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This was the big concern about Chinese cranes that emerged in my discussions with OT experts back in January 2023. What @… called "ET phone home."
https://www.csoonline.com/article/574327/us-maritime-administrator-to-study-port-crane-cybersecurity-concerns.html
"A congressional probe of Chinese-built cargo cranes deployed at ports throughout the U.S. has found communications equipment that doesn’t appear to support normal operations."
Espionage Probe Finds Communications Device on Chinese Cargo Cranes
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/espionage-probe-finds-communications-device-on-chinese-cargo-cranes-867d32c0?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert

"#Ireland's Deputy Premier Leo Varadkar has issued a stark warning to international leaders following explosive comments by Dominic Cummings, suggesting the British Government under Boris #Johnson had no intention of adhering to the

Varadkar Urges Caution in Deals with UK Government Amid Cummings' Brexit Revelations
Ireland's Deputy Premier Leo Varadkar raises concerns over UK's adherence to Brexit deal after Dominic Cummings' revelations. The EU seeks solutions.

A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained on creators' chats to mimic their dirty talk and upselling (Alexandra Sternlicht/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2024/04/05/ai-is-coming-for-the-onlyfan…

AI is coming for the OnlyFans chat industry
For many OnlyFans creators, chatting with fans and upselling lucrative content, is they key to success. Now, specialized firms are offering AI solutions to automate the conversations with fans, raising a slew of sticky issues.

Columbia cancels commencement amid campus protests (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/06/columbia-university-graduation-commencement-canceled
http://www.memeorandum.com/240506/p21#a240506p21

«Quantifying the self with others» looks at the particular #CitizenScience community that is #PersonalScience / #quantifiedself.
«This community cultivated useful conversations about personal health data, the sorts of participatory “reflection and dialogue” needed to achieve “a shared vision” for these technologies, through specific communication techniques that integrated personal and community goals or transcended them by marshalling an open science data imaginary.»
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241247831

I love this thinking from @… on the #OSS #commons. Made me see things in a different way. 🖤

The free software commons
Free and open source software has become a modern commons, but now it's vulnerable. Freedom isn't sufficient to secure it for the future.

More #xenophobia and anti-#chinese #racebaiting. TikTok isn’t doing anything more egregious than what Meta, X, Snapchat, or any number of popular social media platforms are doing. If these committee members …

US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."

How after seven years of deception the one actual #UFO conspiracy there ever was is now coming apart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RUoYqBewC8 - extra chicken will have to be hired to make sure there is enough egg in the face of all the gullible parties who played along ... which some still do. (In https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/06/former-ufo-boss-pentagon-kirkpatrick-00139880 some additional background.)

Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz said on X:
“Regarding the nuclear exercise announced by Russia: It is always important to make clear that nuclear weapons must not be used in this war.”
Really lost for words, stupid, meaningless communication, showing his inability in international affairs.
#germany #geopolitics

Democrats prepare to go on offense on immigration in the coming weeks (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/democrats-prepare-go-offensive-immigration-coming-weeks-rcna150781
http://www.memeorandum.com/240506/p15#a240506p15