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"Mexico Dolphin Show Ban, Paving the Way for Ethical Wildlife Tourism Alternatives"
#Mexico #Dolphins #Animals

Mexico Dolphin Show Ban, Paving the Way for Ethical Wildlife Tourism Alternatives | Happy Eco News
The Mexico dolphin show ban in 2025 promotes ethical wildlife tourism alternatives. Learn how this historic law changes travel and why responsible whale-watching is replacing cruel captive entertainment across Latin America.

Trump targets foreign-born citizens for denaturalization
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5703262-denaturalization-legal-ethical-issues/

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.

As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

I could go on for hours about all the ethical/moral/environmental/whatever issues with #AI, but it’s entirely irrelevant and I’ll tell you why. Generative AI works by getting the average of things, and it’s trying to replace humans. There is no average human. We’re all beautifully, naturally imperfect, and that’s something an artificial machine will never be able to replicate.

"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @…

Acting ethical in an imperfect world
Live is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

One of the wonders of the Fedi is that we really do have complicated, constructive, nuanced discussion here.
@… critique <https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-eth

Très content de mon nouveau site / CV / blog
#indiekit qui rapatrie mes données GitHub sur mon blog et dans la foulée un plugin

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Ricardo Mendes Middleware Engineer & DevOps Specialist Building infrastructure, automating workflows, and connecting ethical technology with real-world impact. Passionate about the IndieWeb, open sour...

Please call on Monash University to immediately end animal experiments and commit to ethical, human-relevant research, and in calling on those who funded, approved, and published these experiments to cease doing so in the future. https://act.pcrm.org/cf0kueCL-Em8DolD0UFgLQ2

Urge Monash University to end cruel experiments

Substack's deal with Polymarket makes ethical sports journalism on Substack impossible, giving favored status to Polymarket, enabling insider trading, and more (Brian Moritz/Sports Media Guy)
https://sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/why-the-polymarketsubstack-pa…

Why the Polymarket/Substack partnership is bad
It strikes at the heart of the production of ethical sports journalism.

Ethical Technology or Feudalism?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FsF4sdMPYas
A talk I gave six years ago that I’d highly urge you to watch. Still entirely relevant today, if not more so (sadly).
(What I call the Indienet in the talk is what I now call the Small Web; a peer-to-peer Web owned and…

Überraschung am Morgen. Das Letsencrypt Zertifikat für meine Website https://pixelgalaxy.net war abgelaufen und wurde nicht automatisch erneuert. Die Pixelfed Instanz läuft auf einem Server mit Yunohost. Da hat Yunohost wieder Eigenheiten entwickelt, die einem nicht gefallen können. Das Verzeichnis für die Zertifikate…

PixelGalaxy.NET
Pixelfed is an image sharing platform, an ethical alternative to centralized platforms.

"What is a token"
Very nice article. You might like the popularization of how a LLM works, if you don't know already.
I personally appreciate the last third of it, about the meaning for coding tools, and about how single-purpose models could theoretically be so much more useful. (And - my addition - they could do so while being ethical and efficient too.)

What is a token
AI is meant to seem like magic. But there's no such thing as magic. It's all illusion. So, allow me to spoil that illusion for you.

This is such an unfortunate name though 😂
https://arxiv.org/html/2506.01732v1

With a name like that, do we trust them or *not* trust them?
https://1984.hosting/

Hmm, cocoa free #chocolate substitutes made by fermentation hmm. They're pushing it as ethical etc - but I wonder what the health differences are; Cocoa is pretty good.
https://www.

Cocoa-free chocolate arrives in Switzerland
Several start-ups are developing cocoa alternatives using barley, beans or sunflower seeds.

Supreme Court Hacked, Proving Its Cybersecurity Is As Robust As Its Ethical Code - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/01/supreme-court-hacked-proving-its-cybersecurity-is-as-robust-as-its-ethical-code/

Polymarket and Kalshi count Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser, and Trump Media plans to launch Truth Predict, raising ethical questions during Trump's second term (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/donald-…

Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr.
Traders in companies with ties to the president’s eldest son can bet on the outcome of events the president affects.

