Young Australian woman arrested under harsh draconian laws where she may face up to two years for wearing a top with just a few words on it.

This hardly seems fair

I'm just going to say it:

multi billion dollar companies are unable to make software that can be used effectively.

how it appears is that the more money a corporation has, the worse its software is.

if you want reliability, merit, the ability to use it, or even simply... features, then free and open source software is your only realistic option.

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

We have between 20 & 27 days of physical onshore fuel stocks left. Here is an excellent guide written by the Wise Response Society to prepping for what's to come, should the fuel run out.

https://wiseresponse.substack.com/p/what-can-i-do-in-response-to-the?triedRedirect=true

Jeffrey David Sachs (/sæks/ SAKS; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst. He is a professor at Columbia University, where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute, and is director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the university.

From 2002 to 2018, Sachs was special adviser to the UN Secretary-General. He has been president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Sachs is co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. From 2002 to 2006, he was director of the United Nations Millennium Project's work on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2010, he became a commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, whose stated aim is to boost the importance of broadband internet in international policy. He is an SDG Advocate for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in 2015.

Sachs has written many books and received several awards. His views on economics, on the origin of COVID-19, and on the Russian invasion of Ukraine have garnered attention and criticism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs

The only way we want our ads to come down. When people take them home.

a) Keep them.
b) Send them to Ashton Kutcher.
c) Put them outside 10 Downing Street.