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"Giant Corporations Protect 15,000 Square Miles of Forests in Partnership With WWF Stewardship Program"
#Trees #Nature #Environment

Giant Corporations Protect 15,000 Square Miles of Forests in Partnership With WWF Stewardship Program
The WWF Forests Forward program has partnered with 26 big businesses to reduce deforestation and they've conserved 15 million sq-miles.

AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat,…

Forget America First
—Under Trump,
It's Corporations First
Big corporations donated heavily
to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Just a few months later,
federal cases against them are being dropped
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump

Forget America First—Under Trump, It's Corporations First
Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being dropped.

Sam Altman: "What if an inhuman AI took control of the world by manipulating people's behavior but its core directive was to make paper clips and it burned down the planet to do that? This is so scary and it's a real thing you should be worried about!"
Governments: "Oh boy that's scary we'll make special rules to invest in your company so you can save us from this frightening possibility. Will we restrict or discourage AI use/development? Haha no that would be foolish!"
Me: "What if an inhuman handful of corporate charters took control of the world by manipulating human behavior but their core directive was to maximize venture capital and they burned down the planet to do that? ..."
Governments (sponsored by said corporations): "Send in the SWAT teams now, this idea is dangerous!"

"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

I'm increasingly preferring individuals’ blogs over corporate blogs for accessibility guidance, even when those corporations are meant to be accessibility-focused.
SEO chasing and consumer funneling really dilute the usefulness of articles, it turns out.

One of the reasons I appreciate walking, biking, and public transit so much (aside from just being a more joyful/connected way to travel, and better for our environment) is because they starve so many absolutely awful billionaires/corporations/oligarchs of profit. Oil companies, car manufacturers, large chain stores..
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Which is why the conservatives supported it, they were thinking ahead for when they’re in power.
#CdnPoli
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p164#a250624p164

"TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
Meira Gilbert, Miranda Wei, Lindah Kotut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20884

"TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
'TikTok, Do Your Thing'' is a viral trend where users attempt to identify strangers they see in public via information crowd-sourcing. The trend started as early as 2021 and users typically engage with it for romantic purposes (similar to a ''Missed Connections'' personal advertisement). This practice includes acts of surveillance and identification in the public sphere, although by peers rather than governments or corporations. To understand users' reactions to this trend we conducted a quali�…

it's so obnoxious that corporations worth hundreds of billions of dollars send shit like this to literal volunteers

#linktipp
They Looted Companies — Now They're Looting the Government
Most executives are no longer rewarded for building durable businesses or contributing to the real economy—they’re rewarded for how efficiently they extract value from the companies that they control.
“Because these people have gotten away with looting corporations, they’ve come to believe it’s their right …

This video is about #enshittification of media corporations - Warner in particular - without mentioning the term. The #CoyoteVsAcme movie is mentioned as an example but ultimately that youtuber is mad that the "TCM Wine Club", a deal where they sent a box of wine bottles and re…

Goodbye John, it was good to know you.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its...

I guess there's no real need to explain why I'm doing this, but there's always someone who was lucky enough to be living in the jungle for a while (or something like that), disconnected from everything.
Hypothetical jungle person: I envy you.
Summary: I'm tired of big corporations stealing everything they can to train their #LLMs, and I'm also tired of companies like #Microsoft being active collaborators of the Trump regime.

What is the purpose of news?
Air pollution kills 10 million people each year and causes untold additional illness and suffering.
It kills at least 100,000 people in the United States alone annually
— about five times the number of police-reported homicides.
But it rarely features in daily news stories.
Police and prosecutors ignore pollution, much of which is criminal,
and so do most journalists.
For example, federal prosecutors charged 23 people…

Media Panics About “Crime Waves” — But Downplays Crime Committed by Corporations
The news emphasizes low-level theft instead of corporate crime, pollution, and other predatory behavior.

> Polish "patriot"
Look inside.
> fascinated by the USA
> dependent on corporations from the USA
> dependent on wares from China
> dependent on immigrant workers
> speaks a mix of Polish with English loan words
> can't handle Polish spelling
> weak with Polish history
> Putin's puppet

Cada vez que veo noticias sobre las IAs como esta pienso que aquí nos enteramos de estas miserias, se comparten, se comentan... pero ¿y fuera? Por ejemplo, la gente en general es consciente de lo que supone para su privacidad que una IA grabe y "transcriba" una conversación confidencial con su médico?

Warframe shows us a world full of bosses and big corporations crushing the little people. The Corpus exploit workers, the Grineer enforce control with brute force, and the Solaris fight back to survive.
It’s cool to see the game hint at worker solidarity and rebellion. But at the same time, the game makes me grind endlessly or pay up real cash, which feels a lot like the very system it tries to criticize.
Warframe tells a story about breaking chains, but still keeps me locked in …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15585 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

A Comprehensive Survey in LLM(-Agent) Full Stack Safety: Data, Training and Deployment
The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has illuminated a promising pathway toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence for both academic and industrial communities, owing to their unprecedented performance across various applications. As LLMs continue to gain prominence in both research and commercial domains, their security and safety implications have become a growing concern, not only for researchers and corporations but also for every nation. Currently, existing surveys…

The libxml2 maintainer is basically shrugging his shoulders and saying "deal with your own fucking security issues; libxml was never meant to be used in your projects" to google and the rest of the giant corporations that are using his labor without contributing back. I'm totally on board with that.
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Triaging security issues reported by third parties (#913) · Issues · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
I have to spend several hours each week dealing with security issues reported by third parties. Most of these issues aren't critical but it's still a lot of...

AIMSCheck: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Assisted Review of Modern Slavery Statements Across Jurisdictions
Adriana Eufrosina Bora, Akshatha Arodi, Duoyi Zhang, Jordan Bannister, Mirko Bronzi, Arsene Fansi Tchango, Md Abul Bashar, Richi Nayak, Kerrie Mengersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01671

AIMSCheck: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Assisted Review of Modern Slavery Statements Across Jurisdictions
Modern Slavery Acts mandate that corporations disclose their efforts to combat modern slavery, aiming to enhance transparency and strengthen practices for its eradication. However, verifying these statements remains challenging due to their complex, diversified language and the sheer number of statements that must be reviewed. The development of NLP tools to assist in this task is also difficult due to a scarcity of annotated data. Furthermore, as modern slavery transparency legislation has bee…

It’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Since this is a grassroots campaign, I want to be transparent with you. 
Our fundraising hit an unexpected dip these last few days
– it happens sometimes,
and I don’t want to alarm you!
But I do want to share why this is important.
Unlike most other House campaigns, we operate differently and invest in community organizing year-round and full-time permanent staff. 
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲…

Donate to AOC.
Alexandria is fighting for progressive policies that can help create social, racial, and economic justice for all. That's why she's taking $0 from corporations and lobbyists and is relying on the grassroots to power her campaign.

When I finally reach someone in the bureaucracy that treats me like a human, I gush with gratitude.
This is to say: I am probably very easy to manipulate by corporations.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15448 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Visualizing Public Opinion on X: A Real-Time Sentiment Dashboard Using VADER and DistilBERT
In the age of social media, understanding public sentiment toward major corporations is crucial for investors, policymakers, and researchers. This paper presents a comprehensive sentiment analysis system tailored for corporate reputation monitoring, combining Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to accurately interpret public opinion in real time. The methodology integrates a hybrid sentiment detection framework leveraging both rule-based models (VADER) and transfor…

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

https://…

No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.