"Por 8 votos a 3, o STF declarou parcialmente inconstitucional o artigo 19 do Marco Civil da Internet, de 2014, segundo o qual as redes sociais só poderiam ser responsabilizadas por postagens de usuários se descumprissem ordem judicial de remoção. Depois de confabulações durante um almoço prolongado antes da sessão, os magistrados resolveram impor, entre outras normas laterais, uma lista de conteúdos a serem removidos de imediato, antes de determinação da Justiça, pelas plataformas. Nesse rol estão publicações que configurem, por exemplo, terrorismo, pornografia infantil, discriminação racial, tráfico de pessoas, indução ao suicídio, violência contra mulheres e condutas que atentem contra a democracia e o Estado de Direito. Não é segredo para ninguém que foi este último item da lista que de fato moveu a decisão da corte —com as exceções dos ministros André Mendonça, Edson Fachin e Kassio Nunes Marques. E é aí que residem os maiores riscos da corrente cruzada pela regulação das redes sociais."

Folha de S.Paulo

O que a Folha pensa: STF incentiva tumulto e censura ao legislar sobre a internet

Ao substituir dispositivo aprovado em 2014 pelo Congresso por regramento vago, corte fragiliza a liberdade de expressão

#Brasil #STF #Censura #MarcoCivil

"Me aterra pensar que millones de personas emprenden ahora mismo ese delicado proceso sin más guía que ChatGPT, en un milenio plagado de acontecimientos traumáticos, interpretado por líderes inmaduros, irresponsables y narcisistas que trafican con desinformación."

El País

El año de la terapia sintética

Aterra pensar que hay millones de personas lidiando con las complejidades de un trauma sin más guía que una inteligencia artificial

"I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years. This movement has been an incredible force, thanks to your courage, passion and commitment. It has created a new public consciousness and a powerful sense of popular will. These are major achievements. And yet it is clear that we have now reached an impasse and a new path is needed. The plain fact is that the climate crisis cannot be addressed within capitalism. This may be difficult for some to come to terms with, but is vital that we understand this fact and develop our strategies accordingly, otherwise we are headed for certain failure. And on this issue, failure is not an option. First, what do I mean by capitalism? People often assume that capitalism is defined by businesses, markets and trade. But these things were around for thousands of years before capitalism and have taken many different forms. In reality, the main thing that distinguishes capitalism is that it is fundamentally undemocratic."

Climate socialism

I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years.

#ClimateChange #Capitalism #GlobalWarming #EcoSocialism #ClimateSocialism #Democracy

RT @BrankoMilan It is impossible to understand European political elites. Pure Orwell: Europe condemns Iran for attacks on its own territory

MSN

"Israel broke the fragile truce, murdering civilians with increased frequency. The Israeli army shot at close range over a dozen marked medical rescuers and a UN worker, then buried their bodies along with the ambulances. It bombed the last standing school buildings and hospitals. It has starved thousands of Palestinian children, maintaining an almost complete blockade of international humanitarian aid for twelve weeks. It took the levelling of over 70 per cent of Gaza for Germany’s leader to make such a groundbreaking declaration as “what’s happening in Gaza can no longer be justified by the fight against terrorism.” Merz added that he had “stopped understanding what Israel is trying to achieve,” though Netanyahu and his people openly state that the goal of the ongoing “military operation” is the annexation of the Gaza Strip. The German government even considered such “radical” steps as stopping weapons shipments to Israel – as reported by Israeli public television Kan 11, Tel Aviv undertook intensive diplomatic efforts against such ideas. With positive results – Johann Wadephul, head of Germany’s Foreign Ministry, has already assured that deliveries are not under threat."

Even Germany Now Condemns Israeli Crimes – Socialist Project

After months of silence and excuses, the European Union is beginning to speak directly about Israeli war crimes. Even Berlin – previously Netanya...

