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please understand what a Group 1 carcinogen is, a list that includes:- alcohol- red meat- processed...

please understand what a Group 1 carcinogen is, a list that includes:

- alcohol
- red meat
- processed meat
https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/13/young-adults-cancer-especially-women

Mass phone tracking via cell tower dumps ruled unconstitutional in USPhone dragnet violates Fourth Amendment, says...

Mass phone tracking via cell tower dumps ruled unconstitutional in US

Phone dragnet violates Fourth Amendment, says court
https://www.techspot.com/news/107613-court-finds-mass-cell-tower-data-searches-illegal.html

abusive tech companies ("🤠") are drooling ("🤤") for generative AI and agentic AI ("👻") because:1....

abusive tech companies ("🤠") are drooling ("🤤") for generative AI and agentic AI ("👻") because:

1. 🤠 have decades of data about you already, 👻 is continued ROI

2. your attention and engagement via conversation with 👻 extracts new data types, even more data about you, and even more data about the people you talk about

3. engagement on behalf of 🤠 via 👻 is with impunity

4. your dependence on 👻 will mean unlimited, persistent access into your life and mind no different than the dependency you have on your cell phone being in your pocket and within arm's reach 24/7

5. 👻 will replace your friends in different ways. you will trust 👻 more and more as the tech improves

6. 👻 will learn how you work in way more nuanced detail than most people ever will. It will know how to most effectively talk to you, inform you, and control you

7. when 👻 becomes "on-device" in order to sway more users into trusting it, updates from the cloud will continue to allow 🤠 to collect data about your life and interact with you in ways that you trust and will most effectively sway your judgement

8. 👻 is trained to be extremely confident which makes them exceptional social engineers. 🤠 don't have to hire people to do this anymore

"Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying...

"Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military, according to a group representing the workers."

https://archive.is/b3P9z

I want to thank @jonah and some other recent @EmeraldOnion donors who donated a total of $780, enough to cover the cost of a new SiFive...

I want to thank @jonah and some other recent @EmeraldOnion donors who donated a total of $780, enough to cover the cost of a new SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V dev board that we will use exclusively as a unfiltered Tor exit relay for hardware and OS diversity

Arrow.com, the only seller of the SiFive HiFive, is charging a $196 tariff + sales tax even though the boards they have in stock have already been in stock for months, raising the cost of the board substantially

I also want to thank @whil who's not only donated a chassis for the SiFive HiFive, but is racking and stacking our gear we've moved from Seattle to San Francisco ^_^

" Call to Action Silence is complicity. But action always has a reaction, no matter how big or small. As workers for this...

" Call to Action

Silence is complicity. But action always has a reaction, no matter how big or small. As workers for this company, we must make our voices heard, and demand that Microsoft does the right thing: stop selling technology to the Israeli military.

If you are also concerned about this news, and you also want your work to be used ethically, I urge you to take action:

Sign the No Azure for Apartheid petition: We will not write code that kills. And join the campaign to add your voice to the growing number of concerned Microsoft employees.

Join me in showing our discontent in this thread. If you also feel tricked into deploying weapons which target children and civilians, urge leadership (CC’ed) to drop these contracts.

Don’t stop speaking up. Urge SLT to drop these contracts at every opportunity.

Start conversations with your co-workers about the points above - so many employees may not know!

Microsoft’s human rights statement prohibits retaliation against anyone who raises a human rights-related concern: Human rights statement | Microsoft CSR

Our company has precedents in supporting human rights, including divestment from apartheid South Africa and dropping contracts with AnyVision (Israeli facial recognition startup), after Microsoft employee and community protests. My hope is that our collective voices will motivate our AI leaders to do the same, and correct Microsoft’s actions regarding these human rights violations, to avoid a stained legacy. Microsoft Cloud and AI should stop being the bombs and bullets of the 21st century.

Sincerely,

A concerned Microsoft employee"

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Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai

" We are Complicit When I moved to AI Platform, I was excited to contribute to cutting-edge AI technology and its applications...

" We are Complicit

When I moved to AI Platform, I was excited to contribute to cutting-edge AI technology and its applications for the good of humanity: accessibility products, translation services, and tools to “empower every human and organization to achieve more.” I was not informed that Microsoft would sell my work to the Israeli military and government, with the purpose of spying on and murdering journalists, doctors, aid workers, and entire civilian families. If I knew my work on transcription scenarios would help spy on and transcribe phone calls to better target Palestinians (source), I would not have joined this organization and contributed to genocide. I did not sign up to write code that violates human rights.

