Very nice 2017 write-up about Eliane Radigue who just passed away. I love her Songs of Milarepa, on which Robert Ashley did vocals in that way only Ashley could https://rubinmuseum.org/composing-a-life/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-aspd61boz/-/a-NKJuCzi0R2SQWKXF550BHg%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0 Really!?

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/world-news-fqv71h77z/-/a-jTMMMR57RvOTj9_zs3NDTw%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0 Some countries. I mean, really, some countries.

RE: https://masto.sangberg.se/@troed/116092524515829966 Oh this is just too funny. Apple didn't specify why they upheld the removal of my #loops review - but I guess that department doesn't know about the rights us Europeans have under the GDPR to request a copy of _all data a company has on […]

I keep hearing AI advocates say that the universal deployment of AI will create a “productivity explosion” and “unprecedented wealth creation” and will “end poverty.” All I want to know is: How? How will the money made by the big AI companies end up in the […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

OK, woah. I did not know this. There is an open digital specification for puzzles (e.g. crosswords)! https://www.puzzazz.com/ipuz There is also an open-source GNOME Crosswords app! https://gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/crosswords

RE: https://mastodon.design/@Saint_loup/116115218815277341 For them, humans should be servants of technology and not the other way around.

Meanwhile this is actual news. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/20/tennessee-bill-death-penalty-women-abortion/88777975007/

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Since the New York Times has decided to hide its initial article on the SCOTUS tariff ruling, I’m sharing a gift link. Please boost. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-tariffs.html?smid=url-share

RE: https://flipboard.com/@semafor/semafor-qhf227ugz/-/a-5y65CnW0Tm2IA7teIbMUxA%3Aa%3A3943444710-%2F0 But no one will trust it …

If I understood this press conference correctly, the dude personally attacked some of the same judges that gave him immunity for life. I mean, if that isn’t clear enough …

The US Constitution begins to function

Ik heb zojuist weer enorm veel baat gehad bij deze truc, dus ik deel hem gewoon nog een keer. Als iemand je vraagt extra zinloze administratieve stappen te zetten, draai dat gelijk om. Stel vragen hoe het formulier _precies_ ingevuld moet worden. Lever hun extra veel werk op. En vaak genoeg […]

After decades of debating the “scientific publishing crisis”, the time as come to decide. This is an English translation of my original German contribution to the Merkur Blog in response to the contributions by Gehring and Tautz. “Scientific publishing” may sound like a minor rung in the ivory […]

The next level of Amazon #enshittification is delivery downgrade. In Vienna, Austria, GLS pretends to deliver but never even attempts. Once not delivered, an Amazon mail informs about the unfortunate failure; pickup is suggested but no location is provided. Next up: find the delivery service’s […]

Watching with interest. "COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance." https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-notify-and-the-launch-of-a-publish-review-curate-alliance/ PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #prc, #preprints, and taking full advantage of #openaccess […]

[AI screaming, void screaming, allcaps, long,] EVERY FUCKING WEBSITE IS FUCKING BROKEN, AND THE MORE A COMPANY IS PROUD OF HOW MUCH AI IT USES THE MORE BROKEN ITS FUCKING WEBSITE IS. I AM FORCED TO USE MICROSOFT OUTLOOK FOR MY WORK EMAIL AND IT CAN'T FUCKING HANDLE ATTACHMENTS NOW. I HAVE BEEN […]

This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.

RE: https://gruene.social/@Gerbsen/116052492129846084 Money transfer from the German Federal Administration to Microsoft: 2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro 2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro 2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro (Source: German Parliament 21/4006 page 96 […]

Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-statement/

When talking about the energy consumed by LLMs don't be fooled by arguments focusing solely on the direct power consumption of these models, because they are externalizing a lot of it. Browsers are now doing proof-of-work calculations to access many websites, because websites need to protect […]

This sounds very good, and I think it's plausible. But will it convince politicians, and – even more difficult – voters? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/12/economics-climate-crisis-complexity-scientist-plan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Do the British like Donald Trump?

Do you or your organization use #eprints software to power a #repository? If so, you might be interested in supporting a new #governance structure for the software. Community participation is being sought for the new EPrints Steering Committee and Maintainers group. Interested? Get involved! […]

I'd like to report a y-axis crime…

I am heartbroken to see that the journal First Monday is shutting down. I'm all the more grateful I got to check one off the bucket list and publish there last year. But it will be missed. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-doctorow-wu.html @[email protected] "on the early internet, and I saw things that sucked, I would think: Someone is going to fix this, and maybe it could be me. Now when I see bad things on the internet, I’m like: This is by […]

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Just watched CNN’s Kaitlan Collins being completely trashed by agent orange in a news snippet on Belgian TV. Because she asked a totally reasonable question, which he didn’t want to respond to. Apart from his mere cowardice, imagine the young generation witnessing this kind of behavior on TV […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116004696127128388 This is the way.

Here’s an article that digs in a little deeper on what @pluralistic is calling the #epsteinclass: https://the.ink/p/its-so-much-bigger-than-epstein

📘✏️Work on a brand-new update of the DPC's #digitalpreservation Handbook is officially underway! Read @dorothywaugh’s blog post to see how we’re book-sprinting - and what snacks are fueling the #digipres writing 😋 👉🏻 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/book-sprinting-towards-our-new-handbook

" These people aren’t evil masterminds — evil, yes, but masterminds, no. They’re just thugs too crude and undisciplined to control their own thuggishness. They were caught off guard by the strength of the resistance because the very concept of citizens standing up for their principles is alien […]

Found Zotero 8 truly excellent in my writing/research period this morning. Working brilliantly and the new citation dialog is SO snappy. Love it. This is a core piece of research infrastructure without which I would be distraught! https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/

Billionaires, man. Greedy motherfuckers. Brin is worth $266B. A one-time 5% billionaire tax (with the money going to healthcare!) would mean he's left with... $242B. Which that year's rate of growth would trivially earn him back. But he just can't. You can do a 99% one-time billionaire tax and […]

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Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/ Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker said artificial intelligence agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the […]

Bwahahahaha!

Don’t scramble to find a deal! Push for fundamental reform of ICE etc https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/senate-funding-deal-partial-shutdown-looms #uspol

@cnn.com Woman who recorded Alex Pretti shooting speaks to #cnn #ice #dhs Battle of #Minneapolis https://youtube.com/shorts/3kF-aaN-Wqw?si=dilPmGCCM-0ULB4F

The European Union should classify #ice as a terror organization and arrest them at the border. Maybe finally a good use for the thugs at #frontex? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/world/europe/italy-ice-olympics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H1A.JNU8.3p08xnbkC3uW #eupol #cantmakethisshitup

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/115969353560282282 1. Starting about the Reagan era, the federal government completely gutted anti-trust enforcement, which 2. Allowed corporations to become monopolies or cartels. 3. Enabling them to bust unions, suppress wages, and keep any […]

New blog post: Re-launching COPTR! https://anjackson.net/2026/01/26/coptr-dpclinic/

BREAKING NEWS The Afghan minister of education confirms that access to schools for women in the country is permanently banned. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Afghanistan #Breaking #breakingnews

I was happy to learn that a new #signposting library is under active development: Compass is a lightweight Java library for validating and interpreting FAIR Signposting. It comes with: * defensive RFC 8288 model-level validation, * FAIR Signposting Level 1 and Level 2 recipe validation, * […]

Has anyone been compiling a list ranking house and senate dems by how often they're collaborating? Weighted index based on how insane of nominees they broke with the party to endorse?