By 2030, AI's "water footprint will equal the basic annual domestic water needs of all 1.3 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa, and their land footprint will exceed 14,500 square kilometers, roughly twice the Jakarta metropolitan area, home to more than 32 million people."

https://unu.edu/inweh/news/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-use-carbon-water-and-land-footprints

If AI is not stopped it will cause the death of billions.

⚠️ Today, Norwegian Consumer Council and @noybeu filed a legal complaint against Schibsted, one of Norway’s largest commercial news publishers, for breaching several provisions of the GDPR.

💵 The complaint follows Schibsted’s introduction of “pay-or-consent” model on its news websites. People are asked to either pay to protect their privacy, or “consent” to their personal data being shared with the advertising industry.

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/forbrukerradet-klager-inn-schibsteds-krav-om-betaling-for-personvern/
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https://noyb.eu/en/nordic-media-giant-schibsted-switches-pay-or-okay-complaint-filed

Who controls the North Pole?

(by instagram users: @the.world.in.maps & @maven.mapping)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTiiBuIkd1B/

Golden Crown

15:30 late afternoon, mid-November in eastern Iceland, and the sun is setting in the south-west.

Looking north across Berufjörður, the mountains behind us are casting shadows onto the peaks on the opposite side of the fjord. Gradually they have crept up the faces of the mountains, and I have watched, spellbound.

A bizarre mountain named Stöng has a strange spiked pinnacle. For a perfect moment, only the very tip of it is sunset-lit.

#MountainsMonday #Iceland #Photography