2 hours of crocheting #grannies with our #needlework club in the still closed museum, chatting in three languages about life and crafts. And we *all* were so happy that not a single word of the biggest a-hole of the world (beside some others) reached us. These moments are so important to focus on in which kind of world *we* want to live! We can't talk enough about *our* #values. (In direction to a certain snowy town: 🖕🏻☠️🖕🏻)
The controversy began when Disney’s official social #media account asked #fans for a “Disney movie quote that shows how they’re feeling right now.” Instead of cute Disney quotes, they got a thread of powerful, anti-authoritarian, and anti-fascist quotes from across its massive film library. Hours later, the thread was scrubbed from the #internet. The deletion has sparked an enormous #debate about corporate #censorship, the current political climate, and whether Disney is afraid of the very “rebels” it profits from on the big screen.
Eine Hektarfläche 🌱 #Hanf kann während der Wachstumsphase bis zu 15 Tonnen CO₂ binden – mehr als die meisten Wälder in der gleichen Zeit. Damit leistet Hanfanbau einen wichtigen Beitrag zum #Klimaschutz.
Hanf gehört zu den ältesten Kulturpflanzen der Menschheit und erlebt eine bemerkenswerte Renaissance. Die vielseitige Pflanze gewinnt heute wieder an Bedeutung.
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the “new equilibrium” of human nature.
The holiday season is almost over—just one more hurdle to clear, New Year’s Day. After that, it should be smooth sailing into 2026… hopefully. 🤞
We’re already 27 years past the imagined future of the ’60s and ’70s, when 1999 was the benchmark of what “the future” would look like. I’ve mentioned the show Space: 1999 before, because back then the year itself felt mythic—pure science fiction. Yet here we are, nearly three decades beyond it, and Moonbase Alpha is still just a storyboard dream. Nations have talked about building bases on the Moon, but it turns out the task is far more complicated than simply saying, “Let’s do it.” We’re practically back to celebrating the same milestones we reached in the ’60s, when Alan Shepard rode Freedom 7 as the first American in space, following the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
My guess is that putting people on the Moon isn’t the biggest challenge
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Good morning. 🌅🌥️☕
27 December 2025
The holiday season is almost over—just one more hurdle to clear, New Year’s Day. After that, it should be smooth sailing into 2026… hopefully. 🤞
We’re already 27 years past the imagined future of the ’60s and ’70s, when 1999 was the benchmark of what “the future” would look like. I’ve mentioned the show Space: 1999 before, because back then the year itself felt mythic—pure science fiction. Yet here we are, nearly three decades beyond it, and Moonbase Alpha is still just a storyboard dream. Nations have talked about building bases on the Moon, but it turns out the task is far more complicated than simply saying, “Let’s do it.” We’re practically back to celebrating the same milestones we reached in the ’60s, when Alan Shepard rode Freedom 7 as the first American in space, following the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
My guess is that putting people on the Moon isn’t the biggest challenge—though that alone is enormous. The real obstacle is getting the materials and equipment there to actually build a station. And then there’s the ongoing logistics of keeping a Moon base alive: oxygen, water, food… a constant supply chain stretching across a quarter million miles. A true engineering and survival puzzle.
Hmm… my thoughts wandered farther than I intended. All I really meant to say is that the fictional futures imagined in the mid‑20th century never came to pass—yet the years kept moving forward anyway.
“The future is not what it used to be." - Arthur C. Clarke
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” - Carl Sagan
“The future is much like the present, only longer.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
I know you're the wrong audience for this meme, dear followers, but try replacing the search engine #Google with #WhatsApp, #iPhone, #Android, #Windows, #chatGPT, or #Gemini — are you still laughing at the #people who use Google every day?
Extended support for Windows 10 ends in 2026. Don’t buy a new PC — revive yours with Linux. It's fast, secure, and help is available to get you started.
"results reveal a substantial #death toll from potential #future #extreme #heat events in #Europe. These results are based on historically observed #meteorological patterns combined with plausible twenty-first-century #global #temperature #anomalies, making them physically realistic storylines of high-magnitude heat events"
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe.
