Revealed: most of EU delegation to crucial fishing talks made up of fishery lobbyists - https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/apr/26/revealed-most-of-eu-delegation-to-crucial-fishing-talks-made-up-of-fishery-lobbyists appalling and unacceptable behaviour by @EU_Commission #overfishing
Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities
BPL is launching a new campaign “Books UnBanned”, to help teens combat the negative impact of increased censorship and book bans in libraries across the country. For a limited time, young adults ages 13 to 21 nationwide, will be able to apply for a free eCard from BPL, unlocking access to its collection of eBooks
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94
Listen to Professor John Womack and Peter Olney discuss supply chain chokepoints and their new book and commentaries, Labor Power and Strategy, on Wade's World podcast. https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/04/20/wades-world-john-womack-and-peter-olney/
Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party
The head of a law firm that practices before the court bought property from the conservative justice nine days after he was confirmed
Thomas is not alone. Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch has also benefitted financially from parties with an interest in the high court’s business while neglecting to disclose it
Microsoft's Edge browser appears to be sending all the URLs you visit to its Bing API website.
Reddit users first spotted the privacy issues with Edge last week, noticing that the latest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis.com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to. Microsoft tells The Verge it's investigating ...
*cough*
"Oh did we accidentally write code and put it in our browser that collects info on everything you do, again?
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/25/209254/microsoft-edge-is-leaking-the-sites-you-visit-to-bing
Another must-read newsletter post from the consistently excellent @msifry -- this one's about some of AI's prominent attackers and insiders:
"Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right"
https://theconnector.substack.com/p/clowns-to-the-left-jokers-to-the
"While self-styled tech ethicists Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin warn that AI is about to end human agency, a Biden AI advisory panel stacked with industry reps avoids the hard calls."
"lawyers told Fox execs that Murdoch would be 'disgraced on the stand, run out of the boardroom, and his testimony will expose him as a lunatic sliding into senility.'"
That is intriguing. And will make the shareholder lawsuits even more interesting. Very Sumner Redstone.
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RT @gabrielsherman
My latest on the Tucker Carlson mystery
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/tucker-carlson-fox-news-rupert-murdoch
https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/1650962661218086915
@onepict @lightweight Heh. Maybe that's why these AI bots are being targeted at progamming; when you look at the mini waterfall (ignore the agile marketing around the word, waterfall) that should occur in all programming tasks (analysis, design, implementation, test), analysis is the item most deemphasized in the popular programming paradigms today. ;-)
@lightweight which is another thing to consider with earn it, chat control and Online Harms. Scanning everyone's private communications isn't going to get you intelligence really either.
You still need analysis, and AI isn't going to help with that either.
@lightweight Understandable in any system where good grades in school are equated to intelligence. These AI bots are capable of rote memorization with the ability to spew it back out in context without any critical analysis applied.
NitroKey disappoints me...
So the #ChiefEconomist of the #BankOfEngland thinks that citizens and businesses “need to accept” they are poorer, and stop pushing prices higher and seeking pay increases, no doubt while drawing a salary in the hundreds of thousands if not millions. Talk about tone deaf.
Three Way Fight: **Merci Montréal!**
"Members of Three Way Fight who were in Montréal this past weekend want to say MERCI! to our friends – old and new – who helped make our time there so memorable! Dure Réalité, Mtl RASH (Red and Anarchist Skinheads), Union Thugs – you all are always so gracious and inspiring and show what a revolutionary counter culture is and can be! We were also so excited and fortunate to connect with Rebel Time Records. Thanks for all that you have and continue to do! This weekend happened by you connecting all of us t…"
https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2023/04/members-of-three-way-fight-who-were-in.html
I see Mr. Block in action when I see a post from mastodon.green like this: https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/110259788224942844
after reading an article like this: https://inthesetimes.com/article/bidens-willow-project-decision-proves-we-need-a-youth-movement-more-powerful-than-the-fossil-fuel-industry
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Fool me over and over... #DumbAllOver
#CapitalismSucks
Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With US Chip-Maker https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-information-us-chip-maker
Always amazing how we never learn...here's some comics from the early 1900s that still read true. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1498
Mr. Blocks are still active everywhere I've worked.
I also read how black lung is ramping up again with a vengeance in the latest In These Times. https://inthesetimes.com/magazine/the-new-face-of-black-lung
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa