Chris of All Trades

@ChrisofAllTrades
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Petition to suspend Israel from the UN

Please consider joining this email campaign to the President of the UNGA, Philémon Yang, to urge him to sanction Israel by suspending it from the UN.

Link to petition:

https://palestinejusticemovement.good.do/suspendisraelfromtheun/

#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #UN

Join me in supporting the Suspend Israel from the UN Campaign

The Israeli government is actively working to destroy the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a UN agency providing essential services to millions of Palestinian refugees who are entitled to return to their land. Israel’s genocidal military has repeatedly and deliberately attacked UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon a dozen times, using white phosphorus in some attacks, as revealed recently.. It has destroyed UN infrastructure across the region, particularly in Gaza, including schools, warehouses and refugee camps. Over the course of Israel’s year-long live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, it has attacked the United Nations repeatedly. It has killed 228 UN staff members in Gaza—the highest number of UN personnel killed in any conflict since the creation of the UN. The Israeli parliament has justed passed legislations to to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), considered a lifeline for Gaza, from operating on Israeli territory and areas under Israel’s control. Israel’s outgoing ambassador desecrated the UN Charter by shredding a copy from the General Assembly podium, while calling for the UN Headquarters to be “wiped off the face of the Earth.” It has actively obstructed the work of the UN officials to investigate its crimes across historic Palestine by denying them entry, not just in the course of this genocide but for decades. It has also declared the UN Secretary General “persona non grata.” Apartheid Israel fails the basic conditions of UN membership - it is anything but a peace-loving state and does neither accept nor carry out its obligations under the UN Charter and international law.  Today, with the continued complicity of the West, led by the US, Israel’s genocide in Gaza takes new horrific turns everyday – most recently burning patients and displaced Palestinians alive. Its bloody aggression in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem is intensifying. The apartheid and genocidal regime is plunging the region towards an all-out war. This can only be stopped if we push our leaders and governments to take concrete action. Join us today in writing to the President of the UNGA, Philémon Yang, urging him to enact the resolution sanctioning Israel by suspending it from the UN! Let’s remind the institution of its responsibility!

NEWS! Business owners hit hardest by Budget because they don't use schools, roads, hospitals or police https://buff.ly/4ftaHp5
Business owners hit hardest by Budget because they don’t use schools, roads, hospitals or police

As the details of yesterday’s Budget have become clearer, it seems clear that those hit hardest will be business-owners.  It is business-owners who will bear the brunt of the National Insurance inc…

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Today in Mojo History—27 years ago today: The Curse of Monkey Island released in Europe. Also, happy Halloween!
Not one conservative in a thousand understands this.

If you hate protesters blocking roads in the name of taking immediate #ClimateAction, you’re going to really hate how Climate Change itself blocks roads.

A picture today from Valencia, Spain where they received 500mm of rain, a year’s worth, in one day on Tuesday. >95 dead.
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange

edit: More Pictures. Valencia is the third largest city in Spain. It affected towns just to the south (Sedavi) of it mainly as well as other areas of Southeast Spain.

Yet another reason LLM/AI is a terrible thing:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/28/genai_dirty_secret/

"GenAI is set to create nearly 1,000 times more e-waste (in data centres) than exists currently by 2030, unless the tech industry employs mitigating strategies."

"The study, which looks at the rate AI servers are being introduced to datacenters, claims that a realistic scenario indicates potential for rapid growth of e-waste from 2.6 kilotons each year in 2023 to between 400 kilotons and 2.5 million tons each year in 2030, when no waste reduction measures are considered."

"...equivalent to discarding 13.3 billion units of the iPhone 15 Pro"

#LLM #AI #LLMs

GenAI's dirty secret: It's set to create a mountainous increase in e-waste

New modelling shows tech could massively increase current volumes of electronic landfill by 2030

The Register

Today, the police applied pain grips to several of us scientists, and charged us all with 'disturbing the peace', even though there were almost no cars in the road, and those few that were there all were fine with turning around.

This comes after over 20 activists from Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse (The Green Youth Movement) were arrested yesterday in another peaceful protest against the agricultural negotiations. Instead of carrying the activists peacefully, the officers used pain grips on them too.

https://klimamonitor.dk/nyheder/art10128897/22-aktivister-tr%C3%A6ngte-ind-i-ministerium

4/n

22 aktivister trængte ind i ministerium

Københavns Politi har onsdag eftermiddag sigtet uindbudte aktivister i Ministeriet for Grøn Trepart.

Klimamonitor

Do you rely on alt text on social media?

#AltText #accessibility #SocialMedia #poll

Yes, because of a disability
4.8%
Yes, it helps add context
51.9%
Yes (other reasons)
13.2%
No
30%
Poll ended at .

"Neil, what do you know about online dating?"

Apparently, "ISO 8601" was not the desired answer.

This is one of the most dystopian, depressing things I’ve ever seen: https://intouch.family

An AI service that will call your parents for you so you don’t have to bother…

inTouch

A call a day keeps the loneliness away