De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen wil in 2030 digitaal onafhankelijk zijn. Er zijn al diverse initiatieven in gang gezet, maar er is nog veel werk aan de winkel.💪🏼
Lees meer hierover in het artikel van de Ukrant 👉🏼 edu.nl/hjkxt
Cannot be emphasized enough that the US-led global order has been to America’s advantage.
Trump’s complaint is basically this: You all accepting that we’re on top, with international institutions and conventions tilted in our favor—because you benefit from this system too—was, like, really unfair to us, so let’s make it worse for everyone, especially ourselves.
This Has Been a Ripping Start for Equity-Linked Bankers in Asia
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Vape Firm That Boasted of $1 Billion in Revenue Sold for £76,500
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Popular Bond Bet Is Turbocharged by Simmering Greenland Tension
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Cory Doctorow es un tecnófilo neoliberal con un discurso con bonitas palabras pero sin cuestionar el capitalismo de base.
No es nuestro referente y tenemos reticiencias del concepto "enmierdificación" (enshittification).
Parte de su análisis es acertado, pero sus conclusiones dejan mucho que desear.
En frases como "Es la burbuja lo que apesta, no sus aplicaciones"* o "la IA es el amianto en las paredes de nuestra sociedad tecnológica"* se filtra cómo entiende una neutralidad tecnológica capitalista.
Dwayne Monroe, un analista tecnólogo, explica bastante bien el problema del discurso de Cory Doctorow**.
Primero presenta las tres etapa de "enmierdificación" presentadas por Cory:
Etapa 1. Las empesas tecnológicas, como Google, una vez fueron "buenas con les usuaries finales" y utilizaron el poder del mercado que esto les dio para dominar varios sectores.
Etapa 2. Empresas tecnológicas abusan de les usuaries para atraer publicistas.
Etapa 3. La empresas tecnológicas extraen valor tanto de usuaries como de publicistas para maximizar beneficios, por lo que la calidad del servicio decae pero la dominación del mercado previene cualquier otra alternativa a estas empresas.
El flujo de acontecimientos se puede presentar de forma simplificada como:
Empresas daban buen servicio o eran "buenas" -> Empresas abusan de usuaries -> Servicios enmierdificados
Este discurso cala porque parte de él corresponde con nuestra experiencia personal, pero presenta muchas asunciones que impiden una crítica mucho más profunda.
Esta línea temporal de cómo ha evolucionado internet no corresponde tanto con una crítica capitalista:
- La idea de que "internet antes era mejor" no solo es una afirmación abstracta, muchas veces nostálgica, sino que suele significar "mejor" para grupos privilegiados
- Las empresas en ningún momento fueron buenas, siempre han actuado acorde a la búsqueda de beneficios, por lo que nunca existió la primera etapa.
- Pensar que "abusar de les usuaries" es algo excepcional es ignorar que es el funcionamiento normal de las empresas
- El proceso que describe Cory Doctorow es simplemente la evolución del capitalismo, llamarlo "enmierdificación" implica que debemos desear volver a la primera etapa donde parece ser que no había capitalismo??
La explicaciones que ofrece Cory Doctorow sobre cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí no responden al problema sistemático del capitalismo tecnológico, sino que es una explicación neoliberal donde se mira con nostalgia una época de competición de mercado como muestra de lo que deberíamos aspirar.
Al final de la entrevista, Dwayne Monroe comenta las soluciones que propone Cory Doctorow:
- Estimular la competición de mercado
- Aplicar regulaciones para impulsar la competición
- Asegurar inter-operabilidad entre plataformas (lo cual es interesante pero esto no ataca al problema de base)
- Poder para les trabajadores tech (tampoco resuelve mucho cuando no hay un movimiento sindical fuerte y les trabajadores de sillicon valley - y en general - han sido acomodades y alienades en la industria)
Os animamos profundizar más en los discursos en contra del tecnocapitalismo, ir más allá que Cory Doctorow cuestionando también los supuestos momentos de gloria de Internet, que nunca dejó de ser un proyecto financiado militarmente fruto del capitalismo, cuestionar la industrialización, el racionalismo ilustrado y el pensamiento mecanicista, el colonialismo sin el cual NADA de esto sería posible y muchísimo más.
Si sabéis inglés, os recomendamos ver la entrevista entera.
