#EU#AI#AIAct: "Yesterday, at the Council of the European Union, Member States adopted the AI Act to regulate Artificial Intelligence systems. This step marks the final adoption of this legislation under discussion since 2021, and initially presented as an instrument to protect rights and freedoms in the face of the AI steamroller. In the end, far from the initial promises and emphatic comments, this text is tailor-made for the tech industry, European police forces as well as other large bureaucracies eager to automate social control. Largely based on self-regulation, crammed with loopholes, the AI Act will prove largely incapable of standing in the way of the social, political and environmental damage linked to the proliferation of AI."
#Russia's border guard removed more than 20 buoys demarcating shipping lanes from the #Narva River on Thursday (May 23), #Estonia's PPA said.
Estonia installed the markers in its waters based on the State Borders Act and the buoys' location were agreed by the border agencies in 2022.
However, this year Russia disagreed with the locations of approximately half of the 250 markers. Some of those removed on Thursday morning were those disputed by Russia
"The currently implemented and planned policies under the #EU#GreenDeal lead to a path roughly aligned with global pathways that result in a little above a 2°C global temperature increase by the end of the century if other countries follow a similar level of ambition. This trajectory is more than a degree better than before the Green Deal, the level of action is now much higher than five years ago."
Europeans: Please VOTE on June 6, that's your chance to influence the make-up of the #EuropeanParliament.
Vote green, vote progressive.
You KNOW the right wingers are raring to push the gas pedal on oil and gas production, turn back the clock on civil rights, etc.
We can do much better than that.
We need an even more ambitious Green Deal. Getting that needs your vote.
After pulling the pin, & lobbing the grenade at Europe, Nigel Führage has retreated to the lucrative safety of KGB News, & left the idiots who voted for Brexit to fend for themselves!
He's also prioritised getting #Trump re-elected in the #US, over the #UK General Election. The man is an unprincipled #FarRight grifter, who mugged off 52% of the electorate, & who should be charged with high treason.