When it comes to "old school" versus "modern", one of the benefits of old school, I feel, is the illusion of permanence.

Be that vinyl records or what-have-you, these things may be considered by some to be so last decade, but it comes with a reassurance that they'll always be there.

When it comes to modern, while those things may come with some conveniences or perceived benefits, there's still that uncertainty, will those things still be around in 3 years?

For example, I watched a thrift store Vlog the other day, and there was a bunch of Hoverboards and Squishmallows lying around. These were all fads to be forgotten. Old school "derogatory", if you will.

But then there's old school "complimentary", which are things that have managed to stick around and probably for good reason. So, I don't know, something to think about I guess.

"Ready for Certification" - Drawing for Folleach, featuring their wolf inventing a brand new way of not getting drenched while swimming - Boats!

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How 'bout thigh high Thursday? :3

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The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

#Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the products and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

We rejected this demand in its entirety.

In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

And now we see each other in court.

But why all this?

Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

All of this is making Palantir nervous.

We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

The truth.

All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

I'm non-binary which means I have to compile my gender from source

With such a huge tail, Florette has to spend a lot of time brushing.

Playing with some of the other pens and brushes in CSP, I think it came out pretty good!

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this is just microslop you only like it because it is tiny

been having a rough one with patreon and ko-fi since the year started and would appreciate any interest. supporters get early access to non-commission stuff and exclusive access to WIPs so you get to see the progress. it's a huge help and I appreciate each and every one of you.

unless I either simply did not take weekends or someone invented more time in the day I literally cannot work more than I do already.

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steganography is when you write down verbatim what a stegosaurus told you

I guess this is as good a time as any to remind people that

if you only know how to contact friends through a single platform, you're liable to lose touch with them sooner or later.

Give them alternatives. ANY alternatives.

Any single place can just blow up overnight. And if something is starting to smell like a brewing dumpsterfire, that SHOULD be a clear sign.

#Discord

When you make me start keysmashing or barking online, this is who you're bullying.

I'm sure this won't just encourage you even more. 💖

(I drew this over a photo I took, so this is probably the thinnest Eva you'll ever see — I don't see even offline me ever getting lighter!)

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lgbtq is an anagram of bgltq or 'branch if greater or less than (quad),' an alternate mnemonic for the mips iii bne instruction