Notices by Dr. Emma L Briant🐕🇬🇧in🇦🇺 (emmalbriant@mastodon.online), page 2

The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/ #ai #climatechange #climatecrisis

ICYMI - #ElonMusk is now agreeing with Geert Wilders and putting the Great Replacement as his pinned tweet.

#Google settles $5 billion #privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode' https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222268415/google-settles-5-billion-privacy-lawsuit #surveillance

Human Rights Watch on #Meta: Systemic Censorship of #Palestine Content https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship-palestine-content #facebook #gaza

‘An offshore firm helped create companies used by members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including one hiding the late mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's yacht’ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67276289 #putin #russia #corruption

This reporting makes an atrocity sound like a gas main exploded. Portraying a tragedy of war as though it were an accident is an abrogation of journalistic responsibility to the lives lost. Even without certainty over bombing of the hospital, #Hamas and #Israel are responsible in different ways for failing the citizens killed in this ongoing conflict.

Blood is on the hands of leaders in this war - journalists should highlight that political responsibility. We need #peace #journalism now more than ever and that should be highlighting pathways forward not creating ‘us and them’ polarising binary discourses or minimising agency of leaders, it must be helping us interpret events and find pathways to peace.

50 Years After the #Coup in #Chile, the U.S. Has Finally #Declassified Documents Relating to Its Role https://inthesetimes.com/article/chile-coup-1973-pinochet-allende-documents-declassified #pinochet #usa #foreignpolicy #politics #spies #intelligence #cia

Anyone know how many instances are set up and administered by women? Just wondering how diverse it is.