America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/08/us-climate-liability/683797/
In July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded, unanimously, that all countries have binding legal obligations to act to protect the climate system, and failure to do so—by continuing to produce, consume, and subsidize fossil fuels—is illegal.
A week later, Trump's administration said it would rescind the 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse emissions endanger the public and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
I'll tell you what I'd do, man: five CRT’s at the same time, man. #vcfwest
Microsoft, AWS, and even France-based OVHCloud say that they can't keep the US Government's hands off your data, if requested under the CLOUD Act.
👉 You can't guarantee data sovereignty using a provider that is subject to US law, even if your data is housed outside the US.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/
Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems.
If you don't know the universal hand signal for help, please check this out. I just learned myself, years after it was created. It could save a life. The fingers folding over the thumb is to represent being trapped. Please boost for everyone
People: OH MY GOD you can't use wikipedia because ANYONE can just EDIT and write WHATEVER!
The same people 20 years later: Oh I LOVE chatgpt, I can ask it anything and it always has an answer!
More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Still didn't get that?
Trans rights are human rights.
You're welcome!