Navigating Autonomy and Privacy in Emerging AgeTech: Insights from the FPF Roundtable
https://fpf.org/blog/navigating-autonomy-and-privacy-in-emerging-agetech-insights-from-the-fpf-roundtable/
@…

from my link log —
Reverse engineering a cloud-connected e-scooter and finding the master key to unlock all scooters.
https://blog.nns.ee/2026/01/06/aike-ble/
saved 2026-01-16

Reverse engineering my cloud-connected e-scooter and finding the master key to unlock all scooters
Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity Blog

You know what? This switching.software website is great. Very down to earth, non-techie approach, exactly the thing needed for most people.
https://switching.software/

It looks like there's been a non-malicious takeover of the subdomain that previously hosted the Alexa Top 1M list https://alexa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/top-1m.csv.zip
If you download and unpack it, it contains a message:
"poc by @gopal_ethical"
Backgro…

BRE SME Low Carbon Innovation Workshop 2 (2017-09) - Hotel energy challenge: BREEAM, ethical sourcing, Responsible Hospitality Partnership, ClearlySo impact investment. - https://m.earth.org.uk/BRE-Low-Carbon-Innovation.html

BRE SME Low Carbon Innovation Workshop 2 (2017-09)
Hotel energy challenge: BREEAM, ethical sourcing, Responsible Hospitality Partnership, ClearlySo impact investment.

Important online conversation on #EcologicalCivilization this Wednesday, featuring Mary Evelyn Tucker of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology.
In our understanding of "conservation" how can we go beyond protected areas and species recovery to culture, livelihoods, and the ethical foundations of human–nature relationships?

There’s no such thing as an Ethical Billionaire.

@… @… 1, putting aside the “useless” argument for a moment: What *exactly* has changed in the ethical argument Mike?
I see a lot of hand waving about inevitability, but I don’t see a single word in this post …

Ed Martin, outspoken Justice Department lawyer, is formally accused of ethical violations (Katelyn Polantz/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/ed-martin-bar-discipline-complaint
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p41#a260310p41

The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/the-justice-department-is-lowering-its-ethical-guardrails/

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more;
A handful of companies monopolize the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
https://www.theg…

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

You may be surprised that the money in your checking account is being used to fund oil drilling. It's worth it to move to a new bank/credit union to avoid that.
You can check your bank, and find a better one, here:
https://bank.green/

Find Ethical & Sustainable Banks In Your Area
Bank.Green is sounding the alarm on the climate-destroying activities of banks while recommending sustainable alternatives and empowering consumer action.

Neurotechnology and Cognitive Warfare #BCI

Neurotechnology and Cognitive Warfare
[Carl Emilio Lewis and Jonathan Kwik are researchers in international law at the TMC Asser Institute] The ‘application of neurotechnology raises [various] ethical, legal and societal issues and que…

A lot of people will call shunning Amazon, Meta, etc "purity politics". According to them, since no company is perfect, we should just give up having lines, since there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Alternatively, it can be seen as exercising whatever little direct power we have, as individuals, to stop funding the machines that are killing us and making us poorer. It's not enough, but it's certainly a start.

As the first guests began to trickle in, the conversation turned,
as these things do,
to the ethics of gene-editing embryos to create custom babies.
“I would actually argue that the ethical questions probably aren’t as big,
because kids already don’t choose their genes,” said
#Malcolm #Collins

Why Elon Musk and JD Vance Are Obsessed With You Having More Babies
My strange weekend with the pronatalists.

Good to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary ai-scraping microsoft github platform to codeberg etc.
I think it's fair to say that projects left behind there aren't really free/open source.. Many aren't able to contribute to projects there for ethical reasons (e.g. microsoft's association with genocide, epstein, extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE etc), and github now exists to strip software of free/open source licenses.

Now my CV Editor plugin for #indiekit is able to handle both personal projects or work projects https://rmendes.net/cv/

On March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI.
It’s a pilot module for a planned online certificate on generative AI; would count as credit toward that graduate credential. Open to anyone with a BA.

"Auto detailing"? Never really seen a car with a tail, so it's probably just a scam. And if it weren't, I have deep ethical concerns about removing said tails.
#WordPlay #SłowaNaOpak

“Dear Mozilla, I don't want an ‘Al [sic] kill switch’, I want a more responsible approach for all”
https://hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-kill-switch/
Unlike Hidde, I think the alt text argument is mostly bunk (

Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all
My concern is that Mozilla is _too_ excited about a technology that has inherent downsides and ethical problems, and I would like to see better defaults and clearer risk mitigations.