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** Fuente: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=s1yrKiP…
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
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Video. Storm Harry hits Malta, Corsica and Catalonia with floods
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Video. Storm Harry hits Malta, Corsica and Catalonia with floods
Video. Storm Harry caused significant flooding and damage across the Mediterranean, with Malta, Lipari, Corsica, and Catalonia experiencing severe weather conditions.Euronews.com
La legge sulla montagna frana dopo le polemiche. Calderoli: “Entro domani un nuovo testo”
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026/01/21/news/legge_comuni_montani_polemiche_calderoli_nuovo_testo-425109314/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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La legge sulla montagna frana dopo le polemiche. Calderoli: “Entro domani un nuovo testo”
Dieci Regioni contrarie ai nuovi criteri per la classificazione. Il governo: “Oggi tra i comuni montani ci sono Roma, Bologna e località di mare”Corrado Zunino (la Repubblica)
Questions loom over future of Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy after China détente
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Questions loom over future of Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy after China détente
Although Prime Minister Mark Carney is seen as embarking on a more 'pragmatic' and 'interests-based' foreign policy, Ottawa-based foreign diplomats are wary about the potential for misplaced trust in the Asian superpower.Neil Moss (The Hill Times)
The Battle for One of the Richest and Smallest Counties in Texas
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1993: Web Browsers Add Multimedia and MTV.com Goes Online
Mosaic adds an image tag for HTML and becomes the first modern web browser in 1993. Soon after, MTV VJ Adam Curry builds one of the world's first commercial websites — not that his bosses care.Richard MacManus (Cybercultural)
Keep Big Tech Accountable! | WeMove Europe
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Keep Big Tech Accountable!
Big Tech is trying to get away with breaking the rules - again.Google and Musk have already been held accountable, but now lobbyists are pushing to weaken the rules that protect our safety, privacy, and money online.WeMove Europe
«Polarlichter über der Schweiz - Sonnenstürme könnten Schäden auf der Erde anrichten»
Jaaa! Wir warten!
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Jabra announces its new Evolve3 headset series
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Jabra has announced its new Evolve3 headset series, with two new models designed for today’s hybrid work professionals.
Amateur Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty
The Belarusian government is threatening three ham radio operators with the death penalty, detained at least seven people, and has accused them of “intercepting state secrets,” according to Belarusian state media, independent media outside of Belarus, and the Belarusian human rights organization Viasna. The arrests are an extreme attack on what is most often a wholesome hobby that has a history of being vilified by authoritarian governments in part because the technology is quite censorship resistant.
The detentions were announced last week on Belarusian state TV, which claimed the men were part of a network of more than 50 people participating in the amateur radio hobby and have been accused of both “espionage” and “treason.” Authorities there said they seized more than 500 pieces of radio equipment. The men were accused on state TV of using radio to spy on the movement of government planes, though no actual evidence of this has been produced.
State TV claimed they were associated with the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR), a long-running amateur radio club and nonprofit that holds amateur radio competitions, meetups, trainings, and forums. WhatsApp and email requests to the BFRR from 404 Media were not returned.
On Reddit, Siarhei Besarab, a Belarusian amateur radio operator, posted a plea for support from others in the hobby: “MAYDAY from Belarus: Licensed operators facing death penalty.”
“I am writing this because my local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide,” Besarab wrote. “They have detained over 50 licensed people, including callsigns EW1ABT, EW1AEH, and EW1ACE. These men were paraded on state television like war criminals and were coerced to publicly repent for the "crime" of technical curiosity. Propagandists presented the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR) as a front for a ‘massive spy network.’”
“State propaganda unironically claims these men were ‘pumping state secrets out of the air’ using nothing more than basic $25 Baofeng handhelds and consumer-grade SDR dongles,” he added. “Any operator knows that hardware like this is physically incapable of cracking the modern AES-256 digital encryption used by government security forces. It is a technical fraud, yet they are being charged with High Treason and Espionage. The punishment in Belarus for these charges is life in prison or the death penalty.”
The Belarusian human rights group Viasna and its associated Telegram channel confirmed the detention and said that it spoke to a cellmate of Andrei Repetsi, who said that Repetsi was unable to talk about his case in jail: “The case is secret, so Andrei never told the essence of the case in the cell. He joked that his personal file was marked ‘Top secret. Burn before reading,’” Viasna wrote.
Most hams operate amateur radios for fun, as part of competitions, or to keep in touch with other hams around the world. But the hobby has a long history of being attacked by governments in part because it is resistant to censorship. Amateur radio often works even if a natural disaster or political action takes down internet, cell, and phone services, so it is popular among people interested in search and rescue and doomsday prepping. Amateur radio has been used to share information out of Cuba, for example, and in 2021 the Cuban government jammed ham radio frequencies during anti-government protests there.
Cuba Is Jamming HAM Radio Frequencies, Operators Say
Amateur radio operators regularly communicate between Florida and Cuba. Last week, mysterious signals originating from Havana jammed the most popular frequencies.Jason Koebler (VICE)
Holds the falling moon within
Dark waits to blink back #haiku #waterdrops #abstractphotography #photography
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Wer nicht klatscht, wird geklatscht..
