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@FreakyFwoof @jakobrosin There is nothing to describe.

@CordonBleu @informapirata Messina vuole solo fare polemica e portare acqua al suo mulino. Avreste dovuto vederlo all’ultima assemblea elettiva di Banca Etica. Un comportamento squallido.

Effettivamente a volte solleva dei buoni punti ma è un pagliaccio.

@rwg yup, I'm sure we're not going to find anything fixing current crises by hoping companies will somehow "do the right thing"...

@davidgerard yeah, I saw that link in the article… kinda blows my mind that this has existed for almost two years and I’m just hearing about it now!

@Edent 😂😂

"Risikomanagement zum Schutz von Menschenleben"

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-09/verfassungsschutz-afd-regierung-sachsen-anhalt-stephan-kramer

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117230139397683800

I don't believe in God, but otherwise, yeah, this:

‘Capitalism is dying’: in Luton, these former car workers have a moral tale for our times | Aditya Chakrabortty https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/capitalism-luton-car-workers-vauxhall-motors-labour-unions-reform

@afewbugs I am a bit sceptical about this - magpies are highly intelligent birds, they would oppose shopping from Amazon!! I would instead propose it is simply waiting to attack the next person who comes to pick up a parcel. The calm before the storm...

Liebe Lehrerinnen, sprecht im Unterricht über Selbstwert, Ethik und Menschenbilder. Wer versteht, dass der eigene Wert nicht davon abhängt, andere kleinzumachen, kann rechte Hetze leichter erkennen. Das ist politische Bildung. Und es stärkt Demokratie. Mein Text dazu ist bewusst in Einfacher Sprache geschrieben:

https://schreibeeinfach.org/2026/08/12/ethik-selbstwert-und-unser-bild-vom-menschen/

#Lehrerzimmer #Lehrkräfte #Schule #Unterricht #PolitischeBildung #LUL #SuS #FediLZ #Demokratiebildung #Ethikunterricht #EinfacheSprache

What's my position on copyright?

I say that if its to be enforced, it should be enforced fairly! Unfortunately any enforcement, or lack thereof, tends to align with the interests of capital.

There's plenty of techies who are automatically against any enforcement, but I ask "who's interests are being served".

That said I want to see DRM done away with, it directly hinders our right to use our computers as we wish!

@mpe @wragge I guess I always saw it a bit cynically, that publishers were happy to throw road blocks up for institutions and libraries but wanted to avoid antagonizing researchers directly, so whether the policy wording made sense or not didn't really matter that much...

@pallenberg Eine Petition für Lena Mosel?

#CoryDoctorow on the Big #AI Lie | Downstream with Michael Walker #NovaraMedia #yt

https://youtu.be/nTqCVJFr7XM

3 seats left.

“Cambridge festival cancels pro-Palestinian academic’s book talk”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

@uk_politics
@thecanaryuk

“‘Another literary festival, another cancellation’. These are the words of Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, after Cambridge University’s Newnham College Literary Festival cancelled her planned appearance to discuss her new book.”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/09/04/cambridge-literry-festival/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UniversityofCambridge #LiteraryFedtival #Cancellation #JewishChronicle #IsraelLobby #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Genocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine

@dheepsinque

How this is implemented is crucial for the future of the #fediverse. An app having app-specific integrations to some - indeed ethical - payment systems, is one thing. But for instance offering native #monetization features on #ActivityPub protocol level, and not thinking *very hard* about the implementation and impact of that, can totally enshittify the #fedi in no time in how it attracts the wrong type of people with dollar signs in their eyes.

The current app-centric fediverse is the playground of devs and "users" that have to swallow what they create and drop onto the wire. #FOSS culture is a poor model for the evolution of the fediverse, where the latter is an existing social space where people, the online residents, have their home. It is much more than a pure technosphere and playground for app devs.

Fedi isn't ready to be growth-hacked. If successful it'll undoubtedly see corporate capture with Corporate Fedi the outcome, same as the web.

https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web/

I've been collecting notes on AI data centre fires being a fuckin PITA for firefighters for a while. Here's the latest:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/the-ai-data-center-boom-is-causing-new-accountability-problems/

perhaps the bubble will end with mysterious DC fires because the hydrants were never hooked up and the responsible parties somehow can't be traced