#Germany #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #HumanRights

"As Jewish protesters began flooding capitol building rotundas, blockading roads in cities across the country, and staging an unprecedented protest in New York City’s Grand Central Station, journalists attempted to pin down this “new” phenomenon. Some in Jewish establishment organizations decried these Jewish dissenters, either claiming them as patsies for terrorism, betrayers of their community, or not Jews at all. Others saw this as a brand new reclamation of Jewish identity, the building of an authentically emergent way of being Jewish that broke with the mainstream Jewish consensus. While this was a resurgence in alternative Jewish organizations and religious and cultural life away from the overwhelming Zionism of American Jewry’s dominant institutions, in truth, nothing about this was new. As scholar Benjamin Balthaser tracks in his new book, Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left, the vision of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and the Jewish Anti-Zionism Network are the latest stage in a long history that sees Jewish identity as in relationship with all communities facing oppression and on a diasporic model of internationalism. Shane Burley spoke with Balthaser about how Jews in both the Old Left and the New Left convened their sense of Jewish identity, how they understood and responded as Zionism emerged and then later dominated American Jewish life, and how this model of Jewishness has found its continuity in the radical Jewish activism attempting to halt the genocide in Gaza."

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity

The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of...

#USA #Jews #Zionism #Antizionism #Palestine #Israel

"The second approach is much broader, covering every social media user, and that’s tackling the way the platforms function. We have plenty of reporting and research that shows social media platforms are designed to be addictive — to ensure people spend more time on the app, thus generating more advertising profits. Social media platforms learned techniques from gambling companies to keep users hooked by using likes, notifications, and other methods to entice people to keep coming back, triggering dopamine responses that their brains craved even if the platforms made them feel worse at the same time. Tackling those addiction design practices, dark patterns in interface design that nudge people to perform certain actions, and the way the platforms’ algorithms spread and amplify certain (often extreme or sensationalist) content to keep people engaged is a more difficult task than a hard age limit. Despite the country’s decision to move forward with an age limit, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has already been examining and reporting on platform design issues and the issues with algorithmic recommendation systems. If we’re serious about minimizing the harms of social media platforms, design interventions and algorithmic limits are a much more promising approach." https://www.disconnect.blog/p/social-media-must-be-reined-in #SocialMedia #AddictiveDesign #Algorithms #BigTech #DarkPatterns #AgeVerification #NannyState

By itself, a tax like this one wouldn't do a thing to shift the current balance of power between capital and labour. Increasing inheritance taxes and enforcing stricter antitrust, anti-monopoly policies would be way more efficient in fighting the real causes of wealth inequality "Zucman’s project is that every billionaire should pay total annual taxes equalling at least 2 per cent of their wealth. That, he explained, is the level where they would pay the same tax rate as everyone else. If someone already pays 2 per cent through income and other taxes in their own country, “you are good, there’s nothing more to pay”. If they pay less, then any country where they do business could levy additional taxes to reach 2 per cent. For instance, Brazil or France could tax Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, as his company operates there. “It’s a bold proposal, yet modest at the same time,” said Zucman. He explained that his “starting point” was learning from the “failure” of most previous European wealth taxes. Whereas they hit millionaires, his would exempt even those with wealth of €4.8mn (the threshold for entering the global 0.1 per cent). This is hardly the Bolshevik revolution. Indeed, 2 per cent wouldn’t even reduce inequality, as billionaires’ wealth has been growing by 7 per cent a year. Piketty, who supports his former protégé’s plan, grumbles that it’s only “a useful first step”. The EU has long backed Zucman’s research. But his big breakthrough came last year, when Brazil, host of the G20 summit, invited him to present his plan to the assembled finance ministers. Brazil twisted the arms of even Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei to agree to a shared declaration: “With full respect to tax sovereignty, we will seek to engage cooperatively to ensure that ultra-high-net-worth individuals are effectively taxed.”"

