OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
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Obvious ai manipulation on the left. Original photo by David Batcheller on the right. Look at the wings, feather shape, head, neck and bill shape, lack of tail etc. This is way more than a filter and absolutely destroys the joy and wonder of the original.
So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.
IODA shows the Internet in Iran has been cutoff from the global Internet since ~7:00 AM UTC. The regime implemented a similar Internet shutdown when Israel attacked Iran in June of 2025.
Follow connectivity in Iran in near realtime:
ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/IR?f...
Les messages disent succinctement "help is on the way" et appelaient les militaires iraniens à déposer les armes, promettant l’amnistie à ceux qui rejoindraient des « forces de libération ». L'opération n'a pas été revendiquée 2/2
Alors que des frappes israélo-américaines visent Téhéran, des millions d’Iraniens ont reçu ce matin d’étranges notifications via une appli de prière populaire. 1/2
Unfortunately, people in #Iran are familiar with internet shutdowns. In the current state of emergency, this is tragic because people can no longer obtain news or communicate with their loved ones.
The shutdown began at the same time as the air strikes at around 7 UTC, according to data from IODA.
In Israel, Cloudflare Radar shows a clear jump in Internet traffic this morning as people followed the news. Traffic rose nearly 50% after 06:15 UTC compared with the previous week, a pattern typical during fast-moving events that draw nationwide attention.
Internet connectivity in Iran is now in a near-complete shutdown, down about 98% vs the previous week. The disruption began around 07:00 UTC, following reports of military strikes — and in past incidents the government has responded with nationwide Internet shutdowns.
Putin has appointed a new Kremlin commission on the development of AI (which Russia is lagging WAY behind in). Among the members: 74-year-old FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, and former Putin bodyguard Alexei Dyumin. (@meduza.io apt description: "old farts with big ideas.")
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
"Commission preliminarily finds TikTok's addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act"
www.politico.eu/article/tikt...
Pas besoin de neige pour être une station de ski qui fait vivre le territoire local. "On sait depuis longtemps qu’on ne pourra pas vivre uniquement de la neige."
rfo.ynh.fr/1c
UPDATE: Iran Internet shutdown
Continuing to see a small, but steady restoration for Iran as the country rolls out its internet whitelisting system to police connectivity.
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026
From our perspective, traffic is at ~25% of pre-shutdown levels (bits/sec).
X ceased being a public square years ago, and over the last month, it’s degraded even further.
A platform that enables the creation non-consensual sexualised images of women and children cannot be treated as neutral ground - and governments choosing to stay are endorsing it.
Enough is enough.
#Internet traffc in #Iran has dropped to effectively zero as of 18:45 UTC (22:15 PM local time), signaling a complete shutdown in the country, and disconnection from the global Internet.
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?d...
Iranian paths to the global network are even more concentrated now. The number of main gateways was reduced to just one in 2023.
As of 18:45 UTC (10:15 PM local), traffic to Iran has stopped as the country has completely severed itself from the global internet.
Why did the Ayn Rand loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump's bootlickers?
It's like they have all the pieces to the puzzle and they just don't understand how puzzles work.
Vous avez déjà certainement utilisé des services bourrés de pubs pour découper un PDF, convertir une image ou supprimer l'arrière-plan d'une image.
Framatoolbox vous propose une énorme boîte à outils gratuite et sans pub
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"What does cyber really achieve, strategically?" is a recurring question in the cyberwarfare debate. In this article for the Journal of Cyber Policy, I try to tackle it focusing on one of the most dreaded cyber weapons: Wipers. A few highlights from this study...🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wikipédia a besoin de nous
“Beaucoup de personnes ont le sentiment que Wikipédia a toujours été là et sera toujours là. Mais Wikipédia est fragile : tout repose sur la bonne volonté des bénévoles. C’est uniquement grâce à eux que ce projet tient bon.”
Un article avec des gros mots, des punchlines, des conseils lecture chez CFEditions, 1 proposition totalement disruptive qui va casser les internets, et 1 analyse de la bouille de merde qui nous arrive. affordance.framasoft.org/2025/11/le-w... Alors lis-le, partage-le, critique-le, alaqueuele-le.
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Vous vous souvenez des MOOCS ? Ce devait être la fin des universités, une révolution dans le savoir, blablabla.
Et c’était plus pertinent que les IA génératives.
Les IA rendent les gens idiots. Enfin, encore plus idiots.
Le savoir est accessible depuis longtemps via des livres et des bibliothèques et pourtant ça n’a pas fait disparaître les profs et les universités. Vous croyez vraiment qu’un générateur de mots aléatoire va y arriver ?
The FT once again siding with left-wing activists because 80%of the political spectrum has chosen to defend oligarchs and, well, common sense and basic economics both conclude that oligarchs are a nuisance.
