Alberto @alvizlo@red.niboe.info

As part of our work at the Pacific Institute, we track and report on water-related conflicts. Here's an update (thru mid-2023) of the number and types of #water conflicts worldwide. Serious increase in the total numbers of violent water conflicts in recent years. Visit the Water Conflict Chronology for more information:
https://lnkd.in/gvSQSfYu

⚖️Entra en vigor la normativa europea que castiga con hasta 10 años de cárcel los delitos medioambientales
⚖️Las empresas que comentan crímenes ecológicos también se exponen a multas equivalentes al 5% de su facturación mundial
https://climatica.coop/en-vigor-normativa-europea-delitos-medioambientales/ via @climatica

Delhi, India.
Población: 30 millones de habitantes.

Acaban de alcanzar los 52,3ºC de temperatura, la más alta jamás registrada en una capital nacional.

Pero eh, "en verano siempre ha hecho calor".

India y Pakistan son precisamente una de las regiones más preocupantes del planeta con respecto al aumento de temperaturas. En algunas localidades y en más de una ocasión ya se ha superado durante unas horas el límite fisiológico que impide estar sin refrigeración artificial de algún tipo.

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/wp-content/data-viz/heat-humidity-map/

y las proyecciones para la segunda mitad del siglo implican un calentamiento mayor que la media global, probablemente superando los +3ºC

https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/india/trends-variability-projections

cc @Shine_McShine

Important Warning About Windows Recall ⚠️:

If you communicate with someone
who might be using the upcoming Microsoft's Windows Recall feature, be extremely careful about what information you share with them.

Regardless of what secure application you use, be especially careful about sending:

- Intimate photos

- Passwords or other sensitive information

- Medical conditions

- Personal details, even through secure emails or secure encrypted chats

- Financial information

- Video chats, even encrypted ones

This feature will unfortunately extract your information from whatever secure software you might have used and store it on this person's computer in a possibly less secure way.

Of course this person could manually take a screenshot of all of this anyway, but this feature makes it that even a well-intentioned person might either not be aware it is on, or might wrongly assume it is secure enough.

This feature isn't fully released yet, but it might be soon. More information:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

#Privacy #Microsoft #Recall #WindowsRecall

Petition to Google: Turn off your untrustworthy AI Overviews until it’s safe to use.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/google-ai-overviews/

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¿Buscas lectura de verano?

🚀 "Las redes son nuestras"
no es solo una crónica de cómo nos robaron internet los gigantes tecnológicos, sino también una guía para imaginar y construir juntas nuevas redes más justas, inclusivas y sostenibles.
🔧🕸️
Sobre la autora: Marta G. Franco ha sido parte fundamental de numerosos proyectos digitales y sociales, incluyendo Indymedia y hacklabs.

#InternetLibre #EmpoderamientoDigital #MartaGFranco #LasRedesSonNuestras

Tiny Privacy Motivational Tip 🔒:

If you ever decide to start reducing your digital prints, be patient.

Don't give up because it seems too big to achieve, take smaller steps instead. Every small step helps.

You don't need to do it all at once, it can be a long process. Be patient. Do one little thing per week.
You got this ✨

#TinyPrivacyTip #Privacy

Frustration grows over Google's #AI Overviews feature, how to disable

#Google has enabled its AI Overview (Search Generative Experience) feature. For queries where it “believes” it can provide “better value” than linked sites, it will generate a summary… using content scraped from independent sites (*cough*) … and sometimes showing incorrect information.

There are workarounds for disabling it, but the best solution is to use another search engine…

#search #privacy

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/frustration-grows-over-googles-ai-overviews-feature-how-to-disable/

Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless

stops combustion engine production as quickly as possible
ENDFOSSILFUELS

I got a notification on #Facebook that #Meta plans to use my posts etc. for training #AI and said they were using the Legitimate Interest justification for doing it.

I sent in an objection stating that using data for training AI doesn't fall within the remit of what a user might reasonably expect the company to do with my data on the basis of the service being provided: https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimate-interest/

They have upheld my objection and will not use my data. So you can do it too!

Widespread seawater intrusions found beneath the grounded ice of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica. This makes the glacier more vulnerable to melting from a warmer ocean than anticipated, which in turn will increase projections of ice mass loss. Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2404766121#executive-summary-abstract
#ClimateChange #climate #antarctica #glacier #sealevelrise
h/t @MichaelEMann

OK, let's get over the giggles & get to the underlying problem: #Google's #AI - as all AI systems built with the current knowledge & technology - is just as often & dramatically wrong *when you can't see it*...!!

It's easy to spot the glue in the pizza recipe or the inability to count to four, but every single time you get an AI summary which looks right to you, it can easily contain just as egregious errors you can't identify.

It's a bullshit geneator, nothing else.

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112498739114051504

Vas por la calle y ves un coche. Es de gama baja. «De un currante», piensas. ¿Sabes cuánto dinero estamos subvencionando como sociedad para que esa persona posea ese coche? Cuatro de cada diez euros de coste.

En 2019, un estudio que analiza el coste anual prorrateado de la posesión de un vehículo, con datos del lobby automovilístico Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club (ADAC), poseer un coche de gama baja cuesta 11.377 euros anuales. Esto incluye el combustible y elementos como la depreciación, pero también los costes sociales.

El dueño abona 6703 euros anuales. Todos los demás (tú también), 4674 euros anuales.

⚠️ #subvención

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong

🌳El Parque de Louis Vuitton y el vecindario fuera del Güell

Cientos de vecinos y vecinas se manifestaron contra la privatización que el Ayuntamiento de Jaume Collboni ha hecho del parque público más emblemático de Barcelona para acoger un desfile de la marca de lujo francesa que patrocina la Copa América de vela.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/barcelona/parque-louis-vuitton-vecindario-guell

🐖Deniegan la ampliación de una granja porcina en Cogeces del Monte (Valladolid)
🐖Hubiera pasado de 3.288 a 4.952 animales
🐖No es por la contaminación, ni por el maltrato animal... sino incumplir la distancia al municipio
🐖La granja debería desmantelarse, pero seguirá
https://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/316969/deniegan-la-ampliacion-de-una-granja-porcina-en-cogeces-del-monte/
#veganismo #maltratoanimal #Macrogranjas

Do you ever just look at big tech, and think wow, this trajectory looks exactly like big oil, big tobacco, big automotive, and so on?