Hiker, nature lover, construction, game theory , sci-fi 100% human created
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Twenty years ago I published my first ecology non dystopian fiction scifi short story. It was one of the first I guess. Now the Conference 2140: Hopeful Futures in Science and Storytelling montreal2140.ca/
But Ai technobros billionaires want to displace workers and pay no taxes. Entire careers are being wiped out by Ai technology so who pays?
Se pudrió todo en Impuestolandia
🇧🇪 En Bélgica el primer ministro ofreció la renuncia porque le pidieron recortar 10.000 millones de euros y no sabe cómo
🇫🇷 Francia quiere cobrar 5,5 céntimos de euro por cada gigabyte de internet a las plataformas
🇮🇹 Italia te quiere cobrar 26% de las ganancias no realizadas si te vas del país con más de 800.000 euros invertidos
🇬🇧 Reino Unido te va a cobrar hasta 49% de lo que ganás con intereses y alquileres a partir de 2027
🇩🇪 Alemania te va a cobrar 47% de lo que ganes arriba de 280.000 euros por año
🇭🇺 Hungría te quiere cobrar 1% por año de lo que tengas arriba de 2,7 millones de euros
🇪🇺 La Comisión Europea quiere gravar el 0,5-1% de los ingresos de las big tech europeas con un “Digital Levy”
🇪🇸 España ya cobra el 3% de la facturación a las plataformas digitales (Google, Meta, Amazon) desde 2021
🇳🇱 Países Bajos quiere subir el tipo sobre las plusvalías de acciones del 33% al 36% a partir de 2027
🇨🇭 Suiza quiere poner un impuesto del 0,5% anual sobre el patrimonio por encima de 50 millones de francos (solo en algunos cantones)
🇵🇹 Portugal eliminó el régimen de Non-Habitual Resident (NHR) y ahora grava las plusvalías extranjeras al 28%
🇸🇪 Suecia está subiendo el impuesto sobre el capital del 30% al 35% en 2027
Hackers also hacked social media IMO
Vad har en hackad frysdisk på ICA med nationell säkerhet att göra?
Kanske betydligt mer än vi tror.
Den 12 oktober utsattes hundratals livsmedelsbutiker i Frankrike för cyberangrepp. Angripare manipulerade kylsystemens styrning och avfrostningsfunktioner. Resultatet blev förstörda livsmedel och ekonomiska förluster på miljontals euro.
Den 29 oktober rapporterade Reuters att Pentagon undersöker misstänkta cyberangrepp mot frysanläggningar på minst sex amerikanska militärbaser.
Och nu rapporterar två svenska ICA-butiker att deras frysar har hackats och ställts på 50 grader.
Är händelserna sammankopplade?
Det vet vi inte. Och det finns i nuläget ingen anledning att påstå att det handlar om en samordnad gråzonsoperation.
Men det finns något annat här som förtjänar uppmärksamhet.
Under mina år inom industriell automation har jag sett hur allt fler system kopplas upp för fjärrövervakning, service och effektivare drift.
PLC:er, regulatorer, kylsystem, vattenrening, energiförsörjning och processutrustning.
Det är praktiskt. Men det skapar också nya beroenden och angreppsytor.
En angripare behöver inte slå ut ett helt IT-system. Ibland räcker det att ändra en parameter i en regulator.
Anläggningen fortsätter att fungera. Men den gör plötsligt fel saker.
Och här uppstår en betydligt större fråga:
Vad händer om någon systematiskt kartlägger dessa sårbarheter – inte för att angripa dem i dag, utan för att kunna utnyttja dem i morgon?
Ett angrepp mot en frysdisk kan verka trivialt.
Men samma principiella sårbarheter kan finnas inom läkemedelsförsörjning, vattenrening, energidistribution och annan samhällsviktig verksamhet.
Det är därför vi måste börja se mönster mellan till synes isolerade incidenter.
Inte för att varje cyberangrepp är en del av hybridkrigföring.
Utan för att vi behöver upptäcka systemriskerna innan någon bestämmer sig för att utnyttja dem.
Frågan är inte bara om vi kan upptäcka ett cyberangrepp. Frågan är om vi kan upptäcka förutsättningarna för nästa angrepp.
