007/
This morning, during our verification call with Diyaa (@…), we heard some shocking news about his brother.
This is the reality of Palestinians facing genocide at the hands of Israel in Gaza.
Please help Diyaa, who needs an operation on his leg (and had to skip his appointment two days ago as he has to take care of his extended family of nine).…
Just minutes before Donald Trump momentarily boosted the stock market —and sent oil prices tumbling
—with his disputed Monday announcement of peace talks with Iran,
unknown traders loaded up on positions that allowed them to profit from the resulting movement in equities and commodities.
The Financial Times reported that
“roughly 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate futures contracts changed hands between 6:49 am and 6:50 am New York time on Monday,
just a quar…
Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B parameter open-weight models supporting 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/cohere-launches-a-family-of-open-mu…
RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Thanks to two new patrons who have contacted me privately, we’re past the half way point and have pledges from 10 patrons to cover $355 of the $600/month in rent that Aseel and her family need to leave the pr…
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a Rohingya refugee from Burma,
was nearly blind and spoke no English.
He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home.
His family was not notified of his release.
Police are investigating his death
https://www.
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital (Gosia Wozniacka/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2026/01/ice-detains-family-seeking-emergency-care-for-child-at-portland-hospital.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p90#a260123p90
At #Kubecon, all the keynotes focus on AI. But apparently, nobody focused on the basics. So, the network is lousy as hell. Even the in-house video stream to the overflow rooms often looks like that.
As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab.
Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where
we can replace our negative memories with positive ones.
In "How to Change a Memory", Ramirez draws on his own memories
—of friendship, family, loss, and recovery
—to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch,
edited, and even
constructed fro…
Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday
behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where
a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week
after being detained in Minnesota.
Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press
showed children and parents at the
"South Texas Family Residential Center"
clad in jackets and sweaters,
some of them holding signs that included
“Libertad para los niños,”
or “Libe…
Obwohl schon alle in Frühlingsgefühlen schweben, den lauen Morgen und die zwitschernden Vögel geniessen: Es ist auch wieder Dienstag. Und damit #DNIPBriefing-Tag.
Heute etwas kürzer, da wir am Wochenende den #Winterkongress genossen haben. Trotzdem u.a. mit einer frischen Mischun…
Democrats Counter Trump With Their Own Plan to Limit Wall Street Landlords (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/us/politics/trump-senate-democrats-single-family-rentals-homes.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p57#a260224p57
My decision – Alex Vindman
Hi – my name is Alex Vindman, and I have made the decision to run for the United States Senate in Florida.
Over two decades ago, I swore an oath to protect this country when I joined the U.S. Army.
I honored that oath in 2019 by blowing the whistle on Donald Trump’s corrupt phone call with Ukraine -- an act that led to Trump’s first impeachment and cost me my military career.
People told me to keep my head down. But my family came here as …
Huch, Dienstag! Da ist ja #DNIPBriefing-Tag!
Wahrscheinlich schaffe ich es heute nicht, euch einen schönen Thread zu basteln. Aber den schönsten Thread habt ihr ja sowieso hier:
https://dnip.ch/2…
The leaning tower of Pizza
#Kubecon
“I don’t think Jesus would ever ignore people being hurt,
-- especially by the federal government,”
said 17-year Ben Luhmann at the wheel, to a reporter in the back seat.
Sam, his 16-year old brother was pounding an energy drink with one hand,
scrolled through a lengthy list of group chats with the other,
scouring for reports of ICE and other federal immigration agents in their area.
Mornings like this have been typical in recent weeks for the Luhmann fam…
"Die USA lassen ab sofort keine neuen Router für den Verbrauchermarkt zu, sofern sie nicht in den USA hergestellt sind. Damit hat die Regulierungsbehörde FCC am Montag (Ortszeit) den Markt schockiert. Gemeint ist nicht nur der Zusammenbau; vielmehr muss die gesamte Herstellungskette, vom Design über Chips bis zur Software, ausschließlich in den USA liegen und von Firmen mit US-Eigentümern und -Management gestellt werden."
What the f…uture-proof decision …
"But the headline (“Inside the Trump administration’s campaign to expand ‘free speech’ in Europe”) and subhed (“The United States has banned some European researchers from entering the country and dismantled federal programs intended to fight foreign disinformation campaigns”) describe the administration’s actions without conveying the most explosive finding of the piece: that the evidentiary foundation for all of these actions does not exist."
