'How big tech is force-feeding us AI". I'm reading a study “Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability” and thinking about how to integrate that into @Vivaldi's feedback on the EU's nascent Digital Fairness Act. Many people don't want to be tricked (or forced) to use -or feed- LLMs. bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-bi…
in reply to Stephen Eglen

This part here makes me think of @pluralistic's take on stock buybacks: doctorow.medium.com/https-plur…

libertytree.ca/quotes/Solon.Qu…

"We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been."

-- Solon
(c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman, lawmaker, Lyric poet, renowned as a founding father of the Athenian polis, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
594 B.C.
Source: when asked how social justice could be achieved in Athens

Clorox is claiming in a lawsuit that a Cognizant help desk worker reset Okta and Microsoft passwords three different times for a cybercriminal without verifying who was asking

Clorox says it lost $380 million from the August 2023 hack

therecord.media/clorox-cyberat…

if any adult-oriented platforms come up in the wake of this they are going to have to accept crypto only and THAT is what will thrust crypto into mainstream use. just wait. maybe now would be a good time to buy if you think that's going to happen.

the only way that doesn't happen i think is if some government out there decides that payment processors can't decide what people can and can't buy with their own money. the notion that they CAN control that is already just so fucked up.

Cory Doctorow, bekannt für seinen Kampf gegen DRM, hat die Rechte an der deutschen Hörbuchfassung seines Romans “Red Team Blues” gekauft. Da es ohne DRM ist, war es auf großen Plattformen wie Audible nicht erhältlich. Um das Problem zu lösen, startete er eine Kickstarter-Kampagne, um das Hörbuch direkt an Fans zu verkaufen. Und es gibt Rabatte auf seine englischen Bücher.

kickstarter.com/projects/docto…

@pluralistic

#RedTeamBlues

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libertytree.ca/quotes/Warren.B…

"... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never…

If you use #BraveBrowser, update to version 1.81 - It blocks Microsoft Recall, an AI feature, from capturing screenshots of your browsing activity.

Read: hackread.com/brave-browser-blo…

#CyberSecurity #Microsoft #Recall #Brave #Privacy #AI

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“Ειδικότερα, μετά τις εικόνες ντροπής που έλαβαν χώρα στο λιμάνι της Σύρου, το ισραηλινό όργανο “τοποθέτησε” το επίπεδο απειλής της χώρας στο δύο, από το ένα, σε κλίμακα που φτάνει μέχρι το 4, γεγονός που σημαίνει ότι οι Ισραηλινοί και οι Εβραίοι καλούνται να λάβουν “αυξημένα προληπτικά μέτρα ταξιδεύοντας στην Ελλάδα”
Για τους δολοφόνους παλαιστινίων αθώων παιδιών εννοεί & έτσι ακριβώς είναι & ας μην το αναλύσουμε παραπάνω.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

#ZionistsNotWelcome

Ελα @foufoutos Τι ειναι η Ελλαδα μας; Μην ειναι οι καμποι;
Το Γκρικ Ντριμ συντριβει το Αμερικαν ντριμ και ειμαστε ακομα στην αρχη.

youtube.com/watch?v=etrFkxe1eS…

in reply to SirHendrick

𝐼𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃.. 🥺
The accusations of #antisemitism followed swiftly. I will include a link to the music of Schindler's List for the background when you read or watch any of this. Hopefully, someone on board has a recording of the 'Hebrew songs' they sung, so that we can obtain a translation.
youtube.com/watch?v=057A1Rdsso…
🎻 #Vueling #Israel #ReductioAdHitlerum #antisemitism #chosen

SUISSE. Les Kurdes manifestent à l’occasion du 102e anniversaire du traité de Lausanne
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"SUISSE – Les Kurdes manifesteront à Lausanne à l’occasion du 102e anniversaire du traité de Lausanne qui a acté la colonisation du Kurdistan et privé le peuple kurde de s’autogouverner. À l’approche du 102e anniversaire du Traité de Lausanne, le peuple du Kurdistan et ses

in reply to Jon Hancock

Against the odds, mum's broadband *and* telephone are now working. The only fly in the ointment is her medical emergency alarm: we were stymied by only having a single telephone adapter where we need two. I'm fairly certain that there's one in the house somewhere, but sending my elderly mother off on a quest to find it was out of the question, so reluctantly turned to Amazon to get one to her tomorrow.
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La délégation de jeunes « Insisting on Freedom » en route pour voir Ocalan, le fondateur du PKK
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"Une délégation de jeunes Européens se trouve actuellement en Turquie pour rencontrer le leader kurde Abdullah Ocalan détenu sur l’ile prison d’Imrali, au large de la mer Marmara. Voici le communiqué de la délégation formée sous le nom de « Insisting on Freedom » –

IAEA Technical Delegation to Visit Iran Soon: Deputy FM iranpress.com/content/308359
in reply to Feart n Tired 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@FeartnTiredRecently with typical franchise stuff like Star Wars, Marvel, or DC, audiences will notice similarities between the evil faction and certain world leaders then get mad at the film for being political if they support those certain world leaders. And it’s like… if the galactic empire reminds you of your buddies, that’s not the fault of Star Wars. XD

