New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116279688694409233

Can you name two countries that members of the International Congress of Mathematicians consider too dangerous and repressive to host them? Hint: one is Russia …

#Data-center cooling systems 4 years from now could require 697 M to 1.45 B gal. of additional peak water capacity per day ..

👉🏻 https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/03/09/data-center-water-spikes-could-cost-billions

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

• Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
• A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
• Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
• Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.

ChatGPT:

• proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
• uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
• Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
• Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.

Gemini:

• play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004.
• Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.

When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.

KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.

Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.

All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.

Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin

#infosec #privacy #selfhosted #foss #surveillance

15 Years of Panke Culture

https://pankeculture.com/programme
Friday, 27 February 2026

In February 2011, Panke opened its doors for the very first time. What started as a small independent space has grown into a vibrant platform for art, music, dialogue, and community.

February 27th, we celebrate 15 years of community building, cultural resistance, and a relentless contribution to Berlin's underground scene. Over the years, Panke and panke.gallery have become a home for artists, musicians, thinkers, neighbors, and friends a space where experimentation is encouraged, voices are amplified, and connections are created.

This anniversary is not only about looking back at what we've achieved together, but also about imagining what lies ahead. It's about everyone who has performed, exhibited, volunteered, collaborated, danced, supported, and believed in this space.

We warmly invite everyone who has been part of this journey and everyone who would like to be to join us for a special gathering. Let's celebrate the memories, the moments, the struggles, and the future we continue to build together.

Friday, 27 February 2026 · free entry for everyone

Come by, bring your friends, and celebrate 15 years of Panke with us. 💛