Cluster Fcku

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My choice of words depends on the company I wish to keep. Elbows up!

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adfichter/116284168629855430

Everyone here should read this.

The Best I've seen so far about AI Warfare of the US Army.

I’m in Belgium on a work-related trip; first time I had the chance to pick up a printed copy of Belgian newspaper De Morgen since I started working for them.

I know print is dying, but seeing your cartoons in ink on actual paper is still something special :)

De Duitse deelstaat Schleswig-Holstein behoort tot de koplopers van Europese overheden die hun afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse technologiebedrijven daadwerkelijk afbouwen. Waar in Nederlandse lokale overheden niet verder durven te gaan dan pilots en voornemens, zijn de Duitsers al concreet bezig met een systematische migratie naar open source.

https://ibestuur.nl/markt-en-overheid/digitale-infrastructuur/hoe-schleswig-holstein-gecontroleerd-breekt-met-techreuzen

Hoe Schleswig-Holstein gecontroleerd breekt met techreuzen

De Duitse deelstaat Schleswig-Holstein behoort tot de koplopers van Europese overheden die hun afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse technologiebedrijven daadwerkelijk afbouwen. Waar in Nederlandse lokale overheden niet verder durven te gaan dan pilots en voornemens, zijn de Duitsers al concreet bezig met een systematische migratie naar open source. 

iBestuur

"What Piff and his team found at that intersection is profound — and profoundly satisfying — in that it offers hard data to back up what intuition and millennia of wisdom (from Aristotle to Edith Wharton) would have us believe: Wealth tends to make people act like assholes, and the more wealth they have, the more of a jerk they tend to be.

At the intersection the researchers were monitoring, drivers of the most expensive cars were roughly four times more likely to cut others off and three times less likely to stop for pedestrians, even when controlling for factors like the driver’s perceived gender and amount of traffic at the time they were collecting data.

When someone from the research team posed as a pedestrian heading into the crosswalk, almost half of the grade-five cars failed to stop, as if they didn’t even see the person."
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Rolling Stone
Every pro-renewables politician should be working at 100% capacity to flip the "the greens are making your life more expensive" narrative into "the fossil fuel lobbyists are making your life more expensive" right now, but I fear our side is too nice to effectively exploit a situation like this

Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write. #canpoli #uspoli

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/03/16/Top-One-Per-Cent-Threaten-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

How the Top One Per Cent Threaten Canada’s Future | The Tyee

Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. To preserve democracy, we must act.

The Tyee
Gisteren voerden we actie bij Maastricht Aachen Airport tegen de extreem vervuilende privéjets die landen voor kunstbeurs TEFAF. Jaarlijks vliegen honderden jets de superrijken naar Maastricht: een pijnlijk symbool van een systeem waarin kapitaal beslist en de gewone burger de rekening betaalt. [1/4]

Must it be investigated and then revealed who Banksy is ???

“Working anonymously or under a pseudonym serves vital societal interests. It protects freedom of expression by allowing creators to speak truth to power without fear of retaliation, censorship or persecution—particularly when addressing sensitive issues such as politics, religion or social justice.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/banksy-real-name-reportedly-revealed?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-ca

Banksy Unmasked: Investigation Claims To Reveal Artist's Secret Identity

Reporters with Reuters say that after an exhaustive investigation they've discovered the true identity of British street artist Banksy.

Vanity Fair
Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue

In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag is waving or whether it’s the wind that waves.

Open Culture

Just what the climate needed — setting Tehran's oil storage facilities on fire.

I am standing in my kitchen, sorting the trash into four different containers, because my country wants the planet to survive; meanwhile Trump and Putin have decided that the planet will not be needed after they are gone.