“As we can relieve pressures on agricultural land, they can rewild and return to being climate sinks,” Vainikka says. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Watch out for the 'tech-optimist' Europa! 😉

Remember when Elmo was going to cage fight Zuck?

Missed this one earlier this month: Italy's DPA warning Worldcoin not to try launching in its market, punk garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/…

Fancy that!! theguardian.com/environment/20…

These latest surveillance plans of the 🇬🇧 government (to 'protect children') are so extreme, they are being rejected even by most child protection advocates thetimes.co.uk/article/9fff37…

No one owes AI a participation trophy
aftermath.site/humane-ai-marq…

The costs of climate change are SIX TIMES the costs of reducing emissions, says a new study: pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Truss’s book is crammed with striking examples of a complete lack of self-awareness, but I keep returning to this passage.

It may be the most literal instance of projection ever committed to print.

Now that's quite the line-up! techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/lin…

“They talked about ferrets so much that I was not even able to speak”

Another Truss classic.

It is fair to say that Truss has fashioned herself into the ultimate incarnation of Brexitism:

Nasty, snarling, brutish, arrogant, vicious, mendacious, absurd, and stupid beyond all possible means of description.

What a glorious icon of our new, irrevocable dispensation!

Here’s hoping!

What anti-competitive 🔥hell is this? Forced to *open a PayPal account* 🤬🤬 in order to be able to buy tickets sold only by Eventbrite 🤬🤬 Result? No tickets as CC company seems to have blocked PP’s $1 “pre authorisation” jig. Incandescent rage doesn’t come close rn 🤬🤬🤬

Liz Truss only wants to abolish the UN because she embarrassed herself there. She can't abolish places where she's been humiliated, the UK would look like Debenhams.

'...the AI we’re talking about today needs to be seen as an extension of this surveillance business model–a way to expand the reach and profitability of the massive amounts of data and infrastructural monopolies that these large companies possess...' signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss…

CCIA on manoeuvres again
ccianet.org/library/multi-…

Disruptive! theguardian.com/money/2024/apr…

I call this one ‘Killer Queen’