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What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
#Bluesky #complicity #genocide

dalia rezk (@daliarezk@mastodon.social)
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"Kurswechsel: #Europa soll US-Tech von kritischer #Infrastruktur ausschließen.
Die Gesellschaft für Informatik warnt vor einer digitalen Kolonie der #USA und fordert einen Kurswechsel bei staatlicher

"This study could reshape climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

This study could reshape climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies
The groundbreaking research offers evidence that specific fossil fuel giants drove economic losses for decades.

#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:

Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a suit alleging ChatGPT gave info about suicide methods to a 16-year-old who died by suicide, arguing he misused the chatbot (Angela Yang/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope

OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide
Warning: This article includes descriptions of self-harm

NASA’s #TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) entered safe mode Jan. 15 and returned to normal science operations Jan. 18: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/tess/tess-status-update/

Just finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Just got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (

"The carbon cost of your burger: How much would a meat tax cost the average EU household?"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Food

How much would a meat tax cost the average EU household?
Scientists have put forward the “first step” in tackling meat-related emissions without sending food prices skyrocketing.

This is how you do it. Every time.
Bravo to this kid.
👏 👏 👏
#Gaza #israel