On top of the human rights calamity, the absolute state of any UK government choosing the slogan "stop the boats". Your entire country's international status and colonies were built on 'illegal economic migrants' on boats. Except you call them national heroes.

BREAKING: @InternetArchive supporters are planning a digital rally 3/20 in support of the digital rights of libraries at battleforlibraries.com That's when a judge will hear oral arguments in big publishers' suit to end the ability of libraries to own+preserve digital books.

The GPT-4 system card (p.9) states that with wider adoption: "AI systems will have even greater potential to reinforce entire ideologies, worldviews, truths and untruths, and to cement them or lock them in, foreclosing future contestation, reflection, and improvement"

Dear Journalists covering tomorrow's IPCC report release, First of all, THANK YOU. Second of all, here are a couple of questions you should not be asking climate scientists, ever ever ever.

‼️ Lori Trahan “In 2021, the UK’s Age Appropriate Design Code went into effect…You still operate in the United Kingdom which means you should be in compliance with this code…Will you commit to extending the protections…in the US?”

Sign up to resist big publishing's greedy shareholders and speak out for an open internet with uncensored access to knowledge. battleforlibraries.com

Twitter has released the code for its recommender. I am reading through this documentation and the actual repo and will have commentary soon. blog.twitter.com/engineering/en…

For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show. The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇

Looks like Erdogan demanded Elon Musk censor his political opposition a day ahead of the election and he immediately complied. Musk is either the world’s most sanctimonious hypocrite, coward and fraud or actually wants to censor the opposition to help Erdogan. Or both.

Excited to be at the #BeyondGrowth conference. Remarkable that in her opening remarks Roberta Metsola mentions the need for economic growth multiple times.. is she missing the point of this whole conference?

Because here is the thing. Every. Single. Journalist. who was there (and there were many, from major outlets all over Europe and the world) that I spoke to, said "my editor refuses to print any story critical of economic growth." Every. Single. One. #BeyondGrowth2023 7/

The author of The Economist disinformation piece finds degrowth ideas "whacky". Not half as much as your straight out science denial, mate. Beyond parody. x.com/spignal/status…

Update: Vanwege de vakantieperiode is de deadline van onze vacature voor een nieuwe Directeur verlengt! Leid jij de groei van PublicSpaces in goede banen? Zie jij een gezond digitaal ecosysteem voor je? Reageer dan op de vacature (voor 15 september)! publicspaces.net/2023/07/26/pub…

Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect on 29 September It gives X the right to use your posts - including DMs - & all your data - including phone, email, biometrics (e.g. face scans & eye scans) to train their AI & to share with any partner X wants👇 x.com/en/privacy

"How could the government's oppressive surveillance miss a sprawling conspiracy involving thousands?" The White House admitted in 2013 that despite ten years of operation, mass surveillance had never stopped even a single attack. Looks like that record remains unbroken.

The European Commission wants to start eavesdropping on all our private messages, photos/videos and conversations(!) via apps. To pressure the Netherlands and other countries to vote in favour, it posted illegal, misleading ads on Twitter/X. At election time. This is unheard of:

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says energy demand for AI is infinite and we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway, so we may as well bet on building AI to solve the problem