🚨 The UK says it wants to "protect children online"
Yet, forcing EVERYONE to verify their age won't stop harm - but put all of us under surveillance.
Today, we've signed an open letter together with @mullvad @Tor @mozilla & others to stop #AgeVerification in the UK 💪
Read the complete letter: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2026/05/UK-joint-statement-against-age-gates.pdf
Carbon dioxide averaged nearly 431 ppm in April 2026 (new record high)...
10 years ago April averaged about 408 ppm. Preliminary data from https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/mlo.html.
This is really concerning, and it isn’t going away. The longer we wait, the worse the impacts get and the harder they are to address.
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.
That is the true definition of malware.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
“Unskilled Jobs” are a classist myth used to justify POVERTY WAGES
#poverty #homelessness #politics #GreedyBastards #WealthHoarding
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio
May 4, 1970. Kent State University. Ohio.
Victoria Rose Richards, a UK embroidery artist who creates work which reflects landscapes from above
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