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davidho, 6 hours ago to random

More than half of all mangrove ecosystems at risk of collapse by 2050, first global assessment finds

https://www.iucn.org/press-release/202405/more-half-all-mangrove-ecosystems-risk-collapse-2050-first-global-assessment

LaQuadrature, 1 day ago to random French

Hier, le règlement IA (ou #AIAct) a été adopté par l'Union européenne. À l'arrivée, loin des promesses initiales et des commentaires emphatiques, ce texte est taillé sur mesure pour l'industrie de la tech et les polices européennes. Notre analyse :
https://www.laquadrature.net/2024/05/22/le-reglement-ia-adopte-la-fuite-en-avant-techno-solutionniste-peut-se-poursuivre/

delta, 1 day ago to random

Sounds like a bad joke joke but the EU governing council wants to once again legislate #chatcontrol for it's 350 million citizens. According to @echo_pbreyer (EU parlamentarian) the legislation wants to force messengers to prevent users from sending images or videos unless they agree them to be scanned, AI-analyzed and potentially reported to police. They apparently want to bring it up for a council vote in two days and get it through parliament in June. German link https://www.patrick-breyer.de/lass-dich-ueberwachen-eu-rat-will-sich-auf-chatkontrolle-mit-zustimmung-der-nutzer-einigen/

mullvadnet, 2 days ago to random

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

🧵 1/11

https://mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters/going-dark

royaards, 2 days ago to Israel

Wanted war criminal.

#Netanyahu #Israel #Gaza #ICC #warcrimes

LukaszOlejnik, 2 days ago to random

Scarlet Johansson's complaint on OpenAI using 'voice similar to her' in ChatGPT voice assistant. "demanding that OpenAI disclose how it developed...". . https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

Celebrities have it easier. In your or my case it's harder. Hence: my #GDPR complaint: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/ai-llms-gdpr-complaint-and-human-dignity/

timnitGebru, 3 days ago to random

❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️

I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations.

GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign.

Please let me know if you have any issues donating.
https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

jz, 3 days ago to random

#Assange leave for appeal partially granted.

Extradition decision will be appealed, but only on a few, selected grounds (# 4, 5) ie. discrimination he would face by not being a US citizen, and therefore not benefiting from the protection offered by the first amendment.

"The lawyers have until 2 pm on 24th May to file an agreed case outline.".

Beyond the boring and torturous UK judicial process, this decision acknowledges #FreeAssange case IS about freedom of speech.

andrewstroehlein, 3 days ago to random

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of Palestine

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

LaQuadrature, 6 days ago to random French

Suite à l'annonce mercredi du blocage de TikTok en Nouvelle-Calédonie, nous venons de déposer un recours en urgence devant le Conseil d'État #NouvelleCaledonie

https://www.laquadrature.net/2024/05/17/la-quadrature-du-net-attaque-en-justice-le-blocage-de-tiktok-en-nouvelle-caledonie/

EUCommission, 6 days ago to random

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

jwildeboer, 6 days ago to mastodon

The @EUCommission now has its own #Mastodon instance at https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/about Thank you for staying here, EU Commission!

k9ox, 6 days ago to random

Tip: Stop "googling" for information. Learn how to "wiki" any subject from the wikipedia Main_Page search bar.

Bookmark en.wikipedia.org

Try it now. Look up anything. Then select "Further Reading" or "External Links" for the deep web we use to get from google.

Quinnypig, 6 days ago to random

I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.

nicolasvivant, 8 days ago to freesoftware French

Une des difficultés dans la mise en oeuvre des logiciels libres à Échirolles : comment valoriser « cet argent que nous ne dépensons pas » ?

Je m'y suis attelé et j'ai commencé à évaluer la valeur de ce que nous avons mis en place sur la base de l'équivalent en logiciels propriétaires (Teams/BigBlueButton, Office365/LibreOffice, Sharepoint/Nextcloud etc).

→ L'économie est supérieure à 350 000 € par an et donc à 2M € à l'échelle du mandat.

