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Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 👀

Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

#Proton #Switzerland #Privacy #EuroStack #ProtonMail

Introducing Lumo: AI where every conversation is confidential | Proton

Lumo gives you the power to solve problems big and small, while keeping your personal data confidential. Try it now.

Proton

"What is happening in ðGeorgia should alarm the entire Western world, says Jelle Postma."

""What we see in Georgia is what you could say [is] a laboratory of hate," he says."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/georgian-dream-russia-playbook-putin/105543542?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

After disaster in Ukraine, experts fear Russia is testing a sinister new playbook here

A tiny neighbouring country has become a laboratory for a different approach to seizing power.

ABC News

"Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump #CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe."
https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/

"A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe…Restored CDC isn’t going to have continuous updates on this type of healthcare and disease guidance, but it has brought back all of the critical data that was purged in an easy to use, easy to navigate, and fast website."

Here's the site itself.
https://aboutus.restoredcdc.org/

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe

The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

404 Media
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Our founder, Timnit Gebru, wrote this invited article for The Economist on the importance of the labor movement in curbing the proliferation of harmful "AI" systems.

https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2023/11/13/timnit-gebru-says-harmful-ai-systems-need-to-be-stopped

The text is in the linked thread for those who can't access it due to paywall.

https://dair-community.social/deck/@timnitGebru/111585404028008284

Timnit Gebru says harmful AI systems need to be stopped

The labour movement has a vital role to play and will grow in importance in 2024, says Timnit Gebru of the Distributed AI Research Institute

The Economist
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Sly Flourish Bundle

Adventurer! We've resurrected our April 2022 Sly Flourish Bundle with .PDF ebooks of the Lazy Dungeon Master and Fantastic Adventures lines from Sly Flourish. Since 2009 the Lazy DM himself, Mike Shea, has published books, articles, podcasts, and videos that help gamemasters run great tabletop roleplaying game sessions. With the core doctrine of "prepare what matters to our game," the Sly Flourish books detail eight steps to help DMs quickly conjure exactly what they need at the table, with a focus on staying flexible and being able to improvise as the story expands. And the Fantastic Adventures series takes that wisdom from the table to the page, with scenarios, lairs, and locations you can easily drop into any Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition fantasy campaign.