#information

#UK Govt must move away from #toxic social media

Sites like Facebook, Instagram & YouTube track & profile users to target advertising towards them

This fuels online #harm by pushing more & more #extreme content to users

Yet these sites are a primary way government departments share public information

• We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms to get #public #information

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-government-must-move-away-toxic-social-media-platforms

#SocialMedia #Corporate #PeopleNotProfits #privacy #PublicInformation

Syrie : en silence, #Israël s’implante sur le versant syrien du mont Hermon Depuis la chute du président Bachar Al-Assad en décembre 2024, Israël s’enracine peu à peu en #Syrie, au-delà de la frontière avec le plateau du #Golan qu’il occupe depuis 1967 et a illégalement annexé en 1981. Les villages à majorité druze du mont Hermon se sentent abandonnés à leur sort sur un territoire que ni #TelAviv ni #Damas ne contrôlent vraiment. https://orientxxi.info/En-silence-Israel-s-implante-sur-le-versant-syrien-du-mont-Hermon #actu #actualite #info #information

IF you are going to do #AI, this is the way to do, it using an actually verified #knowledge base not using everything any yahoo has ever said on the #Internet. Of course it is still not #intelligence just #information retrieval. "The museum says MUSEO operates within a closed language model using only museum-approved research and exhibition materials rather than searching the open internet. Staff members regularly monitor and update the system, according to the museum."

New #emacs post! "Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse" https://www.chiply.dev/post-hyperbole-implicit-buttons #emacs #software #programming #knowledge #information #hyperbole

What happens when the information runs out https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/06/30/what-happens-when-the-information-runs-out/ #HackerNews #Tech #Information

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/research-grants-california-2/ #grants #funding #uspol #information #infosci #keywords

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116912711446949016 This is one of many hundreds of excellent articles on SubStack that are available for free. They are reasons why I love to read the best of what SubStack has to offer. #resources #information #interesting

Une pétition circule pour dire non à Chat Control je vous mets le lien en dessous. Protéger les enfants c'est leur excuse pref alors qu'on sait très bien qu'iels en ont rien à faire. Tracer les minorités et opposant.e.s à terme et faciliter les répressions c'est ça le vrai objectif. Faut rien lâcher et réfléchir à comment contrer ça. Lien de la pétition : https://stopchatcontrol.fr/ #mastodon #chatcontrol #information #numerique

We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn't... https://kottke.org/26/07/0049302-we-are-losing-the-ability #Discovery #Information #Culture

A.I. Is Giving Us Answers Right Away. That's Making Us Dumber. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/opinion/ai-google-gemini-search-questions.html #AI #Technology #Information

The Public Information Archive (aka the crowdfunded torrent server dishing up all the stuff the Epstein Regime deleted) has been going strong 24/7 since August 2025. 21 new torrents of fresh endangered data have been added. Learn more: https://lydie.cc/data.html #torrents #datapreservation #information #knowledge #selfhosted #antifa #antifascist #epstein #epsteinfiles

The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are 5 ways it’s hurting Americans This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come. #GovernmentData #information #data

“The Court cannot conclude this Opinion without noting once again what this case is really about: the attempt by the Secretary of #Defense to #dictate the #information received by the American people, to control the message so that the public hears & sees only what the Secretary & the #Trump Administration want them to hear & see,” Friedman appointee wrote. #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #press #journalism #FourthEstate #Hegseth #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda

@asanpin@defcon.social Done. Mixed feelings. To concentrate solely on FIMI does not sound wise. In the USA DIMI is at present the most urgent problem (Domestic Information Manipulation and Interference), which has already halted research necessary for informed citizens in a democracy, and IMI in general is dangerous, no matter its source. In Finland, we don't usually speak about "democracies", because the actual distribution of political power is more important itself, and comes in degrees. Some NATO-countries, e.g, are not democratic, and some even oligarchic, or at least act like ones. There is no "West" or "the democratic world" but in some not so democratic ruler's and marketer's jargon. That jargon manifests itself maybe too much in the WFW-report. Some parts of it were educational, some clearly outdated, superficial, and/or unnecessarily fear-mongerous. The Alan Turing report is on quite another level with its delailed scenarios for influence in Ch. 5, https://www.turing.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-10/epistemic-security-report_final.pdf With respect to the AI-danger there have been proposals for an IPCC-like body to steer and regulate at least something, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01606-9 but guess which former "democracy" just dissociated itsef from even the original IPCC? And referring to, e.g, the dual-use problem, guess who frustrated at least part of the EU AI-Act, https://corporateeurope.org/en/2023/02/lobbying-ghost-machine My advice for most everybody would be to stop using tools which use you, and maybe instead start to read real texts, preferably more than 10 pages long. Important things don't come easily, and the hustle we constantly feel, isn't ours. I go back to my primary reading, thanks for the opportunity to think aloud, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/attention/ #cognitiveWarfare #information #ai #democracy #usa #ipcc #aiAct #propaganda #disinformation

The Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs provided today’s #information regarding Hajj. • Afghanistan’s current quota is 30,000, and a promise has been made by the Saudi government to potentially increase the quota in the future. • The majority of the allocated quota has been distributed transparently and fairly to Hajj applicants who were previously registered throughout the country. • More than 87,000 individuals who were previously registered for Hajj remained after the current system came to power. The ministry was able to facilitate Hajj for all these waiting pilgrims within five years. • In Mecca, accommodations for all thirty thousand (30,000) pilgrims have been arranged in the “Mahbas Al-Jinn” area. • In Medina, this year, all accommodations for the pilgrims have also been arranged in the central area connected to the Prophet’s Mosque (Masjid An-Nabawi). • The cost per pilgrim this year is 266,400 Afghanis, and the total cost of the entire process is estimated at 7 billion, 800 million, 18 million, 78,000, and 200 Afghanis, which is 15,690 Afghanis (15,690) less than last year. • On Monday, each pilgrim can deposit their amount of 266,400 Afghanis in the relevant banks in the provinces. • Airlines will transport pilgrims from four travel zones in the country (Kabul, Balkh, Herat, and Kandahar) to Medina and Jeddah airports and will repatriate them to the same zones after Hajj is completed. د حج اوقاف وزارت له لوري د حج په باره کې نن #معلومات وړاندې شول. • د افغانستان اوسنۍ سهمیه 30 زره ده، د سعودي د حکومت لخوا په راتلونکې کې د سهمیې د زیاتولو وعده راکړل شوې ده. • د راکړل شوې سهمیې لویه برخه مو په ټول هېواد کې د حج پر پخوانیو ثبتِ نام شوو متقاضیانو په شفافه او عادلانه توګه ویشلې ده. • د اوسني نظام تر راتګ وروسته څه باندې 87 زره، تنه د حج پخواني ثبت شوي متقاضیان پاتې وو، وزارت وتوانېد دغه ټول منتظر حاجیان په پنځو کلونو کې حج ته ولیږي. • په مکه مکرمه کې، د ټولو دیرش زره (۳۰۰۰۰) حاجیانو لپاره عمارې (تعمیرونه) په «محبس الجن» سیمه کې نیول شوي دي. • مدینه منوره کې هم سږ کال د حاجیانو ټول تعمیرونه له مدني حرم شریف (مسجدِ نبوي) سره متصل په مرکزي ساحه کې نیول شوي دي. • سږ کال د یو تن حاجي لګښت 2 لکه 66 زره او څلور سوه افغانۍ ده او د ټولې پروسې لګښت 7 میلیارده ، 8 سوه او 18 میلیونه ، درې لکه، اووه زره او دوه سوه افغانۍ ټاکل شوی دی د تیرکال څخه پنځلس زره، شپږ سوه او نوي افغانۍ (۱۵۶۹۰) کم دي. • د دوشنبې په ورځ هر حاجي کولای سي خپل مبلغ ۲۶۶۴۰۰ افغاني په ولايتو کي اړوند بانکو کي تحويل کړی. • هوایي شرکتونه به د هېواد له څلورو پروازي زونونو (کابل،بلخ ، هرات او کندهار) څخه د مدینې منورې او جدې هوايي میدانونو ته حاجیان انتقالوي او تر حج اداء کولو وروسته به یې بېرته همدغو زونونو ته رالېږدوي. Source: Hafiz Umari (@HafizUmari313) [ https://x.com/HafizUmari313/status/2017602882745639169 ] #Afghanistan #Kabul #Kandahar #Herat #Balkh