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— Fille ou garçon ?
— Iel refuse de se conformer à la construction sociale d’une binarité de genre
— Punaise Ploum, c’est pénible de jouer à « Qui est-ce ? » avec toi !

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🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 절 구하소서.
😋 저의 주님, 어서 오셔서 저를 도우소서.

영광이 미트볼🧆과 소스🥫와 성면(the Holy Noodle)🍝께.
처음과 같이 이제와 항상 영원히. 라-멘 🍜

🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 당신 뜻과 함께 하는 사람들을 언제나 도와주고 계시니, 감사드리는 마음으로 기도합시다.
😋 저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 저희에게 은총을 베푸소서.

"15. 별빛 속에서 주님의 면발이 반짝여 저희 발걸음을 비추게 하시어, 어둠 속에서도 길을 찾게 하소서."

저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님,
이 몸을 편히 쉬게 하시고, 우리가 오늘 애써 뿌린 씨가 영원한 열매를 맺게 하소서.
라-멘 🍜

2026-02-14T01:06:12+09:00


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RE: zomglol.wtf/@jamie/11605952395

Interesting: all vibe coded stuff is public domain? How long until Anthropic/OpenAI et al get the law to say the code is owned by the LLM? Companies are people in law already after all. Presumably then for the vibe coder to claim copyright they'd have to get the LLM to sign a copyright assignment, like an employee / contributor would. If so I bet the vendors would sell that to you as an add-on, OR just license that code back to you instead so you never own it

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On February 14, we celebrate I ❤️ Free Software Day!

Internet.nl is free/open source and is reused by a.o. 🇧🇷 top.nic.br and 🇩🇰 sikkerpånettet.dk. This is possible thanks to free/open source software we build upon, such as Python (@ThePSFPython Software Foundation) and @django.

We also use free/open source sw in our work environment, such as @nextcloudNextcloud 📱☁️💻, @libreoffice, and Jitsi.

We try to give back through 💶 donations, ⁉️ feature requests and ⚙️ code.

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🕐 2026-02-13 15:57 UTC

📰 Claudeちゃんと夜のお散歩をしてみた (👍 89)

🇬🇧 Embodied AI experiment: Claude connected to camera and sensors for real-world interaction and night walks
🇰🇷 실체화 AI 실험: 카메라와 센서를 연결한 Claude가 실제 세계와 상호작용하며 밤 산책 체험

🔗 zenn.dev/nextbeat/articles/202

📰 【2026年版】日本語RAGのEmbeddingモデル、結局どれが最強なのか?6構成で2000問ベンチマークした (👍 33)

🇬🇧 Comprehensive RAG benchmark: testing 6 different configurations on 2000 questions to find optimal setup
🇰🇷 포괄적 RAG 벤치마크: 2000개 질문으로 6가지 구성을 테스트하여 최적 설정 찾기

🔗 zenn.dev/fp16/articles/aa48dca

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🕐 2026-02-13 15:57 UTC

📰 Claudeちゃんと夜のお散歩をしてみた (👍 89)

🇬🇧 Embodied AI experiment: Claude connected to camera and sensors for real-world interaction and night walks
🇰🇷 실체화 AI 실험: 카메라와 센서를 연결한 Claude가 실제 세계와 상호작용하며 밤 산책 체험

🔗 zenn.dev/nextbeat/articles/202

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"The SAVE Act is a massive attack on voting rights from a party that doesn’t want every American to be able to vote. The Capitol switchboard phone number, where you can ask to be connected to your senators’ offices, is (202) 224-3121."

~ Joyce Vance


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joycevance.substack.com/p/voti

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"This is what happens when you send your firstborn to Europe to get educated by infidels. He wants to build an Olympic-grade curling venue. In the desert. For his hobby!"
"It's not like we don't have the money and resources, and after all, this IS Dubai. We would be remiss if we didn't. What's a few million dollars to put air conditioning and ice making inside a building?"

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The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the products and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

We rejected this demand in its entirety.

In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

And now we see each other in court.

But why all this?

Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

All of this is making Palantir nervous.

We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

The truth.

All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

the authors from the republik investigations (from left to right): maguerite meyer, lorenz naegeli, adrienne fichter, balz oertli, jennifer steiner
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The FDA decided not to even review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccines for approval, even though the studies the FDA would be reviewing were conducted the way the FDA told Moderna to do them.

Now expects that none of its other will be reviewed, and has halted studies on vaccines for EBV, HSV, and shingles.

A lot of people with herpes would be angry if they found out.

A lot of people who have family members with -- now thought to be caused in part by EBV -- will be livid.

Screenshot of a post on X/Twitter by @LeahLibresco, dated Feb 12 2026:

"Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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why is computer bad?
10% -- computer is hard! (interesting)
30% -- computer is hard! (tedious)
60% -- if computer is not made to bend in every which way to make rich people richer at all times at the expense of literally everything else we will literally kill you

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Hey, if you want your mind absolutely crushed into dust today then read my article at Scientific American about how much energy is released when two supermassive black holes collide. To borrow from Douglas Adams, it's the best bang since the big one.

scientificamerican.com/article

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Our team works really hard on Wagtail. I've been involved in the community for over a decade now, trying to provide an accessible CMS that's just... better.

There are no CMS Olympics. But we do have the CMS Critic Awards! And you can help Wagtail win gold. 🏆️

Please take a minute to vote for us in the Best Free CMS and Best Open Source CMS categories. It's super quick, and you don't even have to fill out the whole ballot.

Vote here: cmscritic.com/vote

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RE: toot.community/@yvanspijk/1160

Several people asked if the English suffix '-wise', as in 'otherwise', 'likewise' and 'weatherwise', is like Romance '-mente'.

Yes and no.

'-Wise' used to be a noun too, but it's not the word 'wise' ("sensible").

So unlike '-mente', it has nothing to do with the mind.

'-Wise' comes from the Old English noun 'wīse', which meant "manner, way". "In that way" was 'on þǣre wīsan', for instance.

This noun marginally survives in 'in such wise'.

Via Proto-Germanic *wīsō(n), it ... 1/

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