According to AP news, there is “a $133 million contract between Microsoft and Israel’s Ministry of Defense.”

“The Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft and OpenAI artificial intelligence spiked last March to nearly 200 times higher than before the week leading up to the Oct. 7 attack. The amount of data it stored on Microsoft servers doubled between that time and July 2024 to more than 13.6 petabytes.”

“The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance, which it transcribes and translates, including phone calls, texts and audio messages, according to an Israeli intelligence officer who works with the systems. That data can then be cross-checked with Israel’s in-house targeting systems.”

Microsoft AI also powers the most “sensitive and highly classified projects” for the Israeli military, including its “target bank” and the Palestinian population registry. Microsoft cloud and AI enabled the Israeli military to be more lethal and destructive in Gaza than they otherwise could.

Microsoft has also been providing software, cloud services, and consulting services to the Israeli military and government, totaling millions in profit. War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has explicitly mentioned his strong ties to Microsoft. A list of these contracts with the Israeli military and government can be found here: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide

In fact, Microsoft is so deeply connected to the Israeli military that it was just yesterday designated one of the priority boycott targets of the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions) campaign.

Regardless of your political stances, is this the legacy we want to leave behind? Is working on deadly AI weapons something you can tell your children about? Do we want to be on the wrong side of history?

Even though your work could be unrelated to the cloud that the military uses, your work benefits the company and allows it to take on the contract. Regardless of your team, you serve a company that is arming the Israeli occupation. It is undeniable that part of your compensation, no matter how small, is being paid by genocide.

Whether you work on AI or not, you will be complicit if you do nothing. It is now OUR job to take a vocal stand against Microsoft AI’s involvement in crimes against humanity.

This is why I decided to speak up today, and why I signed this important petition to demand Microsoft cut ties with genocide. And I urge you all to do the same."

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Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai

" Hi all, As you might have just seen on the livestream or witnessed in person, I disrupted the speech of Microsoft AI CEO...

" Hi all,

As you might have just seen on the livestream or witnessed in person, I disrupted the speech of Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during the highly-anticipated 50th anniversary celebration. Here’s why.

My name is Ibtihal, and for the past 3.5 years, I’ve been a software engineer on Microsoft’s AI Platform org. I spoke up today because after learning that my org was powering the genocide of my people in Palestine, I saw no other moral choice. This is especially true when I’ve witnessed how Microsoft has tried to quell and suppress any dissent from my coworkers who tried to raise this issue. For the past year and a half, our Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim community at Microsoft has been silenced, intimidated, harassed, and doxxed, with impunity from Microsoft. Attempts at speaking up at best fell on deaf ears, and at worst, led to the firing of two employees for simply holding a vigil. There was simply no other way to make our voices heard.

We are witnessing a genocide

For the past 1.5 years, I’ve witnessed the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel. I’ve seen unspeakable suffering amidst Israel’s mass human rights violations - indiscriminate carpet bombings, the targeting of hospitals and schools, and the continuation of an apartheid state - all of which have been condemned globally by the UN, ICC, and ICJ, and numerous human rights organizations. The images of innocent children covered in ash and blood, the wails of mourning parents, and the destruction of entire families and communities have forever fractured me.

At the time of writing, Israel has resumed its full-scale genocide in Gaza, which has so far killed by some estimates over 300,000 Gazans in the past 1.5 year alone. Just days ago, it was revealed that Israel killed fifteen paramedics and rescue workers in Gaza, executing them “one by one,” before burying them in the sand -- yet another horrific war crime. All the while, our “responsible” AI work powers this surveillance and murder. The United Nations and the International Court of Justice have concluded that this is a genocide, with the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders."