#LogicielsLibres #FreeSoftware #Echirolles

gerrymcgovern, 10 days ago to random

"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."

AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030

Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

Gegenwind, 10 days ago to climate German

#climatechange #climatecrisis

brume, 11 days ago to random French

Leçon de journalisme pour les médias français.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx82s-yWkPE

Le porte-parole d'Israël piégé par Piers Morgan.

Cela fait vraiment bizarre, vu de France, de voir un journaliste de télévision faire son travail, c'est-à-dire ne pas accepter les digressions de son invité et le mettre face à ses contradictions et ses mensonges.

"Comment pouvez- vous n'avoir aucune idée du nombre de civils tués par l'armée israelienne, vous qui êtes le porte-parole du gouvernement ? Alors que vous êtes certain du nombre de combattants du Hamas tués."

#IsraelCriminel
#StopGenocide

ZekuZelalem, 12 days ago to random

THREAD: American friends, how many of you are aware that Ethiopia managed to plant a mole in the US State Department who transferred classified US intelligence docs to Ethiopian officials from 2022 to 2023?

Well that's the allegation listed in a complaint unsealed last September.

A reading of the affidavit, which details the activities of the accused, may suggest that the mole's activities could be linked to reports of brief military clashes between Ethiopia & Sudan.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/maryland-man-working-government-charged-espionage-0

albertcardona, 14 days ago to Trains

In Europe, flying is cheaper than taking the train.

It's an embarrassment, and a major problem: we have to stop flying for silly short distances. Realise that the overheads of flying (reaching the airport, awaiting 2 hours, the flight, the unloading, reaching the destination) largely cancel out any time gains of flying. And the carbon costs are utterly untenable. Not to speak of the modern, dire conditions of the whole flying "experience".

Another embarrassment is that train connections can't be guaranteed when across countries or companies. They aren't even coordinated. As if those who commission and set the schedules didn't travel by train themselves, at least not internationally. In considering how tiny most European countries are, it's frankly bizarre.

There are so many destinations one could travel by train to, yet in practice, it's not sensible. A disgrace.

The upside is that it can be fixed.

#trains #EuroRail

raph, 15 days ago to Israel

Student protestors are portrayed as anywhere between naive and brainwashed. Now listen to this. Nothing naive here.

#Israel #Gaza #Chicago #Palestine #StudentProtests

Interview of a student in the University of Chicago confrontation with the police. The student shares very clearly why the students are protesting and why he doesn't fear disciplinary retaliation by the university.

ZekuZelalem, 16 days ago to random

Utterly ridiculous from the Pulitzer Prize committee today.

This Pulitzer citation supposedly honoring 🇵🇸 journos doesn't actually do so.

"Journalists & media workers covering the war in Gaza" includes everyone, Palestinian or otherwise.

The citation fails to mention the nationality of the journalists who "died" (euphemism which downplays the worst recorded journo slaughter), or the identity of their killers, the Israeli army.

Please compare with the 2022 citation for 🇺🇦 journalists.

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Special Citations and Awards Journalists and Media Workers Covering the War in Gaza In recent years the Pulitzer Board has issued citations honoring journalists covering wars in Ukraine and Afghanistan. This year, the Board recognizes the courageous work of journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza. Under horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died in the effort to tell the stories of Palestinians and others in Gaza. This war has also claimed the lives of poets and writers among the casualties. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor categories of journalism, arts, and letters, we mark the loss of invaluable records of the human experience.

cbail, 16 days ago to random

Interesting new research on how extremist movements spread across social media platforms: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-024-00002-2

thomasfuchs, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to random

Germany is banning the rector of the University of Glasgow from entering the EU. Because he’s a witness to genocide (as a surgeon who among other things repairs blown off faces of children) who was to speak at the French senate.

Germany has completely lost it.

dmontagne, 21 days ago to Wikipedia French

A l'occasion du wikithon des matheuses, organisé par Femmes et #mathématiques, création de la biographie #wikipédia, repérée par @Pyb, de Françoise Moret-Bailly, mathématicienne et première femme présidente d'université en France.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Moret-Bailly

#wikifierLaScience