Kyuu Eturautti

@kyuuet
7 Followers
36 Following
38 Posts
Ex-everything. Optimistic self-taught expert in failures who learned to laugh at himself. For: NAFO, debates, pineapple. Against: putin, silence, mushrooms.
Homepagehttps://kyuu.fi/
Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday โ€” wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.

Confronted with key questions about life-or-death issues, Trump keeps offering shrugged shoulders and blank stares.

Just how out of the loop is President Bystander in his own White House? https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/president-bystander-trump-appears-loop-white-house-rcna198357

President Bystander: Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House

Confronted with key questions about life-or-death issues, Donald Trump looks like a bystander, offering the public a lot of shrugged shoulders and blank stares.

MSNBC

When you pursue and anti-science agenda, don't be suspired when your scientists seek to leave.

"The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. ๐Ÿงต

OVHcloud CEO calls on companies to anticipate discontinuity risk with European alternatives

OVHcloud is a French ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท cloud service provider positioning itself as a reliable, sovereign, European alternative to US cloud hyperscalers.

The company's CEO, Benjamin Revcolevschi, emphasizes the importance of sovereignty and the need for a Plan B in case of a shutdown.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/interview/ovhcloud-ceo-calls-on-companies-to-anticipate-discontinuity-risk-with-european-alternatives/
#EuropeanTech #sovereignty #europeanalternatives #BuyFromEU #OVH

At EFF, we believe you should be able to fix the stuff that you own! Here's what's been happening with your right to repair: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/right-repair-prime-example-grassroots-advocacy
Right to Repair: A Prime Example of Grassroots Advocacy

Good old-fashioned grassroots advocacy is one of the best tools we have right now for making a positive change for our civil liberties online. When we unite toward a shared goal, anything is possible, and the right to repair movement is a prime example of this.In July of last year, EFF and many...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: from Mar 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

-

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen

1/

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Ars Technica