Client Challenge

#Inequality #Billionaires #WealthTax #FiscalPolicy #Taxes #PoliticalEconomy

When LLMs suffer from Digital Alzheimer...: "Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also to help them define, explore, and refine what they need through multi-turn conversational exchange. Although analysis of LLM conversation logs has confirmed that underspecification occurs frequently in user instructions, LLM evaluation has predominantly focused on the single-turn, fully-specified instruction setting. In this work, we perform large-scale simulation experiments to compare LLM performance in single- and multi-turn settings. Our experiments confirm that all the top open- and closed-weight LLMs we test exhibit significantly lower performance in multi-turn conversations than single-turn, with an average drop of 39% across six generation tasks. Analysis of 200,000+ simulated conversations decomposes the performance degradation into two components: a minor loss in aptitude and a significant increase in unreliability. We find that LLMs often make assumptions in early turns and prematurely attempt to generate final solutions, on which they overly rely. In simpler terms, we discover that when LLMs take a wrong turn in a conversation, they get lost and do not recover."

arXiv.org

LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation

Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully spe...

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #ChatBots #MultITurnConversation

"Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re not careful with how those conversations are backed up, you can accidentally undermine your privacy. When a conversation is properly encrypted end-to-end, it means that the contents of those messages are only viewable by the sender and the recipient. The organization that runs the messaging platform—such as Meta or Signal—does not have access to the contents of the messages. But it does have access to some metadata, like the who, where, and when of a message. Companies have different retention policies around whether they hold onto that information after the message is sent. What happens after the messages are sent and received is entirely up to the sender and receiver. If you’re having a conversation with someone, you may choose to screenshot that conversation and save that screenshot to your computer’s desktop or phone’s camera roll. You might choose to back up your chat history, either to your personal computer or maybe even to cloud storage (services like Google Drive or iCloud, or to servers run by the application developer)."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups

Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re no...

#CyberSecurity #Privacy #Encryption #Messaging #Signal #WhatsApp

"One of the most alarming trends in policing is that companies are regularly pushing police to buy more than they need. Vendors regularly pressure police departments to lock in the price now for a whole bundle of features and tools in the name of “cost savings,” often claiming that the cost à la carte for any of these tools will be higher than the cost of a package, which they warn will also be priced more expensively in the future. Market analysts have touted the benefits of creating “moats” between these surveillance ecosystems and any possible competitors. By making it harder to switch service providers due to integrated features, these companies can lock their cop customers into multi-year subscriptions and long-term dependence. Think your local police are just getting body-worn cameras (BWCs) to help with public trust or ALPRs to aid their hunt for stolen vehicles? Don’t assume that’s the end of it. If there’s already a relationship between a company and a department, that department is much more likely to get access to a free trial of whatever other device or software that company hopes the department will put on its shopping list. These vendors also regularly help police departments apply for grants and waivers, and provide other assistance to find funding, so that as soon as there’s money available for a public safety initiative, those funds can make their way directly to their business."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Beware the Bundle: Companies Are Banking on Becoming Your Police Department’s Favorite "Public Safety Technology” Vendor

When your local police department buys one piece of surveillance equipment, you can easily expect that the company that sold it will try to upsell ...

#USA #Police #Surveillance #PoliceState #Privacy

RT @wmhuo168 BREAKING: China just buried the hard drive. A team at Fudan University has built a memory chip so fast, so durable, and so revolutionary it could wipe out SSDs, RAM, and even parts of your CPU. The West isn’t ready for this.

Interesting Engineering

China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech

PoX is a new class of ultra‑fast, ultra‑green memories that meet the swelling appetite of large‑language‑model accelerators.

"When Let’s Encrypt, a free certificate authority, started issuing 90 day TLS certificates for websites, it was considered a bold move that helped push the ecosystem towards shorter certificate life times. Beforehand, certificate authorities normally issued certificate lifetimes lasting a year or more. With 4.0, Certbot is now supporting Let’s Encrypt’s new capability for six day certificates through ACME profiles and dynamic renewal at: - 1/3rd of lifetime left - 1/2 of lifetime left, if the lifetime is shorter than 10 days"

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Certbot 4.0: Long Live Short-Lived Certs!

When Let’s Encrypt, a free certificate authority, started issuing 90 day TLS certificates for websites, it was considered a bold move that helped...