#CyberSecurity #OTSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #HybridThreats #Resilience
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They sent 2,000 soldiers to “rescue” 4 soldiers sent to Haiti to “save” 12 million Haitians.
Keep believing that myth.
El Salvador sent over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to rescue four missing aviation technicians military soldiers.
Bukele says it’s a rescue mission. But 2,000 soldiers for four men raises a serious question: how far will he go?
If the goal was to help Haiti fight gangs and restore security, it would make sense. Haiti needs help. But this is not framed as help for Haiti. His logic is unusual. He is willing to put 2,000 of his own soldiers at risk just to rescue four men?
What if the four men are found dead? Bukele has warned that a much stronger operation is coming if they are not returned alive. What does this mean for Haitian sovereignty? What does it mean for innocent people in Haiti, including women, children, and men? Many of these people are poor and have no other options or anywhere else to go.
Do the math: 2,000 soldiers for four men means 500 soldiers per person. What happens if one Salvadoran soldier is killed fighting the gangs? Will Bukele send 500 more? What if two, six, or more soldiers are killed? When does this stop being a rescue operation and become full military control in Haiti? El Salvador does not have the money or resources to maintain full military control in Haiti. So, if that happens, which country will be financing the operation?
There is another risk no one is discussing. Gangs are not limited to Port-au-Prince. If the fighting becomes too intense there, they will move and hide across the country. Salvadoran forces will have to follow them, and the conflict will spread to other departments, putting even more Haitian civilians at risk.
Many Haitians support Bukele because they see him as the man who defeated gangs in El Salvador. But the story is more complicated. Before his 2022 crackdown, his government was accused of making secret deals with gangs. The U.S. Treasury, El Faro, and ProPublica reported on these allegations. However, Bukele rejected them.
His operation did reduce murders, and many Salvadorans feel safer. But Haiti is different. El Salvador is smaller and have two big gangs. Haiti has coalitions controlling different territories.
And unlike El Salvador, Bukele’s mission in Haiti is not about capturing gangs.
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A healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.
— Claudine Schneider
Happy New Week😊🌳☀️
Watch out for 'conspiracies of the "New World Order" by billionaires who fund NGOs to destabilize independent countries and use young people as shields.'
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Fòs sosyal enperyal ki responsab vyolans jenosidè ak deplasman popilasyon an Ayiti pa ka tounen sovè an menm tan. Envazyon sa a depase anpil zafè 4 salvadoryen yo te kidnape — e ki gen anpil chans mouri deja. Se yon kesyon de dominasyon total Etazini sou tout plan. Anpi a chanje estrateji: olye li itilize gwoup paramilitè, kounye a li itilize mèsenè kòm fòs li sou teren an. Fòk nou di internasyonal la: Sispann pase tan sou rezo sosyal yo, epi koute mas pèp ayisyen an. Se ak yo li laverite ye! 🇭🇹 #Elsalvador #Haiti #Bukele
Strange somehow I don't see a single reference to reparations in Miliband's tweets
Ed Miliband lecturing the public on “having the bravery to have honest conversations about our history” is a masterclass in performative Westminster cowardice. His selective version of honesty carefully edits out the historical facts that undermine the establishment narrative of perpetual national guilt.
An honest conversation would acknowledge that ordinary British taxpayers only finished paying off the monumental twenty million pound debt incurred under the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act in 2015. For nearly two centuries, working-class households financed the eradication of the trade through their taxes. An honest history would remember the Royal Navy West Africa Squadron, where thousands of British sailors died of yellow fever and combat while hunting down slaver vessels on the high seas, or the destitute Lancashire mill workers who chose starvation over touching slave-grown American cotton in 1862. None of these sacrifices ever feature in ministerial speeches because Whitehall is incapable of celebrating working-class moral backbone.
The glaring irony is Miliband’s own parliamentary record. While he expects the British public to prostrate themselves over historic sins, his own bravery evaporates the second he is faced with the Crown. Throughout his career, Miliband has reliably backed the Sovereign Grant to safeguard royal finances and repeatedly taken to the dispatch box to shower the monarchy with reverent adulation. He praised the royal household for embodying a “quiet, dignified sense of duty” and hailed the Queen as “our nation’s constant” while formally offering his “loyalty and devotion” to the Crown.