There is so much AI in the air right now, that the announcement at the Metro station sounded like: "For more information: ChatGPT.nl"; but it probably ends in "check gvb.nl" or similar …
Press freedom is further going down the drain in Trumpistan.
(Sorry, behind a paywall. But the first few sentences are the most important anyway.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/23/pentagon-press-annex-policy-defeat/
"Was zunächst wie ein primär ökonomischer Akt wirkt, ist viel mehr ein weiterer Schlag gegen den Meinungspluralismus in einem Land, das sich selbst zwar als „Land of the free“ bezeichnet, in der politischen Einflussnahme durch die Trump-Regierung aber immer mehr hinter autokratische Strukturen zurückzutreten droht.
Denn nun gerät ein weiteres digitales Netzwerk unter Kontrolle regierungsnaher Multimilliardäre."
“Alex was a kindhearted soul
who cared deeply for his family and friends
and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.”
“Alex wanted to make a difference in this world.
Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.”
“I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly.
However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
🔥The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehe…
According to the Daily Beast,
Donald Trump sets up camp in the family living quarters
and Melania is sequestered to a tower, kind of like a modern-day Rapunzel
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/melanias-bizarre…
Ist da die NZZaS etwa ein leiser Freund von Trump'schen Allüren? 💰🧱
https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/freundlich-knallhart-juristisch-fragwuerdig-die-roesti-methode-setzt-sich-durch-ld.1925747
"So long as the pain of using the service is lower than the pain of leaving it, the companies can turn the screws on users to make their lives worse in order to extract more profit from them. This is why Musk killed the block button and why Zuck fired all his moderators."
https://plural…
Wie gross ist unser digitaler #Fussabdruck? Wofür braucht unser digitales Leben Energie? Wie wird sich das verändern? Wie können wir da zur Verbesserung beitragen? Und wo können selbst wir nichts tun?
Diese Fragen habe ich in einem neuen #DNIP-Artikel zu beantworten versucht.
Lest ihn…
Wer ist eigentlich heute Abend/morgen am #Winterkongress?
Guten Morgen! Auch heute ist Dienstag und damit wieder #DNIPBriefing-Tag.
1️⃣ Salesforce (ein grosser Anbieter von Cloud-CRM-Lösungen) ist seit längerem bezüglich KI sehr aggressiv unterwegs. Unter anderem hat CEO Marc Benoit vor einigen Monaten in einem Interview bekanntgegeben, dass bereits 4000 Stellen «wegen KI» abgebaut worden seien. Besonders drastisch wirkt dies, wenn man sich…
"The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws."
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-ag…
Richtiges Jahrzehnt. Dauernd. Aber fast endlos darin herumgeirrt.
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"Die Fälle zeigen aber, wie gefährlich es ist, ICE-Beamten eine vollumfängliche Immunität zuzusichern. Sowohl US-Vizepräsident Vance und Berater Stephen Miller betonten in den letzten Tagen aber genau das immer wieder."
https://www.watson.ch/i…
Guten Morgen, es ist wieder #DNIPBriefing-Dienstag! Heute etwas kürzer, damit wir mehr Zeit für die anderen Beiträge diese Woche haben.
1️⃣ @… hat seine Erfahrungen mit digitalen ÖV-Billeten von Schweizer Tourismusgebieten aufgeschrieben, sogenannten Gästk…
California also wants #xAI to abide the law.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/california-ag-sends-musks-xai-a-cease-and-desist-order-…
Man soll die Misserfolge feiern wie sie fallen. Altes Weinländer Sprichwort.
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Das Muster sieht soch schon ziemlich gekonnt aus, nicht?
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Irgend jemand scheint unter "Digitale Souveränität" etwas ganz anderes zu verstehen als der Rest der Welt.
#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty
Effizienz statt Menschlichkeit?
Sollen wir hoheitliche Prozesse, bei denen bisher der Mensch im Zentrum steht, durch KI ersetzen? Bringt das mehr oder weniger Objektivität? Und Nachvollziehbarkeit?
Diese Fragen stellt sich @… in seiner heutigen #DNIP-Kolumne.…
There might soon be a law in the US, even though it counters the interests of Elon Musk? Wow!
#xAI #Grok
https://www.<…
#SwissID findet regelmässige Passwortwechsel immer noch eine gute Idee.
(Oder ist bei *dem* letzten Änderungsdatum von "unregelmässigem" Passwortwechsel auszugehen?)