Notices by Michael Downey 🧢 (downey@floss.social), page 2

(2/2) More on the project at

https://www.undp.org/digital/iverify

https://github.com/undp/iVerify-Apps

#misinformation #disinformation #factChecking

:twitter: Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2,000,000,000.00
2023: $234,000,000,000.00
2025: $432,600,000,000.00

:facebook: Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2009: $2,000,000,000.00
2023: $105,000,000,000.00
2025: $214,000,000,000.00

👷🏽 US Federal Minimum Wage Workers:
2009: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2025: $7.25

➡️ "The cage match we should pay attention to is the one the billionaire class is waging against the working class." - Warren Gunnels

#classWar #capitalism #minimumWage #USpol #Musk #zuck #Zuckerberg

🇺🇸 :flag_un: The United States has just withdrawn its funding for the World Health Organization, who for 75 years have led the charge to protect lives and improve health everywhere.

🌍 Please give what you can.

https://donate.who.foundation

#WHO #USpol #health #healthcare #WorldHealthOrganization #UN #UnitedNations

As my dayjob demands increase, 2025 brings to a close my tenure on the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. I remain a GNOME user, supporter, advocate and donor, and I still strongly support the community's work and mission to bring a pleasant and easy-to-use free software desktop experience to people everywhere.

Times are tough for many open source projects struggling to find the resources to meet their growing demand; GNOME is no exception. Please help if you can:

https://www.gnome.org/donate

@evan FWIW, Nike actively doesn't allow employees — or visitors — to wear competitors' products while on the property of their headquarters campus.

🇨🇵 Who do we know in the Fediverse based in or near #Paris #France and working on #OpenSource strategy, policy, etc.? Bonus points if a funder or if in government of some kind.

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated

#askFedi #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS

:flag_un: Had a good meeting today about our #UN systemwide OSPO teams' plans to bring the world's #OpenSource community back to UNHQ in #NewYork again this summer. We got a ton of great feedback that we've been able to integrate into this year's plans.

Still a few things to be approved, but should be an even bigger and better event than last year. More soon.

🎉 Our team is excited to start our work building national-level OSPOs to support responsible, sustainable scaling of #OpenSource for public services. First up, #Trinidad and #Tobago - with more to come. Read more:

https://www.undp.org/digital/news/new-open-source-programme-office-trinidad-and-tobago-sets-out-catalyze-digital-public-services

#OSPO #TT #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

Open Steamroller Initiative

#OSI #OpenSource #AI #OpenSourceAI #OSAID

Comparing it to #OpenSource Software, the head of the #OSI says:

"#AI needs similar freedom to flourish."

Except that the Free Software & Open Source movements were (until recently!) not about the freedom of technology or its makers. It was all about the needs & liberation of those using that technology.

Now the very group self-charged with protecting OSS weaken it.

IMHO the disappointing #OSAID catastrophe is a great example of what happens when you de-center everyday people from strategy.

🇺🇳 Come work with our (fully remote) #OpenSource team at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)! We are looking for an early-career person with hands-on #FOSS community experience and (preferably!) experience working with the public sector and all that entails.

🤝🏽 Help us support country governments in setting up new OSPOs to help them embrace & integrate #FreeSoftware into their public services.

🌍 Folks in #Africa are strongly encouraged to apply! :boost_love:

https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/22575

@onepict The only thing that makes OSI de facto stewards of anything is the community legitimacy they used to have.

@onepict Somewhere (LWN?) I saw that there's a group forming of those willing to build something better than OSI:

https://opensourcedeclaration.org/index-en-us.html

Software Freedom @conservancy: "Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of 'Open Source'"

"With this announcement, we have reached the moment that software freedom advocates have feared for decades: the definition of “open source” — with which OSI was entrusted — now differs in significant ways from the views of most software freedom advocates."

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/oct/31/open-source-ai-definition-osaid-erodes-foss/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #OpenSourceAI #AI #OSI #OSAID

For a moment, imagining if #Mastodon had released literally ANY new & useful admin/moderation tools whatsoever in the past several years....

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

"No one should be at the mercy of an algorithm they don’t control, which was not designed to safeguard their interests."

— António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General

Read more in the UN's brand-new "Global Principles for Information Integrity", announced today: https://www.un.org/en/information-integrity

#UN #Fediverse #disinformation #misinformation #TrustAndSafety

@joeo10 Why not viable? Both my Blu-Ray 4K UHD player and Kodi server can output HDMI without problem...

Yes, you can still buy 4K TV's that are not "Smart" (surveillance). They're called "commercial displays" and as a bonus, they're more durable, too.

Prices start at $550 US for a 55-inch Samsung model.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #SmartTV #TV

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Flat-Panel-Displays/ci/16073/N/4205668456?sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH&filters=fct_display-size_4953%3A55in%7C65in

@tokyo_0 https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=jUCu5e_fyeg

@tokyo_0 Reminds me also of Google+.