Damals ging ein Einzelner der den rechten Arm nicht hob noch in der Masse unter, heute filtern die KI den ganz fix aus dem Bild raus. 🤷♂️
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Comment créer un espace numérique souverain ? Pour la députée 🇪🇺 @AuroreLalucq l'UE doit faire le deuil d’une logique de coopération avec les US "qui n'existe plus".
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Reminder (or new info, maybe, for people who are new here):
You can follow people and put them on a list that's muted on home. You know, if they're interesting but you don't want to see their stuff all the time. Maybe they post stuff that stresses you out and you only want to look when you're mentally prepared. Maybe you feel it's polite to follow back but they post boring stuff. Etc
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true, good observation. For me, that's a plus. But I can see it being a negative for other people.
A plus because, e.g., maybe I still want to see their #mosstodon posts, but not their rage bait political posts.
But of course people can abuse the hashtags and we should be able to choose which rule takes preference.
Ci, którzy mają okazję znać mnie bliżej wiedzą, że beka z AI to standardowy temat rozmów ze mną.
Postanowiłem, że rozszerzę grono odbiorców tego na szeroko rozumiany internet 😀 Dlatego zapraszam do tekstu o tym jaki mam problem z „AI”
#blog #blogasek #yetiograch #ai #sztucznainteligencja
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Zrozumiałem czemu nie lubię AI - Yeti (nie tylko) o grach
Moja niechęć do AI zwykle jest argumentowana „na bieżąco”. W pewnym momencie zauważyłem, że nie mam takiego „ogólnego”, głównego powodu niechęci.Piotr Jasiek Próchnicki (Yeti (nie tylko) o grach)
Weitere Verknappung: Weltmarktführer verringern angeblich NAND-Flash-Produktion
Die Speicherriesen Samsung und SK Hynix könnten 2026 weniger NAND-Flash-Wafer belichten als bisher. Das verschärft möglicherweise den Mangel.
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#IT #FlashSpeicher #Samsung #Hynix #Speicher #SSD #Wirtschaft #news
Bessent Warns Taiwan Chip Reliance Risks "Economic Apocalypse"
Bessent Warns Taiwan Chip Reliance Risks "Economic Apocalypse"
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on Jan. 20 that the world economy faces a single, outsized systemic vulnerability because advanced semiconductor production remains overwhelmingly concentrated in Taiwan, saying a blockade or destruction of the island’s manufacturing capacity could trigger an “economic apocalypse.”
“I would say that the single biggest threat to the world economy, the single biggest point of [...] failure is that 97 percent of the high-end chips are made in Taiwan,” Bessent said during youtube.com/watch?v=7PI8uCTV34…
at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 20. “If that island were blockaded, that capacity were destroyed, it would be an economic apocalypse.”
The Trump administration is pushing to accelerate the reshoring of critical supply chains—especially semiconductors and critical minerals like rare earths—amid ongoing tensions with China and concerns over potential disruption to global trade routes in the event of a major military conflict in Asia.
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In Davos, Bessent said Washington was working to relocate more semiconductor manufacturing to the United States, describing the effort as a national security and economic stability priority.
“So, we are reshoring the semiconductor industry to the U.S. with the defense contractors,” he said.
Bessent characterized major U.S. defense contractors as critical industry players akin to systemically important banks, which enjoy special protections like Federal Reserve backstops that prevent their potential failure from throwing the entire financial system into chaos. He urged defense contractors to prioritize building domestic production capacity over returning capital to shareholders.
“The defense contractors are no different than the systemically important banks,” Bessent said, adding that they benefit from government support and oversight much like large financial institutions. He said contractors have fallen behind in meeting obligations and should scale up U.S.-based industrial investment.
“They have let down the American people. They are five, six, seven years behind on fulfillment of their contracts.” Bessent said. “So I do not think it is unreasonable to tell them that until further notice, you need to build more factories and buy back less stock.”
‘Test Run’ During COVID-19
Bessent also described the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as a warning sign of what could happen if supply chains were severed by a major geopolitical conflict.
“I think the only good thing that came from COVID was it was a test run for what would happen if our supply chains were ever broken due to a kinetic war,” Bessent said.
He said the disruption revealed that there are about a half dozen industries that are essential to U.S. economic resilience and national security.
“So we saw that there are five, six, seven key industries that we have to reshore,” he said. “Rare earth magnets. We’ve got to get out from under China’s grasp. The semiconductors.”
Critical Minerals Alliance
Bessent said the United States was moving to coordinate with allies and partners to reduce reliance on China for critical minerals and mineral processing, warning that Beijing has used pricing power to undercut American and allied industrial projects.
