If you too want to feel like a billionaire or a CEO of a large company, we've got great news for you, just start talking regularly with an AI chat system, and you too will get all your preconceptions validated, no more hearing "no", no more arguing, no more challenges, it's always on your side!

When I see these headlines I pull up BloombergNEF's solar exports from China tool, and yeah, Cuba was the destination for $117 million (about 1.3GW) of Chinese solar panels in 2025.

This is currently giving me major goosebumps. It's neither drone, nor noise, nor ambient, but all squished together in a vaguely jazzlike sentiment that's very hard to explain. subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/track/tephra

Oh no new potential obsession

“It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?” Talk Talk’s The Colour Of Spring turns 40 today. Locating the turning point for Mark Hollis... thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Here the phrase is once again in something I've written. You would never agree to *choosing* to disbelieve a photo. That would be preposterous. But you want to disbelieve it. Well, AI lets you do that now. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

indeed it is, all things being equal I prefer my anti-capitalism in catchy song form

Nice blog that explains a bit why I start getting uncomfortable when OKRs get bandied about in companies.

Watching the winter olympics on and off and (as a German) am really put off by that horrible black eagle on the German team's everything. Makes me cringe every time I see it

Bin ich zu zynisch, wenn ich vermute, dass da jemand was von Uber zugesteckt bekommen hat?

Great upload of a 1985 Japanese concert film featuring Bachikaburi, Sodom, Kyah, Uchoten, and Laughin' Nose. Kyah in particular stands out: an all-girl punk act that just plain rip.

Since I've turned off the "use human like vocabulary" setting in the scrabble app, I've been learning new words. I play in German. Today's surprise is "greinen", which apparently means to weep, or as the Scots say "greet", surely not a coincidence

Relax your toes. You probably don't think you need to, but you do. Done it? Okay now take a slow, deep breath. Breathe out. Now relax your toes again. Because they still aren't relaxed. (Best single universally applicable piece of advice anyone ever gave me. It was from an astronaut)

One of my earliest memories, from when I was 4 years old, is when I had measles. I still vividly remember the high fever and the nightmares I had, of my toys becoming life size and chasing me while I got slower and slower because I couldn't breathe.

This week is your last chance to watch (or rewatch) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power before Netflix deletes it on 20th Feb. One of my favourite shows - animated or otherwise - of the last ten years.

This was due to it being state policy at the time to punish unmarried young mothers with the same drug which was used to chemically castrate Alan Turing. It is scary how few people know about this. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/t...

Since curling is on in the Olympics, here's an absolutely wonderful documentary on how the stones are made. youtu.be/lTjOoeR0iFY

Hier schön von ganz vorne erklärt, warum die Finanzmärkte die Mieten steigen lassen und warum wir also lernen sollten, wie man Bodenrichtwerte reguliert: Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig im Interview. taz.de/Ueber-Mieten...

Since the #Olympics are on, let's repost a classic thread here: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport. Content warning: This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.

Age verification has little to do with age, much more with collecting identity information. As always, it's about surveillance.

Nicht zu fassen: Die #Lesubia"-Studie ist da, jahrelang haben wir gewartet. Die erste Studie zu #GewaltgegenFrauen seit 2004 - die aber unter Innenminister Seehofer anno dazumal nicht so heißen durfte. Die erste empirische Studie in Deutschland auch zu #DigitaleGewalt. Lange überfällig.

Post a banger that isn’t in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrb8...

Versuche ab und zu Olympics auf Eurosport DE zu gucken. Meist gebe ich schnell wieder auf, weil die Kommentator*innen so super sexistisch sind 😡

AI is what happens when you teach children to dislike learning.

The banning of social media for kids comes from the same mindset that thinks refugees should not have phones. It comes from small minded and vindictive people, who require others to suffer, in order to feel superior.

