Pedro Silva

@pedromosilva
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Não fritem a pipoca.

If you have the Facebook app on your phone, Mark Zuckerberg would like to monitor your entire life by uploading every photo you take to a secret Facebook database and have AI identify every place you have been, every person you have met, every activity you have participated in, etc.

I do not know how Facebook lures people into turning this on, but I recommend everyone check their settings, and I have made these four pictures which show how you turn it off.

Please reply if yours was on.

#acccgn26 Let’s go! ✨

This didn't make the front page.
But 250 million trees are growing 🌱

Because millions of people decided to do one small thing differently.

Proof that real change doesn’t always make headlines.
Sometimes, it looks like this 💚

Read all about it: https://blog.ecosia.org/250-million-trees/

#250Mtrees #ecosia

Industrialism’s Dehumanization Trap

Treat people for who they truly are; not only does this change how an organization operates, but it also changes how people acknowledge their work and themselves. When people are no longer reduced to fixed metrics or roles, decisions become more long-term and less dependent on short-term pressures. And perhaps, then work is no longer a system for people to adapt to, but becomes a space where people can better understand themselves – and the reason "why we are doing what we are doing."

Scrum.org

The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney).

"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

#CanPoli #CanadianPolitics #CanadaPolitics

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.

POLITICO

Yeah because blocking free movement of shipping is economic terrorism, but wait doing it to Venezuela is freeing the people from a regime. US just does what it wants to who it wants they are just bullies.

#Iran #Hormuz #Trump #Vance #BoycottUSA

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/vance-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-terrorism-b2957110.html

JD Vance accuses Iran of ‘economic terrorism’ in Strait of Hormuz and threatens ‘two can play that game’

Vice president said negotiations with Tehran ‘didn’t move far enough’ in Islamabad

The Independent
The fact that the global tech oligarchy sees regulations based on democratic consensus as weapons shows that big tech has gotten too big.
#digitalsovereignty #regulation
https://startupfortune.com/europeans-have-stopped-trusting-foreign-tech-firms-with-their-data-and-brussels-is-using-that-consensus-as-a-weapon/
Europeans have stopped trusting foreign tech firms with their data and Brussels is using that consensus as a weapon

A Politico survey published April 10 finds 84% of EU citizens distrust US tech companies with their personal data and 93% distrust Chinese firms, giving

Startup Fortune

#Wero is a European mobile payment system developed by the European Payments Initiative (#EPI), with the aim of creating a unified solution for digital payments in Europe

https://wero-wallet.eu/

Wero - European payment solution

Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.