The other day someone posted a long Wired article about what it’s like to work as an AI “trainer”. Read that before you decide to give chatgpt even read access to your account.

Oh, that’s alright then.

What’s an ad tier? Honest question, I never used any streaming service.

Literal nazi, yeah, but in … checks notes … Nov '23 it was long known that he was off his rockers in a very right-wing way. And I mean widely known through his Twitter nazification and his association with the bigliest of them all.

Source:
A mom in a Toyota Sienna pulls a Cybertruck out of a treacherous sandpit

What 4WD truck is unable to get out of this?
The Toyota probably has front wheel drive only.

And who didn’t get the memo yet that Cybertrucks are notoriously useless in any real offroad situation.

Fuck Elon, Fuck TESLA and it’s a disguised blessing because it helps other e-car manufacturers get a slice of market. Yay!

Enshittification is inevitable. The only variable is how long it takes.

Cancel your subscription & come over to the Dark Side! (I do recommend learning some basics beforehand though)

Oh ouch. That’s not illegal of course but not a great choice.

(Since my last move I’m trying to run my server PHP-free and thanks to many Python applications it’s totally possible)

TBF it’s only in this screenshot, not on the website but yeah… it doesn’t make OP look good and immediately puts in question the “I got banned over emojis” narrative… and then what else.

Ah yes, the good old candyman tactic: the first one’s free to rope you in.

Homes for Ukraine was set up in in March 2022, less than a month after Russia’s full scale invasion.

Through a website, backed by an IT system, those who had a rent-free space in their home or a separate residence could to offer it to refugees.

In order to set this up quickly, then-Conservative government ministers accepted an offer from Palantir to build a system to administrate the scheme, based on its Foundry platform, for free for six months.

In a 2023 blog post, Palantir described the challenge of combining data from multiple government systems containing tens of thousands of visa applications and hundreds of thousands of accommodation offers.

Subsequent 12-month contracts were awarded - one worth £4.5m and another £5.5m, according to a National Audit Office report.

The report notes the Government’s chief commercial officer informed Palantir of his concern about the firm’s practice of offering a zero- or nominal-cost initial offer to gain a commercial foothold.

I’m not dismissing the work it takes to help refuges, but it still seems to me using Palantir for that is shooting cannons at sparrows. I wonder if they had other motivations beyond good publicity and what for Mr Thiel must be pocket money.

Mmmm, edible USB sticks 🤤

Thanks you saved me a click.

Google has been doing this with all kinds of (web) standards, and the industry has always obeyed. Fuck’em all.

It flows in all directions

“Accused of”?

That’s how this stuff works. That’s its purpose. Google is a data broker, as is most of Big Tech.

Fucking gig economy: all the extra work you put in - signing up for yet another platform, installing software, and waiting for the actual work to begin - all unpaid.

Weeks of waiting for the “project” to begin. Then suddenly:

My Slack would fill up with GO TEAM GO messages from someone who was just out of college, someone who has no idea that across the decades, people have died trying to establish labor laws that protect workers from the exact same conditions that he is now responsible for perpetuating, accompanied by numerous rocket ship emoji reactions.

Not to speak of projects that never take off.

The wages were dropping week by week. When I first started scrolling the contractor jobs in early 2025, companies like Mercor, Handshake, Turing, Task-ify and Outlier were offering $150 an hour for “experts,” $35 to $75 an hour for “generalists.” Today, Mercor says the average hourly rate on its platform is $105. But in my searches across the industry near the start of 2026, the experts were often getting $50 an hour, and the entry-level grunt workers were getting as low as $16 —less than California minimum wage. Contracts were now referred to as “sprints.” The work had to be done, asap, as fast as possible, for employment that might last 24 hours.

Here’s a screenshot of the full article

And here’s why I don’t even click on archive.today, archive.ph (also .is, .md, .fo, .li, .vn):

Every page contains (and has for months) this code:

It’s a DDOS attack on a blogger who dared to investigate who runs the site.

Further, archive.nn started altering archived pages:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Do not use it anymore. It’s not enough that µBlock blocks the attack, because many people don’t use it. Also you’re increasing archive.nn’s popularity.

Not everywhere.

Here’s a screenshot of the full article

I sometimes get the feeling Israeli politics are pretty fucked up. A bit like in America, but with ten parties instead of two.

A website/blog

I think my adblocker is blocking the site. Opening it in Tor Browser, enabling javascript, it takes 100% of resources for a long while, then the site is broken again.

Here’s the wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futuroscope