As of today, mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, gram.social, pixey.org, vido.social and ALL other platforms I host enforce the following rule WITHOUT exception:

Querides todes:

Nos ilusiona poder anunciar hoy que Neo Paquita se integra en la Asociación Redes Libres.

Si bien conservaremos toda nuestra autonomía e identidad, la instancia quedará legalmente amparada por la asociación, lo cual nos descargará a las admins por un lado y proporcionará estabilidad a la instancia por otro, en el (aún lejano) caso que alguna vez no nos pudiéramos encargar.

Si queréis saber más sobre la asociación y sus fines podéis leer más en la web (https://redeslibres.net) o en la cuenta de mastodon (@RedesLibres).

También como siempre nos podéis preguntar por aquí, en abierto o en privado, cualquier duda que tengáis.

A few nuggets:

"Part of what is driving the explosion of illegal mining in Tigray is the sky-high price of gold around the world. The United States, China and others are scrambling to buy up gold reserves."

"EAM said it “categorically denies the suggestion it is implicated in activities that violate Canadian, Ethiopian or international law.” [Yea right!]

"The chemicals being used to pry gold from the earth are poisoning the local land and water."

❤️ Thank you @bagder for maintaining #curl since 1998. What would we do without it, how long would it take us, and what code quality would those solutions have without you? Thank you so much! ❤️

...and how on earth would people be able to check the weather forecast without curl? 😉

(Please join me in thanking Daniel, and let others here on the #Fediverse know about your favourite ways of using #curl )

@ieeespectrum -

This supposed "crisis" seems to be made up. For example, where the article says "Research has shown that many readers today greatly value quick overviews of any article," the link shows something completely different: an article titled "In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable", containing no such research.

"When Apple gave Facebook users the power to tick a box to opt out of Facebook’s spying, 96 percent of Apple users ticked that box. So the argument that Facebook users don’t mind being spied on, I think, is blown out of the water when you actually give them a way to express preferences. And I assume the other 4 percent were either drunk or Facebook employees — or drunk Facebook employees — which makes sense, because I would be drunk all the time if I worked at Facebook." :)

This whole "OpenClaw" thing has made me very angry and I wrote a bit about the why. It's not that "it's AI": It is the way that kind of project invalidates decades of work and care in free software. "AI" software isn't just careless, it is actively rejecting responsibility and care.

https://tante.cc/2026/02/14/diffusion-of-responsibility/

Some 700 million years ago, #Earth would have looked like a blinding white #snowball.

During the #Cryogenian period, from 720 million to 635 million years ago, the Earth was buried by massive ice sheets that marched from the poles to the tropics.

Surface temperatures were as low as -50°C.

Because the bright, white surface of the #planet reflected the Sun’s energy – a phenomenon known as the albedo effect – the Earth remained locked in this extreme climate state for tens of millions of years.

This seems an unlikely cradle for #life, yet new evidence suggests the frozen #ocean featured restricted ice-free oases that provided a lifeline for our earliest complex ancestors.

#astrobiology #planets
https://theconversation.com/snowball-earth-wasnt-fully-frozen-ice-free-oases-sheltered-early-life-275240

Yet more climate dashboards on the Climate Dashboard Dashboard, your source for all the climate change sources you'll ever need.

Now with extra: IGCC, Climate Brink, UNEP and WMO

https://jjk-code-otter.github.io/dashboard-dashboard/

¿Os acordáis que Discord ha lanzado su "verificación por edad" pero que no pasa nada porque es totalmente seguro y todo se almacena en local y ellos no ven nada, trust me bro?

Pues OH SORPRESA resulta ahora que al menos parte de esos datos se enviarán a una empresa de seguros cuyo principal accionista es Peter Thiel.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

"There is among us a growing unease that something went wrong with the internet, that it is driving our society somewhere we don’t want it to go. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-doctorow-wu.html

#enshittification #BigTech

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00468-1

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

European Parliament Votes Over...

Australia's household battery boom suffers from the same walled-garden ecosystem lock-in that's been enshittifying tech across so many different areas Imagine what's going to happen when Tesla collapses under the weight of its own racism and bigotry, for instance......

Australia’s home battery boom ...

I've added the links on the EU-check page so you can see if there's some substitutes for you.

https://lokjo.com/eu

#europe #substitutes #goodnews #eu

Why is the sky blue?

but we’ll go deep enough that, by the time you finish, you can predict what color the sky will be on other planets.

https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/

RE: https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-9bd2470f-6d94c00a1c66fa41

Una belleza el lanzamiento del Ariane 6 con cuatro propulsores. Al menos me queda ESA para emocionarme con el espacio.

Puede verse en su canal de youtube https://youtu.be/XGBibC67i7k

#ESA #Ariane6

What neuroscientist Anil Seth says in the linked video is very relevant to the previous toot. Although I would not use the word consciousness but rather human intelligence. His arguments would therefore be contrary to the idea that LLMs have human intelligence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOsrr8xc5OE

#LLM #Intelligence

⚠️ The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X ⚠️

The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication. What initially intended to be a place for dialogue and information exchange has turned into a centralised arena of hostility, misinformation, and profit-driven control, far removed from the ideals of freedom we stand for.

Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251204-01.en.html

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

10 years ago today, we told the world

"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it!"

Relive the moment we shared our result with the world https://www.youtube.com/live/aEPIwEJmZyE

#GW10Years #OTD #GravitationalWaves #Astrodon