Patrick Nesbitt

@patricknesbitt
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Irishman in Sapporo, Japan
Githubhttps://43north.github.io
Obsessed with this quote from an AI bro who is under the impression that horses "can do whatever they want now" as a result of the invention of the car.

If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Disconnect

The Prime Minister of #Spain 's clear explanation of why thriving societies should accommodate #immigrants.

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'Challenges are not driven by migrants’ ethnicity, race, or language. but by the same forces that affect our own citizens: poverty, inequality, unregulated markets, barriers to education and health care.

We should focus our efforts on addressing those issues, because they are the real threats to our way of life'

#Immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/spain-migrants-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KlA.CxMN.hRCPsb53Mn6R&smid=nytcore-android-share

https://archive.ph/VtQS8

Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

In Spain, it is our duty to become the welcoming and tolerant society our ancestors would have hoped to find on the other side of our borders.

The New York Times
Just took a moment to quietly reflect. It was the worst. Never again

Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart

Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

People not in the Epstein files:

- drag queens
- transgender athletes
- librarians
- Black journalists
- “radical leftist scum”
- hungry family needing SNAP benefits
- workers on strike
- immigrants
- the poor
- the cast of Sesame Street
...

'What finance really is, is playing around with other peoples' debts.'
Spotify has demonetized 88% of tracks on the site https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-pyramid-of-inequality
Revisiting the Pyramid of Inequality that is Streaming Music

2025 annual totals are worse than ever

Dada Drummer Almanach
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.

The Verge