Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

A group of US citizens, many of whom were directly impacted by Israel's 19-month-long war on Gaza, have filed a legal complaint in Washington, DC in the hopes of eventually seeing the US referred to the International Criminal Court.

The group, Taxpayers Against Genocide, was joined by the National Lawyers Guild International Committee in filing the 133-page complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/taxpayers-against-genocide-files-legal-complaint-against-us-government

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Planned Parenthood is the next to get axed. Other than abortions, it offers: contraception, STD testing/treatment, abortion, pregnancy testing, cancer screenings and HRT for menopausal women.

#women #healthcare #PlannedParenthood #politics #FundingCuts #FascistAmeriKKKa #tyranny https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/major-federal-and-state-funding-cuts-facing-planned-parenthood/

The cool thing about writing code is that the computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do.

The cool thing about debugging code is slowly learning what you actually told the computer to do.

Octopus Energy posted me a 321 A4 page electricity bill printed out on paper as a physical 5cm thick package (on their "Agile tariff" the rate changes every half hour, so there are 48 line items per day). I enquired as to why they'd done that?
Apparently they tried to email it first, but the 15 MB email exceeded my email server's size limit, so they posted a hard copy instead.

A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming – Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Source: A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2025/05/15/a-majority-of-registered-voters-want-federal-agencies-to-increase-their-efforts-to-protect-people-from-the-health-harms-of-global-warming-yale-program-on-climate-change-communication/

Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—

BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!

EU citizens can sign at: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

The Catholic Church has a new Pope, and he explicitly cited the threats AI presents for workers as a reason for choosing the name Leo XIV.

With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/will-pope-leo-xiv-be-an-ally-against

#tech #pope #popeleo #ai #artificialintelligence #catholicchurch #vatican

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs. I agree with the students. Using ChatGPT is cheating.

OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to!

“CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you might have set up. You can get CoPilot to just dump out the contents of sensitive documents that it can see, with the bonus feature* that your access won’t show up in audit logs.”

The S in CoPilot stands for Security!

https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/remembering-f00fs-of-old/

An Archive for arXiv

A few weeks ago I mentioned the concerning news that arXiv was changing the way it works and moving all of its content into cloud storage. Related to this was a decision made last year to shut down the previously existing arXiv mirror sites. At the time arXiv explained that The arXiv mirror network served a role – acting as a backup for the corpus, allowing some degree of load distribution, and providing improved access for users who were…

http://telescoper.blog/2025/05/14/an-archive-for-arxiv/

#Terraforming #climatechange #ausgov #politas #classwar

Today we're releasing #LibreOffice 24.8.7, the last update to the older branch. After this, all users are recommended to upgrade to LibreOffice 25.2, the newer stable branch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/08/libreoffice-24-8-7/ #foss #OpenSource

As #US #vulnerability-tracking falters, #EU enters with its own #security bug database
The European Vulnerability Database (#EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems. The EUVD is similar to the US government's National Vulnerability Database (#NVD).
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/eu_security_bug_database/ #CISA

🚨 Today, noyb has sent a cease and desist letter to Meta regarding its AI training plans in Europe.

👉 If Meta doesn't comply with the request, noyb could file an injunction – or launch an EU class action in the future.

All the details 👇
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-sends-meta-cease-and-desist-letter-over-ai-training-european-class-action-potential-next-step

Luigi Cruz, a staff engineer from the #SETI Institute, described to a packed audience at GTC 2025 how his team used NVIDIA Holoscan and AI to accurately identify radio signals emitted by a far-off pulsar. Theoretically, this method can also identify communication from intelligent extraterrestrial life.

“The universe is very large and mostly empty,” Cruz said. “We need superhuman means, which is what AI basically is, to search the data in creative ways.”

Learn more: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/how-seti-uses-ai-to-search-for-intelligent-alien-life/

Q&A from a talk I gave last week.

Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"

A: Fascism. It's fascism.

"Despite this dismal success rate, companies are going all-in on AI, driven largely by the belief that everyone else is doing it. Nearly two-thirds of CEOs (64%) say “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization,” according to the study."

https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment/

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In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.