https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ5iy2RRrR4&list=RDW4O9BkTyEoQ&index=3

#gloom #80s #music

Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

Comments due March 6.

I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

This should be the mainstream #marketing position.

"Surely an Australian app, with an Australian founder, becoming the most downloaded app on Apple’s US app store, is a story worth telling? If it’s newsworthy for Euronews, surely it’s newsworthy for Australian news sites?

It seems not."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/the-meteoric-rise-of-upscrolled-and-the-australian-medias-silence-about-it/

#AusPol #media #censorship

@firesidefedi I like womm.live. Not only because it's short but also sounds like the call sign / initials for a radio station. WOMM

Folks, look, they can't make you watch. They can't make you read it. They can't make you use Tik Tok. They can't make you use Musk's Daily Stormer the Social Media SiteTM.

We can, will, and already have, found other places, sometimes even with familiar faces the rich nazis fired already. The entire nazi play to take over all sources of information HINGES on the idea that you will keep going back to the same wells after they spike it with nazi juice.

Don't.

The last day in Europe. Heading to the Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

‘I felt hopeless’: #Hmong refugee stranded in #Texas after release from #ICE detention

https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-detainees-stranded-after-release/

> Thi Dua Vang, a Hmong refugee fleeing religious persecution, was arrested by ICE. When a judge ordered her release, she was left alone outside the detention center. Her story isn’t rare, experts say.

The Damned – 1975 and today 😍

Top photo: Ian Dickson

Bottom photo: Sacha Lecca (with Paul Gray in place of the sadly deceased Brian James 🖤)

#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #thedamned #punkrockhistory

See, this — •this• — is what ICE+CBP are actually for under this regime. •This• is why they got a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.

It’s nothing to do with immigration. It’s about the would-be dictator having his own private military that:

- can be deployed domestically
- at will
- unbeholden to the UCMJ etc
- or disciplined military culture
- or any accountability whatsoever
- with unpredictably violent behavior
- applied indiscriminately
- to anyone
- so that the entire population is terrified of it

…because for them, the problem with Jan 6 was that the coup wasn’t violent enough and didn’t have enough weapons.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/steve-bannon-ice-immigration-agents-polling-sites-midterm-elections

@mekkaokereke @lan

Though according to this website, tuition fees at public Spanish universities are still two orders of magnitude lower than in the USA.

https://studying-in-spain.com/plan-your-studies/cost-of-studying-in-spain/

European LNG imports from key Russian terminal rise 8% year-over-year, reach nearly 1.7 million tons in January, watchdog finds: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/european-lng-imports-from-key.html

@edbott what incentive have we as a society given him or any wealthy person to do such a thing? when was the last time we rioted even a little? when was the last time a factory got smashed up? i dont get it... i straight up cannot remember the last time the public punished capital in this country yet everyone just expects or wishes they would behave? its bewildering

Schumer and Jeffries have laid out Democrats’ terms for voting for further funding for DHS, which is now operating on a two-week CR. https://jeffries.house.gov/2026/02/04/leaders-jeffries-and-schumer-deliver-urgent-ice-reform-demands-to-republican-leadership/
Some of these measures are, in the abstract, good, but we all know that the Trump regime cannot be trusted to implement in good faith. 1/

@randahl So, ICE will be able to stop people voting, even if they turn up, by arresting them and keeping them in detention for a few days. This is not good. #uspol

Assuming that the conference "Perspectives on Scientific Error" 2026 (also known as PSE8)
https://perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com/
has the #hashtag #PSE8, I am happy to report that it now also has a presence in the #nanopublications ecosystem at https://w3id.org/spaces/PSE8
In preperation for the nanopublications hackathon om 2026-02-13, we are going to use that space to experiment with the use of nanopublications for conference microblogging.

#openscience #FAIRdata #RDF #scientificerrors #reproducibility

The Democrats should be demanding resignations from Noem and Miller and down through the ranks of DHS, CBP and ICE before they even consider negotiating systemic reforms. 4/

JLR Parent to Start Assembling Evoque in Its New India Plant
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/jlr-parent-to-start-assembling-evoque-in-its-new-india-plant?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg

Brad Karp, managing partner of BigLaw firm Paul, Weiss, who led the firm’s capitulation to the Trump regime, has resigned due to his relations with Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/brad-karp-paul-weiss-resigns-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J1A.JI9V.e2eWHdyGMV9g&smid=url-share #LawFedi