your printer doesn't work and google can't even give you the right directions to taco bell but here you are worried about ai exterminating humanity

Absolutely worth a reading! 🤯 theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

Mi solidaridad con Carlos Andrés Muñoz López quién se ha atrevido a hacer un trabajo valioso para nuestro país y quién ahora se encuentra en riesgo 🙏 Gustavo Petro Defensoría del Pueblo

Parte de la magia de las ciudades rodeadas por montañas es ver como de noche esas montañas parecen gigantes queriendo adueñarse de la ciudad. Queriendo recuperar ese territorio que les pertenece, que es y siempre será suyo.

After 17 years in court a jury finally found US corporate banana giant Chiquita (formerly United Fruit) guilty for spending $1.7 million to fund a far-right paramilitary death squad in Colombia, the AUC (a recognized terrorist org), to maximize its profits earthrights.org/media_release/…

The @FSFE calls upon the European Commission to use #FreeSoftware to ensure a secure and resilient digital infrastructure. 📃 Input to EC consultation on the white paper "How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?" 👉 fsfe.org/news/2024/news…

#Cybersecurity incident around #CrowdStrike and #Windows #Azure shows the problem around monocultures & control over technology. Europe needs to evaluate its dependencies and support administrations, businesses and citizens to run secure IT. For this #SoftwareFreedom is crucial

Nuevo reporte de @VEsinFiltro: Una perspectiva en caliente de la censura digital en #Venezuela durante la elección. vesinfiltro.org/noticias/2024-… Desde el bloqueo a Wikipedia hasta las actas de MCM y Edmundo Gonzalez y 61 medios bloqueados en #internetVE

After the news that funding for the NGI4eu initiative would be cut for the next phase of #HorizonEU, the European Commission has expressed vague support for #FreeSoftware. The EC needs to come up with dedicated budget for #FreeSoftware solutions: fsfe.org/news/2024/news…

⚠⚠⚠BREAKING NEWS ⚠⚠⚠ The FSFE intervenes to safeguard #FreeSoftware in a litigation brought by Apple against the European Commission The FSFE aims to hold Apple accountable under the DMA to protect #FreeSoftware against monopolistic corporate control fsfe.org/news/2024/news…

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Apple vs European Commission: Free Software Foundation Europe intervenes to leverage the voice of the #FreeSoftware community against Apple's unfair practices, aiming to protect software freedom and #interoperability in digital markets More here: 👇

"AI is a product of the mass surveillance business model in its current form. It is not a separate technological phenomenon." What a great interview with this great woman! Meredith Whittaker wired.com/story/meredith…

🚨 The recent cuts in #NGI funding have exposed the fragility of financial support for #FreeSoftware. Now more than ever, sustainable, long-term funding is crucial. 📢 Join us in supporting/sharing this demand by participating in this ongoing EU consultation

Apart from consumer rights organisation The Consumer Voice Draghi did not consult a single digital rights, or even general human rights, organisation for this report that has so much to say about GDPR, AI Act etc But somehow Google and Meta got consulted?

Denying reality?🧐 Commissioner-designate Virkunnen says she and the European Commission support #OpenSource tools and development. But the Commission recently cut funding for open-source software out of Horizon 2025 funding. Read more from Free Software Foundation Europe ⤵️ edri.org/our-work/europ…