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Adriana Groh: ‘The internet works thanks to a shared infrastructure that nobody owns, but that we must take care of’
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html
The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today" #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Adriana Groh: ‘The internet wo...

Adriana Groh: ‘The internet works thanks to a shared infrastructure that nobody owns, but that we must take care of’
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html
The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence

Adriana Groh: ‘The internet works thanks to a shared infrastructure that nobody owns, but that we must take care of’
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html
The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability

ScienceAlert: Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
„Radiosynthese“. Wie Photosynthese, nur nicht aus Licht, sondern aus Radioaktivität (!). Ist nur ne These, aber Radioaktivität scheint dem Pilz nicht zu schaden, sondern sogar gut zu tun …

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

Adam Kinzinger, in an emergency video that should be required viewing for every American who thinks “toughness” means murdering drowning men, laid it out with military bluntness: This is the moral equivalent of shooting prisoners. It’s the kind of thing the U.S. condemned as a capital offense at Nuremberg. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

Adam Kinzinger, in an emergency video that should be required viewing for every American who thinks “toughness” means murdering drowning men, laid it out with military bluntness: This is the moral equivalent of shooting prisoners. It’s the kind of thing the U.S. condemned as a capital offense at Nuremberg. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

Adam Kinzinger, in an emergency video that should be required viewing for every American who thinks “toughness” means murdering drowning men, laid it out with military bluntness: This is the moral equivalent of shooting prisoners. It’s the kind of thing the U.S. condemned as a capital offense at Nuremberg. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

Adam Kinzinger, in an emergency video that should be required viewing for every American who thinks “toughness” means murdering drowning men, laid it out with military bluntness: This is the moral equivalent of shooting prisoners. It’s the kind of thing the U.S. condemned as a capital offense at Nuremberg. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

Adam Kinzinger, in an emergency video that should be required viewing for every American who thinks “toughness” means murdering drowning men, laid it out with military bluntness: This is the moral equivalent of shooting prisoners. It’s the kind of thing the U.S. condemned as a capital offense at Nuremberg. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

Adam Kinzinger, in an emergency video that should be required viewing for every American who thinks “toughness” means murdering drowning men, laid it out with military bluntness: This is the moral equivalent of shooting prisoners. It’s the kind of thing the U.S. condemned as a capital offense at Nuremberg. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

Adam Kinzinger, in an emergency video that should be required viewing for every American who thinks “toughness” means murdering drowning men, laid it out with military bluntness: This is the moral equivalent of shooting prisoners. It’s the kind of thing the U.S. condemned as a capital offense at Nuremberg. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

Adam Kinzinger, in an emergency video that should be required viewing for every American who thinks “toughness” means murdering drowning men, laid it out with military bluntness: This is the moral equivalent of shooting prisoners. It’s the kind of thing the U.S. condemned as a capital offense at Nuremberg. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter-the-collapse-of-competence

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

#inequality #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

"Whiteness and Westernness are such fragile ideas that they break down rapidly when subjected to the historian’s gaze. They are a fragile reed on which to base the politics of 350 million diverse Americans, all of them ultimately descended from Black people"
Juan Cole

This also applies to white nationalists in the UK.

#WhiteSupremacy #Nationalism #History #Racism
Sorry, White Nationalists, Europeans were Black until the Rise of Rome, and Rome was Multiracial
https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

"Whiteness and Westernness are such fragile ideas that they break down rapidly when subjected to the historian’s gaze. They are a fragile reed on which to base the politics of 350 million diverse Americans, all of them ultimately descended from Black people"
Juan Cole

This also applies to white nationalists in the UK.

#WhiteSupremacy #Nationalism #History #Racism
Sorry, White Nationalists, Europeans were Black until the Rise of Rome, and Rome was Multiracial
https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

"I don’t know what glory there is in being light-skinned descendants of Black people because of resettling in northern climes with weak UV rays."

https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

"Europeans were Black until the Rise of Rome & Rome was Multiracial"

A French Nazi invented the "Great Replacement theory" & said all Americans were 'Negroes'.

Ben Franklin said the English, alone, were white; Swedes were 'tawny', Germans were 'swarthy'.

'Whiteness' was Protestant, middle-to-upper class, with N. European origins.

'Whiteness' in America "was always mostly about class, religion & unfree antecedents rather than skin color."

https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

#USPol #Europol #Racism .

2.

ICE hasn't gone after 1000s of “white” undocumented immigrants, only those coded “brown” or “black."

Ie, "Stephen Miller’s project is a racialist one, not purely about immigration or undocumented immigration."

One of the symbols of whiteness in the US is Europeanness. But Hitler said Italians weren't white. He initially rebuffed Mussolini, preferring to ally with Britain if possible.

https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

#USPol #Europol #ICE #Racism #Press #immigrants #Whiteness .

https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

Hilarious. And I say that while living in the country with the highest multicultural proportion in the world, and almost completely at ease with it. Despite Murdoch's and his Newscorp's (Fox, Sky et al) attempts to ruin our society.

Suck it, racists and white nationalist.
https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

"Sorry, White Nationalists, Europeans were Black until the Rise of Rome, and Rome was Multiracial"
https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/01/it-was-extremely-pornographic-cara-hunter-on-the-deepfake-video-that-nearly-ended-her-political-career

Virtual rape...

Guardian: ‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/01/it-was-extremely-pornographic-cara-hunter-on-the-deepfake-video-that-nearly-ended-her-political-career

‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/01/it-was-extremely-pornographic-cara-hunter-on-the-deepfake-video-that-nearly-ended-her-political-career #NorthernIrishpolitics #NorthernIreland #Pornography #Technology #Deepfake #Politics #Society #UKnews

‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career
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#SocietyMEWS #DeepfakeMEWS #TechnologyMEWS #PornographyMEWS #NorthernIrishPoliticsMEWS #NorthernIrelandMEWS #PoliticsMEWS #UkNewsMEWS #MEWS
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The Irish politician was targeted in 2022, in the final weeks of ...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/01/it-was-extremely-pornographic-cara-hunter-on-the-deepfake-video-that-nearly-ended-her-political-career

TL;DR: Cara Hunter, an Irish politician, was targeted by a malicious deepfake video just weeks before her election, raising concerns about the safety and representation of women in politics. She discusses the traumatic discovery and her efforts to protect others from similar attacks. https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/01/it-was-extremely-pornographic-cara-hunter-on-the-deepfake-video-that-nearly-ended-her-political-career #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

"‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/01/it-was-extremely-pornographic-cara-hunter-on-the-deepfake-video-that-nearly-ended-her-political-career

A cautionary tale about where deepfakes, AI and political cowardice is taking us. Dems and libs need to get ahead of the curve. We have more creatives than them, where are the videos of gqp having orgies in the WH ballroom? How about lispin' lindsey getting it on with a fat wanna-be dicktator or MAGAmike doing a dog while dogkiller shoots them both.

Deepfakes are a real problem in #MLsec. Dan Dennett was right that genuine human activity is in the cross hairs.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/01/it-was-extremely-pornographic-cara-hunter-on-the-deepfake-video-that-nearly-ended-her-political-career

Social and Organizational Talks at FOSDEM 2026

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/11/30/social-and-organizational-talks-at-fosdem-2026/

Social and Organizational Talks at FOSDEM 2026

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/11/30/social-and-organizational-talks-at-fosdem-2026/

Social and Organizational Talks at FOSDEM 2026

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/11/30/social-and-organizational-talks-at-fosdem-2026/

Social and Organizational Talks at FOSDEM 2026

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/11/30/social-and-organizational-talks-at-fosdem-2026/

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/11/30/social-and-organizational-talks-at-fosdem-2026/

Social and Organizational Talks at FOSDEM 2026

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/11/30/social-and-organizational-talks-at-fosdem-2026/