Notices by kim_harding ✅ (kim_harding@mastodon.scot), page 2

The EU should call Orbán’s oil bluff
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/donagh-the-eu-should-call-orbans-oil-bluff/
Europe can survive without Russian oil. Hungary, Slovakia, and Czechia are no exceptions, even though they lobbied hard for exemptions from the EU’s ban on Russian oil imports.

The reality is that we have to leave the bloody stuff in the ground where it belongs!

Yup!

There seem to be an unusually large number of Trolls about today.

In all the time that I have used the Fediverse I have never had to block accounts the way that I have today, it is like being back on the Bird Site just after Mellon Husk took over...

Non-Google search engines blocked from showing recent Reddit results
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/non-google-search-engines-blocked-from-showing-recent-reddit-results/
Updated robots.txt file hits Bing and others without a Reddit deal.

Sentence for driving while banned after killing six people: 150 hours unpaid work, 12 months supervision and a restriction of liberty order for four months between the hours of 7pm – 7am. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-bin-lorry-crash-driver-12828178

Sentence for planning to stop traffic in a peaceful protest trying to save the world: four years in prison.
https://theconversation.com/why-courts-favour-cars-not-the-climate-234535

These sentences are the wrong way around, there is something very wrong with the UK.

#FuckCars #ClimateEmergency #NoJustice

Why courts favour cars, not the climate
https://theconversation.com/why-courts-favour-cars-not-the-climate-234535
“These are political sentences and climate activists [have] become political prisoners,”
“Removing the politics of climate change from the courtroom doesn’t change that.”

'I was given a choice of bosses to sleep with': Life as a female paramedic
https://news.sky.com/story/my-boss-asked-if-i-wanted-a-threesome-how-female-paramedics-are-hounded-at-work-13183615
Three women share their stories of the toxic culture of sexual harassment and abuse of power within the ambulance service, and ask what can be done to change it.

What caused the great CrowdStrike-Windows meltdown of 2024? History has the answer
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-caused-the-great-crowdstrike-windows-meltdown-of-2024-history-has-the-answer/
When a trusted software provider delivers an update that causes PCs to immediately stop working across the world, chaos ensues. Last week's incident wasn't the first such event. Here's how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Climate Change Actions Are Far More Popular Than People in U.S. Realize
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-actions-are-far-more-popular-than-people-in-u-s-realize/
“False social reality” obscures widespread U.S. support for climate protection measures

Not just the US, this is a global problem #DontLookUp

Trump said he had no idea who suggested Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary (it was him)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jamie-dimon-treasury-secretary-b2584743.html
A few weeks ago, Trump said the JPMorgan chief is someone he ‘would consider’ for his cabinet. Now he says that idea came from the ‘radical left’

Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005
https://www.wired.com/story/google-stored-gsuite-passwords-plaintext/
On the heels of embarrassing disclosures from Facebook and Twitter, Google reveals its own password bugs—one of which lasted 14 years.

This story is from 2019, so I hope things have moved on since then, but there is no guarantee...

Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/22/ai_training_data_shrinks/
Shrinks training pool, but hurts services like the Internet Archive

Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness - But not necessarily health
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/23/sam_altman_basic_income/
The results of the largest universal basic income (UBI) trial program in the United States – this one backed by billionaire Sam Altman, no less – are in and entirely unsurprising.

Fascism Redux: A New Axis Takes Shape
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-redux-a-new-axis-takes-shape
Western democracy faces a crucial test in the coming months that Tom Scott fears it is all too likely to fail

Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai
Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year.

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/16/amazon_prime_day_2019_senate_committee_report/
Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm

How Apple AI will change your everyday life – Whether you’re an iPhone user or not
https://www.zen.co.uk/blog/posts/zen-blog/2024/07/01/how-apple-ai-will-change-your-everyday-life-whether-you-re-an-iphone-user-or-not/

To avoid sea level rise, some researchers want to build barriers around the world’s most vulnerable glaciers
https://www.science.org/content/article/avoid-sea-level-rise-some-researchers-want-build-barriers-around-world-s-most
Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists

We don't need magical thinking dressed up as science, we need to leave fossil carbon in the ground where it belongs!

Apple settles EU probe by opening up its mobile payments system
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/apple-will-soon-allow-rival-wallets-to-replace-apple-pay-as-default-in-eu/
iPhone users will get more choices to make "touch-and-go" payments in the EU.

But when will we see Google forced to do the same with Android?

Trump campaign data identified shooter’s father as a ‘strong Republican, likely gun owner, and hunter’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks-parents-republican-b2580370.html
Thomas Matthew Crooks’ mom was also flagged as a voter likely to respond to pro-gun messaging, the Trump team found in 2016