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The Incredible G

The world may be a little crazy right now, but at least:

1. The days are longer than the nights. #Spring
2. Good people are rising up.
3. #Artists, #actors & #musicians are in full #creative mode.
4. Now has never been a better time to do something creative.
5. The value of #positivity is now known.
6. The value of #mentalhealth is now known.
7. The value of taking #risks is now known.
8. #Courage & #compassion everywhere.

Every #crisis is a chance for you to be someone's #hero.

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Erik van Straten

@Fiona : proper risk analysis takes into account EVERY weakness.

Even *if* you are right that Threema does *not* use forward secrecy, AFAIK the servers are not in located in the US and neither are the developers.

The chances that an orange haired idiot orders Threema to build in a backdoor and STFU about it, are therefore lower than with *ANY* US-associated whatsever signaling app.

(Me: just a longtime happy Threema user, without any PhD, but believing to understand what forward secrecy means. Including that if missing FS poses a risk to a specific user, that user has a *LOT* more to worry about - including which phone and which OS to use anyway).

P.S. are you (the reader) still using email?

@threemaapp

#Threema#FISASection702#Risks
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Nonilex

A federal judge has ordered #Trump admin ofcls involved in #ElonMusk’s “opaque” #DOGE to #testify under oath in one of the many sprawling lawsuits seeking to block DOGE’s access to sensitive govt databases.

US Dist Judge John Bates agreed Thurs that “very limited” efforts to question ofcls connected to DOGE would help clarify what exactly the group is doing & whether it poses the #risks to sensitive data that govt employees fear.

#law #privacy #InfoSec #NationalSecurity
storage.courtlistener.com/reca

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Nonilex

Dekleva is now at the #EPA in a crucial job: She…has the authority to approve new #chemicals…. Earlier she spent 32yrs at Dupont, the chemical maker, before joining…the first #Trump admin.

Her most recent employer, the chemicals #lobbying group, has made reversing the EPA’s course on #formaldehyde a priority & is pushing to abolish a program under which the agency assess the #risks of chemicals to human #health.

#PublicHealth#cancer#science
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petersuber

From @shayneredford: "AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone"
technologyreview.com/2025/02/1
(#paywalled)

"Crawlers are endemic. Now representing half of all internet traffic, they will soon outpace human traffic… As of late, they serve one more purpose: Companies such as OpenAI use web-crawled data to train their artificial intelligence systems…Websites are now fighting back for fear that this invasive species…will help displace them. But…this pushback is also threatening the transparency and open borders of the web…Unless we are thoughtful about how we fix this, the web will increasingly be fortified with logins, paywalls, and access tolls that inhibit not just AI but the biodiversity of real users and useful crawlers."

MIT Technology Review · AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyoneBy Shayne Longpre
#AI#LLMs#ClosedAccess
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BellingenNSW

The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species

"It would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia’s priority species. The cost to reverse the decline of priority species and undo damage done by habitat loss, disease and other threats was estimated at $103.7 billion annually, while getting them off the threatened list entirely would require $157.7 billion per year.”

"Biodiversity loss and ecosystems collapse is ranked by the World Economic Forum as the second most significant global risk over the next decade, with 50 per cent of the global economy dependent on nature. " >>
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/02/0

Australians spent over $33 billion on their pets last year.
dogster.com/statistics/pet-spe
#biodiversity #ecosystems #extinction #risks #wildlife #SettlerSociety #pets #Australia #NaturePositive #values

Griffith News · The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species     - Griffith NewsA new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia’s priority
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Joseph Lim :mastodon:

#Generalpurpose #AI could lead to array of new risks, experts say in report
#MustRead
"The International Scientific Report on the #Safety of #AdvancedAI is being released ahead of a major #AIsummit in Paris.. The paper is backed by 30 countries incl'g US & China.. The #risks fall into 3 categories: malicious use, malfunctions & widespread “systemic” risks.. a raft of factors make it hard to manage the risks, incl'g AI #developers knowing little abt how their models work"🫨
apnews.com/article/artificial-

A woman is reflected in a window with a slogan about AI ahead of the World Economy Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
AP News · New report outlines risks of artificial intelligence in early stagesBy KELVIN CHAN
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