#CyberSecurity #WebSecurity #TLS #Certbot #LetsEncrypt

Sugestão: Cada deputado do partido fascista CHEGA que fosse condenado por um crime devia ser terminantemente expulso de Portugal para um país do "Indostão" ou uma ilha deserta sorteada aleatoriamente

"I'm not the only person for whom a detailed knowledge of scams created immunity from being scammed. Troy Hunt is the proprietor of HaveIBeenPwned.com, the internet's most comprehensive and reliable breach notification site. Hunt pretty much invented the practice of tracking breaches, and he is steeped – saturated – in up-to-the-minute, nitty-gritty details of how internet scams work. Guess who got phished? (...) Hunt had just gotten off a long-haul flight. He was jetlagged. He got a well-constructed, plausible counterfeit email from Mailchimp telling him that his mailing-list – which he absolutely relies upon – had been frozen after a spam complaint, and advising him to click on a link to contest the suspension. He was taken to a fake login screen that his password manager didn't autopopulate, so he manually pasted the password in (Mailchimp doesn't have 2FA). It was only when the login session hung that he realized he'd been scammed – and by then, it was too late. Within minutes, his mailing list had been exported by the scammers. In his postmortem of the scam, Hunt identifies the overlapping factors that made him vulnerable. He was jetlagged. The mailing list was important. Bogus spam complaints are common. Big corporate sites like Mailchimp often redirect their logins through different domains, which causes password manager autofill to fail. Hunt had experienced near-identical phishing attempts before and spotted them, but this one just happened to land at the very moment that he was vulnerable. Plus – as with my credit union scam – it seems likely that Mailchimp itself had been breached (or has an insider threat), which allowed the scammers to pad out the scam with plausible details that made it seem legit."

Pluralistic: How the world’s leading breach expert got phished (05 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#Scams #Phishing #CyberSecurity

"Individually, the reports say little that isn’t already in the news or on social media; but taken as a whole, they depict a government hysteria about the attacks on Tesla, described less like petty crime than some kind of violent insurgency. The entire alerting process, in fact, feels like a government-fueled contagion, a set of reports that create the vague impression of an assault on the American way of life. What is most glaring about the reports in the immediate sense is that President Trump’s March 21 declaration that violence against Tesla is “terrorism” isn’t being echoed by law enforcement or the national intelligence community. Not yet. A Joint Intelligence Bulletin produced by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security on March 21 (“Individuals Target Tesla Vehicles and Dealerships Nationwide With Arson, Gunfire and Vandalism”) reveals a sweeping effort by both agencies to “investigate,” “deter” and “disrupt” what it calls “nationwide incidents targeting Tesla electric vehicles” and equipment. But it never once mentions the word ‘terrorism’ to describe the spate of attacks on Tesla vehicles that started in January. (This despite the report being produced by the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division.) Instead, the assessment uses a different word: “vandalism.”"

Tesla “Terrorism” Intel Reports Stoke Contagion

Government reports on Tesla attacks say nothing yet suggest a lot

#USA #Trump #Tesla #Musk #Vandalism #Terrorism #FBI

"Since the Trump administration moved to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, the bureau has dropped nine lawsuits that it had brought on behalf of consumers. The actions effectively freed major financial firms like Capital One and the mortgage giant Rocket Homes from the threat of consequences for their alleged significant wrongdoing, shocking consumer advocates and raising questions about the future of America’s consumer watchdog. For their part, when the cases were dropped, the companies lauded the decisions, with a bank spokesperson welcoming the dismissal of the case, “which we strongly disputed,” and Rocket Homes calling the suit an “empty claim.” But the administration’s new hands-off approach to enforcement at the CFPB extends far beyond those public lawsuits. Behind the scenes, dozens of ongoing investigations into alleged corporate malfeasance are now frozen at the agency, potentially denying accountability and financial relief for untold numbers of consumers, a ProPublica investigation has found. Under a stop-work order issued by the agency’s new leaders, CFPB investigators have been unable to press forward on probes into companies whose products and services are used by tens of millions of Americans, including Carvana, the online used-car retailer; Mr. Cooper, one of the country’s largest mortgage servicers; and CareCredit, a leader in medical credit cards, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matters."

ProPublica

Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up

Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket H...

