leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.

Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-is-making-users-who-opted-out-of-ai-training-opt-out-again-watchdog-says/

This is the random ass opt out URL, which isn’t advertised in their apps: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019

OK, I'm going to hammer on this one. Five days might not seem like much to get 700,000 signature, but I've seen petitions get to 1 million in a day to save baby seals, so why not banning conversion therapy.
We have 4 countries above the threshold, but even if you're in those, your signature can make a different to reach the million.
Aside from that, we are nearing the threshold in the following countries:
Belgium
Slovenia
The Netherlands
Denmark
Germany
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

I want y'all to be gay, and do crimes. Or make art, and do crimes. Make music, do crimes. Laugh. Write terrible poetry. Say "huh, that's interesting" to people whose jobs you don't understand.

I would like y'all with generative AI posts to fuck right off. (Yes, of course I wrote a bullshit generator once, in AppleSoft Basic, it was 1983)

A thought for trans allies in this time:

You often ask us what you can do to help. Well, here's something you can do. Wear trans badges, buttons, pins, scarves, whatever you've got. Explicitly. I wanna see that blue and pink EVERYWHERE.

Because the more of you cis folk do that, the safer we will be in crowds and such. It will mean that wearing a badge of support for trans people doesn't necessarily out that person as trans.

"But wait," you're thinking maybe, "if I do that, people might think *I* am trans!"

Well, why is that a problem for you? Would you be offended by someone thinking you might be trans? Would you be scared? Welcome to our world.

This is your time, cis people. You were all ready to call yourselves allies when it didn't matter more than changing your PFP background. Now the rubber meets the road. We need you. We need your help to normalise our existence to other cis people. It could save lives.

If someone accuses you of being trans (imagine being *accused* of existing while trans?), don't deny it. Ask why it matters to them. Keep calm.

#LGBTQ #trans #allies

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And now at the half way mark! Force them to have the debate. Don't let our MPs rest easy!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793

i'm not sure if it'll help anything but today would be a real good day to sign this UK Gov't petition enshrining the right to transition using the NHS.

if you can't sign it you will boost it.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793

#transrights #ukpol #fucklabour

The @CCC, Europe's largest association of hackers, has updated its "Unvereinbarkeitserklaerung":

https://www.ccc.de/en/club/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung-des-ccc

Excerpt:
„Those who aim to destroy coexistence in society and work toward an alternative society with principles based on chauvinism and nationalism are working against the moral principles that unite us as a club.

The CCC declares representing racism and fascism, as well as trivialising historical and current violence, to be incompatible with a membership in our ranks.“

#Akademy2025 is happening in Berlin, Germany, and online from Saturday the 6th to Thursday the 11th of September.

Mark your calendars!

More details: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/

#KDE #FOSS #techevent #fossevent #linux

@akademy@lemmy.kde.social

If you want to know why researchers from the #globalsouth are under-represented in scientific conferences, try going through the visa application process as one of them.

#conference #knowledgeexchange @academicchatter

In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.

2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."

https://www.wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-nearly-6-years-later-all-predictions-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

#news #labor #WorkersRights #FourDayWorkWeek #work #iceland

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#furry #art

@frameworkcomputer We challenge AMD—and NVIDIA, Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix, and everyone else in this space—to not give up on socketed memory. The future should be upgradeable!