“‘For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’

…

US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.

Worldwide, democracy has receded to its lowest levels since the mid-70s. ‘The world has never before seen as many countries autocratising at the same time’

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A record 41% (3.4 billion) of the world’s population currently resides in countries where democracy is deteriorating, the report claims, adding that Washington is leading this global turn away from democracy.”

The very fucking *least* you can do right now is not comply in advance.

Yes, I’m looking at you, tech folks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

#fascism

Land Back not because we need to hand over all the "real estate" to indigenous landlords, but because the life-giving land must no longer be "real estate" & landlords must not exist.

Land Back because it was the conversion of "land" into "property" that led to destruction of all that lives on the land: people, plants, & animals alike.

Land Back because imposing colonialist rule on this place creates endless, ongoing suffering.

Land Back because this must once again become a place of life.

Anyone with a #cheatsheet for the #fediverse?

We are looking for #tutorials or guides to help cultural organizations planning their social media presence on the fediverse. :)

For example: an organization has a social media manager and wants to switch from corporate social media to decentralized ones. How to restructure such workflows in the fediverse? Mastodon or pixefed? Both accounts?

Are there some examples of best practices?

#fediask #socialmediamanager #federated #publicrelations #pr

“Using AI is not worse for the environment than eating burgers or driving”

Guess what, I don't do either, and the environment is not improving.

Focusing on personal responsibility is a false narrative — don't spread it. We need systemic solutions such as industry regulations and worker protections.

Kolminkertainen hurraa-huuto EU Parlamentille!

”Parlamentin kanta on, että tekoäly-yhtiöiden tulisi maksaa korvauksia tekijänoikeudella suojatun materiaalin käytöstä.”

https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000011871888.html

#euparlamentti #tekoäly #tekijänoikeudet #hurraa #huraa

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116172866488754801

UBI in relation to genAI harms is absolutely a red herring. Even if it were implemented, when you play it out in your head it... doesn't look great. So let's talk about that?

What does UBI get you? A basic standard of living, not very fancy, still encouraging you to seek out work if you want more luxuries but at least you won't die in the streets. That's kinda what it is, definitionally. It's achieved through some level of taxation, wherever you want that to come from to make it effective, but corporations and billionaires are obvious big targets.

Setting aside the idea that both of those obvious targets are largely politically untouchable and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, what we're left with is a bunch of people who have been pushed out of work, who can only afford the very basic living standards in our society, and who have no way to climb out of that hole because all the "value" is being captured by automation, which is controlled by... the corporations and billionaires which must continue to be at least fairly profitable, and fairly filthy rich in order to be taxable and able to fund the UBI. It also removes the possibility of worker power being able to influence corporate direction in any way, which is terribly convenient.

The result of UBI in an AI world isn't a more comfortable world, it's a further-stratified world where even more people are pushed to "barely scraping by" than ever, the environment continues to be set on fire, and the worst people in the world have all the economic and political power.