Steph

@Stevie63
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@urlyman it irks me when people claim EVs are green. Getting rid of a slightly used ICE powered car for an EV is far from green. Buying an EV is not green. EVs use rarer metals and toxins to process them. My 20 year old diesel to do less than 1000 miles per annum is far less polluting.

The grain for your loaf of bread was grown and delivered a long time ago, same for the flour being milled and delivered.

The only plausible increase in cost can be the delivery to the shop, which can’t be more than a few cents per loaf.

#AusPol

Canada is edging toward a social media ban for youth and children, but the cure might come with its own complications. Before we trade one harm for another, we need to ask harder questions. Read our latest 👇
https://openmedia.org/article/item/social-media-ban-for-youth-and-children-protection-or-punishment
Social Media Ban for Youth and Children: Protection or Punishment?

Canada is edging toward a social media ban for youth and children, but the cure might come with its own complications.

Heads-up for published authors:

The deadline to join the Anthropic class-action copyright settlement is March 30. If you have published a book, you may be eligible to receive ~$1,500 per book, so it’s worth your time to check it out.

I had been putting it off and finally completed my forms last week.

Learn more at the Authors Guild: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

Start the process: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background  Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It […]

The Authors Guild

Canadians - don't let this bill pass

https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: https://openmedia.org/StopC22 #BillC22

What Wyatt is warning of, and measures to be taken seem reasonable.
Will anyone else appreciate the gravity?

What the broligarchy has unleashed on humanity is beyond sickening, and yet most think AI is just fine. 🤦

#AI

"A national security emergency" - Wyatt Tessari L'Allié on the emerging AI loss of control threat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHlpMpu8ug

"A national security emergency" - Wyatt Tessari L'Allié on the emerging AI loss of control threat

YouTube

#Revolutionaries behind the 1908 Hanoi Poison Plot detained at the Hoa Lo Prison by the French colonists in 1941.

13 of them had their heads chopped off instantly and displayed in public. The French later used the photo for an #Indochina #propaganda postcard.

Whilst the second world war was raging across the world, in Vietnam the #VietMinh #Liberation Movement, led by famed revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, was taking birth. #HoChiMinh had one dream. An independent Vietnam free of foreign rule.

The first year after the war had Japan, and then Britain keen to get their hands on Vietnam. But they were soon replaced by Vietnam’s old colonial rulers: the French.

For nine long years, thereafter, from 1946 to 1954 the First Indochina War ripped across the country. Spilling blood, lives, and peace. On one side were the French. More adamant to stay. More aggressive in their rule. They were helped by the US who provided advisers, funding, and weapons from behind the scenes.
Anti-communist Vietnamese loyalists aided the French rulers’ legitimacy. On the other side was Ho Chi Minh and his revolutionaries.

Things eventually came to a head in 1954 with the Geneva Conference and creation of the 17th Parallel, a Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] on 17 degrees latitude north.

#AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #VietnamRevolutionaries #LongLiveVietnam #WarSurvivorsForPeace #VietnamHistory #ForeignInvaders #VietnamRevolution #geopolitics #WWII #GlobalSouth #SouthEastAsia #ASEAN #WorldHistory #LearnHistory #Courage #ResistanceFighters #historicalPhotos

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattotcha/116275535546097512

Quote from a friend, which describes the majority of people "Yes it’s a bit scary how I and others use these things without understanding whats behind the scenes."