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ICE detention isn’t just numbers; it’s geography. 237 facilities nationwide. Network roughly doubled. Now fully mapped at DetentionReports.com, with facility comparisons and contract archives. See the system.
Learn more about it on my substack: https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-source-of-ice-detention
ICE detention isn’t just numbers; it’s geography. 237 facilities nationwide. Network roughly doubled. Now fully mapped at DetentionReports.com, with facility comparisons and contract archives. See the system.
Learn more about it on my substack: https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-source-of-ice-detention
Rust 1.93.1 has been released.
This point release fixes three regressions that slipped into in Rust 1.93.0: an internal compiler error affecting rustfmt, a false positive in a clippy lint, and an issue with the wasm32-wasip2 target.
See the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/12/Rust-1.93.1/
Compaq Portable SLT/286
Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. 😜
Storing Image Data As Analog Audio
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/storing-image-data-as-analog-audio/
Toronto people, do you know of groups that are interested in donations of perfectly good non-expired (or even expired) N95 masks? I have some I'm not going to use for various reasons¹ that I'd like to deal with before they expire. Bonus points if the group is downtown.
¹ eg I decided I liked 3M Aura 9210s better than 9205s because of the straps, before I finished off my box of 9205s.
Photo by friend of gecko on bromeliad
Really glad we traded support tickets and documentation and knowledgebases for instead joining a Discord where the one extremely stressed out libertarian developer with the anime avatar who’s been maintaining the project single-handedly can ignore my question and tell me to fuck off
Here are some books I love
- Fine Structure and Ra by qntm
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune / When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
- Everything by Greg Egan
- Rosewater by Tade Thompson
- Everything by Adrian Tchaikovsky (except Apt series 😎)
- Long Way Angry Planet/Closed Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- Everything by Felix Gilman
- The Outside by Ada Hoffman
- Steerswoman series, Rosemary Kirstein
- Accelerando by Charles Stross
- Raven Tower, A.L.
- Murderbot
Recommend me books
Storing Image Data As Analog Audio
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/storing-image-data-as-analog-audio/
Great post from Ashley Wolf on the “Eternal September” moment OSS maintainers are facing and how GitHub is trying to help. And we want your continued feedback! https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/welcome-to-the-eternal-september-of-open-source-heres-what-we-plan-to-do-for-maintainers/
さて起きる
How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage https://lobste.rs/s/3yq7cc #databases
https://turbopuffer.com/blog/object-storage-queue
ココア入りヘーゼルナッツスプレッド！
"Dad, people say we are a family of pyromaniacs, is that true?"
"Yes, we arson"
US Rep. Balint after reviewing unredacted Epstein files: "They are a bunch of sick fucks. So many people knew." She confirmed Trump lied about kicking Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. Other files show the relationship continued for years. #OpDeathEaters #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)
Link: https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989605
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
by Robert A. Jacobs
Yale University Press (2022)
In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety‑six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Cold War nuclear testing, production, and disasters like #Chernobyl and #Fukushima have exposed millions to dangerous #radioactive particles; these millions are the global #hibakusha.
I think our engineer 
@dthompsondave put together the right ideas here with our Brassica Chat demo: https://spritely.institute/news/composing-capability-security-and-conflict-free-replicated-data-types.html
This is a demo, but it's a demo you can try in your browser. It permits users to go offline and come online, it has a design for moderation, without anyone being the central host. Nobody is hosting it because everyone is; there's no logical center. And yet, unlike a Blockchain, information can be forgotten, you don't have to hold on to everything, there's no proof-of-whatever. (And it uses capability security on multiple layers, which is important, but we'll get to later.)
Furthermore, while there is a federated relay, that relay is (with the new E2EE work Jessica Tallon is working on) oblivious to what's happening. There's no server in charge of state. The logic of what's happening in the room is handled by the peers talking with each other directly. I think this is a solid design but all we have is a demo. Well, I'd like to make it not a demo. I want it to be something people can use.
Increasingly, we are seeing regulation and policies being driven by a coalition of two groups with differing goals: people with I will say, bad intentions to crack down on speech and communication between at risk groups, especially non-white and queer people. Who are, weirdly, teaming up with well meaning people who are upset at big tech for allowing terrible things to happen especially as engagement-oriented feeds have lead to radicalization of hate and other such things. And both of them are saying, "let's punish big tech!" Which like, great, I'm all for punishing big tech. Except...