In 2 Wochen startet die nächste #PublicClimateSchool! Vom 24.11. bis 30.11.25 mit dem Motto “Mutig sein für morgen: Gemeinsam #Klima und #Demokratie gestalten”
Auch wir sind wieder dabei, sodass ein buntes Programm in #Göttingen auf euch wartet!
Die PCS bringt Klima- und Demokratiebildung in #Schule, #Uni und Gesellschaft. Eine Woche lang präsentieren Klimabildung e.V., Students for #Future Gruppen in ganz #Deutschland und viele weitere Akteur:innen ein breites Programm rund um die #Klimakrise
When I drive through a larger city, I notice far more electric cars than I ever see around my own area, where hybrids are more common.
Whenever I spot an electric car, I think it’s cool, but I can’t help wondering: what do the owners do when they need to take a road trip across the country? Most electric cars only get 250–300 miles per charge, with premium models stretching to about 500. Recharging can take hours, though a Level 3 fast charger can deliver an 80% charge in just 15–45 minutes. Still, I can picture a future where long lines of cars wait their turn at charging stations.
For everyday errands and driving around town, an electric car seems fine—as long as you keep it charged. My guess is that most owners don’t rely on them for cross-country trips. They probably keep a conventional car for that purpose, or maybe rent one. That’s just speculation, though; I don’t personally know anyone who drives an electric car. My nephew once had a Tesla, but
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Good morning. 💮💮💮
18 November 2025
When I drive through a larger city, I notice far more electric cars than I ever see around my own area, where hybrids are more common.
Whenever I spot an electric car, I think it’s cool, but I can’t help wondering: what do the owners do when they need to take a road trip across the country? Most electric cars only get 250–300 miles per charge, with premium models stretching to about 500. Recharging can take hours, though a Level 3 fast charger can deliver an 80% charge in just 15–45 minutes. Still, I can picture a future where long lines of cars wait their turn at charging stations.
For everyday errands and driving around town, an electric car seems fine—as long as you keep it charged. My guess is that most owners don’t rely on them for cross-country trips. They probably keep a conventional car for that purpose, or maybe rent one. That’s just speculation, though; I don’t personally know anyone who drives an electric car. My nephew once had a Tesla, but he sold it and now drives a pickup.
All that said, I know the future is arriving—well, it’s always arriving. Some might argue there is no future or past, only the present moment. Still, in the larger scheme of things, it won’t be long before electric cars dominate the roads, and internal combustion engines are displayed in museums as relics of another era.
I imagine that not so long ago, a cowboy on horseback caught sight of his first automobile and thought it was astonishing—though not yet practical. He may have wondered where one would even find petrol along the open roads.
“The world’s transitioning to sustainable energy, and there’s really no other way.” — Elon Musk
But not all hope is lost. There’s still the red pill — Linux. It’s not perfect, but it’s free, open, and community-driven. No forced logins, no corporate backdoors, no hidden surveillance. Just software built by people, for people. Switching to Linux isn’t rebellion for rebellion’s sake. It’s a vote — for transparency, for sustainability, for democracy. The blue screen of illusion can still be escaped.
Once upon a time, software was free — not in the “free trial” sense, but actually free. It lived in the halls of universities, passed between curious minds on floppy disks, shared in the spirit of collaboration and discovery. Hardware was the business; software was the art.
Then came a young man named Bill Gates. Fueled by BASIC and caffeine, he learned to code thanks to that culture of openness — and then, he turned freedom into monopoly. Gates dropped out of Harvard, founded Microsoft, and declared that software would no longer be shared; it would be sold. The age of commercial code had begun.
Microsoft’s first weapon was MS-DOS, a text-based operating system that quietly took over the newborn PC world through IBM’s early machines. Then came Windows, the glossy illusion — a friendly graphical interface that promised empowerment while locking users into Microsoft’s walled garden.
