Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

@pluralistic Hi, we are a group of parents in Vancouver that are trying to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.

We have started a petition to show that parents are concerned and do not consent to their children using genAI in classrooms.

It would help so much if you could share it.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/voice-ai-concerns-to-vancouver-school-board

Más allá de consideraciones éticas o políticas, a nivel estratégico, no tiene ningún sentido seguir en el bar de nazis.

#Meme #Humour

Kind of crazy that you see a headline about government troops targeting civilian protesters, and need to read the first paragraph to learn if it is Iran or the United States.

"There's so many good domestic reasons to do this. Without C-11, Canadian companies could defend their fellow Canadians from American data-theft and cash ripoffs by making alternative clients, jailbreaks, and other add-ons that disenshittified America's defective tech" -- @pluralistic

This is good advice to Canada, but it's equally good advise to the UK -- and the EU.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/12/disenshittification-nation-2/#heated-rivalry

Middle Ages are often characterized as an era of religiously-mandated sexual repression. Visitors to medieval sites can be surprised by explicit sculptures adorning church facades, such as this corbel figure from church of San Martin de Elines, Spain.

Various interpretations of this particular kind of Romanesque eroticism have been posited, from warnings against sin to incitements to reproduce, the survival of pagan fertility cults to downright base humour.

📷© Jaime Nuño Foundation

Josu Jon Imaz fue uno de los invitados a la Casa Blanca, como consejero delegado de Repsol, para repartirse el petróleo venezolano. Y sin duda destacó entre todos los lamedores de botas allí reunidos.

Hoy, Pedro Sánchez ha expresado su máximo respeto por la (acomodaticia) disposición mostrada por Imaz hacia Donaldo, y ha defendido que obedece a unos criterios legítimos (pero no muy edificantes).

Doble papelón de Españita en el expolio venezolano.

Nah, just kidding. The world’ll be on fire by then.

#comic #webcomic #Funny

https://www.techspot.com/news/110879-jensen-huang-relentless-ai-negativity-hurting-society-has.html

Ampliar aeropuertos no es una buena idea. 😱✈️

Más aviones no solo conllevará más cambio climático y más turistificación. También agravará un problema de salud pública del que nadie habla. Lo explica muy bien Xabier Benito en este artículo en @elsaltodiario.com.

Va hilo. 🧵

#MenosAvionesMásVida

https://www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/vivir-ruido-creciente-del-aeropuerto-loiu

America isn’t the way it is because he’s president. He’s president because America is the way it is.

A 33,000 years old small carving of a bird, thought to be a diver, cormorant or duck. From beak to tail the figure is 4.7cm long. The sculpted piece of mammoth ivory, found in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany, may be the earliest representation of a bird.

Blaubeuren Prehistory Museum, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

#archaeohistories

“We are at the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel economy. The U.S. is betting on the wrong horse.”

The perfect kicker quote for this important front-page NYY story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/under-trump-us-adds-fuel-to-a-heating-planet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1A.8_xb.KlO6w5gaMSyo&smid=nytcore-android-share [gift link]

#climate #economics #us #trump

At Dr's. Fun fact: I can get a flu shot but not a COVID shot here; if I want that, go to my local pharmacy. That sounds totally logical.

#publichealth #uspol

I hope Trump will be the mirror that makes America ... change its clothes? Because if all we do is get rid of the head, our body will grow a new one soon enough
#usPol

This popped up in another app and it made me smile. Sadly, I suspect our neighbors to the north are too polite and civilized to actually do this to the leader of another country.

#uspol #USPolitics

Share your knowledge about Free and Open Source with the @EUCommission and provide input for its European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy.

All feedback is welcome but there are five specific questions like: What are the main barriers that prevent #FOSS adoption? & What is the added value of FOSS?

Input informs the Strategy which marks FOSS as a crucial contribution to technological sovereignty & security.
The Call is open till February 3.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

#NGI #NGI0 #policy

Climate change has now shrunk US salaries by 12%. And worse is to come | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/climate-change-income?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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