Except, for the most part, they aren't doing it! Things like repealing Section 230 in the US won't punish big tech much at all, it'll make it so that big players dominate the ecosystem more because they are the only ones that can comply with it (a "regulatory moat") and in the process, they'll tamp down on content from more diverse groups (it's no coincidence a lot of these bills are being pushed for by fundamentalist anti-queer lobbying orgs.) And unfortunately, it may get a lot harder for smaller, community oriented and self-hosting groups to exist.
(Notably, even Matrix is recognizing this in their own blogpost about Discord stuff!) https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/
So first, let me focus on the user-facing thing I described before getting to the larger ecosystem. "Moderated chatroom with no center." What does that mean? And why is it politically important right now?
Increasingly, we are seeing regulation and policies being driven by a coalition of two groups with differing goals: people with I will say, bad intentions to crack down on speech and communication between at risk groups, especially non-white and queer people. Who are, weirdly, teaming up with well meaning people who are upset at big tech for allowing terrible things to happen especially as engagement-oriented feeds have lead to radicalization of hate and other such things. And both of them are saying, "let's punish big tech!" Which like, great, I'm all for punishing big tech. Except...
Similarly, activism right now is absolutely relying on end-to-end encryption; Signal is hugely important to activists today. But much queer community building actually still happens in places like Discord, and Signal is highly centralized, and let's be honest, "just host your own Matrix server" isn't an easy ask for most people.
I think our engineer @dthompsondave put together the right ideas here with our Brassica Chat demo: https://spritely.institute/news/composing-capability-security-and-conflict-free-replicated-data-types.html
This is a demo, but it's a demo you can try in your browser. It permits users to go offline and come online, it has a design for moderation, without anyone being the central host. Nobody is hosting it because everyone is; there's no logical center. And yet, unlike a Blockchain, information can be forgotten, you don't have to hold on to everything, there's no proof-of-whatever. (And it uses capability security on multiple layers, which is important, but we'll get to later.)
Now some of these ideas do resemble tech you'll see in other places, but a lot of it is happening in other areas that are closer to the periphery. 
@gwilsammy g and 
@expedeBrooklyn Zelenka are doing great work, for instance, in advancing work in very similar areas to Spritely. I consider this work not competitive, but complementary: we need multiple groups trying things out and collaborating right now!
But if you're saying "well why not just work on Matrix" or "why not add federation to Zulip" or "XMPP has been around forever" great awesome lovely fantastic those projects deserve support! But again, none of those are facing the particular near-term threats and opportunities I am talking about here. There are some projects nearby that are, and we *are* also working on convergence in some places (see OCapN), but we are talking about some ways of addressing needs that are, in the sense of getting in users' hands, fairly new.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @gwilsammy g Can't stop myself from replying since I agree so strongly!! These projects are all on the same side, and helping each other is a Good Thing™️.
This stuff is HARD for more than pure technological reasons, and having a healthy diverse ecosystem only improves our chances of a better world. There SO MUCH design space left and I sure don't have time to try every possible approach and definitely don't have all the answers, but I know that I want to see more of Spritely and Willow — and anyone else that wants to fight the good fight with us!
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993345
I spoke at the Maintainers Summit at #PyConUS 2025 and it was an amazing experience! If you have something you think OSS maintainers would be interested in hearing you should submit a talk!
https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/116059125290560069
just fell to my knees in Tesco
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/1012#issuecomment-3892219321
Please do not waste your time listening to, reading, or analyzing what Tom Homan actually said this morning. That man is full of shit, everything that comes out of his mouth is shit, and you don’t need to eat it.
I hope ICE and CBP actually leave soon. I’ll believe it when they do. They’re still out there right now. They’re still horrible. They’re still destroying lives •this morning•.
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Agreed that we cannot let up our vigilance.
However, I would assume they are going to another city to do the next iteration. There was LA. Then there was Chicago. Then there was MSP.
They don't have enough agents to attack multiple cities, but they are refining their methods. Like the Borg, they learn from their encounters with the us. I can only hope that other cities can learn from what was done here (I am SO proud of MSP!) and they can defend themselves as well.
Meanwhile, we still need to shut DHS down. To quote MN Senator Tina Smith: "We need to rip ICE down to the studs and start over." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/opinion/ice-trump-good-pretti.html
Good God, how many Apache products are there these days? Seems like I hear about a new one every week.