“We have seen what happens when the free markets get kind of perverted,” Bessent said, describing cases in which companies attempted to launch critical mineral facilities in the United States only to be undercut by cheaper Chinese supply.
“The Chinese come, lower prices, undercut them, and then they’re bankrupt.”
He said that the Trump administration plans to intervene with pricing mechanisms to bolster domestic production.
“We are going to put in a system, price floor, price ceilings,” he said.
An AI server assembly station is displayed at the Century Trading Corporation booth during the Semicon Taiwan exhibition in Taipei on Sept. 10, 2025. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images
Bessent also said the Treasury Department was helping assemble a new coalition he described as a “critical minerals block” involving the G7 nations plus additional partners, including Australia, India, Mexico, and South Korea.
“We are working at warp speed to create a critical minerals block where we can mine, process, and refine critical minerals, and China won’t have this sword over our heads,” he said.
When asked when the United States could become independent in terms of refining critical minerals, Bessent estimated the timeline at “18 to 24 months,” pointing to early progress in domestic rare earth magnet manufacturing.
“I went down about two months ago to my home state of South Carolina, and in South Carolina for the first time in 25 years, there’s a producer there who made rare earth magnets,” he said.
Rare earth magnets are displayed in the showroom at Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co. in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, on May 5, 2010. Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Bessent said producers believed that they could fulfill most of the rare earth magnet needs for the United States within two years.
“And then we also want to help our allies, because the supply chain is important,” Bessent added.
Bessent’s Davos comments echoed warnings he has x.com/stevehou/status/20034725…
previously about Taiwan’s dominance in high-end chip manufacturing.
In an appearance on the All-In Podcast in December, Bessent said he viewed the concentration as the top economic risk to the United States and the global economy.
His latest warning comes days after the U.S. Commerce Department theepochtimes.com/china/us-tai…
a major U.S.–Taiwan chips deal intended to expand manufacturing and supply chain investment in the United States.
The Trump administration’s push to reshore manufacturing and coordinate supply chains has unfolded alongside broader U.S.–China tensions over semiconductors, technology exports, and industrial subsidies.
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Bessent Warns Taiwan Chip Reliance Risks ‘Economic Apocalypse’
The Treasury secretary said Washington is racing to reshore semiconductors and critical minerals to counteract China’s leverage over key supply chains.Tom Ozimek (The Epoch Times)
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“We thought we had left all that behind, but now this moment in America is reminding us again of the Somali civil war,” said another. “But we are fighting. We didn’t come this far, make our lives here, to again be targeted and abused like this.”
“Somalis are fighting back, from homemade sambusas for protesters to foot patrols on the lookout for ICE.”“We fled a civil war,” said one Somali community member. “We are more resilient than they think.”
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Inside the Somali-Led Resistance to Trump’s Assault on Minneapolis
Somali Minneapolis residents are fighting back with foot patrols on the lookout for ICE and homemade sambusas for protesters.Fatima Khan (The Intercept)
Trump’s 'Board of Peace' for Gaza faces scrutiny
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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza faces scrutiny
Topping the list of concerns from allies is the proposal for nations to pay $1 billion for a permanent board spot.Shelby Talcott (www.semafor.com)
#SouthKorea #politics #CulturalHeritage
'The complaint stems from a special audit launched by the agency last November to investigate matters related to state heritage involving the former president and his spouse.'
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Heritage agency files complaint against Kim Keon Hee over private use of cultural sites
The Korea Heritage Service (KHS) filed a criminal complaint against Kim Keon Hee, the wife of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, with Seoul’s Jongno P...Kwon Mee-yoo (The Korea Times)
Belarusian government persecutes radio amateurs and sentences operators (life sentence or death penalty is at stake). Andrey Repetiy (EW1ABT) and Nikita Krasko (EW1AEH) were forced to publicly repent for the "crime" of technical curiosity and international communication. They were coerced on TV to renounce their own technical expertise as something harmful. Vyacheslav Benko (EW1ACE) remains behind bars alongside them.
Lukashenko's propagandists presented the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR) as nothing more than a front for a "massive spy network" designed to "pump state secrets from the air." Propagandists claim that over fifty people have already been detained and more than five hundred units of radio equipment have been seized. These men have been indicted for High Treason and Espionage. Under the Belarusian Criminal Code, these charges carry sentences of life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
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in reply to Critical Switch • • •sobre lo mencionado sobre google recalcar que siempre fue el mal.
La historia del garaje siempre es mentira.
El garaje existió pero se usó unos pocos meses. Google realmente empezó en la universidad de Stanford con $100.000 dólares.
En 2 años (2000) ya tenían el sistema de publicidad Adwords y en 8 años comprarían youtube por 1650 millones.
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