#FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Economy #DesignFlaw

The idea of free markets means that supply and demand regulate each other via prices. It means that whenever a product's demand goes up, sellers will increase prices (then driving supply).

I think this is a huge problem. Honestly, I don't understand why this keeps being advertised as something beneficial. When supply cannot keep up, prices reduce demand --- by the simple fact that many cannot afford the product any more.

Basically, whenever something becomes high in demand, certain groups of society are systematically excluded from access. This is a broken design.

This systematic flaw is exarcerbated by the negative correlation between power and exclusion. Those who are being cut off are not those who influence the decisions.

RE: https://tooot.im/@zvinj/117536799108139302

English: At the #Jewish_Arab_Strength rally in Habima Square – the Purple Bloc of @omdimbeyachad
Photo: Ofir Cohen

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review

So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week?

• Something exposing: Massive data leak of USA Homeland Security / ICE published online — https://ddosecrets.org/article/icepick

• Something controlling: Greece passes under-15 social media ban, and every user may soon have to prove their age — https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/greece-passes-under-15-social-media-ban-and-every-user-may-soon-have-to-prove-their-age

• Something restraining: EU freezes national social media bans for children — https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/10/brussels-freezes-national-social-media-bans-for-children/

• Something diminishing: Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwg7xp8kx4v5o

• Something dawning: Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth — https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/31/googles-ai-satellite-sends-a-very-expensive-haiku-to-earth/5306818

Picard management tip: Time is the rarest commodity. Manage yours wisely.

#US #Politics #DataLeak #ICE

This is big: Group DDoSecrets (https://ddosecrets.org/ / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets) published a massive data set identifying more than 41,000 employees for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (e.g. ICE):
https://ddosecrets.org/article/icepick,
along with a search tool:
https://icepi.cx/
Comment from maia arson crimew, in WIRED (https://www.wired.com/story/massive-leak-exposes-41000-homeland-security-workers-including-undercover-ice-agents/, behind paywall):

"Despite the potential sensitivity of other records in the leaked data, the creators of Icepick do not consider it doxing. They see it as an accountability tool.

“The DHS especially as an agency completely lacks accountability, despite many parts of it being incredibly unpopular. The people who work there know this too, for example some of their LinkedIn bios simply say ‘stuff at US Government,’” says crimew. “If they weren't hiding their involvement in the repressive arm of the US government there would be no need for us to expose them in the first place.”

(thanks @jonny for sharing)

@2_Beers I absolutely love your avatar. From what year is this?

@bmv
Finster wars, der Mond schien helle /
Schnee lag auf der grünen Flur /
als ein hocheffizienter Verbrenner /
grad'aus um die Ecke fuhr. ...

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review

So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week?

• Something sweeping: Government websites go dark after AI-discovered PHP flaw sparks security scramble — https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/eu-agency-warns-websites-may-need-be-taken-offline-php-prepares-patches-2026-10-21/

• Something weakening: EU Member States approve “digital expropriation” for AI companies — https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies

• Something cold: EU plans Arctic data cable — https://www.heise.de/en/news/EU-plans-Arctic-data-cable-11496221.html

• Something pointless: Censorship ruling prompts DNS service Quad9 to leave France — https://www.heise.de/en/news/Censorship-ruling-prompts-DNS-service-Quad9-to-leave-France-11497631.html

• Something appropriating: Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees — https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/meta-may-use-sweeping-new-commercial-tos-to-avoid-millions-in-ai-licensing-fees/

@bmv Pardon, aber dieser Toot grenzt an Desinformation. Es gibt kein Verbrennerverbot. Die bisherige Regelung ist technologieoffen, die Verbrennertechnologie ist nur nicht in der Lage, sauber genug zu sein. Und rückwärtsgewandt ist diese Politik auch noch, sie stärkt eine veraltete Technologie und schwächt die zukünftige Technologie und damit Deutschlands Marktchancen.

TreeTime 2026.2 just released:

• Save and load snapshots
• Improved calculation engine
• Improved data display

→ You can now load and save snapshots by press of a button,
→ calculations are much quicker now, TreeTime uses fewer resources,
→ including stability improvement and bugfixes.

