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silence7 OP ,

Not sure which group you're thinking of, but basically you need:

  • large groups
  • being visible
  • nonviolent
  • coordinated messaging and clear demands
  • if possible, get the police to attack you (but not go kill your entire group, as may happen in authoritarian countries)
silence7 OP ,

They're also buying tracking data from phone apps, so you'd need to make sure you're not running any of those either.

silence7 OP ,

Not in the same detailed minute-by-minute tracking of where you've been.

silence7 OP ,

A lot of engineering was done assuming that rainfall behaved the way it did in the past. That's not a valid assumption anymore.

silence7 OP ,

The article is about a small number of congressmembers with speech and hearing disabilities.

silence7 OP ,

It's a gift link, so you shouldn't hit the paywall unless you've disabled javascript or are using a browser extension which strips off URL parameters

More and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global total (apnews.com)

Scientists say emissions from burning fuels like coal must ramp steeply down to protect Earth’s climate, yet there was an increase in electricity made from burning fossil fuels. China, India, Vietnam and Mexico were responsible for nearly all of the rise....

silence7 OP ,

The article says nothing about AI; just that EV charger location and availability is a feature being added to Google Maps.

silence7 OP ,

The ML tool is a summary of the directions. That's a plausible use of ML

silence7 OP ,

The value is that it shows people who aren't using EVs yet what's available

silence7 ,

OP: If you're in Canada, Meta banned news there entirely

silence7 OP ,

It's considered a civil dispute. You can sue to those using your face in an ad for monetary damages, which in practice means you're trying to sue an overseas shell corporation with no assets, and can't get anything, so no lawyer will represent you.

silence7 OP ,

In the US, kinda sorta.

Advertisers are liable if they use your likeness to promote a product, imply endorsement, or otherwise make commercial use of it without your consent. This gives you the right to sue, which is worth absolutely nothing when you're dealing with a shady overseas shell company hawking fake Viagra.

News organizations, artists, and random private individuals can publish a photo or other image of you taken in a place where you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy without having to contact you or have your consent. This is important: think of trying to share a photograph of a public event, and having to track down people in the background, or create public awareness when you photograph politician committing a crime.

silence7 OP ,

Because it's a pain to go do (and was especially so in the film era) and it change what the photo conveys in a meaningful way.

Think of for example a photo like this, showing anti-civil-rights protesters in 1969:

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/e8bd6a64-3b5f-414a-af20-bdd8cc3d8c90.webp

Blurring the faces would meaningfully obscure what was going on, and confuse people about who held what kinds of views.

Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes (wapo.st)

In particular, know how to identify the common and deadly species (eg: much of the genus Amanita) yourself, and get multiple trustworthy field guides for your part of the world.

silence7 OP ,

Yes, that's the hope. It's still more expensive than silicon cells. But this gives it a plausible path to commercial viability.

silence7 OP ,

A lot of car makers use a cellular connection collect this data. You need to disable that too, as well as any apps used to access car features.

Your cell phone provider could likely deliver this same data as well.

The right answer is to make it illegal to collect, except for a small amount stored on-vehicle for crash analysis.

silence7 OP ,

Selling your data is a new revenue stream for automakers, and as a practical matter, you can't avoid it.

silence7 OP ,

Working to make the car payment, instead of zipping around on a paid-off bicycle

silence7 OP ,

That won't work at scale; cars wear out, and become expensive enough to maintain that people scrap them

silence7 OP ,

On average, people junk cars at about 20 years. A few really do last longer, particularly if they're not driven daily.

silence7 OP , (edited )

Utility-scale batteries are getting to the point of displacing a bunch of that gas. Nuclear is sufficiently expensive that we're probably only going to use modest amounts of it.

silence7 OP ,

Bribery

silence7 OP ,

US bribery laws are incredibly lax compared with other developed nations.

silence7 OP ,

Be nice, but a lot of utility regulators are effectively controlled by the utilities.

In the Amazon, a new way to live off nature (wapo.st)

But now a smattering of solar panels across 12 villages in a couple of Ecuador’s deeply forested eastern provinces are making Canelos’s vision materialize. Every morning, before dawn, his people pass around a bowl of wayusa, a traditional drink made from a local plant that helps bring their dreams into focus. In them, they...

silence7 OP ,

Large corporate environments often have a team which reviews updates and may defer them from being rolled out.

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