Notices by Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social), page 10

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/ "it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient. So let’s not." #gdpr #privacy #surveillance

IDENTIFIED: The Biggest Waste of US Tax Dollars So Far - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/identified-the-biggest-waste-of-us-tax-dollars-so-far/ "No need to do your jobs better, no need to add more value. Just worry about fulfilling this massive time waste.

Musk needs to be fired."

The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church - https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost-medieval-library-found-romanian-church/ "Hidden away for centuries in a Transylvanian church tower, a forgotten medieval library has come to light, revealing treasures as old as the 9th century. " wonderful #romania

More than 376,000 #Tesla Model Y, Model 3s have faulty steering - https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/more-than-376000-tesla-model-y-model-3s-have-faulty-steering/ please stop with the obvious metaphors, world....

#Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of #JamesBond - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/21/stars-shaken-stirred-amazon-deal-james-bond which means they will squeeze every last drop of dosh form the franchise; expect to be appalled....

#Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo "no UK customer data stored on iCloud - Apple's cloud storage service - will be encrypted, making it all accessible by Apple and shareable with law enforcement, if they have a warrant." UK gov betrays UK users... #encryption

#Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill, say experts - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-mass-firings-federal-government-bill “I’ve lost my medical insurance. I have an incurable disease that I kind of need a doctor for. I won’t be able to pay those bills." #musk

US Senate narrowly confirms Kash #Patel as next #FBI director - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/kash-patel-senate-confirms-fbi-director you're doomed, #murica (and the rest of us are in trouble...)

Philippines officials offer cash for mosquitoes amid rise in #dengue cases - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/philippines-officials-offer-cash-for-mosquitoes-amid-rise-in-dengue-cases "one Philippine peso (1.7 US cents) for every five mosquitoes." innovative

How #Vance unsettled the Europeans - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/18/jd-vance-at-the-munich-security-conference-a-speech-by-gaslight/ " Being from a country where the most common cause of death in child is a bullet, Vance’s sentiment of “tak(ing) our shared civilization in a new direction” misses that a lot of Europeans don’t consider America very civilized, largely because of peculiar cultural norms like gun violence."

#Meta’s LLaMa license is still not #OpenSource - https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not-open-source "call on Zuckerberg and Yann LeCunn to change the Llama license and comply with the Open Source Definition." #ai

Netanyahu ‘committed’ to Trump’s plan to take over #Gaza - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/17/netanyahu-committed-to-trumps-plan-to-take-over-gaza how convenient that trump gave netanyahu permission for ethnic cleansing...

In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/nhs-britain-immigrants-dad the poisoned fruit of #brexit

@aral the project couldn't survive that

How this weekend’s ‘#Tesla Takeover’ protests against Elon #Musk came together on #Bluesky - https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/14/how-this-weekends-tesla-takeover-protests-against-elon-musk-came-together-on-bluesky/ hugely important that bluesky is now big enough to take on the role that #twitter had before it descended into toxic madness

#DOGE's Race to the Bottom - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk-fast-cuts/ "Democracy doesn’t die in darkness after all; it dies in #JIRA tickets filed by #Palantir alums." #musk

#EU’s Disinformation Code moves closer to becoming #DSA benchmark - https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/eus-disinformation-code-moves-closer-to-becoming-dsa-benchmark/ "the voluntary Code that Elon #Musk pulled X (formerly Twitter) out of back in 2023. "

US should not have made concessions to Russia over Ukraine, German minister says
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/13/us-should-not-have-made-concessions-to-russia-over-ukraine-german-minister-says confirms #trump is a terrible negotiator

Court action over #Trump's gutting of #USAid agency to continue on Wednesday - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/feb/12/trump-musk-modi-tariffs-usaid-us-politics-live-news?page=with:block-67ac668e8f080659711d15c7#block-67ac668e8f080659711d15c7 keep them coming...

#Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/08/trump-administration-medical-research-funding-cuts after all, who needs health provided billionaires can become even more obscenely rich?