Absolutely psyched to announce the March line up of PRESSURE Berlin at Club Gretchen. The Bug + Flowdan , Aba Shanti - i, Ed Rush(Playing a rare No-U-Turn set), and Lord Spikeheart ! Pure 🔊🔥🔥🔥 Tx for Pressure, 21.03 : www.tixforgigs.com/Event/71259

During Covid, air pollution dropped — but methane levels rose. Now we know why: a temporary spike in atmospheric methane driven by both atmospheric chemistry and climate‑related natural emissions. Here's the full story: www.esa.int/Applications...

As usual, men are displaying weaponized incompetence, in this case in displaying a supposed inability to understand the difference between individual women wanting to avoid men and having personal animosity toward them with structural oppression and dehumanization of women by men.

It should be relatively clear by now, why Franz Kafka wrote the stories that he did. They surely no longer seem as outlandish as they maybe did just 20 years ago.

Was not expecting the announcement of a new band signed to Metal Blade Records to be accompanied by this photo. (They're called Broken By The Scream.)

This is awesome. Techno that feels retro _and_ futuristic at the same time. Very very bouncy.

Kinda funny to see places that used to have regular freezing snowy winters now struggle, because it's been getting milder and milder over the years, leading to loss of preparedness, and thus knowledge of how to cope

Oh goody, a new era of nuclear arms race coming up. "Today marks the final day of the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia. It is the end of an era that began in 1969, when Moscow and Washington D.C. first launched the SALT I negotiations."

Absolutely fascinating (and rather concerning): just spoke to some classic educated German middle class boomers - the ones who still read the newspaper and listen to public broadcast radio - and they had NEVER HEARD THAT AI HALLUCINATES!! Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯

Both 'Anglo Saxon' and 'Judeo Christian' are pretty consistent indicators, that any topic they get used in, is a white christian supremacist one.

A few more because of course this is going to be the cover design of all my work notebooks from now until I'm over this phase.

If I remember correctly, there's a book by Ken MacLeod along these lines

Honest to god, I am so sick and tired of streaming services not telling you upfront what language a film will be in (or what languages the subtitles may be). I want to know if it's dubbed or not, in order to not fly into a rage when hearing weird unexpected voices

Forgiveness is never required. What IS required, regardless of the choices of the harmed parties, is the work of amends and repair by harmdoers (or harmdoing body, if institution or even -- ahem -- nation) even if what has been broken can never be truly unbroken the obligation is still there.

Between June and December 2025, a “likely Chinese state-sponsored group” compromised the infrastructure used by Notepad++ and served malicious updates to selectively targeted users. notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacke...

Having just stumbled over a Visual Basic comment, I fondly remember adding Lua to a product for end-user scripting, based on thinking it's close enough to VB for random folks to feel OK about using it. It was quickly adopted. Then got some comments back "Hang on, this is like World Of Warcraft" 😇

I need to get up early, so of course I'm having trouble falling asleep 😡

Zweiter Versuch: Welche Medien haben Accounts hier, die keine Paywalls haben? Würde gern eine (Bluesky-)Liste zusammenstellen für den bessere Nachrichtenüberblick. Gern auch englisch und französisch.

Es ist eine unglaubliche Erfolgsgeschichte. Seit ca. 1400 Jahren infizierte das Pockenvirus weltweit Menschen. Es gehört zu den tödlichsten Viren überhaupt. Jeder dritte starb an den Pocken. Immer wieder wüteten Pockenepidemien und forderten viele Todesopfer. ⬇️

📸 This week's #EarthFromSpace is a #Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the coastal area of Rudong County on China’s eastern seaboard. 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth

Who'd be up for a Judith Butlerian jihad?

Riiiiight, I posted a Youtube link to the American Youtuber IShowSpeed visiting a Himba tribe in Namibia and that got a "sexual images" label slapped on to it. I'm a gonna guess that showing people in their traditional dress is a no-no if that doesn't full cover women's upper bodies.

New pet hate unlocked in the office: people who don't dry properly their hands when exiting the toilet, leaving behind wet door handles

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