L’Allemagne poursuit deux activistes kurdes
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"ALLEMAGNE – Les autorités allemandes poursuivent la persécution des activistes kurdes d’Allemagne alors que l’État turc est en pourparlers de paix avec la guérilla kurde. Deux militants kurdes viennent d’être inculpés pour « activités organisationnelles, financières et de propagande » au profit du PKK. Le parquet de Hambourg a inculpé deux militants kurdes

"If you’re a big food corporation, it seems like all it takes to get free advertising from Trump, the White House, and RFK Jr. is to make a superficial promise and set a long deadline to accomplish it. Doesn’t this just give major food corporations, which still heavily process their food and engineer it to have addictive properties, more of a platform and more sales?" -Emma Janssen

prospect.org/health/2025-07-24…

#MAHA #CaneSugarCoke

Brazil joins list of plaintiffs against Israel at ICJ

from #MercoPress
Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

#Brazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join #SouthAfrica's lawsuit against #Israel at the International Court of Justice (#ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the #Palestinian people.

Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of #Palestine,” extending beyond the #Gaza Strip to the #WestBank.



en.mercopress.com/2025/07/24/b…

#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

Le groupe kurde en exil Koma Amed retourne au pays après 30 ans d’exil
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Après la sortie de leur album de 1997, plusieurs membres du groupe de musique kurde, Koma Amed, ont dû demandé l’asile en Allemagne à cause des persécutions judiciaires. Koma Amed, un groupe folklorique kurde connu pour ses paroles politiquement chargées et ses compositions à plusieurs

Wen wundert's? Wenn eine Seite wie z.B. die vom Mindener Tageblatt selbst im Abo noch so mit Werbung gepflastert ist, dass eine Lektüre nur mit *zwei* Blockern, Tracker Protection und dem "Privacy Batcher" möglich ist...

"Ein Drittel benutzen 'brutale AdBlocker'"

meedia.de/news/beitrag/19766-e…

in reply to Schnake

@Schnake, klar, und darum beiss ich mir lieber ein Monogram in den Bauch, als auf einen Ad/Trackerblocker im Browser zu verzichten, unterstützt von Portmaster miteingebauten DNScrypt und dynamischen Filterlisten, der hält mir so ziemlich alles vom Hals.

safing.io

The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i

theregister.com/2025/07/22/tru…

The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions

<- not one of mine but a bloody good one, & the sort of thing that shows the changing direction of El Reg

It's official: Ukraine is now Trump's war - Thomas Fazi


#geopolitics #imperialism #war
;
There is no military solution in which Ukraine wins. There never was. Everybody knows it, and has known it for at least 2 years now. So where do we go from there ?

thomasfazi.com/p/its-official-…

Regelmäßiges #Gaza-Update des United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (#UN #OCHA):

  • Mindestens 59.219 Menschen getötet, davon¹ identifiziert mindestens 17.921 #Kinder (davon 931 jünger als 1 Jahr; 356 unmittelbar nach der Geburt getötet) und 9.497 #Frauen.
  • 1.580 Mitarbeitende des Gesundheitswesens getötet².
  • Am 18. Mai 2025 hat Israel nach über zweimonatiger vollständiger Blockade eine begrenzte Einfuhr humanitärer Hilfsgüter wieder gestattet. Der Umfang und die Art der Verteilung der genehmigten Einfuhren ist nach wie vor völlig unzureichend, gefährdet die Menschen und umfasst keine erforderlichen humanitären Leistungen oder Treibstoff für Generatoren und Pumpen.
  • Es wird erwartet, dass zwischen Mai und Ende September 2025 die gesamte Bevölkerung mit akuten Ernährungsunsicherheit (IPC 3 und höher) konfrontiert sein wird, darunter mehr als eine Million Menschen (54 Prozent) mit einer Notsituation (IPC-Phase 4) und 470.000 Menschen (22 Prozent) mit einer katastrophalen Ernährungsunsicherheit (IPC-Phase 5).
  • 1,875 Millionen Menschen auf Notunterkünfte angewiesen.³
  • Ca 92% aller #Wohneinheiten zerstört (160.000) oder beschädigt (276.000).
  • 87,8% von Gaza hat Israel zum militärischen Sperrgebiet erklärt, bzw. unter "Evakuierungs-", d.h. Räumungs-Anordnungen gestellt.

¹Zahlen in Klammern aktualisiert 28. Mai 2025; alle anderen Zahlen aktualisiert 16. Juli 2025
²kein Update seit 25. Mai 2025
³kein Update seit 7. Mai 2025

Englisch:

ochaopt.org/content/humanitari…

ochaopt.org/content/reported-i…

app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo…

Handala Activists ‘Upbeat’ as Aid Boat Continues Journey to Break Gaza Siege #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/handala…

Who are you calling a terrorist? - UnHerd


#geopolitics #Israel #Gaza #genocide

What you can’t do is commit an act of unjust aggression while claiming that it’s in self-defence, as the Israelis are currently doing in Gaza. Violence used in self-defence must be proportionate. You can shoot the crazed gunman in the back, but you can’t roast him slowly over a fire. You can take out Hamas operatives known to be intent on murder, but you can’t turn their country into a wasteland in order to do so. Besides, the gunman in the school is guilty, which is a judgement on the act he’s about to perform rather than on his moral character, whereas the vast majority of those slaughtered in Gaza are innocent. This, once again, isn’t a judgement on their moral character but on what they do (or in this case don’t do, i.e. murder people as members or supporters of Hamas).


unherd.com/2025/07/who-are-you…