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OpenSecrets: crypto sector-backed super PACs have raised $102M so far, the third-most of 2024 election PACs, including $54M from companies like Coinbase (Rick Claypool/Public Citizen)
https://www.citizen.org/article/cryptobros-united-fairshak…

Cryptobros United: Crypto Super PACs Amass Over $100 Million for 2024 Elections - Public Citizen

EU-Parlament verlängert freiwillige Chatkontrolle durch US-Konzerne
Noch bis 2025 sollen Meta, Google, Microsoft und Co. Strafverfolgern ohne EU-einheitliche Regelung Daten zur Verfügung stellen. Die Ausnahme wurde verlängert.

💔 In Brazil, the intelligence services spied on over 300,000 citizens during the military dictatorship
https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/25/in-brazil-the-intelligence-services-spied-on-over-3000…

In Brazil, the intelligence services spied on over 300,000 citizens during the military dictatorship
SNI, the predecessor of the current Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) sought to continue illegal activities after the end of the military dictatorship, according to previously unpublished records

«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

And the US, UK and Australia have sanctioned Lockbitsupp, Dmitry Yuryeich Khoroshevev
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2326
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-allies-sanction-prolific-cyber-hacker
https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny-wong/media-release/cyber-sanction-imposed-russian-citizen-ransomware-activity

Voters in car-centric L.A. approve Measure HLA to make room on streets for bikes, buses
Backers of a citizen-sponsored ballot initiative that forces Los Angeles to add hundreds of miles of bike and bus lanes — to make streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists — declared victory on Wednesday.
Measure HLA was leading by a wide margin, according to semifinal results released by the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk on Wednesday.

Will Measure HLA pass? Voters to decide on election day
The citizen-sponsored ballot measure, aimed at making streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians, is opposed by firefighters.

"March 13th through April 7th commemorate the anniversary of what could only be called an intentional, racially-based mass murder of American citizens, planned and executed by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner for purely political purposes, and virtually ignored by the American mainstream media."
Remembering Trump and Kushner's deadly, evil plan - Alternet.org

Remembering Trump and Kushner's deadly, evil plan
March 13th through April 7th commemorate the anniversary of what could only be called an intentional, racially-based mass murder of American citizens, planned and executed by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner for purely political purposes, and virtually ignored by the American mainstream media.If that ...

Dominikanische Republik liefert EncroChat-Drahtzieher an Frankreich aus​
Die Staatsanwaltschaft Lille wirft dem Verdächtigen unter anderem die Bereitstellung oder Weitergabe eines kryptologischen Geräts ohne weitere Kontrolle vor.​

Bonnie auf „ihrem“ Kratzbaum
#Fedicats #Catcontent

Researchers say they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale "alphabet" with the aid of machine learning, a breakthrough in understanding cetacean communication (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/machine-…

Sperm whale ‘alphabet’ discovered, thanks to machine learning | TechCrunch
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale "alphabet" with the aid of machine learning technologies.