Like a corporate version of The Godfather, Microsoft “made offers” comp
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How We Volunteered for Digital Slavery
Once upon a time, software was free — not in the “free trial” sense, but actually free. It lived in the halls of universities, passed between curious minds on floppy disks, shared in the spirit of collaboration and discovery. Hardware was the business; software was the art.
Then came a young man named Bill Gates. Fueled by BASIC and caffeine, he learned to code thanks to that culture of openness — and then, he turned freedom into monopoly. Gates dropped out of Harvard, founded Microsoft, and declared that software would no longer be shared; it would be sold. The age of commercial code had begun.
Microsoft’s first weapon was MS-DOS, a text-based operating system that quietly took over the newborn PC world through IBM’s early machines. Then came Windows, the glossy illusion — a friendly graphical interface that promised empowerment while locking users into Microsoft’s walled garden.
Like a corporate version of The Godfather, Microsoft “made offers” competitors couldn’t refuse. DR-DOS? Made intentionally incompatible. Linux? Targeted in internal memos. Internet Explorer? Forced onto every desktop “for your convenience.” The result: a near-total monopoly achieved not by innovation alone, but by control, coercion, and corporate muscle.
Fast forward to today. Microsoft’s empire no longer needs to hide its power — it runs your computer, your documents, your identity. Telemetry, the friendly name for mass surveillance, quietly records how you use your device. With Windows 11, you can’t even log in without a Microsoft account — the digital equivalent of Big Brother’s stamp of approval. Imagine Orwell’s 1984 rewritten for the 21st century: Winston Smith doesn’t fear the telescreen anymore. He bought it, installed it, and clicked “I agree.” Even students are being tracked through Microsoft Office. Their learning curves analyzed. Their data stored. Their digital lives quantified — all under the illusion of “productivity.”
Steve Ballmer once called Linux “a cancer.” But history, ever fond of irony, flipped the metaphor: Microsoft became the cancer instead — feeding on the open-source world it once despised. Today, Windows happily integrates Linux as a feature, commodifying the very freedom it tried to destroy. Microsoft didn’t defeat open source; it absorbed it. Like the Borg. Like the Matrix. Like capitalism always does.
Meanwhile, the cost of this corporate control extends far beyond money. Windows 11’s unnecessary hardware requirements have already forced millions of functional computers into landfills — a quiet environmental catastrophe disguised as an “upgrade.” The planet pays for your shiny new taskbar.
The illusion of control doesn’t stop at your desktop. As Edward Snowden revealed, Microsoft has shared user data with the NSA — turning your operating system into a global surveillance node. When the International Criminal Court made decisions the U.S. didn’t like, its staff found their Microsoft email access revoked. That’s not science fiction. That’s administrative reality. And it could happen to anyone. We once feared governments might use technology to control us. Instead, we let corporations do it — and we pay a monthly subscription for the privilege.
But not all hope is lost. There’s still the red pill — Linux. It’s not perfect, but it’s free, open, and community-driven. No forced logins, no corporate backdoors, no hidden surveillance. Just software built by people, for people. Switching to Linux isn’t rebellion for rebellion’s sake. It’s a vote — for transparency, for sustainability, for democracy. The blue screen of illusion can still be escaped.
First of all, I would like to assure you that I am completely open to and enthusiastic about #technology. I don't believe that Pandora's box can be closed again. However, #AI will change our #society forever, and I #fear that no one is aware of the real implications.
A major problem with AI is interpersonal alienation. With every #online #communication, I can no longer be sure whether I am even talking to a #human being, and if so, how much AI that person is using. AI #advertising even shows us how to score points with the perfect AI responses during #dating. You ca
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The real problem with AI-generated artworks...
First of all, I would like to assure you that I am completely open to and enthusiastic about #technology. I don't believe that Pandora's box can be closed again. However, #AI will change our #society forever, and I #fear that no one is aware of the real implications.
A major problem with AI is interpersonal alienation. With every #online #communication, I can no longer be sure whether I am even talking to a #human being, and if so, how much AI that person is using. AI #advertising even shows us how to score points with the perfect AI responses during #dating. You can have the other person screened by AI and then respond perfectly to their wishes and hobbies. But is the other person even real anymore, or do they just want to manipulate me for quick pleasure and then throw me away?