The institution he lavished with uncritical praise is the very entity that granted the royal monopoly charter to the Royal African Company under King Charles II and James Stuart. Yet rather than having the courage to scrutinise the historic wealth of the Crown itself, Miliband waved through royal funding settlements and led his benches in choruses of “God save the King.”
Dumping retroactive imperial guilt onto ordinary Britons whose ancestors were toiling twelve hours a day in northern coal mines and cotton mills, while voting to preserve the financial privileges of the Crown, is classic SW1 hypocrisy. Preaching contrition at an international summit while passing the moral bill to your own taxpayers is not an act of courage; it is the cheapest form of virtue-signalling on offer.
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With ongoing RN layoffs in Ontario, we’re seeing situations where ONE nurse is caring for TEN patients in acute care. It should be one nurse to four patients. This is not sustainable for nurses or patients. Nurses are bearing the brunt of these cuts, but patients pay the price too. We need safe staffing, not more pressure on nurses to do more with less. Are we really going to keep watching this happen and do nothing? #onpoli
With all that decentralized technology and Ai stacks maybe someone needs to implement a replacement for $$. Whatever happened to Copiosis and open value networks? Nurses and doctors are needed paid and working in the public sector.
There was a Haitian president who built social housing he was exiled at gunpoint by the US marines. Another afterwards built highways and hydroelectric projects, he was assassinated.
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Salvadoran invasion of Haiti a test, the yanks want to try one of his vassal states capability to attack other nations. An army attacking another country using gangs as an excuse, gangs armed and funded by USA. The same USA that allowed Bukele to stage his show.
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INVESTIGADORES CHINOS ACABAN DE FIRMAR EL CERTIFICADO DE DEFUNCIÓN DE LA PROGRAMACIÓN
El paper se titula: “El fin de la ingeniería de software”
La idea central es que escribir código está completamente acabado como habilidad.
Tu cerebro solo puede retener cierta cantidad de estado y de dependencias antes de chocar contra un muro.
Un agente no tiene ese techo, y su capacidad no deja de crecer con el compute.
Así que el humano deja de ser quien escribe el código.
Te conviertes en el arquitecto de la intención, el que dirige a los agentes y audita el resultado.
El código pasa a ser lo desechable, y el criterio pasa a ser el trabajo.
Precisamente por eso te dejo abajo esta guía sobre cómo construir tu propio sistema de agentes desde cero.
Abajo también tienes el paper completo en el que se basa todo esto ↓
They are killing children and civilians
#Haití | La Asociación de Naciones Unidas – Haití (UNA-Haití), entidad que representa a la comunidad de la diáspora haitiana, denunció formalmente que las operaciones militares ejecutadas por las fuerzas de El Salvador en territorio haitiano están provocando la muerte de civiles inocentes, incluidos niños.
diariocolatino.com/una-haiti…
Halloween book find: Blood Families
Blending gothic fantasy, political intrigue, mystery.. impossible not to read the social commentary in the well-considered lines. 💙 📚🪐 #booktok, #fantasy
#bookfunnel #caturday
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"Haiti is a laboratory where these people can come in & kill our people with no recourse ... It’s been 22 years of a foreign occupation with thousands of our people dead and killed, but yet we’re sitting here talking about gangs. The biggest gangsters are the US and its minions."
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Sa pa gen pyès rapò ak gang!
Ou gen yon peyi ki gen moun k ap dirije li. Yon lòt peyi deside voye fòs militè li nan misyon espesyal pou chèche solda li ki disparèt epi dirijan yo pa enfòme popilasyon an. Se nan nouvèl n ap aprann kantite yo ye e kòman yo pral opere.
Jis imajine si sete solda dominiken kòman nou t ap reyaji. Réfléchi sou sa!
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🚨 A win for PEOPLE POWER! ✊🏾
The Environment and Land Court has ordered a halt to car park works and Nairobi Animal Orphanage activities within Nairobi National Park.
The petition by 4,642 Kenyans shows collective action matters. #SaveNNP
