Notices by javi@goblin.band

Marco Rubio, about the European US bases:

“I said publicly, and I’ve said repeatedly, I’ve been a strong supporter of Nato throughout my career in the Senate and even now, and one of the advantages of being in Nato is that it allows us to have forces deployed in Europe and bases that allow us a logistical ability to project power in case of contingencies.

We had a contingency and some countries in Europe, some countries in Europe like Spain as an example, denied us the use of those bases for a very important contingency that in some ways, the denial of those bases actually impeded the mission, not severely but had a cost and in fact, even created some unnecessary dangers.

If one of the main reasons why the US is in Nato is the ability to have forces deployed in Europe that we could project to other contingencies, and now that’s no longer the case, at least when it comes to some Nato members, that’s a problem and has to be examined.”



Ok my dude. My bother in Satan. My fellow human being (allegedly). You are so close to see it but somehow still say this horse shit.

Spain gains between very little to nothing at all by having US bases in our territory. Sure, I'm sure countries in other parts of Europe may think different, but for southern Europe, US bases are A CONCESSION we make towards an (allegedly) ally. Because as lil Marco says himself, without the European bases, US wouldn't be able to project force in most of Africa or the middle east, so it wouldn't be a global power anymore.

Those bases are a fucking gift for the US. One that is a key piece of the US hegemony. So you are fucking welcome to pack up and fly your shit back to your side of the Atlantic. Leave the key under the mat when you go.

This whole act of "we are leaving because you don't go whatever we want" may do something with the Germans (I don't know). But with Spain? No one could give less of a fuck.

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

what the hell is wrong with you? "I'm ok with casual homophobia but I draw the line at closed source"?? seriously, fucking OSS nazis, go download Omarchy or something

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).

Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.

"information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".

This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".

This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox. In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.
We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"

oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing dataThe SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.

This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.

Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

Folks, what are people using to read RSS feeds in this year of the lord of 2026?

Listening US podcasts and getting ads from other US podcasts is a hell of a trip. I just got this:

'The stories of one of the most influential cities in the world.... Atlanta"

Sure thing, pal, sure thing.

Aaaand eeeeevery single one of them is just a small layer over either openAi or Anthropic APIs looses a ton of money.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/bruces/statuses/115718517570634592

Nope, but that's the thing: I don't think any of the other options can be backed with any evidence either.

But even with that caveat: I haven't seen any significant difference between what Biden and Trump administrations have done in this subject. Yeah, the comms style are very different, but I could see everything that happened in the middle east during 2025 happening in a very similar way under Biden, etc

Yeah I'm missing "the isn't really any significant difference for Gaza" option

Ok, now that Israel and Palestine seem to be back to their pre-2023 October 7th status quo, people may be shocked by news like this, from today:

So it's time for everyone who may not have been aware before to learn what the pre-october 7th status quo was.

For example, how from January 1st to October 1st 2023, Israel killed 232 Palestinians. How before October 7th 2023, Israel kept 1200 Palestinian hostages (palestinians abducted from their homeland and kept indefinitely without charges).

So basically, if we are back to the status quo, that means that we will see news of the Israel army killing five unarmed civilians about once per week, every week, forever.

Holy shit. Ed Zitron had been dragging Casey Newton as the posterboy for lousy journalistic standards in the tech press for months. I found his arguments pretty on point and my own image of Newton was in free fall already.

But in the last "better offline" pod, Zitron casually mentions that NEWTON BOYFRIEND ACTUALLY WORKS FOR ANTHROPIC. Casey Newton, one of the main cheerleaders for the AI industry in the mainstream press, is dating someone working in one of the main AI companies. And no one bats an eye and he keeps selling how bright the AI future is to the masses from the New York Times.

Zoe Quinn would be rolling in her grave (if she was dead)(which it is thankfully not the case) (leave me alone, I don't know how to finish this) (but I feel the fact there isn't thousands of rat-boys going after Newton as they were after Quinn is pretty significant)

Every time there is some scare about Tumblr closing down, a sizeable part of the Tumblr community discusses how seriously about if there is a way to make Tumblr user-owned, or make it something similar to how Archive Of Our Own is owned by a non-profit funded by its own community.

Then a bunch of us over there try to explain that AO3 model doesn't work for Tumblr because the volume of both users (Tumblr userbase is one order of magnitude bigger than AO3's) and the kind of media (one single tumblr post with a particularly large gifset may be bigger than an entire year of new fics in AO3. And that a Kickstarter to buy Tumblr collectively wouldn't work because the problem is not the price you could buy it for, but the monthly costs of keeping it running: you can expect to kickstart hundreds of thousands of dollars every month, forever.

What people don't realize is that what they want, a user-owned, user-managed, non-profit, trans-friendly, anti-capitalist Tumblr is just within easy reach if they just accept: dropping the trademarked name, and giving up on keeping the Tumblr archive.

If you really would pay for a user-owned Tumblr, you can do it already. Get a web server and install Wafrn or Goblin. Install Misskey or any of its variants. Hell, install mastodon and set the post character limit to 10k. Invite all your Tumblr mutuals. Connect with the servers of other Tumblr users jumping to their own servers. If you don't have the technical skills to manage your own server, throw some coins to those who do to help them to pay for a server. If you can't afford spare the coins, move your content to one of those servers so more people are more easily convinced to do the jump.

Once there is a critical mass of Tumblr users moving to user-owned, federated servers, then Tumblr users, in practice, would have migrated the tumblr community to a version of Tumblr that is just what we all have wanted for years.

We can do this, the pieces are an in place. We just need the collective will.

(This post have been written in goblin.band, my own Goblin server, and auto imported to tumblr. Most of my posts on Tumblr are actually written in Goblin since a year ago)

It looks like today is going to be a night of checking up with my friends to see which ones of them are now unemployed... Tumblr seems to have been hit hard

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I've just seen this meme in linkedin (oh my god what the fuck I was doing there) and at first I was just "ok, bullshit, whatever" and then I realized:

All the examples used as "chads" are pretty generic but one. We know who wrote the "mission critical code to moon landing", and SHE DIDN'T EXACTLY LOOK LIKE A CHAD.

w..why do you suddenly talk like this?

Good girl :*

Wanna bet??

Fuck off my replies too, nazi

Perfect! Get the fuck off our lawn then

"The US taxpayer has been subsidicing the defense of europe"

Look at me in the eyes. Look at me while I say this:

Bollocks.

BOLLOCKS.

BO.

LLOCKS.



The US 'defense' of Europe is carried out by around 65k US soldiers based in a couple of dozen US military bases in EU territory. The combined armies from the EU countries (and this is not even counting non-EU european countries, like the UK or Norway) have something between 1.5 and 2 million active troops. It doesn't feel those 65k USians are the ultimate line of defense of Europe.

Do you know for whom those soldiers and military bases are crucial, instead? For THE FUCKING US OF AMERICA.

Because, hear me out, WITHOUT EUROPEAN BASES THE US CAN'T PROJECT POWER INTO THE MIDDLE EAST NOR NORTH AFRICA. Yeah, sure, a carrier group is very impressive and the ultimate modern weapon yadda yadda. Good luck sending it to them to the persian gulf straight from the US East Coast. And even better luck trying to supply them without airbases in Europe. Ane even better than better luck putting troops on the groups anywhere in the old world without those bases.

Without their European military bases, the US is no longer a global military power. A major one? sure. But one that's MUCH more local than they have been until know, more similar to Russia or China.

So honestly, maybe it's time to get them to fuck off of our continent.