Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

LIVE: Winner of 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry is announced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP6EqMq1v3I&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

From Meta to X to LinkedIN, companies are eyeing up our data to train AI. Despite this, the Information Comissioner's Office is leaving a data protection enforcement gap in the UK.

This weakness sends the message that the use of UK people’s data is fair game, leaving one-sided commercial exploitation unchecked.

ORG is calling for the data watchdog to be reformed in upcoming legislation.

Our latest blog ⬇️

#dataprotection #AI #ukpolitics #GDPR #privacy #digitalrights

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-ico-is-leaving-an-ai-enforcement-gap-in-the-uk/

Since I only have about 40 followers, I would appreciate as many boosts as possible as it is hurricane related. The Iphone 14 and above has the capability to send messages via satellite. You have to install IOS18 then swipe down from top right to get the utilities screen. You can then do a demo by touching the satellite icon. Evidently it only works if you do not have cell data or wifi available.
#hurricaneMilton

@rhys I would happily bet everything I own that the final two will be Cleverly and Jenrick. Badenoch has shot herself in the foot and Tugendhat always had 'fourth place' written all over him.

And then, mind you, one of the losers might well become leader in about 2026.

What Americans think about Israel's war in Gaza, a year after the Oct. 7 attacks.

From @abc: "They've grown less supportive of Israel's actions and U.S. military aid."

https://flip.it/yNul2F

#Israel #Oct7 #Gaza #Hamas #Palestine #USPolitics

Last day to register to vote in Georgia for the 2024 presidential election is Monday

Early voting begins Tuesday, Oct. 15 | Other important voting dates and deadlines

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/10/04/last-day-register-vote-2024-presidential-election-is-monday/

A few hours of terrorism does not justify 365 days of terrorism and counting.
#CeasefireNow

The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services.

Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”.

What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it.

Public systems should not require use of private services.

#NS #Netherlands #FOSS #privacy

I love stuff like this...

NASA created a really cool interactive 3D map of near-Earth objects.

Check it out here: http://eyes.nasa.gov/asteroids

#nasa #map #asteroids #neo

I'm a straight cis dude. I have never felt any gender dysphoria or even thought about trans people at all until I made a couple of friends who happened to be transgender.

I was exposed to a few more trans people through my friends, and a few more on Twitter. Then I moved to Masto and was exposed to many, many more transgender voices.

Not once in my more than 5 decades of this mid existence have I ever seen any trans person talking about how they regretted it, or was having second thoughts. To the contrary, all I have *ever* seen is joy. Folks who are happy that they can be themselves and feel comfortable in their own bodies.

Conservatives/right-wingers are trying their damndest to marginalize and erase trans folks, because they're terrified that people like me, who otherwise never gave it a second thought, might be exposed to the joy and realize that trans people are just people. Right-wingers want to portray anyone who's not cis, straight, and white as some kind of deviant. Don't fucking let them. They're wrong.

(edited to change "Republicans" to something more generic, because this is far from just a U.S. problem)

The train station WiFi captive portal defacement incident has lead to the arrest of somebody who works at the provider of the service. https://news.stv.tv/scotland/man-arrested-after-wifi-at-scotlands-busiest-train-stations-displays-islamophobic-messages

My team at Mozilla is hiring an engineer with Linux & Android low-level experience. This is a fully remote job.

We deal with all sorts of down-to-the-metal topics: IPC, sandboxing, libc & kernel interactions, memory management, signal handling, linkers, compilers etc... But also Linux/Android-specific graphics stacks and UIs.

And no, you won't have to deal with AI, I promise.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/6271288/

#GetFediHired #FediHire #Hiring #JobOpportunity

Southern Water are making plans to contract for water to be shipped across the North Sea from Norway in the face of fears of drought.... and the costs? its going to be added to customers bills.

So, lets get this right; SW has under-invested, water is not being stored well & leaks from pipes have further lessened storage, so after one of the wettest summers on record, they're going to bill customers to rectify a problem that their (in)actions caused!

business as normal, then!

#water
h/t FT

#Gaza #Palestine

An Israeli airstrike struck a home in Jabalia town of northern Gaza, killing four members of a Palestinian family, including a couple and their two disabled children.

The Palestinian Civil Defense confirmed the deaths in a statement, saying, “An Israeli airstrike on the Batsh family home in Jabalia resulted in the deaths of four Palestinians.”

The airstrike destroyed the house, caused extensive damage to neighboring homes and properties.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-airstrike-in-northern-gaza-kills-couple-their-2-disabled-children/3342990

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#BBCNews - Ship carrying explosive fertiliser heads to UK waters
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62g95721leo
The ship, loadee with ammonium nitrate, owned by Maltese firm Ruby Enterprise, set off from the northern Russian port of Kandalaksha in July.

#Musk hits back after being shunned from UK summit
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c756d56d2dro
"I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts," Mr Musk claimed on X. (A claim factually wrong)

The universe is smoother than the standard model of cosmology suggests. So is the theory broken? https://phys.org/news/2024-09-universe-smoother-standard-cosmology-theory.html #science