Even when friends show me their #artwork, it could always contain AI. The perfect vacation photos or the painted picture. Even at #school, I no longer know whether the presentation is real or generated by AI. In the past, you could copy something, but you still had to make the effort to find good material. Today, AI does all the work, and I no longer know whether the funny introduction or the punchline is even real. Assuming that this is all real and true work, then I can no longer appreciate it because I consider it to be AI. This totally alienates me from my friends.
Our #society is based on understanding and interpersonal intimacy. To find your place in society, you need #feedback but also #acceptance. But if everyone optimizes themselves to the max with the help of AI, what is there left to accept? This will make society cold and apathetic, and more than “you have tried your best” is no longer possible. If someone does have a genuine flash of inspiration or develops something groundbreaking, everyone will just shrug their shoulders because they suspect it's the next AI #hype. This makes it impossible to reveal oneself to others or to understand them, which destroys a fundamental human requirement.
Before the AI era, #art was a form of communication for which words were insufficient. #Music, in particular, has the power to touch your heart. But today, I always find myself wondering: isn't this AI music designed to trigger these emotions in me in order to manipulate me, and isn't there actually a real musician expressing their heartbreak in this #song? In future films, I won't be able to tell whether humans were involved in writing the script at all, or whether humans even wrote the #lyrics for the songs on the new album in the charts.
We will be trapped in a #matrix where it doesn't matter whether you take the red or blue pill. Either something is clearly AI, or you can't be sure how much AI is in it. We simply won't be able to tell anymore. This is exactly what is intended. People are already falling in #love with AI or having #therapy sessions with it. The corporations at the forefront of AI want precisely this #dehumanization in order to #control us more easily and turn us into mindless consumer victims. #SiliconValley #ideology seeks immortality in artificial bodies, with the future of #humanity playing only a subordinate role as a means to that end.
First, they gave us a window. It wasn't perfect, but it made life easier. This window was then improved and made more convenient. This quality, but also mafia-like practices, allowed them to create a #monopoly. Ultimately, this led to a decline in quality and customers being forced to accept #surveillance, subscriptions, #AI, and #cloud services. In the end, the window was barred and made smaller.
But for those who didn't get too comfortable behind the window, a penguin named TUX has a #jailbreak ready. Floss is a jailbreak that allows you to always get free
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We all build our own prison ...
First, they gave us a window. It wasn't perfect, but it made life easier. This window was then improved and made more convenient. This quality, but also mafia-like practices, allowed them to create a #monopoly. Ultimately, this led to a decline in quality and customers being forced to accept #surveillance, subscriptions, #AI, and #cloud services. In the end, the window was barred and made smaller.
But for those who didn't get too comfortable behind the window, a penguin named TUX has a #jailbreak ready. Floss is a jailbreak that allows you to always get free updates and continue to use old hardware. This helps the environment and your wallet. But #BigTech doesn't want you to know about it and wants to keep you in #prison and locked in dependency.
Ultimately, everyone must decide for themselves whether #freedom is more important to them than finding reasons to remain in prison of their own free will.
We are bombarded with too much advertising / propaganda.
How can profits still be increased in a saturated market?
You can show customers advertisements on the devices they have purchased. For example, on the display of a refrigerator. Then I just won't buy that kind of refrigerator anymore. The problem is that starting tomorrow, those are the only refrigerators available for purchase. Then I'll cover up the display. You always have to confirm the update on the display, otherwise the refrigerator will shut down and refuse to work. Then I won't connect the refrigerator to the internet. Then the refrigerator won't start up for security reasons. Only when it has downloaded the latest update from the internet and a bunch of ads is it ready for use.
If you think I just made this up and that it's a nice Halloween horror story, you're being
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We are bombarded with too much advertising / propaganda.
How can profits still be increased in a saturated market?
