“Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI”
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/707442/grok-antisemitic-hitler-elon-musk-opinion-reprogrammed
Anyone remember the days when we actually had a bar? Or at least pretended there was one, no matter how low? I miss those days.
Year of the Co-ops
Did you know the UN has made 2025 ‘International year of co-operatives’?
Co-ops are democratically owned businesses or organisations, with the co-op’s members in control to meet their shared needs. The members may be customers, employees, residents or suppliers.
All co-ops the world over shares the same 7 principles and 10 values.
Around 40% of the UK’s 7000 co-ops are consumer owned – think credit unions, high street Co-op supermarkets and Your Co-op, while over 350 are worker owned e.g. Essential (Food & Household specialists), Footprint Workers Co-op (Riso printers), Go Free Range (Software development revolutionaries: @freerange), Suma (Food, household, toiletries), Veggies (Catering company: @Veggies) and workers.coop (Federation of worker-led cooperatives: @workers_coop). Others can be multi-stakeholder owned such as Webarchitects (Cloud hosting services).
Examples of international co-ops are cosocial (Non profit social media platform: @coop – Canada), Limeleaf (Software developers: @limeleaf – USA), Nubo (Ethical mail & cloud services: @nubo_coop – Belgium), Ouvaton (Hosting & software services: @ouvaton – France) and Society (Digital technologies: @sociality – Greece).
The Labour government did say in its pre-election manifesto that it would double the size of the co-op sector and mutual economy in the UK, but as with many manifesto pledges I wouldn’t hold your breath.
The 10 official co-operative ‘values’ are:
#Coop #cooperative #Cooperatives #coops #democracy #equality #honesty #solidarity
[Read on Ethical Revolution] Did you know the UN has made 2025 ‘International year of co-operatives’? Co-ops are democratically owned businesses or organisations, with the co-op’s members in control to meet their shared needs. The members may be customers, employees, residents or suppliers. All co-ops the world over shares the same 7 principles and 10 values. Around 40% of ... ... Read on ...
Met Nubo kunnen we ons helemaal in die boodschap vinden. Op het domein van digitale diensten proberen we een verschil te maken op vlak van privacy, duurzaamheid en democratie. Met de steun van meer dan duizend coöperanten bouwen we elke dag aan een mail en cloud die een verschil maakt.
Bedankt coöperanten!
Avec Nubo, nous nous identifions totalement à ce message. Dans le domaine des services numériques, nous essayons de faire la différence en termes de vie privée, de durabilité et de démocratie. Avec le soutien de plus d'un millier de coopérateurs, nous construisons chaque jour un mail et cloud qui font la différence.
Merci aux coopérateurs !
With Nubo, we can totally identify with that message. In the field of digital services, we try to make a difference in terms of privacy, sustainability and democracy. With the support of more than a thousand cooperators, every day we build a mail and cloud that makes a difference.
Thank you, cooperators!
New report out now: New Technologies, Old Injustice 🚨
Across Europe, authorities are using so-called ‘predictive’ technologies to profile and criminalise marginalised communities.
Our latest report brings together research from Belgium, France, Germany and Spain to show how AI, data-driven and algorithmic systems are embedding racism and discrimination deeper into policing and legal systems.
📄 Read the full report:
https://www.statewatch.org/news/2025/june/police-racism-and-criminalisation-across-europe-increasingly-fuelled-by-digital-prediction-and-profiling-systems/
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Ethical Revolution
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