Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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It's a huge challenge, and it often feels like we're losing ground. At the very least, I think we should call out mis/disinformation whenever we see it online or in print, or encounter it in person.
The real power to shut it down lies with the government -- for instance, Trudeau's perfectly reasonable anti-greenwashing law which the O&G industry hates so much. Pushing political candidates to enact & enforce laws like that is another challenge all its own.
https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/how-to-stop-oil-and-gas-industry-misinformation/
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This evening on my usual Monday national radio tech segment, I'll be discussing how AI chatbots have been directly involved in the suicide of a teenager and a murder-suicide, and what this should mean for Big Tech AI companies and their billionaire CEOs going forward.
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✍🏼 Are you a cis woman in the UK who supports the trans community? Then sign the NION Women letter… 44K signatures, and counting…
If you’re trans or an ally, please repost and share 🔄 🙏🏻
👉🏻 https://www.change.org/p/not-in-our-name-women-in-support-of-the-trans-community?l
If this resistance can work against ICE, it can also work against big tech, unethical AI, anti vaxxers, anti science and other groups, together we are stronger.
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Word spread through social media that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had reportedly checked into two Long Beach hotels.
Within the hour, a small contingent of local residents had arrived at both establishments.
They were there to make sure ICE agents didn’t sleep.
This was one of several
“No Sleep for ICE” events
that popped up during the month of June.
In a time when large-scale protests often dominate headlines,
a different kind of resistance is taking root across Southern California.
Small, decentralized networks of community members are using stealthy tactics and real-time coordination
to monitor, disrupt, and expose the movements of federal immigration officers.
https://truthout.org/articles/in-southern-california-small-groups-of-activists-quietly-undermine-ice-operations/
Rupturing a persons spleen sounds better than being raped, esp if that person is going to try and rape you. Verbal first, then get more physical, you have already said NO and denied any consent. They get what they deserve.
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The world’s leading association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution stating that the legal criteria have been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza — DW News
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Israel KKK minister Smotrich:
2025 will be the first year since 1967 that we will demolish more buildings in the West Bank than those being built.
And the bastard is proud of it, because he knows EU is coward and complicit, US is paying for it, Canada ignores it, Arab league looking for ways to make money out of it.
Who is going to stop him? Why should care holding back?
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Today in 1939: Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII.
CBS carried his speech (I believe that’s Howard K. Smith anchoring):
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This is what many people (including myself) suspected would happen with these LLM SaaS services — that they would become spyware.
And, not just that, but — that they would take spyware to another level.
“OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening.”
@ConversationUK @education-ConversationUK
Transition from year 6 to year 7 also takes pupils who were at the top at the school, to the bottom of the next school, year six can take on roles such as prefects, play leaders etc, to help younger children, so the move to year 7 that is taken away from them as the year 10/11 assume those roles.
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'Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder' was released in Arcades 33 years ago this month in Japan.
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We really need to start pushing the truth about AI.
The easiest job for AI to replace would be Management.
Uses the most resources, while offering the least amount of actual productivity.
Reads something by some idiot on the internet, and bases their Management Style around it.
Makes decisions without context.
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How can one #genocide cover another?
Dr. Snežana Stankovic (Uniklinik RWTH Aachen) explains how the Bosnian Serb army's 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in #Srebrenica finds echoes in #Gaza today, where international politics, arms trades, and selective remembrance conceal ongoing atrocities.
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN3U1BxXnmg/?igsh=MWwxbDFqdGJ5OHczdA%3D%3D
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Putin-Xi-Modi Bromance on Full Display as Eastern Leaders Tout Strengthened Ties
#RussiaChinaTalks #TrumpDeadlineIgnored #Geopolitics #UkrainePeaceTalks #InternationalRelations
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Dear fediverse,
I just had a video call over Signal with @joynewacc from Gaza.
Farah, or Joy, as she prefers to be called, is a 22-year-old Palestinian author and poet studying English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has been bombed by Israel.
She lives with her mother and four siblings in a shelter, trying to survive the genocide being committed by Israel.
Please help her and her family afford food during the famine that Gaza is experiencing. Please donate if you can and/or share this so that it might reach others who might be able to:
https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy
Joy used to have an account on BlueSky but they closed it. Please give her a warm welcome to the fediverse and let her know she is welcome here.
If you’d like to read her writings, you can find them at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XMS1kW6EYGnb_DF2P4BbRDDMClX9Sahx
Watch: Putin, Modi and other world leaders in China for summit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5y310qngqpo
Back in July, the UK signed a trade deal with India. A country who are now making closer ties with China and it seems Russia. These are two countries whom the EU, west, NATO, (other than the USA) consider a THREAT.
So what is going on, do we now have a trade deal with our potential enemies. ?
LOL, nice going :)
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Despite 9 years of loyalty & going above & beyond, the company made me redundant. Didn't take long for them to realise this was a mistake as I'm the only person who knows how to fix problems with their in-house systems. I now charge them £300 an hour to go in and fix their shit.
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Wait - “America's leading physician groups are now openly defying a fucking lawyer and conspiracy theorist. U.S. vaccine consensus has officially shattered." There. I fixed it. 😀
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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