This is not a joke... A press release from the UK government about a meeting of the "national drought group", in order to "save water at home", suggests to:

"Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems"

... while the government also pushes for full-blown investments in, and adoption of, "genAI" (e.g. here ) with absolutely no mention of the environmental costs.. which are surely orders of magnitude worse than whatever a server uses to store old pictures, and for what?! 🤦🤦🤦

#GenAI #SavingThePlanet

One of those moments where I remember that Dracula was written by an Irishman

"Seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, "

😂
#DraculaDaily

"Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After All"

*FACEPALM*

"...both large and small aerosol particles in the air..."

“There is a lot of H5N1 virus on these farms"

“It is everywhere"

"We need to be expanding biosafety measures, biosecurity measures and trying to control where the virus is.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-flu-could-be-spreading-through-the-air-on-dairy-farms-preliminary-study/

#H5N1 #BirdFlu #Airborne

EU Revives Plan to Ban Private Messaging

The EU is inching toward the biggest peacetime surveillance experiment in its history, with plans to quietly search every private message before you hit send.

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-revives-plan-to-ban-private-messaging

#privacy #europe #censorship #messageriesecurisee #securemessenger #chiffrement #chatcontrol