26 March 1920 | Jewish man, Hirsch Metzger, was born.

In #Auschwitz from 15 April 1942
No. 29673
He perished in the camp on 10 May 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Today a 14 year old wrote an email proudly explaining how they installed #postmarketOS on their Acer Chromebook, and asking if I could send some stickers to their postal address. I invited them to #FrOSCon (where they could get a lot of stickers!), since that's a family-friendly event, and otherwise said I would try. They replied very happy to get a reply from a pmOS maintainer, and "see you in Sankt Augustin".

I'm just so happy I made the day of this kid :D

OpenAI's sudden discontinuation of its video model #Sora, just a few months after a spectacular deal with Disney, shows just how little these AI companies care about their so-called products. AI video apps, to quote @hito Steyerl, are «onboarding tools» — their purpose is more ideological than commercial.

Rather than offering revenue-generating services (OpenAI is burning money with every single Sora generated clip), these apps are designed to accustom us to a world in which so-called generative AI seems inevitable — and to provide investors with impressive demonstrations of these models' performance.

In other words, companies like OpenAI do not develop consumer products; they merely launch demos that can be retracted once they have fulfilled their purpose. Never mind that, in the meantime, they are flooding our media landscape with a deluge of #slop and destroying entire cultural sectors in the process.

Paul Krugman:

"When officers of a company or people close to them exploit confidential information for personal financial gain, that’s (illegal) insider trading. But we have another word for situations in which people with access to confidential info regarding national security exploit that info for profit. That word is “treason.”

There’s a broader lesson here: You can’t trust a corrupt govt to protect national security. And our govt is now utterly corrupt."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets?r=4bv4c
#UsPol

A popular Python library just became a backdoor to your entire machine

https://www.xda-developers.com/popular-python-library-backdoor-machine/

It's one of the most popular Python libraries for interacting with large language models [...] It has over 40,000 stars on GitHub, and it's an important dependency in a lot of AI tooling. It's also been compromised on PyPI, and the malicious versions are stealing everything they can find on your machine.

Sorry but... 🍿

Yet again, USA:

Require that Congress end all of this, #ImpeachRubio, and #ImpeachTrump.

QT Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com‬
2026 March 23

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening:

https://bsky.app/profile/austinkocher.com/post/3mhr54qb6ns2m

Great post about the Project Hail Mary movie:

"Competent people overcome their differences to work together—that’s really the perfect movie for 2026.

Competency, science, countries working together toward a vital common goal, get to know the stranger so as not to be afraid of it anymore...
It's an antidote."

https://bsky.app/profile/thespaceshipper.com/post/3mhq46qvbcd2q