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Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai

uspol, palestine, israelthis is a fantastic interview"Palestine Talks: In Conversation with Josie Guilbeau" (ex-US Army...

uspol, palestine, israel

this is a fantastic interview

"Palestine Talks: In Conversation with Josie Guilbeau" (ex-US Army ex-NSA)
https://youtu.be/iJA8zNOjCDg

german history, depol > uspoli think that everyone needs to read this"As Fraenkel explained it, a lawless dictatorship does not...

german history, depol > uspol

i think that everyone needs to read this

"As Fraenkel explained it, a lawless dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary legal system of rules, procedures, and precedents. To the contrary, that system—which he called the “normative state”—remains in place while dictatorial power spreads across society. What happens, Fraenkel explained, is insidious. Rather than completely eliminating the normative state, the Nazi regime slowly created a parallel zone in which “unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees” reigned freely. In this domain, which Fraenkel called the “prerogative state,” ordinary law didn’t apply. (A prerogative power is one that allows a person such as a monarch to act without regard to the laws on the books; theorists from John Locke onward have offered various formulations of the idea.) In this prerogative state, judges and other legal actors deferred to the racist hierarchies and ruthless expediencies of the Nazi regime."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express...

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

"How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these days, how many young, promising lives. What does my death matter if by our acts thousands are warned and alerted. Among the student body there will certainly be a revolt."

-- Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

#antifa

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl

looking a little deeper into option one: on a native zero trust function that could be built into mastodon/pixelfed etcfederation requests...

looking a little deeper into option one: on a native zero trust function that could be built into mastodon/pixelfed etc

federation requests could be both passive and active. where passive authentication requests would come automatically based on existing, open federation protocols, active federation requests could be one instance admin formally requesting federation. the latter "request" could require:

1. public rules
2. a list of defined admins and moderation team
3. other moderation metrics like average response time
4. maybe even a list of private referrals from other fediverse instance admins
5. out of band contact information

interestingly, i have been thinking about how one might incorporate zero trust into the fediversesince there is no native function to...

interestingly, i have been thinking about how one might incorporate zero trust into the fediverse

since there is no native function to approve federation requests limited to authenticated activitypub instances

one would have to use a local firewall to deny all inbound on port 443 then manually safelist IPs belonging to trusted fediverse servers

tbh the latter isnt a bad idea if you're an activist group coordinating with regional or international groups

fediblock zealots block big instancesfediblock zealots ignore instance sovereignty and block instances who refuse to align with their...

fediblock zealots block big instances

fediblock zealots ignore instance sovereignty and block instances who refuse to align with their ideology to block big instances

fediblock zealot instance users complain about fedi not being active enough then leave fedi

🤔

definitely do not download and read for free White Fragility from Z-Library via Tor...

definitely do not download and read for free White Fragility from Z-Library via Tor Browser

http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion/book/3553806/bc9a62/white-fragility-why-it-is-so-hard-for-white-people-to-talk-about-racism.html

it is actually outstanding news that GCHQ is pissed off about Advanced Data Protection, that means it's working, including against...

it is actually outstanding news that GCHQ is pissed off about Advanced Data Protection, that means it's working, including against NSA/FVEY (cloud attacks, that is)

"The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace, to...

"The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace, to keep them in a kind of algorithmic cage divorced from reality.
....
When Americans begin to suffer—as Musk has said they will—the aim will be to use the tech industry’s control over what the public sees and hears to trick people into believing that things are not occurring as they are or that someone else is to blame."

https://archive.is/2025.02.07-171621/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-administration-voter-perception/681598/

if i were US NSA (ChatGPT), or PRC MSS (DeepSeek), i would absolutely monitor the code being generated for certain users with certain email...

if i were US NSA (ChatGPT), or PRC MSS (DeepSeek), i would absolutely monitor the code being generated for certain users with certain email addresses or coming from certain IP ranges

not (obviously) to see what they need code to do, but also to programmatically inject things into code

obviously you wouldn't code in a curl of some package from a random IP (but you could if the user didnt notice or care), but gradually more escalating depending on their code tuning behaviors

and it's just game over if you integrate those services directly into a code workspace

"Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet"still no peep from @MastodonEngineering or @pixelfed...

"Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet"

still no peep from @MastodonEngineering or @pixelfed or @loops or @peertube about #C2PA support to minimize photo/video disinformation in the fediverse

https://petapixel.com/2025/02/03/cloudflare-joins-cai-and-enables-content-credentials-for-20-of-the-internet/

someday, somewhere, sign up to services will be a WebAuthn credential, not an email address

someday, somewhere, sign up to services will be a WebAuthn credential, not an email address