Welche Gemeinden welche Mailprovider haben...Die Karte müsste aber viel mehr rot sein. Denn es ist davon auszugehen, dass sehr oft Gateways von Schweizer Unternehmen "dazwischengeschaltet" werden für Filterung...bevor die Mail dann auf den Microsoft Servern landen.

https://mxmap.ch/

In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @Mer__edith's stewardship.

In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?

The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.

It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.

California has a lot to fucking answer for.

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

@alex e io siamo al settimo cielo per la traduzione in Italiano del nostro libro "The AI Con"; "L’inganno dell’intelligenza artificiale" sarà disponibile il 17 Marzo!

https://fazieditore.it/libro/9791259678447

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Alex and I are over the moon to announce that the Italian translation of "The AI Con" will be available from March 17!

How tenaciously Palantir courted Switzerland

The controversial tech company Palantir provides surveillance technology to militaries and intelligence services around the world.

In Switzerland, however, its pitches have been rejected by both government authorities and the army. Internal documents have now revealed why.

Our articles from December 2025 finally available in english and paywall-free!

Because of THIS article (there is another one) Palantir is suing us.

Please read and spread it. And if you want donate and support us, you can donate us for this specific article without subscribing.

We are commited to journalistic standards, we have a huge documentation and provided lots of evidence to the court.

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

Our story in the GUARDIAN!!!

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UK MPs have raised concerns about the government’s contracts with Palantir after an investigation published in Switzerland highlighted allegations about the suitability and security of its products.

The investigation by the Zurich-based research collective WAV and the Swiss online magazine Republik details Palantir’s efforts, over the course of seven years, to sell its products to Swiss federal agencies.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/22/mps-question-uk-palantir-contracts-security-concerns-investigation

95% of the time all you need to know about git is add, commit, push, and pull. maybe log if you want to see a list of commits

but then the other 5% of the time it’s suddenly like

and I’m like “uhh uhh uhh” *frantically googles and copy-pastes a command that looks like git refdraft -qXR hdd::~475.2* “phew! that either fixed it or corrupted everything!”

version control is the best