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.

#books

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.

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/

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...

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.)

As anyone who has read much about the authoritarian personality knows, the core of it is fear, or more precisely, "heightened threat sensitivity." That yields a desire for order and clarity, which translates it to deep respect for -- *yearning* for -- hierarchy. Authoritarians love hierarchy.

@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

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell

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

#AbolishICE #PunishICE

Good God, how many Apache products are there these days? Seems like I hear about a new one every week.

@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."

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/welcome-to-the-eternal-september-of-open-source-heres-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.

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さあTOKYOへ​​！！！

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

If the US ups its hissy fit and pulls access to US systems and platform. (if that's possible) Will this place keep working?

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. ->

高市早苗選前對食品類消費稅歸零兩年的政策很多人質疑那財源要從哪裡補。
她提出了一個讓我非常希望台灣也跟進的法案。「對宗教法人課稅」日本的宗教法人有很高的免稅額，一旦這個免稅一旦解除，預估有五兆日圓左右的額度能入庫。
宗教產業日本、台灣都是很大的黑洞，同時也是金流上的很大的灰色地帶。
中國的侵略（統戰）策略裡宗教是一個很重要的部份，透過宗教信仰很容易養成盲從的人，中國國內對宗教信仰嚴控，對國外卻也利用宗教體系去攪亂對手，課稅這件事情不是單純的收錢，而是得先明確金流，一旦金流明確化外國勢力的介入就容易警戒。

高市早苗這個政策同時對稅收跟國安有正面的意義。我非常希望台灣也跟進。

但，如同這新聞標題寫的，在日本這是一個禁忌，這灰色地帶的金流對政治人物也很方便，高市早苗在勝選後的第一波新政策就投出這個震撼彈，大概是要趁著氣勢最強、黨內反高市派系還不能大聲的時候一口氣把這個國內的大問題解決，坦白說這政策可預期的政治人物的反彈會非常大，就算在這時機也不知道自民黨內會不會有人反彈到脫黨的震撼彈。期待高市早苗會成功推進，也希望有她的先例在台灣也跟進

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2d5f497e207fe509d7a4e7221bb8476919bd0ebe

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116058913732177985

Like Simon said, don't do stupid shit like this.

My not so little weirdo 😻

“Hyperreality” was a 35 year long sociological experiment conducted by Université Paris Nanterre. The study is now complete, thank you for your time.

ランディングページに自己紹介を追加しますた
https://zunda.ninja/about

그 와중에 트위터의 실버버그들은 실버 차트에 아크를 가져왔습니다. 아크가 무엇이냐? 지난 수년간 실버버그들이 "실버 붐은 온닷!" 하면서 차트에 선그으며 놀던 놀이중 하나로, 초장기간의 가격상승 부진을 벗어나 떡상하길 바라는 구복신앙적 요소를 가지고 있습니다. 아크가 등장했다는건, 이제 슬슬 그들도 쫄린다는 뜻이며 언젠가 다시 올 초장기간 하락에 마음을 다잡는 과정에 들어갔다는걸 의미합니다. #발광

I Wrote a Scheme in 2025

Link: https://maplant.com/2026-02-09-I-Wrote-a-Scheme-in-2025.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948278

NetlifyさんのデプロイプレビューにはNetlifyさんのスクリプトが挿入されるのでデジタル署名の検証が必ず失敗するのわね🥺

きりたん誕生日再掲

@carlasCarla Souza These look like my fridge magnet.

Saw someone wearing a t-shirt that said pata lover and I was like "same" then I noticed it was actually pasta lover and I also was like "same"

다빈치귀여워서엉엉움

Typo of the day: from typo import Optional
#TypoOfTheDay

오늘 하락폭은 미국 고용지표에 따른 금리인하 연기 가능성에 무게가 실리면서, 또, 테크주들이 와르르 무너지는 것이 반영된게 아닌가 싶고요. 그런데 테크주는 그 와중에 무너지는게 거품이 아니라 AI가 테크기업 일자리를 차지할지 모른다는 전망으로 포장되고 있던데, 솔직해지죠. 그럴거면 AI주는 계속 상승해야죠? 안그래요? 그것과 별개로 마이클 버리가 팔란티어에 10억달러 수준의 숏포지션을 잡은 뒤에 팔란티어 주가는 주르륵 흐르고 있으며...(속이 다 시원함)

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritelyThe Spritely Institute ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.

We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.

I do not predict "the future of AI" because while I can confidently say that whatever the "current generation of LLM technology" is, it's nearing its limit, that does NOT mean that I can predict what innovations will move us past that generation. Truly disruptive tech is always a surprise.

Seeing people criticizing Gary Gygax (or any of the pioneering creators) for the 1st edition AD&D (or any early edition) rules' inconsistencies and perceived issues is like seeing someone complain about the original Star Wars film using models instead of computers for its special effects.

They were creating shit that didn't exist before. They had to make it up as they went. Everything that came after built on their blood, sweat, and tears. Show some respect.

/rant

The early Web had a quality that has been lost ever since: it was *simple*

Download #httpd , #netscape write some #html by hand and boom, the concept of a networked digital society is born.

It first started going pear shaped with #LAMP . The complexity of a full blown database was not justified for most use cases. As proven decades later by the popularity of #sqlite and #ssg approaches.

The final blow was when #bigtech got into the act. Immense complexity for the simplest things became a moat

it's that time again! get all four of our games as a bundle for the equivalent of one full price copy of kitsune tails https://itch.io/s/180112/kitsune-games-bundle-february-2026

kitsune tails is super mario bros 3 if nintendo had been brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in it, and kitsune zero is the prequel. defeat your enemies and steal their bodies and abilities in midboss, or solve push puzzles in adorable hat based puzzle game ultra hat dimension

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

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I’ve seen a lot of articles and posts about AI that use the term “like it or not” as in “like it or not, AI is here, and we might as well get used to it” and that is such bullshit.

Like it or not, ableism is here… like it or not, racism is here… like it or not, fascism is here.

No, fuck that, I will resist. I will speak out. I will fight back.

You do not have to roll over and accept the shit corporations and the existing power structure try to force upon you.

We can build a better world.

자다 깨서 보았습니다. 딱히 놀라지 않습니다. 평소의 실버 무빙이네요. 지난 한달간 계속 오르기만 해서 불안했는데, 이제 좀 안심이 됩니다. #발광