Download: https://codeberg.org/jkanev/treetime/releases/tag/2026.2 or from PyPi using "pip install TreeTime"

Official website: https://tree-time.info

#TreeTime #Tree #Editor #Software #OpenSource #MindMap #HierarchicalNotes #HierarchicalCalculation #DataManagement

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review

So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week?

• Something preventive: BIPM abolishes the Leap Second — https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5

• Something incomplete: Germany decides to introduce digital ID wallet for citizens prematurely — https://netzpolitik.org/2026/digitale-identitaetengesetz-verabschiedet-schwuppdiwupp-die-digitale-brieftasche-kommt/

• Something escalating: Eight states sue OpenAI over alleged ChatGPT risks to minors — https://www.heise.de/en/news/Eight-states-sue-OpenAI-over-alleged-ChatGPT-risks-to-minors-11488984.html

• Something overreaching: Social media ban for minors: German government decides on regulation key points — https://www.heise.de/en/news/Social-media-ban-for-minors-Government-decides-on-regulation-key-points-11488682.html

• Something reckoning: Character.ai files for bankruptcy following lawsuits alleging ties to teen suicides — https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/13/tech/character-ai-bankruptcy-filing

TreeTime 2026.2 just released:

• Save and load snapshots
• Improved calculation engine
• Improved data display

→ You can now load and save snapshots by press of a button,
→ calculations are much quicker now, TreeTime uses fewer resources,
→ including stability improvement and bugfixes.

Download: https://codeberg.org/jkanev/treetime/releases/tag/2026.2 or from PyPi using "pip install TreeTime"

Official website: https://tree-time.info

#TreeTime #Tree #Editor #Software #OpenSource #MindMap #HierarchicalNotes #HierarchicalCalculation #DataManagement

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review

So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week?

• Something affronting: We "did not ask for this" — mathematicians condemn OpenAI after bulk publication of maths solutions — https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-generated-math-solutions-Sharp-criticism-of-OpenAI-s-approach-11480979.html

• Something disappointing: EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference

• Something careless: Security company finds more than 8,500 exposed systems in Europe’s wind and solar parks — https://modat.io/blog/modat-research-exposed-systems-wind-and-solar/

• Something sensible: Search engine Ecosia switches to Chinese open-source AI models — https://www.heise.de/en/news/Adieu-Mistral-Ecosia-switches-to-Chinese-open-source-AI-models-11481432.html

• Something new: Chinese researchers have developed a material with bamboo that can absorb electromagnetic waves — https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bamboo-based-composite-material-blocks-electromagnetic-radiation-11482359.html

In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious about what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.

/fin

#AI #CompanyTalk

Developers in the olden days:
"Here, I've written this script for you. It'll fix that data issue you reported earlier."

Developers today:
"Here, my Lord and Master Claude asked me to give you this script. It will fix that data issue that your Lord and Master Claude has reported earlier."

Antisemitism gets a rebrand

#Antisemitism #Zionist #AmYisraelChai

Haben sie es mal mit ein- und ausschlafen probiert?

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review

So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week?

• Something late: FTC investigating OpenAI on ChatGPT data collection and publication of false information — https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23793911/ftc-openai-investigation-consumer-ai-false-information

• Something entertaining: Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else — https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/irony-alert-openai-whines-that-chinese-model-stole-its-special-ip-that-it-stole-from-everybody-else/5300285

• Something disappointing: Micron: Memory will be even tighter in 2027 than in 2026 — https://www.heise.de/en/news/Micron-Memory-will-be-even-tighter-in-2027-than-in-2026-11473292.html

• Something different: A New Kind of Model for AI Decision-Making? — https://towardsdatascience.com/a-new-kind-of-model-for-ai-decision-making/

• Something ending: Ransomware group Killsec busted: teenager named as main suspect — https://www.heise.de/en/news/Ransomware-group-Killsec-busted-teenager-named-as-main-suspect-11473390.html

Ich muss ja doch sagen, dass ich auf die Frage "für Frieden und Sozialismus, seid bereit:" tatsächlich mit "Immer bereit!" antworten würde.

Es gab diese Geschichte von dem Typen, der mehrere Katzen adoptiert hat, weil sie immer wieder ausgebüchst sind und von Kojoten gefressen wurden.
Sein Nachbar bemerkte: "An dieser Stelle füttern Sie einfach Kojoten mit Katzen."

Jedenfalls, das ist was die Regierung mit Steuergeld an Ölkonzerne tut.