Notices by Dimitris Kardarakos (dimitrisk@floss.social)

@feditips Unfortunately, the same pro-centralization approach has been adopted by the @spreadmastodon campaigners.

https://floss.social/@dimitrisk/110247540562264634

@clacke
Although, in many cases, the corporate ethics teams are a kind of fig leaf, the #Microsoft #layoffs make clear how (un)important #ethics implications are for big tech.

How #AI is going to shape our future societies is such an important matter to leave it to "corporate responsibility".

The life of the #foss developer and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is at acute risk, after he escalated a hunger strike and stopped drinking water.

He has co-founded the Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group, he has worked on Drupal and on the translation utility Pootle.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63554313

https://www.eff.org/offline/alaa-abd-el-fattah

#egypt #cop27 #humanrights #hungerstrike #FreeAlaaAbdElFattah