Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

3 Days To Kyiv.

4 years ago Russia launched the full scale war into Ukraine. The results are:

- Russia failed to topple the Ukrainian government
- Russia failed to defeat the Ukrainian army
- Russia failed to defeat the will of the Ukrainian people
- Russia failed to take Kyiv
- Russia failed to isolate Ukraine
- Russia failed to take a single regional capital
- Russia controls less than 20% of Ukraine compared to 27% in March 2022
- 1.2 million Russians have been killed or permanently wounded

La Pasionaria on Clyde Street in Glasgow. A favourite of many people, this statue is a memorial to the 2,100 British volunteers who fought for the Republican cause against Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. Of these, 534 died, including 65 from Glasgow.

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#glasgow #sculpture #lapasionaria #glasgowhistory

@ramiro @grodira Y este otro de #periodismo Creo que hay muchos de titulares horrorosos...

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok

"Like all the muscles in the body…The brain needs to be used…so as not to lose this capacity”

"To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith" the pope added.

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope-leo-tells-priests-not-use-ai-write-homilies-or-seek-likes-tiktok

#AI #Religion #Catholicism #Christianity #LLM

Hetzner (proveedor cloud europeo bastante extendido) va a aumentar sus precios un 36%.

Bastantes instancias de Mastodon usan Hetzner por detrás, así que podría pasar que algunas tuviesen que cerrar debido al aumento de costes.

Pero eh, a ti lo del aumento de precio del hardware no te va a afectar.

EDIT: originalmente leí una subida del 38%, pero parece ser solo del 36%.

Picard management tip: It's okay to be gentle and kind.

Meta's Director of AI Safety runs an OpenClaw agent which started deleting her inbox, and she had to run back to computer to stop "like defusing a bomb" https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

Her post on X (the everything app (TM)) https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363/photo/3

Hmmm.... so it now appears that AI (& LLMs) 'memorise' much of their training data than had been previously thought... to the extent that they can largely reproduce verbatim novels that were used in there training process.

As you can imagine this further complicates the claims about copyright infringement & the fair use defence that have been deployed by Big Tech.

Its more evidence of the theft at the heart of the (so-called) AI 'revolution'!

#AI #copyright

h/t FT

We are out here acting like corporations with a profit motive are going to make any effort to protect the future of mankind.

"Data centers offer an almost perfectly sympathetic NIMBY cause. They’re a drain on local resources, straining infrastructure and driving up utility prices. They exist to support a technology about which people are fairly pessimistic across the political spectrum. They’re pitched as investments in an exciting future, but that future will unfold elsewhere while your town, now designated as an infrastructural non-place, is just stuck with a big jobless box that uses more power and water than everyone else combined.

The surge in local lobbying isn’t about winning this argument — good luck with that! — so much as it’s about getting as much done as possible while the companies still can, buying support at the state level and breaking ground in as many municipalities as possible before data-center backlash becomes a universal condition of local politics in America. AI firms always talk about how they’re in a technological race with one another or against China in which every day counts. But they’re also in a race to take advantage of a brief domestic political moment during which they’re relatively unencumbered and haven’t yet been metabolized into American politics. At the national, state, and local levels, this may be as good as the AI industry will ever have it. And ahead of the midterms — not to mention the prospect of 2028 — it’s lobbying like it’s running out of time."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-big-ai-is-lobbying-before-the-ai-backlash-begins.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #DataCenters #BigTech #AIPopulism #Politics #Lobbying

Creo que casi todos sabemos que hay dos grandes proveedores de pagos en el mundo: Visa y Mastercard.

Sin embargo, ¿sabíais que son empresas estadounidenses?

Aparte del aspecto económico, puesto que estas empresas se llevan una pequeña comisión por cada pago tramitado, esto también tiene implicaciones políticas.

Por ejemplo, una jueza de la Corte Penal Internacional perseguida por Trump vio como de repente no podía usar su tarjeta del banco para nada.

Teniendo en cuenta esto, disponer de un sistema de pagos europeo tiene dos ventajas claras: La comisión se queda "en casa" y tenemos la seguridad de que nuestros pagos (y datos) son gestionados por empresas europeas.

Pues bien,estamos en ello, y #Bizum es una de las empresas participantes:

https://youtu.be/rJq9QOo8Ak0?si=DdJExq911eB662Kg

#Economía #Pagos #UE

Counterpoint to people saying that they need AI to be able to create art.

Via https://bsky.app/profile/smoothdunk2.bsky.social/post/3lwma6yidy226

#AI #art #AIArt #GenerativeAI #GenAI

La Razón:
«Trump anuncia un barco hospital para Groenlandia y Dinamarca responde con un dardo sobre la sanidad de EE UU
El presidente estadounidense afirma que el barco permitirá ampliar el acceso sanitario a las "muchas personas enfermas que no reciben atención"»

La sanidad estadounidense al rescate de la sanidad danesa.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

"In einer Stadt zu spielen, in der Menschen erschossen werden, passt nicht zu unseren Werten" @werderbremen storniert US trip Mai 2026
Boykott WM 2026 in USA

Me parece curioso que la gente que criticaba el supuesto punitivismo de la Ley del sólo sí es sí, defiendan el punitivismo, y un férreo control estatal, cuando se trata de un imaginario problema de convivencia por culpa de los migrantes, o de imponer nuestra personalísima versión de la libertad religiosa.

No quiero ser mal pensado, pero me da que no les importaba tanto el punitivismo, como defender la impunidad de la violencia machista estructural.

Age verification is not en never was about protecting children. It's about mass surveillance.

"Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches, such as by matching your face to politically exposed persons (PEPs), and generating risk and similarity scores for each individual. IP addresses, browser fingerprints, device fingerprints, government ID numbers, phone numbers, names, faces, and even selfie backgrounds are analyzed and retained for up to three years."

https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

#AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Persona #Thiel #ChatControl #Discord

Israel blew up almost all the Ambulances in Gaza Palestine, therefore this...

and the Genocide continues, everyday...

https://x.com/bapphah/status/2025321190580007385

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Zionism