Amir Khan

@amirbkhan
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founder #Mangoteq | self-employed | ethical tech advocate | foss enthusiast | ex-big tech | šŸ‰ 

Profile: me - my face, bearded, wearing glasses, side profile looking to the side.
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websitehttps://mangoteq.eu
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Sign of the day .... 'No Tyrants' Amsterdam

#NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKings3 #NoKingsIII

see you there

#NoKings

Square. Circle. Triangle. (Lin Yung Cheng)

Taiwanese photographer Yung Cheng Lin aka 3cm investigates the concept of femininity in a critical and provocative way.

"The freedom to enjoy your body and feel good for what you are or have is still a mirage that somehow steals the female identity to instead offer a false promise of respect and love. In this series of images, the body draws incomplete or imperfect geometries as if it were forcing itself to respect rules that do not characterize it."

https://www.collater.al/en/geometries-of-the-body-in-lin-yung-chengs-shots/

#WomensArt #Feminity šŸ‡¹šŸ‡¼

ā€œA Dutch court has ordered X and its AI chatbot Grok to immediately stop generating non-consensual sexualized imagery and child pornographic material in the Netherlands, imposing a penalty of €100,000 per day on each defendant for non-compliance.ā€

Good.

#fuckElon #ai #slop

https://www.techpolicy.press/dutch-court-orders-x-grok-to-stop-aigenerated-sexual-abuse-content/

Dutch Court Orders X, Grok to Stop AI-Generated Sexual Abuse Content

Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI image generator.

Tech Policy Press

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference: More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/

(While unfortunate, this needs to happen. Everyone should move their meet-ups away from the US for now) #uspol

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

Scientific American

I’m not trans. As far as I know, my kids aren’t at the moment. Nobody in my family is. None of my good friends are. I don’t prescribe medication for gender affirming care. I don’t specifically treat folks for gender dysphoria. So why do I give a fuck?

You don’t punch down. There’s no transgender machine producing trans judiciary and trans politicians and trans PACs to come for my cisgender. There are trans folks being discriminated against, outed, beaten, jailed, and killed. I hate bullies.

REMINDER: Claiming you aren’t racist because you have Black and brown friends is like a man claiming he can’t be misogynist because he’s married to a woman.

Great news in the fight against Big Tech bullies!

EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller.

Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection.
With a razor-thin majority of just a single vote, the Parliament first rejected the automated assessment of unknown private photos and chat texts as ā€œsuspiciousā€ or ā€œunsuspiciousā€

Read Patrick Breyers extensive coverage.
@echo_pbreyer

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/

#privacy #chatcontrol #surveillancecapitalism

End of ā€œChat Controlā€: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection!

The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically highly questionable maneuver yesterda

Patrick Breyer