Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks. If that's interesting to you, you can sign it here:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but it also needs to hit a threshold in three additional countries, and those are the four closest.
Here is a post about the petition:
Argentina Leaves World Health Organization in Nod to Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/argentina-leaves-world-health-organization-in-nod-to-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-bloomberg
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’
« Hansen’s group also argues that the accelerated global heating they predict will increase ice melting in the Arctic.
“As a result, shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#APOC) is likely within the next 20-30 years, unless actions are taken to reduce global warming – in contradiction to conclusions of IPCC. »
Aaaaand there we have it.
Google’s new AI policy removes promises not work on weapons or surveillance - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/04/google-ai-policies-weapons-harm/
Greenland’s parliament the Inatsisartut today passed a new law making it illegal for foreign entities to donate to political parties or politicians in Greenland. The law was passed with 22 to 0 votes.
That’s how much the people of Greenland want a hostile takeover from Trump and his cronies.
And in case you are wondering: X is NOT a popular medium in Greenland, so Musk will not be able to tamper with the public narrative
Source (in Danish): https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/groenland-forbyder-penge-fra-udlandet-i-politik-og-regeringsformand-foreslaar-valg
Carbon dating puts Saskatchewan first nation settlement site as 10,800 years old.
For settlers needing a reference point, this is as old as the oldest parts of Stonehenge, and five thousand years older than the pyramids. #archaeology
Behold, a Linux maintainer openly admitting to attempting to sabotage the entire Rust for Linux project:
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250131075751.GA16720@lst.de/
Edit for the Reddit peanut gallery: The reason this is sabotaging the entire R4L project is that DMA abstractions are critical for 99% of drivers, and without them, the R4L project is dead in its tracks. Christoph is fundamentally opposed to the goals and technical plan behind R4L, and offers no viable technical alternatives. If his demands are met, the R4L project is effectively dead with no way out, and that is what he wants. This is the dictionary definition of sabotage.
The good news is this doesn't affect drm/asahi, our GPU driver. The bad news is it does affect all the other drivers we're (re)writing in Rust, two so far with a third one coming.
Another choice quote, calling R4L "cancer": https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250128092334.GA28548@lst.de/ (R4L is the "cross-language codebase" he mentions, it's the whole point of R4L, and what he calls cancer. He's clarifying Rust itself isn't cancer, R4L is. Which is just as bad.)
Personally, I would consider this grounds for removal of Christoph from the Linux project on Code of Conduct violation grounds, but sadly I doubt much will happen other than draining a lot of people's energy and will to continue the project until Linus says "fuck you" or something.
As for how to move forward, if I were one of the Rust maintainers, I would just merge the patch (which does not touch code formally maintained by the dissenter). Either Linus takes the pull, and whatever Christoph says is irrelevant, or he doesn't, and R4L dies. Everything else is a waste of everyone's time and energy.
Edit: Sent in my 2 cents: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2b9b75d1-eb8e-494a-b05f-59f75c92e6ae@marcan.st/T/#m1944b6d485070970e359bbc7baa71b04c86a30af
This is meant to be a hit-piece, but to me it reads more like an endorsement. 😂
Carney has become a key player at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, Brookfield and Bloomberg because he’s brilliant at one thing — getting governments and private businesses to fall in line with Thunberg’s climate change agenda. As Steve Koonin, the under secretary for science at the Department of Energy in the Obama administration noted in his book on climate change, Carney “is probably the single most influential figure in driving investors and financial institutions around the world to focus on changes in climate and human influences upon it.”
Apple’s line of rhetoric here which agitates the supposed safety of children and blankets the entirety of porn and sexual contents with the term “hardcore porn” is exactly the kind of language you’d expect to hear from the mouths of conservative politicians and far-right extremists when they try to justify the eradication and persecution of marginalized groups online.
This encompasses a wide range of marginalized communities, from LGBT people, to sex workers themselves, who seldom live in anything other than deeply precarious conditions throughout their lives.
Anthropic Asks Job Applicants Not To Use AI In Job Applications https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/03/2042230/anthropic-asks-job-applicants-not-to-use-ai-in-job-applications?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon