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Defeat as Method | Shahram Khosravi Thinking from within the ruins

Defeat as Method - Thinking from within the ruins
by Shahram Khosravi

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/khosravi.php

The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.

The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late […]

Anyone who's read (or, these days, watched) Dune will remember the scene when Stilgar first meets the Duke.

Think I just found where Frank Herbert took it from - an alleged Nuer practice:

www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

The AI bubble is ruining everything for us!
The price of hosting services is increasing because of the increase in the prices of hardware.
#Selfhosting

The problem with "green-computing" is the same with "green"-anything: its an over-promise and a slide into washing. Computing, will not make the world greener.
I prefer eco-sensitive computing, because that's what we can aspire to.

The US is entering the AI dystopia many have long feared, joining a number of countries already there. If the world really reduced to the US, China, and the EU, I'd be terrified now – what are th... The US is entering the AI dystopia many have long feared, joining a number of countries already there. If the world really reduced to the US, China, and the EU, I'd be terrified now – what are the ch...

It's happening again – I wrote a #LinkedIn post about how the US is entering an AI surveillance dystopia. It quickly got 7,8K views, 8 shares, 68 reactions & 11 comments, then suddenly 0. My comment on this has 9 views. This quashing of "wrong" virality also hit X… www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/ai-goldman-sachs-stocks-index
Goldman Sachs has launched an S&P ex-AI index, SPXXAI, which that lets you invest in the S&P 500 benchmark index minus all things AI.
This product is proof of the demand among investors for a way […]

"[..] Protocol compatibility is not cultural compatibility – nor should it be. There is no global town square online, and experience shows that trying to build one is a recipe for conflict. [..] The internet’s healthiest spaces are not uniform but neighbourly, many different gatherings, each […]

80-Plus Names Sign Open Letter Criticizing Berlinale for Gaza Silence
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/javier-bardem-tilda-swinton-letter-berlinale-gaza-silence-1236665382/

سينمائيون ينتقدون تورط البرليناله في قمع فنانين معارضين للإبادة: هنا الرسالة كاملة […]

Let's show our support to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, in the face of the governments of France and Germany, who are trying to take her out of her position based on false accusations and stark disinformation […]

WikiFlix is Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting. Who doesn't love free entertainment?

https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/

:loudspeaker: Job opportunity to work on safeguarding at-risk data & culture :tada:

Technische Informatzionsbibliothek (TIB, Germany's national library of science & technology) are recruiting a software engineer to work on developing the https://sciop.net platform for safeguarding at-risk data […]

A view from Hasenheide, Berlin, covered in snow, with bare trees. Taken on 6 February 2026.

RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116062846374023643

And remember: Peter #Thiel despises you.
Do not put money in his pocket.
Refrain from using #PayPal.

A online website in which I have had an account for more than 18 years is requiring me to verify my age!
How absurd.

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The World Factbook is Gone https://www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-the-world-factbook-is-gone/

So my translations of al-Dani's Taysir is out! So what is this text about?

It is a description of seven canonical reading traditions of the Quran authored by the Andalusi polymath ʾAbū ʿAmr ʿUṯmān b. Saʿīd al-Dānī (371/981–444/1053).

@phdnix.bsky.social I've always wondered why not use IPA?

Yet, both in the field of Quranic studies, and even more so in the linguistic study of Arabic and Semitic linguistics, this specific recension is treated as if it is the only game in town. This often yields to misrepresentations of the linguistic character of the Quran.

Is Microsoft's own proprietary codebase included in the training of their coding assistant LLM?

Woran erkennt man einen professionellen Reisenden?
Im #DB-Bistro bestellt er ein Gericht, das nicht auf der Speisekarte steht, und bekommt es serviert.

RE: https://mastox.eu/@FranceskAlbs/115983932629790950

I too, on both statements.

@kirschner @AleixPol @kde ICE14/29/36 here

قبل ما ندخل ننام، نفتكر أن 28 يناير 2011 أعظم يوم في تاريخ مصر الحديث.

Watermelon Pictures - Home Palestinian-owned independent film distribution, production, and financing.

Thanks, @hoogla_kalfat , for introducing me to Watermelon Pictures
https://www.watermelonpictures.com/

Friends talk about Upscrolled as a haven.
But, it's not open protocol, non-FOSS and non-decentralised.
Sorry.
I'll never do that to myself again.
No matter how heavenly it seems now.

Friends who are on #Bluesky:

Bridge your account to the #Fediverse
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-started

Let's stay in touch across networks.
The process to hook your account is easy.

Then let your followers know about this.

毁灭战士已移植至耳塞 Doom has been ported to an earbud (doombuds.com) 01-25  ↑ 104 HN Points

Doom 93 ported to earbuds
https://doombuds.com/

The US bought TikTok in order to keep the lid over its people who were being exposed to pro-Palstinian content that contributed to their understanding the truth of what Israel is.