How people think AI is going to kill them: terminator robots.
How AI is actually going to kill them: by destroying their habitat and drinking all their water.
How people think AI is going to kill them: terminator robots.
How AI is actually going to kill them: by destroying their habitat and drinking all their water.
@dascandy “Personal data collected in the statements of support cannot be used for any other purpose”
Data protection guidance for ECI organisers
European Citizens' Initiative (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)
“Both the group of organisers and the Commission must destroy all statements of support signed for a given initiative (and any copies) by whichever of these dates comes first:
1 month after the organisers submit the initiative to the Commission
21 months after the collection period starts.”
European citizens' initiative (ECI) Data Protection Guidance - What are the data retention time limits
European Citizens' Initiative (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)
@dascandy Well you also have to fully dox yourself to vote in an election. It would be good to know, however, whether your signature is linked to you or, like a vote, used only for authentication.
I mean, if an EU citizen’s initiative to tax the rich cannot get a paltry 1 million signatures (less than one quarter of one percent of the population), I guess we really must deserve this bullshit system.
You still have five days, sign this ffs:
Discover the power of the European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI), a unique participatory democracy tool that empowers EU citizens to shape Europe by proposing new legislation. Engage directly with EU policymakers by supporting or launching an initiative that matters to you. Learn how the ECI works, explore active initiatives, and utilize resources to make your voice heard in the European Union. Get involved today and help drive change across Europe with the European Citizen’s Initiative.
(eci.ec.europa.eu)
1st century thinking + 21st century technology… what could possibly go wrong?
You can have democracy or you can have trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires.
(And if you don’t understand why, you either don’t understand what democracy is or you don’t understand what trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires are or both.)
It’s almost like sending climate activists to prison isn’t fixing the climate crisis or something.
Not partnering with trillion-dollar people-farming, human-rights-eroding, and democracy destroying surveillance capitalists like Meta should be the lowest of low bars when it comes to organisations that purport to work on ethical technology but, clearly, even that bar is just too fucking high for some.
#SocialWebFoundation #SWF #fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed #vivaldi #writeAs #iftas #ghost #mammoth #meta #automattic #medium #flipboard #fordFoundation #fastly #institutionalCorruption #BigTech
Ah, this is because Mozilla Location Services is dead (I guess it wasn’t AI enough). And now GNOME are considering Google – because, why not? Nothing wrong with Google, amirite?
@[email protected] Ah, would you look at that, it is. And GNOME is – surprise, surprise – considering Google instead: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/issues/186
Aral’s fediverse server (mastodon.ar.al)
@fifilamoura It’s definitely not unconscious on Meta’s part. They’re being legitimised to high heaven with this.
Meta and friends – like Mastodon and Vivaldi – form Social Web Foundation.
May I be the first to say:
Fuck the Social Web Foundation.
https://socialwebfoundation.org
I am so fucking sick of this bullshit happening over and over again. I’d say they’re useful idiots but, let’s face it, Mastodon aren’t idiots. Vivaldi aren’t idiots. They’re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just don’t give a shit.
#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #fediverse
Oh nice, partnered with Meta.
You know, these guys:
FFS, why is everything so shit? Is it too much to ask that you folks don’t involve yourselves with these assholes one fucking time?
#fediverse #meta #SocialWebFoundation #vivaldi #BigTech #SiliconValley #FFS https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/113193395332307465
I think Macron assumes his signature look makes him appear contemplative and statesmanly. All I see is a scared little constipated schoolboy who knows full well he has royally screwed the pooch.
I’m so glad to see Emmanuel Macron stepping in to save democracy.
What’s democracy?
It’s whatever Emmanuel Macron fucking says it is, you bloody ungrateful pleb.
Left-wing coalition wins French elections so King Macron forms right-wing government.
Such democracy.
(In case you needed yet another reminder that fucking neoliberals will always choose fascism over social justice when they feel their wallets are threatened.)
The new cabinet pulls in allies from the centre and right, despite left-wing parties winning France's election.
(www.bbc.com)
One from the vaults: A Nancy Writes Back (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital Imperialism)
I wrote that post ten years ago.
Here’s where we are today:
Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web. No, it’s not web3, it’s web0.
Small Technology Foundation (small-tech.org)
Here’s where they are:
(Do not adjust your browsers, yes, it’s a 404.)
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I tried the £299 full-body scan that checks health risks in minutes
Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek hopes his latest brainchild, the Neko Body Scan, will revolutionise healthcare
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
“Neko is the brainchild of the Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek, who hopes to achieve the same for health that he did for music…”
Say what now?
“Turning everyday objects into fragmentation grenades should be a crime, as it blurs the line between civilian and military technologies.
I fear that if we do not universally and swiftly condemn the practice of turning everyday gadgets into bombs, we risk legitimizing a military technology that can literally bring the front line of every conflict into your pocket, purse or home.”
#israel #pagerAttack #terrorism https://social.treehouse.systems/@bunnie/113168200562238932
Meanwhile, the British press writes fawning love letters to Israel after its terrorist attack yesterday that wounded almost 3,000 people, some 300 of them critically, and killed others (yes, Brown people are people…, there you go, some white folks just learned something new today).
“An unleashed Israel is humiliating its enemies” exudes The Telegraph.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/an-unleashed-israel-is-humiliating-its-enemies/ar-AA1qLo8h
You’d think these bastards would have similarly gushed over the Nazis. Oh, wait, they did…