folks in the US, please be aware of the seedy flip side of seasonal retail trends.
retailers are rushing to cycle out old stock. unfortunately in most locations, these items are deposited behind the store in unlocked waste containers. household items, electronics, clothing and food are carelessly left out in the cold.
in towns, smaller cities and suburbs especially, there isn't much of an effort made toward security for these waste containers. no one's tracking their contents and really, anybody could come and take that stuff. for free.
what a shame it would be if that happened.
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More than 75 US cities have announced protests today.
Check for your local action here:
@PsyChuan I'm afraid I only have this in screenshot format because various [semi-]walled gardens make people do the worst things, but
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Good news story!
Switzerland said "no" to Palantir after 7 years of Palantir lobbying
Journalists FOIA'd and published this
Now other nations are looking into the extraordinary pressure and whether it might not be prudent to let a USA-aligned corp handle citizens' most private data (medical, tax, residence, assets, etc).
we must have made them very nervous, since lawmakers in Germany and UK are questioning the contracts. It is possible that authorities are hesitating to sign new contracts. So we have triggered something that they are starting this PR campaign against us (I don't remember another media company being mentioned on their blog).
All of this thread https://infosec.exchange/@adfichter/115826298160548686 is encouraging! Now while the story is hot, it is a great time to email your local journos and ask if maybe your municipality, state/dept/province, or nation is being pressured to work with Palantir or other authoritarian-aligned corporations!
Particularly as we watch the abject failure of US media, I find it hard to believe that fewer than 8,000 Canadians want to get foreign ownership out of Canadian media.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6821
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Mild observations about LLMs in workplaces
I just realized part of why these things are being pushed to be used by managerial types. On top of the pie-in-the-sky promise of getting more work done in less time (bullshit), they are unaware of the shortcoming these things have because it takes an actual working knowledge of a subject to find the numerous flaws in their outputs a lot of the time.
And goodness knows, most management knows *nothing*
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