@skry

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Tech (ux, infosec, facepalms), ethics, science, US politics, climate action, public health, social justice, human rights. Visuals on art, crafts, weird stuff, living things, archaeology, landscapes. Beauty and curiosities.

Left Coast, US

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skry2h ago
MeidasTouch7h ago
Just an idea, but maybe don't believe everything Trump says
skry2h ago
MeidasTouch6h ago
Friday recap: Trump surrendered the Strait of Hormuz to Iran and tried to declare victory, the acting ICE director resigned after being hospitalized from Stephen Miller's pressure, Jared Kushner is under investigation for running Middle East business deals while negotiating foreign policy, and U.S. troops are rationing food in a war zone Trump started, and more. In under three minutes, get all the news you need—so far.
skry2h ago
Julian Oliver6h ago

A new report by Investigate Europe details how US tech giants (incl. Google, Amazon and Meta) aggressively and successfully lobbied EU regulators and politicians to keep the environmental harm caused by their euro-zone datacenters secret from the public.

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-tech-data-centres-secrecy-eu-law-environment-footprint

#bigtech #environment #climate #digitalimperialism

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll

Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.

Investigate Europe
skry2h ago
MeidasTouch3h ago
EXCLUSIVE: Attorneys for Rep. Jamie Raskin are asking appeals court to halt Trump Admin effort to vacate convictions of Jan 6 seditious conspiracy defendants

Raskin is trying to serve as firewall as Justice Department & defense join forces to vacate the cases.
skry2h ago
Show threadMeidasTouch3h ago
Raskin: “The Dept. of Justice is now acting like in-house counsel for the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, who together coordinated and directed the worst mass attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812. These astounding motions are an attempt to vaporize the verdicts rendered by American jurors and to pretend that these seditious conspiracies against our government never happened. They are an insult to the jurors..”
skry2h ago
Indivisible ❌👑3h ago
On April 25, join a local event in defense of immigrants in your community. As the regime buys up warehouses to convert into concentration camps, it’s critical that we come together to oppose the literal warehousing of people in our country: https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/?tag_ids=31108
skry2h ago
David3h ago

@Zitron of the Better Offline podcast joins Isaac Pound of The Tech Report YouTube channel: "The #AI industry is ignoring how much people hate it," where they discuss how it's the "AI" industry's own marketing, executives' rhetoric, and choice to deceptively present chatbots conversationally (thus creating the illusion of cognition) which is causing the violence against #genAI executives and the damage to #slop industry property.

As well as driving people to harm themselves and others, they're ultimately the ones creating the hostility against themselves, as a direct and foreseeable consequence of their own communication and business choices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhx5RoOXrhk

‘The AI industry is ignoring how much people hate it’ | Ed Zitron

YouTube
skry8h ago
Indivisible ❌👑15h ago
In a big loss for Mike Johnson, the House rejected his proposed reauthorization of a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens. https://punchbowl.news/article/washington/fisa-flop/
The FISA flop, plus Republicans can’t stop fighting each other

An audacious play by Johnson to pass a five-year extension of Section 702 of FISA failed spectacularly just before 1:30 a.m.

Punchbowl News
skry9h ago
Show threadIndivisible ❌👑15h ago
This fight isn’t over, so make sure your representative hears from you about voting NO on Section 702: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-congress-say-no-warrantless-ai-mass-surveillance/?source=mastodon
Tell Congress to Say No to Warrantless AI Mass Surveillance

The War on Terror-era legislation that authorized decades of civil liberties-eroding mass surveillance is set to expire on April 19. Congress should let it die. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was passed in 2008 as a counterterrorism measure, but has a long history of abuse from the federal government, especially when it comes to surveillance. Congress has a choice to make: Will they greenlight warrantless mass surveillance, or hold the line and reject any effort to move forward without serious privacy guardrails? FISA as it is currently written: Allows warrantless backdoor surveillance of people in and out of the country Offers little to no protections against the administration targeting critics, activists, religious minorities, or communities of color Actively chills our freedoms of speech and association Two years ago, this reauthorization legislation sailed through Congress with bipartisan support. That can’t happen again. Let your Members of Congress know you expect them to reject reauthorization unless it includes significant reforms to protect our civil liberties against this authoritarian regime.

Indivisible Guide
skry9h ago
Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀14h ago

New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power

A new metric for assessing total system costs puts a least-cost mix of offshore wind and solar at about €46 ($54.20)/MWh in a future climate-neutral energy system for Denmark. Researchers tell pv magazine that figure is less than half the equivalent cost of nuclear under the same conditions.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/new-metric-shows-renewables-are-53-cheaper-than-nuclear-power/

#renewableenergy

New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power

A new metric for assessing total system costs puts a least-cost mix of offshore wind and solar at about €46 ($54.20)/MWh in a future climate-neutral energy system for Denmark. Researchers tell <b>pv magazine</b> that figure is less than half the equivalent cost of nuclear under the same conditions.

pv magazine International