Smart people don't ignore the risks of #COVID19 and other viruses before important events. These are the members of the U.S. women’s Olympic cross-country ski team posing for a photo Thursday, Feb. 5 in Italy. Not only are they wearing masks to make sure they can compete healthy, they are living outside the Olympic village in an off-site hotel during the entirety of the Games — a substantial financial investment intended to protect “health and wellness.”

https://fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-italy-four-years-after-the-covid-games-olympic-teams-are-still-isolating/

Tadaaaa!

„Die Grünen im Bundestag wollen eine Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen den Bundeshaushalt von 2025 organisieren. Union und SPD hätten darin Milliarden Euro zweckentfremdet und gegen das Grundgesetz verstoßen, sagte Fraktionsvize Andreas Audretsch in Berlin.Milliarden, die eigentlich in Infrastruktur und Klimaschutz hätten fließen sollen, seien "im Konsum und in fossiler Vergangenheit" gelandet.
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Gynäkologe wehrt sich vor Gericht – Er bekommt jetzt in zweiter Instanz recht und das ist gut so.

Ich sehe die Kommunen in der Pflicht, Krankenhäuser wieder selbst zu betreiben. Wissenschaftlich unhaltbare religiöse Dogmen, die auf das Spektrum der Gesundheits- und Vorsorgeleistungen durchschlagen, sind nicht mehr akzeptabel! Wer zahlt schafft an, wir als Bürger finanzieren auch die kirchlichen Krankenhäuser mit Subventionen. Darum sollte man umsteuern!

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/abtreibung-verbot-volz-chefarzt-lippstadt-klinikum-li.3380309

As much as I agree that Europe needs to break the power of Big Tech, Durov actually has a point.

Mandatory age checks will be the end of the open web.

“But the children…” is always the rhetorical device of choice to justify more surveillance. Meanwhile a pedo ring rules the world, with plaintext emails, without facing consequences.

If the EU is serious about confronting Big Tech, it should abolish anti-circumvention laws, as @pluralistic argues. Invest in open source, instead of wiring massive sums to Microsoft every month. And tax billionaires out of existence forchrissake.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-durov-over-mass-telegram-post-on-social-media-ban-plan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I wish every crypto miner a very broke as fuck

https://futurism.com/future-society/bitcoin-crashing-miners-unplugging-equipment

Democracy? What Democracy? It's all about the old mighty cold dollar... ->

"When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking.

The Internet Archive has been recording the history of the internet and making it available to the public through its Wayback Machine since 1996. Now, some of the world’s biggest news outlets are blocking the archive’s access to their pages.

Major publishers – including The Guardian, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today – have confirmed they’re ending the Internet Archive’s access to their content.

While publishers say they support the archive’s preservation mission, they argue unrestricted access creates unintended consequences, exposing journalism to AI crawlers and members of the public trying to skirt their paywalls.

Yet, publishers don’t simply want to lock out AI crawlers. Rather, they want to sell their content to data-hungry tech companies. Their back catalogues of news, books and other media have become a hot commodity as data to train AI systems.

https://theconversation.com/news-sites-are-locking-out-the-internet-archive-to-stop-ai-crawling-is-the-open-web-closing-274968

#OpenWeb #Media #InternetArchive #News #Newspapers #Journalism