You can show customers advertisements on the devices they have purchased. For example, on the display of a refrigerator. Then I just won't buy that kind of refrigerator anymore. The problem is that starting tomorrow, those are the only refrigerators available for purchase. Then I'll cover up the display. You always have to confirm the update on the display, otherwise the refrigerator will shut down and refuse to work. Then I won't connect the refrigerator to the internet. Then the refrigerator won't start up for security reasons. Only when it has downloaded the latest update from the internet and a bunch of ads is it ready for use.
If you think I just made this up and that it's a nice Halloween horror story, you're being pretty naive.
Local-only commands removal: We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE). While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use. Users will need to complete #
Local-only commands removal: We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE). While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use. Users will need to complete #OOBE with #internet and a Microsoft account, to ensure device is #setup correctly.
We must fight back against large corporations such as Microsoft abolishing our #privacy with #bullshit justifications like: "Users will need to complete OOBE with internet and a Microsoft account, to ensure device is setup correctly."
Anyone familiar with the command #console and the OOBE #command can be trusted to add critical #updates and drivers themselves after #installation, and even if they don't, the #update process will do so automatically after a while. Microsoft is just trying to use fancy words to hide the fact that forcing users to go online allows it to better #spy on, #track, and #monitor them. It is outrageous to justify this disregard for privacy by claiming that it is concerned about users and their #security. All large global corporations use similarly stupid wording to justify collecting #data about users.
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6772 (KB5065797) to the Dev Channel.
Changes in Dev Channel builds and updates are documented in two buckets: new features, impro
As long as we believe in their #stories, in their tale of an #ai #tech #future, as long as we follow their #cybernetic lead, we will go down with them when the planet collapses or in some camps
Whenever we start believing in our own strength & in our own power, we are free of them
Why artificial intelligence is not intelligent at all and is only called that for marketing reasons.
Admittedly, today's AI models not only consume a lot of electricity but also deliver results that surprised me, but also absurd errors that are trivialized as hallucinations. One fact that is often overlooked, partly due to good marketing, is that today's AI models are based on calculated probabilities. The AI does not really understand what it is doing, it only calculates probabilities. Admittedly, it often does this very well until a “hallucination” occurs. This means that AI can only reflect human knowledge, human perspective and human bias and racism. Everything is based on human training data and the AI calculates with which probability the human user would like to have which knowledge. Wouldn't you expect much more from real intelligence? I just wonder how people can attribute intelligence to this well-calculating machine? There are people who even fall in love with today's AI models or see them as real artificial life. Fueled by marketing that promises us a
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Why artificial intelligence is not intelligent at all and is only called that for marketing reasons.
Admittedly, today's AI models not only consume a lot of electricity but also deliver results that surprised me, but also absurd errors that are trivialized as hallucinations. One fact that is often overlooked, partly due to good marketing, is that today's AI models are based on calculated probabilities. The AI does not really understand what it is doing, it only calculates probabilities. Admittedly, it often does this very well until a “hallucination” occurs. This means that AI can only reflect human knowledge, human perspective and human bias and racism. Everything is based on human training data and the AI calculates with which probability the human user would like to have which knowledge. Wouldn't you expect much more from real intelligence? I just wonder how people can attribute intelligence to this well-calculating machine? There are people who even fall in love with today's AI models or see them as real artificial life. Fueled by marketing that promises us a real super intelligence in the near future in order to get even more venture capital to maintain the whole hoax, which devours vast sums of money in data centers and electricity. Another more serious problem in my view is that today's AI models are destroying the jobs that we need to continue creating good training material for AIs. Today's AIs can easily replace graphic designers, translators, authors, musicians and poets. As a result, the internet is already flooded with AI-generated content. This will eventually become the new training data, which will further reduce so-called intelligence. How a superintelligence will ever emerge from this is a mystery to me.
> Geedge Networks, a #company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship #infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in #Asia and #Africa.
You can’t spell #Art without #AI < whoa 🤯 wow 🤩 easy there li’l tinker 🙇♀️ thinker 🌀 …w’all just trynna be depthful keeping edged and dark like photosynthesis > Thank you 🦃 so much ☺️ then. Carry on?
