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I wrote a bit about grief. Not for a person but the world that was.
(Original title: The World That Was)
https://tante.cc/2026/02/06/the-world-that-was/

The World That Was
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the world. I mean, look at … everything. Massive ongoing wars everywhere, Fascism on the rise, exploding inequality. Shit is fucked up and more fucked up on a global scale than it ever was in my life time (I was born in 1979). And with the media landscape and […]

heise | Smartphone‑Teleaufsätze im Praxistest: Was die Technik kann – und was nicht
Mehr Brennweite per Aufsatz klingt großartig. Doch was bleibt übrig, wenn Optik, Software und Physik aufeinandertreffen? Unser Test von Oppo und Vivo zeigt’s.

Moltbook was peak AI theater
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

Moltbook was peak AI theater
The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

The WGA, which routinely opposes media mergers, says the Netflix-WBD deal must be blocked, and the Producers and Directors guilds express concern over the deal (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/wga-opposes-netflix-warner-b…

WGA Opposes Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal: 'This Merger Must Be Blocked'
The Writers Guild of America has joined other industry guilds in opposing Netflix's proposed blockbuster deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's studios and streaming business.

"Perl's decline was cultural"
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115667646361265085
The other ongoing criticism is "well actually, iTunes was always bad".
No, it wasn't. When it was released it was _way_ better than any other jukebox sofware.
You could actually find stuff easily, manage playlists super quick. It ripped CDs, including getting track titles and managing files, with literally _no clicks required_.
Burning CDs took like two clicks.
While admittedly lock-in, it would sync your iPod with no clicks after dropping it in the iPod dock. And it was super fast. (Other manufacturers didn't have anything close to this convenient).
Other jukebox software didn't do any of this.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

US immigration authorities arrested a visiting professor at Harvard law school
after he was charged with discharging a pellet gun outside a Massachusetts synagogue the day before Yom Kippur,
– and he agreed to leave the country.
Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian citizen, was arrested on Wednesday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
after his temporary nonimmigrant visa was revoked by the state department
following what the Trump administration labe…

Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-…

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter
One of these companies is not like the others.

„Katastrophe“ für Russland: SpaceX deaktiviert unautorisierte Starlink-Antennen
Nur knapp eine Woche nachdem die Ukraine gewarnt hat, dass Russland Starlink für Drohnenangriffe benutzt, zeigen die Gegenmaßnahmen Wirkung. Und was für eine.

Die Republik dreht an der Antenne – und keiner hört hin
Die Republik verhandelt, was Öffentlichkeit noch wert ist – und wer sie künftig bezahlt. Was geht in den zusammenwachsenden Medien?
https://www.heise.de/-11069421?wt_mc=sm.re