I’m starting to be really proud of the claude assisted development I have been doing on my #indiekit blog
* https://rmendes.net/cv/
* webmentions widget
* podroll
* blogroll
* microsub reader

Ui, digitale Unabhängigkeit nimmt auch woanders Fahrt auf!
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/how-to-replac…

As Space Tourism Looms, Scientists Ask: Should We Have Sex In Orbit? https://www.404media.co/as-space-tourism-looms-scientists-ask-should-we-have-sex-in-orbit/

the future is not a countdown — https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-future-is-not-a-countdown?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

Chronos vs Kairos: Rethinking Time, Change, and Leadership in a World of Uncertainty
We’ve been taught to see time as running out — every crisis a countdown. This essay reimagines time through Chronos and Kairos, exploring impermanence, systems thinking, and ethical leadership. The future isn’t a deadline — it’s a field of possibility we can participate in.

Read our new story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R. on the recent clergy symposium co-hosted by the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at YDS, exploring ethical possibilities of religion and faith amid rising #Authoritarianism.

Bloomberg: #FDA push for 10-hour fake brain surgery trial raises ethical concerns #BCI

Justice department officials felt sure "Border Czar" #ATom #Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered in the corruption probe, which they and FBI agents believed had shown Homan unsuitable for a trusted senior role in government service

Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.

Even if, for just a brief moment, I put aside all the ethical, environmental, moral, social, and economical problems with LLM generated code:
It’s just like… not what I want you know?
I’ve never felt that it would be better if I moved faster.
Or if my solution was more fragile.
Or if my own personal understanding of the problem space was shallower.
Calling this industry Software Engineering is already a laughingstock to any actual engineer. I’ve never once wanted …

TOC: Journal of Jewish Ethics 10.1-2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136596/toc-journal-jewish-ethics-101-2

Eine neue PixelFed Instanz
#pixelfed #pictures

PixelGalaxy.NET
Pixelfed is an image sharing platform, an ethical alternative to centralized platforms.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to punish the artificial intelligence company Anthropic
if it doesn’t let the Pentagon use its technology however it wants
—apparently even to create autonomous killer drones
or conduct surveillance of Americans.
Anthropic’s powerful AI model, Claude,
is currently the only one permitted to handle classified military data,
and the company was awarded a $200 million contract last year
to develop AI capabilit…

Hegseth demands Anthropic let military use AI however it wants—even for autonomous killer drones and spying on Americans
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ethical guidelines.

[OT] Andrew Ng warns AI far from general intelligence amid overhype https://www.webpronews.com/andrew-ng-warns-ai-far-from-general-intelligence-amid-overhype/

Andrew Ng Warns AI Far from General Intelligence Amid Overhype
Andrew Ng cautions that AI remains narrowly focused, resource-heavy, and far from achieving general intelligence or replacing humans soon, amid overhyped expectations. Echoing experts like Hinton, discussions highlight job augmentation, ethical concerns, regulations, and technical barriers. Ultimately, AI is seen as a collaborative tool enhancing human potential.

Until January, Patrick J. Schiltz,
the chief judge of the District of Minnesota,
had steadily managed one of the federal court system’s heavier workloads with little fanfare.
He was more widely known in the legal community for penning a revered law journal article 27 years ago that advised young lawyers how to become ethical members of an “unhappy, unhealthy and unethical profession.”
But starting this year, as federal agents surged into Minnesota, hundreds of immigr…

Patrick Schiltz, an Ethicist, Is the Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE
Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely critic of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.

So - jetzt habe ich erst einmal ein Backup-und Maintenance-Script für die PixelFed-Instanz #pixelfed

PixelGalaxy.NET
Pixelfed is an image sharing platform, an ethical alternative to centralized platforms.

TOC: Journal of Jewish Ethics 10.1-2
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“Indonesia bans elephant rides nationwide in landmark move for wildlife welfare”
#Indonesia #Elephants #Animals #Wildlife

Indonesia bans elephant rides nationwide in landmark move for wildlife welfare | The Optimist Daily
Indonesia has banned elephant rides in all zoos and conservation centers, marking a major step toward ethical wildlife tourism.

Whenever a #FreeSoftware project is suffering from onslaught of low quality LLM-generated pull requests, there will be a bunch of #LLM lovers complaining that people shouldn't be talking of "LLM-generated" being part of the problem, because "using AI isn't bad" in itself. Of course, they entirely ignore all the ethical and environmental concerns, and probably write crappy code themselves.
#AI #NoAI