Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

Unsurprisingly, Bezos WaPo editorializes that with AI "the disruption of white-collar work might do a lot of good."
What AI is really coming for
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/17/anthropic-lawyers-technology/

Don't let them use this tragedy for their hateful agenda.

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#archaeohistories

I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

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#archaeohistories

"Si la preocupación fuera realmente la opresión de género inscrita en la ropa, el debate sería otro y afectaría a muchas más tradiciones. El hecho de que la diana sea exclusivamente la prenda que lleva la mujer musulmana racializada revela que el problema no es el patriarcado: es la jerarquía racial que decide qué patriarcado merece ser perseguido por el Estado y cuál recibe su bendición"

"La mujer que lleva niqab por convicción pierde su derecho a estar en la calle. La que lo lleva bajo presión familiar no recibe ninguna herramienta de autonomía real: recibe una multa. En ninguno de los dos casos el Estado actúa como garante de su libertad"

@alex y yo estamos súper emocionadas porque la traducción al español de "The AI Con", La estafa de la IA, estará disponible el 18 de febrero.

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@alex and I are over the moon that the Spanish translation of The AI Con, La estafa de la IA, will be available on February 18!

https://www.planetadelibros.cl/libro-la-estafa-de-la-ia/442664

People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google's Play store, without having to:

* pay Google
* give government ID to Google
* agree to Google terms and conditions

People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google's Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops.

e.g. via F-Droid.

We've got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

I heard Donald Trump doesn't want anyone to see this interview of a Texas Democrat.

The Trump FCC has threatened every show State Rep. James Talarico goes on and this week it was The Late Show's turn in the hot seat. The FCC forced this interview off the airwaves.

We probably should watch it if Trump hates this politician so much.

https://youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

#JamesTalarico #Texas #Trump #TheLateShow #stephencolbert #USPol #1A #christianity

Se están matando mujeres todas las semanas.
Se están comprando viviendas para ponerlas en alquiler a precios desorbitados.
Se están dando citas de atención primaria a más de dos semanas de plazo.
Se están multiplicando los tiempos en las listas de espera quirúrgicas y de especialista.
Se están permitiendo chiringuitos que dan títulos como si fueran universidades de verdad mientras las universidades públicas están tan mal financiadas que van a tener que cerrar titulaciones.

¿Y vamos a hablar de problemas que no existen como la okupación o la ropa que llevan las mujeres?

#prioridades #aLoImportante #agenda

And yes, the orbital AI datacenter thing is real, and 2 companies that I know of have already filed with the FCC for over a million satellites for this completely untested, fucking stupid idea. Fuck you, SpaceX, for one million satellites and using pseudo-religious language in your filing.

Instructions on how you can submit a comment to the FCC telling them that you also think this is stupid are here! https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/

El burka no es el problema: cuando prohibir se disfraza de feminismo
https://afrofeminas.com/2026/02/17/no-molestan-las-prendas-molestan-las-mujeres-que-las-llevan/

You know that “stop forcing AI into fucking everything” graphic that went around on here?

I bought the t-shirt. I get a lot of compliments on it.

The only negative response was from a friend who works for McKinsey. She read out the “everyone hates it” and said, “do they really, though?” as we stood near the check-in table for an event, and three people in line turned around and said, “YES!”

In our Inbox:

My 13-year-old son just said, “Mum, I think I have a good idea. The people in America protesting ICE should call themselves LAVA — Local And Very Angry. And lava melts ice. You should post that and see if it's a good idea"

We’re about as far away from the United States as you can get, here in Perth, Western Australia. But I hope the people over there know that even a young boy on the other side of the world can see when something isn’t right.

Emily, Perth

Imaginad todo ese dinero invertido en empresas nacionales o regionales que creen soluciones de código abierto que cumplan las necesidades de la administración federal alemana, así como la de cualquier otro que quiera usarlo (al ser código abierto).
#OpenSource #PublicMoneyPublicCode #SoberaniaDigital #Linux (1/2)
https://mastodon.social/@kirschner/116079079443812110

La alcaldesa de Seattle (sede de Amazon) impulsó un impuesto de un 5% para salarios sobre 1 millón de dólares para financiar nueva vivienda social. Esperaban recaudar entre 40 y 80 millones, como mucho, y los críticos temían huida de inversores. ¿Resultado? 115 millones y poca evidencia de huida.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftijujygccp4e3asfedtjl2s/post/3metj457bj225

El Economista:
«La industria de alimentación y bebidas reafirma su compromiso con la publicidad responsable»