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RICHIESTA DI AZIONE IMMEDIATA AL PORTO DI GIOIA TAURO PER iSPEZIONE DI CARICHI CON PROBABILI MATERIALI DI ARMAMENTO DESTINATI A ISRAELE

Come BDS Italia, in cooperazione con movimenti nazionali e internazionali, segnaliamo con massima allerta il transito dal porto di Gioia Tauro di molteplici container trasportati dalle navi della compagnia MSC sospettati di contenere materiale per uso militare proveniente dall’India e destinati alla ...
Continua su: https://bdsitalia.org/index.php/la-campagna-bds/comunicati

Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers

Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

"A new Microsoft data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, will require more than eight million gallons of water each year to operate, according to records that Microsoft did everything in its power to keep hidden from the public."

https://progressive.org/latest/tech-giants-are-trying-to-cover-up-the-environmental-impacts-of-their-data-centers-cooper-20251022/

Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers

Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

Progressive.org

Hello Mastodon! Time for a proper #introduction.

I'm Shaun, a translator for the solidarity economy.
• Languages: FR/ES/IT/PT/CA > EN
• Focus: Cooperative finance, governance & social theory.
• The Twist: Ex-corporate finance analyst, now translating for the commons.

You can see my work and my new focus here:
https://rootandbranch.online/?v2

#translation #SocialEconomy #SolidarityEconomy #cooperatives #anarchism #sociology #degrowth #finance

Translations with Deep Roots | Root & Branch

Specialist legal, financial, and sociological translation (FR/ES/IT/PT/CA to EN). Helping cooperatives and ethical funders build a better economy.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Chat Control is an undemocratic proposal by the European Council that would usher in an age of indiscriminate and generalised digital surveillance in the EU.

Read the joint letter by 49 associations opposed to it: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Statement_-The-future-of-the-CSA-Regulation.pdf

Convince your country to vote against the proposal at https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Check out the detailed analysis by @echo_pbreyer: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

#ChatControl #europe #privacy #digitalrights #eu

If you are in the European Union and don't want your State to turn into Big Brother and go through your chats, emails and personal files; please go through https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ and fight this disgrace of a proposal

#ChatControl #privacy #europe

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

It’s Time for Americans to Sta...
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

The Existentialist Republic

An interesting conversation between Professor Michael Sandel and Tristan Harris on the questions that need to be asked regarding the purpose of AI with respect to work and human dignity (and ultimately a critique of today's market society)

https://open.substack.com/pub/centerforhumanetechnology/p/is-ai-productivity-worth-our-humanity

#ai #technology #llm #philosophy

Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity?

With Professor Michael Sandel

[ Center for Humane Technology ]