#USA #Trump #CFPB #ConsumersRights #Antitrust #BigTech

"People demonstrate against Israel’s genocidal atrocities? That’s antisemitism — those protesters need to be silenced, arrested, and deported. People object to blatant Zionist influence in their governments? Antisemitic conspiracy theories; we need more hate speech laws and internet censorship. Palestinians take up armed resistance against their oppressors? Israel is the victim of unprovoked attacks from Jew-hating Arabs. Even real anti-Jewish prejudice benefits the Zionists, because it strengthens the narrative about an urgent crisis of antisemitism which must be crushed by any amount of force necessary, as well as the narrative that Jews need a nation of their own where they can feel safe. So Israel can openly mass murder children while Israeli officials make overt statements of genocidal intent, and if someone blames all Jews for this because they see a state committing atrocities under the banner of the Star of David while claiming to represent all Jews, it only benefits Israel and its supporters. (As an aside, this is why it’s so important not to blame this on “the Jews”. It’s not just that it’s inaccurate — not all Jews are Zionists, the majority of Zionists are non-Jews, and some of the most effective anti-Zionists in the world happen to be Jewish — it’s that you’re doing exactly what the Zionists and the empire propagandists want you to do. You’re doing their job for them. Don’t be a pro bono Israel propagandist. Make them work for that shit.)"

Israel Exists Simultaneously As The Perpetual Aggressor And The Perpetual Victim

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #HumanRights #Genocide #Zionism #Antisemitism

"Today, the European Commission introduced a proposed revision to the 2008 Return Directive, amending the EU legal framework on returns or deportations outside of the EU. Following pressure from certain member states, it also introduces a possible legal basis for ‘return hubs’ in EU law through “agreements or arrangements” with third countries. “The European Commission has caved to the unworkable, expensive and inhumane demands of a few shrill anti-human rights and anti-migration governments. The Commission itself discarded the concept of ‘return hubs’ in 2018. It is well aware that these proposals will lead to human rights violations, waste millions of euros and alienate allies – at a time when the EU needs friends. Despite this, today’s proposal lays the ground for states to send people to countries to which they have no connection, to languish in detention centres, with little credible guarantees that their rights will be upheld. Frankly, this is a new low for Europe,” said Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office."

Amnesty International

EU: Return proposals a “new low” for Europe’s treatment of migrants

Today, the European Commission introduced a proposed revision to the 2008 Return Directive, amending the EU legal framework on returns or deportati...

#EU #Migrants #Deportation #HumanRights #Democracy

"Nonpolitical", a new synonym for reactionary and fascist bullshit propaganda, disinformation, and blatant lies mixed with bad jokes: "- We found 320 online shows — 191 right-leaning and 129 left-leaning — that were active in 2024 and covered news and politics and/or had related guests. These shows had at least 584.6 million total followers and subscribers. - We found substantial asymmetry in total following across platforms: Right-leaning online shows had at least 480.6 million total followers and subscribers — nearly five times as many as left-leaning. - Across platforms — YouTube, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — right-leaning online shows accounted for roughly 82% of the total following of the online shows we assessed. - Comparatively, left-leaning online shows had nearly 104 million followers and subscribers across the eight platforms — nearly five times less. - Nine out of the 10 online shows with the largest followings across platforms were right-leaning, with a total following of more than 197 million. The only left-leaning show among the top 10 was What Now? with Trevor Noah, which had 21.1 million total followers and subscribers across platforms. - Our analysis — which looked entirely at shows with an ideological bent — found over a third self-identify as nonpolitical, even though 72% of those shows were determined to be right-leaning. Instead, these shows describe themselves as comedy, entertainment, sports, or put themselves in other supposedly nonpolitical categories. - Out of 320 online shows, right-leaning programs categorized as comedy — 15 shows in all — had 117.5 million followers and subscribers, or 20% of the total following of all programs we assessed. This category included The Joe Rogan Experience, This Past Weekend with Theo Von, and Full Send Podcast."

Media Matters for America

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Medi...

#Media #OnlineMedia #Podcasts #Videocasts #Ideology #Propaganda #SocialMedia #Disinformation