Because this still doesn't seem to be clear to people - and when I say people, I mean leftist parlamentarians in my country - Substack hosts and actively promotes literal Nazis. It's a bit silly to complain about the rise of fascism while directly helping fund it by producing content for Substack and X. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

I'm very excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association that's meant to operate the main PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to AT Protocol accounts. https://blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227

All sport names should be onomatopoeia. The same way that table tennis is ping pong, table hockey should be thwick thwack. But also, court tennis should be pick pock, and ice hockey should be shick shick shick. Basketball is boompf boompf. Baseball is crack pumpf. I don't know what cricket sounds like, that one might have been done already.

PIR (the .org registry) confirms it suspended the autistici.org domain name out of fear of the US legal threats, arguing it is "legally mandated to suspend it", which is not, IMHO, a given at all (given that PIR doesn't have any contractual relation with autistici directly, the registrar does). this is a very dangerous precedent that confirms a deeply rooted fear that the US essentially controls all of DNS. if PIR's arguments are left standing, what's to keep the US from applying the same logic to ICANN and suspending an entire TLD?

the tech industry fervor over Omarchy is so fucking confusing to me that i'm honestly starting to wonder if it's just money laundering. over TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS for a fascist's dotfiles and bash scripts is patently insane

For my English-speaking audience: Macron's recent law that was adopted in Parliament earlier this year and set to impose a nationwide ban on social media for under-15-year-olds via systematic age verification, was just declared unconstitutional by the French Constitutional Council. Namely on these grounds: • the council considers the law disproportionately infringes on the freedom of expression of minors, • it considers that the establishment of a nationwide age verification system* may have consequences for any citizen's right to privacy. * when imposed as it is without specific legal guarantees regarding the collection and conservation of private data

For the first time, the Trump administration says it's going to allow some vetted U.S. private companies to launch cyberattacks and surveillance operations against overseas criminals and hackers, like ransomware gangs. More: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/in-a-first-us-will-allow-some-private-firms-to-carry-out-cyberattacks Ad-block bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260813141304/https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/in-a-first-us-will-allow-some-private-firms-to-carry-out-cyberattacks/

Tesla's Robotaxi/ride-hailing service is now available in 7 areas: • Orlando: Unsupervised Model Y rides only (new) • Miami: Unsupervised Model Y rides only • Tampa: Unsupervised Model Y rides only (new) • Dallas: Unsupervised Model Y rides only • Houston: Unsupervised

SpaceX’s massive corpus of world-class engineering data (excluding material blocked by ITAR) will be added during supplemental training of the 2T run. This will dramatically improve Grok’s engineering capabilities.

I was asked a question... What is considered elegant if you are rich, but trashy if you are poor. My response.: Speaking a 2nd language. Got some confused looks, so I explained. If you are rich, speaking more than one language is seen as a sign of being educated, well travelled and civilised. But if you are poor, you get branded as some lazy, uneducated immigrant here to steal other peoples jobs whilst also claiming all of the benefits... at least that's how the bigots like to portray it. Saw a few light bulbs going of in peoples faces. Remember... you can give people the opportunity to reflect on the way they have been conditioned to think, with just a few well chosen words.

#Codex said I’ve used 1.38 billion tokens total, which is about half of one burger’s water footprint. Since I also use Claude and Gemini, I’ve probably spent about one burger. lol #LLM #AI https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/from-tokens-to-burgers-a-water-footprint

Content warning: I hate being constantly asked to engage

last year at this time, #curl was git cloned 23,900 times per day over the last two weeks, it has been git cloned 54,286 times per day