Really good Reddit discussion that asks: CISO or Head of Engineering? Who is responsible? Meaning, who is responsible for cyber compliance?
As one commenter noted, the only acceptable answer is the CEO and the Board.
https://www.reddit.com/r/c…
«The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, propaganda is part of the solution.»
On the epistemic crisis we're all in, thanks to most ways of knowing and disseminating knowledge being in the hands of a couple of billionaires.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich
China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months.
The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) saw CO2 emissions from transport fuel drop by 5% year-on-year, while there were also declines from cement and steel production.
While emissions from the power sector were flat year-on-year, a big rise in the chemical industry’s CO2 output offset reductions elsewhere.
New study by @… et al. finds that emissions in China and India are projected to grow much less in 2025 compared to the past decade, while emissions in the US and EU are projected to grow this year after years of decline.
The Hidden Strength of Costrong Functors
Adriana Balan (Department of Mathematical Methods,Models,,Fundamental Sciences Applied in Engineering Research Center, National University of Science,Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest), Silviu-George Pantelimon (Department of Computer Science, National University of Science,Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest)
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"Repurposing gemstone polishing waste to create smart cement"
#Gemstones #Cement
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«Kovid betrayed us with Calibre 8.16.2, and we as a community never should have let that happen, never have placed such a burden on individual generosity. The synthesis of these two truths, then, is nearly self-evident. There must be a new effort, free from AI encumbrances, that is built from the ground-up as a community effort. Something that can outlive the decisions of any one participant»
Glad to see more efforts on community-based FOSS governance!
https://blog.rereading.space/rereading-because-books-are-art-and-art-is-labor
"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm engineered for this purpose, and that 'an algorithmic bias must be decided by senior people at …
People will be asking about this article. Some comments follow in a thread.
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds | Fossil fuels | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/…
We’re still collecting more program and session ideas from across the #ESEAP community for the #Wikimedia ESEAP Conference 2026 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼 (15–17 May 2026)!
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