Working Class History#OtD 7 Jun 1954 mathematician and AI thinker Alan Turing, who had helped the Allies win WWII by cracking Nazi codes, died after being sentenced to chemical castration for homosexuality. Officially ruled suicide, but some suspect other explanations https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10718/alan-turing-dies
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If the president can spend a quarter of his days in office golfing, corporations can give workers a four-day work week.
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Mullvad VPNThe EU initiative Going Dark has now been launched by the EU Commission. They call it ProtectEU.
It’s a rebranding of Chat Control. New name. Same old propaganda.
The EU Commission’s goal is to “access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights.”
Read the full release from the Commission here:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52025PC0148
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Kees van der Leun50,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza. Dutch @trouw.nl has the first part of the list of their names on its front page today. The list is ranked by age; these victims were all zero years old.
Camila BrunCalled it. Pinterest will use all artwork uploaded by third-parties for ML training.
I've been using python scripts in recent months to systematically hunt down all my work on Pinterest and remove it (hundreds and hundreds of pins), expecting they'd jump into the AI bandwagon as soon they felt it safe.
It comes into effect in April 30. https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/changes-to-our-policies
Tengrain
OSNewsMozilla deletes promise not to sell Firefox users’ data
The hits just keep on coming. Mozilla not only changed its Privacy Notice and introduced a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time with some pretty onerous terms, they also removed a rather specific question and answer pair from their page with frequently asked questions about Firefox, as discovered by David Gerard.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141825/mozilla-deletes-promise-not-to-sell-firefox-users-data/
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