"Carter spent years building up Diversity Photos, which he founded because minority communities have been historically overlooked in stock photography. Carter says the company invested heavily in recruiting real, everyday people and obtained proper consent for the photos."

#Adobe

https://petapixel.com/2026/03/11/he-tried-to-stop-adobe-from-training-its-ai-on-his-photo-library-he-lost/

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/?lg=en European Citizens' Initiative
Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights

https://www.sphere-transgression-watch.org/sphere.html Sphere Transgression Watch is an initiative by the Digital Good Research Team, based at Radboud University’s iHub for Digitalization and Society. The project studies the effects of the growing influence of tech companies in the sphere of health and medicine and seeks to develop a normative framework for mitigating risks that can account for conflicting societal discourses about justice and the common good.

I cannot ever stop tearing my hair out about climate activists being labelled 'unrealistic' when the fossil fuel business bros persistently do shit like this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/27/cheniere-trump-irs-alternative-fuel/

Indigenous Communities Report Dramatic Loss Of Large Bird Species Over 80 Years

"As the global avian extinction crisis accelerates, the loss of large-bodied birds is destroying local biodiversity and ecology, and eroding the cultural memory of Indigenous Peoples."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#ExtinctionCrisis #birds #ornithology #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalMemory #Ecology #Environment #conservation https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/02/26/indigenous-communities-report-dramatic-loss-of-large-bird-species-over-80-years/

'Hackers hadden vijf maanden toegang tot gegevens DJI-medewerkers'

Hackers hadden minstens vijf maanden lang toegang tot de systemen van Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI). Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van radioprogramma Argos. De cybercriminelen konden gegevens zoals e-mailadressen, telefoonnummers en beveiligingscertificaten van medewerkers inzien.

https://nos.nl/l/2604180 #nieuws #nos

Judge Approves $345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace in Pipeline Suit | Greenpeace has said the verdict could bankrupt it. Lawsuit was over the group’s role in protests vs Dakota Access Pipeline

https://slrpnk.net/post/34673960

@harriorrihar I thought so, but I had to ask. Sorry for that, but we are living is depressing times. Beautiful drawings.

Do u use JohnsonAndJohnson #soap and #cleaning products? “Sustainable” #palmoil they use is far from “clean”. It’s linked to #deforestation 🦏🐘🦧, all for a dirty ingredient nobody even wants! ☠️🌴🪔⛔️.#BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/09/johnson-johnson/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116126429224391446

Very interesting and alarming - hysteresis effect from algorithmic feeds

@pluralistic up first, talking Canada's 💩 attempts at regulating USA's tech industry.

Literal shit heads. I love it.

Bluesky and Wide Decentralization

Contrary to current perceptions, Bluesky can not be widely decentralized because full independence on AT Protocol simply costs too much. This is not something that can be fixed. It is based on the inherent architecture of the protocol.

All ATProto components rely on some very expensive network resources, accordingly there will never be very many, making these resources points of centralization.

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#Bluesky #ATProto

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I want you to spread the word that Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media is forcing his editors to "use" Gen AI as much as possible. The book I wrote for them, Hacker Culture: A to Z, is probably the last non-tech manual they ever published that isn't tainted by Gen AI.

I quit my goddamn fucking professor position at OPIT because I would rather risk my ability to pay my rent than subject my students to Gen AI "e proctoring."

Please check out https://stopgenai.com, I beg of you.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116089890698252684

When russia first turned its terror against children

💬 “The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; those who have turned #Crimea into a military base" - Vadym Siruk.

We could add also those who so brutally end childhood

https://khpg.org/en/1608815506

Ian McKellen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert delivered a powerful Shakespeare monologue that highlighted themes of immigration, humanity, and compassion.
The performance connected centuries-old literature with today’s global immigration debates and received a strong reaction online. https://youtu.be/i54SCljs6vs?si=aUzRwWjr7JisLMhv

https://bsky.app/profile/davidrvetter.bsky.social/post/3meipumgurc2u
From the concentration camp in the US

Something I came to realize years ago when I got to know some of the people working at Twitter, there are still good, principled people working at (at least some of) the Big Tech companies who still believe in the original stated ideals, and pushing for them from within.

Worker solidarity! ✊

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/business/google-employees-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.O6DE.gZMz2081kyab&smid=url-share

#news #USNews #USPol #ICE #workers #WorkersRights #solidarity #google