"Our government is being run by aggrieved elites who were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could finally read what we all think about them. And it caused them so much psychic damage that they have decided to ...Petty, powerful, and pathologically online

Sollten uns nicht darüber lustig machen, dass sie mit Antifa Organisation verbieten wollen, die es gar nicht gibt. Im Gegenteil, das wissen sie natürlich. Es geht genau darum, diffuses Feindbild und scheinbar gesetzlichen Rahmen zu schaffen, um alles zu verfolgen, was neuem Faschismus im Wege steht.

No-one was seriously stopping the likes of Charlie Kirk from living in a small rural town, having a nuclear family with a few kids and a stay-at-home wife and going to church every Sunday. But that wasn't enough for him, he wanted to stop and punish people *not* wanting that.

Literally the entire cause of the current American democratic crisis is reactionaries objecting to living with anybody else.

Seriously that text goes so hard, I love it: "[My new license] is not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don’t give a damn how capital defines its needs."

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Ich habe dem Zentrum für Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung ein Interview gegeben. Es geht um Cyberlibertarianismus und Open Source und die Politisierung von Technologie. https://zevedi.de/open-source-und-digitale-infrastrukturen-sind-politisch/

Truth.

EU and the whole data protection bubble: "Am I a joke to you?"

it is disappointing to see people fired over charlie kirk bullshit turn around and start a newsletter on substack, of all the platforms to choose

Übrigens: Am 29. bin ich in Tübingen, wir sprechen über Tech Faschismus und Palantir https://tue4.org/events/78a513f4-5e16-4bbc-b905-c20faf72ade4

Wie angekündigt werden mit dem Sondervermögen vor allem CDU Wahlversprechen und Steuersenkungen finanziert. Ich hab noch im Ohr, wie mir damals alle Grünen Fans erklärten, dass das gar nicht möglich wäre, weil sie das so clever verhandelt hätten. Tja. Mal wieder Recht behalten.

Alle sollten lesen, wie schwarz-rot finanzpolitisch am betuppen ist. Deshalb Geschenklink: www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...

I really really think it's important to not get too caught up in the failure of the demo and recognise that the demo was of a person asking a robot how to make something that tastes good

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗸𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵 🔎 Neuer Beitrag im ZEVEDI-VBlog zevedi.de/open-source-... @tante.cc plädiert für eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Erbe der Netz- und Open Source-Bewegung – und fordert, digitale Infrastrukturen konsequent demokratisch zu gestalten.

Steven Colbert: Canceled. Jimmy Kimmel: Canceled. Es wäre witzig, wenns nicht so traurig wäre. Die Rechte installiert genau die Politics, die sie einer Linken vorwirft. Das gilt auch für Deutschland. CDUCSU beklagen linken Kulturkampf und machen Kulturkampf von rechts. Lasst euch nicht verarschen.

What Klein is saying (in a perfectly overproduced video) is that he does not give a shit about anything. Nothing "means" anything. Politics is just a content trigger to write a column. Because he's reached a level of wealth and comfort where everything is just abstract fun. Like a board game.

I need to be on a panel tomorrow, but hopefully I find some time to write more about that tomorrow. Cause it's a thing that has been bugging me for months.

Das Einknicken beginnt schon sehr viel früher. Ein Kollege hat sich mal drüber beschwert dass er keinen Bock mehr habe ständig Briefe von Hörer*innen zu beantworten denen das Programm nicht 'konservativ' genug sei. Sie sind vor allem furchtbar bequem.

Aside from any university/schools pushing "AI" on its students having given up and strayed from the path of being an environment for learning ... why does this amazing, life-changing, brilliant, easy to use technology an "Evangelist"?

Übrigens: Am 29. bin ich in Tübingen, wir sprechen über Tech Faschismus und Palantir https://tue4.org/events/78a513f4-5e16-4bbc-b905-c20faf72ade4

@beritmiriam.bsky.social die Spiegel Kolumne ist es noch nicht, aber immerhin referenziert der Spiegel deine Arbeit https://archive.ph/4Vhn5 Baby steps ...

“A better future for JavaScript that won't happen” https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2025-09-17-An-impossible-future-for-JS.html > people have been sounding the alarm for years that this approach to dependency management is reckless and dangerous and broken by design.

amazing

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Die Aufwände für den Sozialstaat sind keine "Lasten" sondern ein Geschenk, das wir uns alle gegenseitig immer wieder machen. Ein Ausdruck der unbedingten Anerkennung und Wertschätzung der Würde jedes und jeder Einzelnen.

age yourself with a tech problem you solved Building complex boot floppies that stripped the machine of everything from mouse drivers to keyboard layouts to free enough memory to get certain games to load.

I feel really bad for the responsible journalists still at Business Insider (some of whose reporting I've really apprecaited) whose work will now be looked on with suspicion -- and rightly so, because now nothing from BI is trustworthy.

Being an adult means having twenty apps with names like “Together” or “Omni”, and one of them controls your heating and one is your bank and none of them work

all levels of media in the united states is controlled by the far right tech oligarch now

In Germany there's a saying: If 9 people sit down with a fascist without protest and fight there's 10 fascists sitting at the table. Something liberals like @ezraklein.bsky.social should really take to heart.

People like Klein (and many many other liberals) love to pretend as if fascists are meaningful partners for a debate. The "Political Deescalation" Klein is working towards is one of form: "Can we get the fascists to call for trans people's deaths in a nicer way".

My next book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, comes out in one month from Bloomsbury. It's about the rise of the tech right, crypto corruption, the 2024 election, and Silicon Valley complicity in MAGA authoritarianism. linktr.ee/gildedrage

Had to check, but it is not satire.

UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI never mind, we’ll hire someone ... oh www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIF... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250915-uk-... - podcast time: 4 min 19 sec

So DHH has gone fully open right winger and racist? Maybe that gets people to stop sharing and reading his takes. If you still share that motherfucker's writing (even on tech) or advertise his business rethink your whole life decisions and move to the woods or something.

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

A lot of journalists see part of their job as helping to mainstream tech bros’ eugenicist talking points.

"The understanding that the total supremacy of the “data” discourse was always a problematic, neoliberal way of seeing and structuring the world, of legitimizing violence according to the needs of those in power." The “Data” Narrative eats itself

"The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of ...Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!

Mein Text über die unsägliche Scheinheiligkeit der konservativen Arbeitszeit-Debatte ist nun online bei @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social: Es ist völlig klar: es geht Merz & Co nicht um die Sicherung des Wohlstandes, sondern um die Sicherung seiner zutiefst ungleichen Verteilung!

This is good advice generally. Given that we now know that there are no significant productivity gains - and that LLMs have evidently hit a wall on reliability, so things are unlikely to improve much - we don't *have* to drink the Kool-Aid.

They target certain groups because they hate them, yes, but also because they're the easy targets. They do what they can get away with doing to those whom they can get away with doing it to. But the long term aim is to do it to everybody, including you. Today's victims are their foot in the door.

"Einfach rechte Themen zu übernehmen, funk­tio­niert nicht. Das hat die Forschung immer wieder gezeigt. So gewinnt man Wäh­le­r:in­nen nicht von rechtspopulistischen Parteien zurück" Soziologin über AfD: „Rechte Themen zu übernehmen, funktioniert nicht“

Ich kann nicht mehr mit dem Gros der deutschen Medienlandschaft. Ich glaube, die wollen das so.

Read the term "pacifiers for adults" describing vapes and yeah. I'll adopt that terminology.

Landschaft wird unsichtbar, wenn man in ihr drin wohnt. Aber fehlende Infrastruktur wird nie unsichtbar, man spürt sie jeden Tag, bei jedem Einkauf, bei jedem Gesundheitsproblem. Trotzdem träumen alle vom Wohnen in Landschaft und wenige vom Wohnen in Infrastruktur.

„AfD legt zu, Grüne verlieren" Heißt es in den Medien. Die Journalisten fragen Grüne, ob sie jetzt auch mehr Abschiebungen fordern werden. Aber auch richtig ist: „AfD verliert im Vergleich zur BTW, Grüne zweitbestes Ergebnis in NRW“ Framing in den Medien macht den Rechtsruck.

"For a site that recently rose to prominence despite the calcified nature of the platform ecosystem [...] this is a crucial moment. Bluesky, some users feel, is failing to meet it." Bluesky Really Doesn’t Want People To Say ‘Rest In Piss’ About Charlie Kirk