There's an enormous amount of money sloshing around the industry right now and some significant sliver of it is being allocated to real research. Stuff that we are not going to hear about because it's actually research. One of those tiny lab teams may well produce something truly revolutionary
@glyph Once had a friend whose *entirely valid* x-ray crystallography research was funded in part by convincing a new age crystal healing company that x-ray crystallography would help them sell more healing crystals.
GitHub: "Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers."
3ヶ月ごとにログインして確認しなくちゃと思っていたサービスのパスワードの有効期限が3ヶ月以下っぽいのを見つけて泣いています。もー。
실버가 여기서 더 오를지 안오를지 예측하고 싶다면, 차트보면서 선긋기 할게 아니라 중국 선전가서 소매 수요가 어떻게 되고 있는지 모니터링 하셔야합니다. 지금 금이건 은이건 상승을 이끄는 큰손은 중국 선전 소매시장이니까요. 그곳 수요가 얼어붙거나 일반소비자의 매입보다 매도가 늘어났다면 끝난겁니다. #진심
It is time to update our mental models about open knowledge. In our newest blog post, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson discusses the new stories we must imagine to keep the internet human and how to rethink our must fundamental assumptions about open knowledge in order to meet the current moment.
https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/12/how-to-keep-the-internet-human/
Photo by Dmitry Ryzhkov, 2014, licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Flickr, remixed by Creative Commons, 2026, CC BY 4.0.
ヒナは母である
母はエヴァンゲリオンである
ヒナはエヴァンゲリオンである
テレビドラマが映画化されてAmazonプライムで独占配信ってそれは映画なのか？って思ったけど、映画館で上映されないものでも映画の形式で制作されたものが映画って思い直さないといけなさそうね
Why does every clipart illustration Google use look so... weird.
Like this one for "No content available" in YouTube Studio looks like a cigarette sitting up against a flower
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adfichter/116057480580052663
Válka vedená technologickou autoritářskou oligarchií proti médiím dosáhla nové úrovně:
#Palantir nás žaluje. Nás, časopis Republik.
Malá švýcarská mediální společnost, financovaná čtenáři, založená v roce 2018 a bez reklamy. Neznám žádnou jinou mediální společnost na světě, na kterou by se Palantir v současné době zaměřoval tak agresivně.
O co jde? Společně s mými skvělými kolegy z výzkumného kolektivu WAV Jenny Steiner, Lorenzem Naegelim, Marguerite Meyer a Balzem Oertlim jsme 8. a 9. prosince zveřejnili dvoudílnou sérii o aktivitách společnosti Palantir ve Švýcarsku.
Díky rozsáhlému souboru dokumentů, které jsme získali na základě zákona o svobodném přístupu k informacím, se nám podařilo vysledovat prodejní kampaň v období sedmi let. Palantir se pokusil navázat spolupráci s mnoha federálními úřady, ale všude byl odmítnut.
Zjistili jsme také, že švýcarský armádní štáb software vyhodnotil a dospěl k závěru, že armáda by měla od používání produktů Palantir upustit.
Mezi jinými riziky se obávali, že data budou předána americkým úřadům.
Palantir není jen tak nějaká společnost. ICE používá její produkty k pronásledování migrantů v USA. Izraelská armáda IDF používá tento software při své ofenzivě v Gaze. Britský zdravotní úřad NHS se během pandemie stal závislým na těchto produktech pro analýzu dat. A generální ředitel #AlexKarp se vůči Evropě vyjadřuje nelidsky a agresivně, zatímco samotná společnost inzeruje „optimalizaci zabíjecího řetězce“.
To vše jsou fakta, která byla opakovaně ověřena a zveřejněna renomovanými médii. Naše výzkumy týkající se Švýcarska a Curychu jsou založeny právě na nich.
Kromě analýzy dokumentů jsme také hovořili s různými zdroji – včetně vedoucích pracovníků společnosti Palantir zde v Curychu. Použité citáty jim byly předloženy a schváleny. Samozřejmě jsme vždy dodržovali vysoké standardy novinářské práce. Před publikací jsme provedli důkladnou kontrolu faktů.
Společnost však nechce, abychom psali pravdu. ->
RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116058913732177985
Like Simon said, don't do stupid shit like this.
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