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Nach Jahren des Hypes und Billionen von Dollar wird uns der KI-Boom also eine gekaperte Wirtschaft, eine korrumpierte Demokratie und eine zerstörte Umwelt hinterlassen. Man wird uns sagen, dass Märkte nun einmal so funktionieren: Manchmal geht es aufwärts, manchmal abwärts. Doch diese Darstellung verschleiert, wie Entscheidungen in kapitalistischen Volkswirtschaften tatsächlich getroffen werden.
— Grace Blakeley, 21.06.2026 Niemand hat um KI gebeten
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. In a trial involving 60 adults it matched two approved vaccines on safety and immunity. Gavi https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/fridge-free-vaccine-passes-first-human-trial-raising-hopes-hardest-reach
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"almost all of our modern towns and cities are formed out of materials that have been extracted, smelted, superheated or synthesised through the intensive use of fossil energy. Cities are, literally, monuments to extraction and emissions, the focused expressions of mining, burning, melting, sintering and moulding the mineral contents of the Earth"
The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future | Green building | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/27/the-flat-pack-skyscraper-how-wood-can-shape-the-cities-of-the-future
"Nobody Argued For Your Stack" by Ryan Carniato https://dev.to/playfulprogramming/nobody-argued-for-your-stack-51fj
Some more details on Cursor's Solid -> React migration, and some similar stories. It seems like a lot of decisions are being made on vibes, not on data.
@nolan The examples are mostly of such decisions at AI companies though, for whom there clearly are other arguments in play. I wouldn't automatically conclude that that is what the rest of the industry would be moving to.
The last two weeks I am experiencing poorer performance from YouTube. The videos I watch suddenly stop, and then spinning circle is shown, as if YouTube is buffering data, but then the videos never continue.
Are anyone else seeing this?
I am fully convinced it is not my internet connection, as everything else performs 100 percent.
@randahl Same problems here. It's been like this without fail for weeks (months?). Videos stop randomly. UI elements completely stop working — can't change videos, I can no longer control what's streaming on the Chromecast, playlists broken, wrong video plays, etc etc etc.
I can't imagine it's the Internet, other streaming services are fine.
I have a few favorite channels I still try to watch but beyond that I've lost interest, YouTube is too much of a hassle.
I assume it's the AI code slop
The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/
But what you really ought to read is this article about A/I's history, and what this means https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083/2
I'm concerned that the US government is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to its survival. Repost information about this broadly, and if you have media contacts, inform them of counter-narratives; there could come a time where the fediverse, or any decentralized network infrastructure, is a target as well if we don't sound the alarms now.
EDIT: I linked to the wrong page! The second link is now fixed :)
@cwebber the history link is down 😞
"The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary," EFF’s @jilliancyork told @reasonmagazine. https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/
@eff @jilliancyork @reasonmagazine
Does anyone know where to find Autistici.org? It seems to have disappeared from even the progressive browsers.
Exciting to hear JPEG XL is likely to ship in browsers ship 🚢 before end of year! 🤩
"A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it.
The site gives Israel’s position on subjects including the torture of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli war crimes and whether Israel has deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, all presented as neutral research"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda?CMP=share_btn_url
RE: https://dragonscave.space/@amir/117167369545843515
And apparently, the "fine, I'll build my own WhatsApp" movement is not limited to PyQt6. We've got not one, but two more projects taking the Rust route: whatRust and whatsapp-rust. Because seemingly wrapping WhatsApp Web wasn't enough. Now we need to rebuild the whole thing in Rust too. When users start saying "fine, I'll write my own" in two or three different programming languages, maybe it's time to take the hint. https://github.com/karem505/whatRust https://github.com/oxidezap/whatsapp-rust
La vaste communauté de développeurs de logiciels libres de Debian a discuté pendant l’été d’interdire le code produit avec des LLM. Pour certains, il faut bannir l’IA. Pour d’autres, l’IA est certes nuisible, mais incontournable, et, surtout, déjà là. Sur @bastamedia https://basta.media/interdire-IA-LLM-des-developpeurs-de-logiciels-libres-rejettent-intelligence-artificielle-Debian
@joannaholman lovely story - reminded me of this one I saw last year, about another man's work to rediscover the endangered flora of Sri Lanka https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/sri-lankas-plant-messiah-spreads-optimism-for-biodiversity-conservation/
😱 so "Search my posts" and month filter on profiles on #PhanpySocial won't appear now. Will be looking into this 🙇♂️
@cheeaun it should work if there is the from:me modifier. Can you open a GH issue?
I could start a feed of stories about cops using Flock to stalk and terrorize current and former partners and I would never run out of material. https://www.404media.co/florida-deputy-of-the-year-used-flock-to-stalk-ex-held-gun-in-her-mouth-did-a-nazi-salute/
I could start a feed of stories about cops using Flock to stalk and terrorize current and former partners and I would never run out of material. https://www.404media.co/florida-deputy-of-the-year-used-flock-to-stalk-ex-held-gun-in-her-mouth-did-a-nazi-salute/
That *is* David Cameron is it not?
Cities across the U.S. are building more tiny house villages to help people experiencing homelessness.
The number of these communities nearly quadrupled in just five years.
It is good to see something positive news from the USA, I just hope that this works and that it has cros party support so it carries on regardless of who is in the whitehouse, of course any scheme must also help people with any issues (health, addiction) but getting off the street is a good start.
LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No AI, Right After Collabora Welcomed It https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17433074/libreoffice-26-8-release #News
I keep seeing the same lifecycle over and over again.
Phase one: We’re revolutionaries. We’re different. We have principles. We have an idea.
Phase two: We just need to change a couple of tiny things... you understand, we do need to make some money.
Phase three: Psst... let’s quietly change this too. No need to announce it. They trust us.
Phase four: Let’s add a little of whatever the current trend is. Just enough to get more attention. Everyone else is doing it anyway.
Phase five: Hey, this monetisation thing actually works. And now that we’re here, we could monetise a little more. It would be silly not to.
Phase six: Listen, my dear little insignificant user. I know what’s best for you. Give me your money, your data, your freedom, and please stop looking around.
You don’t need alternatives.
You have me.
You’re mine.
@stefano alright though I am specifically saying I'm trying to exfiltrate people over to here, since I think someone has to do it. Admittedly, I mean, how many people came here from my efforts on Medium.
There’s a great Tim Curry reading of Journey to the Center of the Earth; unfortunately it’s only on Audible.
Too bad there’s no ways to enjoy this otherwise.
@thomasfuchs shout out to Prologue, it’s an amazing audiobook app. Do you have audiobookshelf setup or plex?
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