35 years ago today, June 4, 1989, Poles ousted the communist party in the first partly free elections since WW2. The election set off a chain of events that led to the opening of the Berlin wall. The USSR's European empire had collapsed by the end of the year.
Also on June 4, 1989, the Chinese army fired on Tianamen Square protesters, ending any hope of political change. The massacre helped inspire the Chinese communist party to create the total surveillance state they are completing today.
Do you mean the Google LLM search, according to which eating stones is healthy? Just LLM nonsense? I don't see any pages in the Wikipedia Tiananmen Square protests/massacre navigation box about widespread denialism in the West [1].
In June 2023, "people ... in Paris, Boston, Sydney, and Osaka, held public discussions, exhibitions, gatherings, and published essays to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown" [2].
I wonder to what extent the Fediverse is at risk of misinformation supersharers. On Mastodon specifically, if you follow someone whose original texts you want to read but whose boosts you don't want to read, you can block their boosts while continuing to see their own posts. Adding an opt-in instance-level or account-level (or both) option to limit the number of boosts to N per day might be useful.
There's an error: stopkiller.ai incorrectly says that social credit score AIs are banned under the EU #ArtificialIntelligenceAct . That was the case in early versions; the final version includes lots of loopholes added by the European Council (EU govts).
Social credit score AIs are allowed under the act if they are "for a specific purpose" under national or EU law [1].
The #ICC can issue for signatories countries an arrest warrant on #Netanyahu because it has jurisdiction over international crimes committed in #Palestine since 2012
BUT
If #Israel doesn't recognise the #ICC, its territory isn't included in the jurisdiction, and the crimes of Hamas where carried out there, then how can the #ICC issue a legally binding arrest warrant on Hamas leaders?
Not just France. The Australian government has also declared its support for the prosecution of suspected war criminals [1].
> 'Australia respects the ICC and the important role it has in upholding international law,' the spokesperson said. 'The decision on whether to issue arrest warrants is a matter for the Court in the independent exercise of its functions.'
My dream job is to build software for the federal government that is used by regular Americans to completely dispel a mythology in place long before I was born that government is inoperably incompetent and nothing can ever work. I just want to solve the boring problems that everyone else has deemed not worth their time. Vote online. Free file taxes.
Just to throw ideas around: on Fedi you might be able to find enough people in a small town in the US like Échirolles in France where you could have a job helping the town council convert to FOSS. Probably more software education, teaching about posting bug reports/issues, and some software adaptation, than writing code. Depends if such a town exists in the US. Later try for county, state, federal govt agencies?
In the context of explaining my transition into ecological research, I am regularly facing questions / comments from both scientists and non-scientists, as to whether engaging in scientific research aiming at understanding the ecological or climate crises we are facing is (still) an effective and timely thing to do to address these crises. This post attempts to […]
@Francois It seems to me that the research questions that would be the most effective against the #ClimateEmergency would be empirical models of the decision-making of corporations, governments, banks, international institutions especially at concrete events such as #COP29, and modelling of how the decisions could in reality be rational, transparent, evidence-based, participatory. Not just hypothetical "if we had a revolution" models.
People like @OliverEscobar do research in that direction.
There's a new political economy turn in participatory-deliberative #democracy & democratic innovation, re-centring dimensions crucial to the transformative potential of these fields.
It would be good if that could be switched to participatory software + servers rather than using authoritarian software on a corporate server (Zoom), at least for followup talks:
Maybe you could introduce Dryzek and Curato to the role of software and servers in the political economy and in democratic innovation. I guess Dryzek and Curato are not yet on Fedi?
One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.
Looks like 16.9 GiB for stackoverflow.com.sqlite.br (16.9GiB) and roughly 6 GiB for the rest. Maybe people running #SearXNG instances could add searches on data dumps like these?
Cela fait vraiment bizarre, vu de France, de voir un journaliste de télévision faire son travail, c'est-à-dire ne pas accepter les digressions de son invité et le mettre face à ses contradictions et ses mensonges.
"Comment pouvez- vous n'avoir aucune idée du nombre de civils tués par l'armée israelienne, vous qui êtes le porte-parole du gouvernement ? Alors que vous êtes certain du nombre de combattants du Hamas tués."