#DOGE Gains Access to #Confidential Records on #Housing #Discrimination, #Medical Details — Even #DomesticViolence

While some #FederalAgencies have resisted efforts by #ElonMusk’s team to access confidential records, #HUD has opened the door. The potential #harm to #privacy could be significant.

#law #InfoSec #USpol #Trump #Musk
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-elon-musk-hud-housing-discrimination-privacy-domestic-violence

PRODUCTHEAD: New tech = new responsibilities

» The negative effects of social media algorithms were an early warning for the consequences of generative AI

» As product managers, we have a duty of care to our users

» The unpredictability of genAI poses varying risks of harm to users depending on the context

#prodmgmt #ethics #generativeAI #harm #responsibilities

Read more: https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-new-tech-new-responsibilities/

The #harm continues: “President … Tr*mp has terminated two advisory committees within the Department of Health and Human Services, one on long #COVID and another on #health #equity at the Centers for #Medicare and #Medicaid Services.” https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/trump-cuts-long-covid-health-equity-committees-new-eo

The #harm continues: “President … Tr*mp has terminated two advisory committees within the Department of Health and Human Services, one on long #COVID and another on #health #equity at the Centers for #Medicare and #Medicaid Services.” https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/trump-cuts-long-covid-health-equity-committees-new-eo

Humans are making it increasingly difficult for wildlife to live and reproduce.

Sprawl, accelerated fossil fuel mobility via motor engines and roaming introduced canines makes survival for other than humans risky or impossible. The prosthetic apparatuses of 'man' sends its noisy and polluting tentacles into every nook and cranny where bio-diversity still dwells - 24/7.
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https://theconversation.com/five-ways-humans-have-scuppered-the-love-lives-of-animals-249425
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #ecocide #cars #roads #traffic #pets #lawns #machines #pollution #noise #waste #harm #technosphere #HumanDisturbance #extractivism #monoculture #fossilfuels #mowing #deforestation #LoggingImpacts

Documentation of the systematic destruction of Tuckers Nob forests

"Presentation for Friends of Tuckers Nob on the history and significance of Tuckers Nob State Forest and why it must be included in the NSW Government's proposed 'Great' Koala National Park. Based on a recent preliminary report submitted to government, showing the original forest and koala sightings, with a list of moratorium areas (including Tuckers). All the most recent developments, bringing the viewer up to date. This is why we need a #GreaterKoalaPark, with no logging."

The video has a link to the report containing the results (maps) of the investigations by Dr Tim Cadman and local community-based citizen scientists:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKZvVjG_XvM
#ResourceFrontiers #extractivism #biodiversity #ecocide #koalas #NativeForests #rainforest #BellingenLogging #clearfelling #NSWLogging #Bellingen #community #trauma #harm #moratorium #FCNSW #plantation #conversion #annexation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #bushfire #risk

On my blog: Who Belongs https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/16/dei.html
Looking at the obsession with stomping out diversity and the power of Black History Month.
#blackhistorymonth #harm #politics #rant

Logging the great koala national park

"Before the next election round lets make sure The Great Koala National Park is secured. Its the last chance for the survival of our Koala population on the Eastern Seaboard of Australia."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7NQbRGZ2U
#biodiversity #FCNSW #NSWLogging #governance #harm #destruction #pinecreek #SaveTuckersNob #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingImpacts

Ocean dumping - Sydney’s archaic sewerage system

"It is not just human waste that is being pumped into the ocean off Sydney’s popular beaches due to the city’s unusual and archaic sewerage system – government scientists have confirmed billions of microplastics are also polluting the water."

"Khan, who heads the school of engineering at the University of Sydney, said it was “not sustainable” to continue discharging “80% of the sewage produced by 5 million people into the ocean after only primary treatment”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/16/sydney-sewerage-system-a-significant-source-of-microplastic-pollution-csiro-finds
#ocean #dumping #plastic #microplastic #pollution #MarineLife #harm #wildlife #Sydney #sewage #beaches #Manly #NorthHead

Intentional road crashes
In Australia, fatal road crashes are climbing again.

"Suicide or accident? The hidden complexities of intentional road crashes in Australia
International research suggests driver suicides may account for up to 8–9% of all fatal road crashes. But studies indicate up to half of these cases may go unreported."

"Between 2001 and 2017, the rate of suicide involving a road vehicle collision in Australia nearly doubled from 0.125 per 100,000 people to 0.25 per 100,000. "

"Unlike most other suicide methods, road vehicle collisions pose a significant risk to others.Intentional crashes can involve unsuspecting drivers, passengers and pedestrians, turning a personal act of self-harm into a broader public safety issue."
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https://theconversation.com/suicide-or-accident-the-hidden-complexities-of-intentional-road-crashes-in-australia-248673
#cars #drivers #crashes #males #violence #accident #pedestrians #harm #risks #mentalhealth #rage #roads #mobilitydesign #speed #FossilFuel #acceleration

#Power debate

Is it a tangible ability, or contextual and embedded in relations that help individuals or groups achieve objectives?

Is power always #egoistic even when apparently #altruistic?

The use of power is #evil if it leads to #violence, discrimination, exploitation, suffering, oppression, #harm, or injury to others, undermines the dignity and #welfare of individuals, as the negative consequences outweigh any potential benefits of the #greatest #overall #good.

@philosophy @education

On my blog: Stop Doing Their Work for Them https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/09/resist.html
Looking at how too many of us become complicit with authority in our alleged resistance.
#harm #politics #rant

"#Google has removed a pledge from its artificial intelligence (#AI) principles that had said the company would not use the technology to develop #weapons.

.. a section pledging not to develop tech “that cause or are likely to cause #harm” has now been removed.

Instead, now ... a section on “responsible development and deployment” [..] align with user goals, social responsibility, and widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html

Ik heb met gemengde gevoelens de nieuwsberichten gelezen over de opening van #longCOVID klinieken voor kinderen.

Lees mijn blog waarom:

anilvanderzee.com/wat-de-media...

#pwme #longCOVID #LongCovidKids #KidswithME #millionsmissing #CGT #GET #CBT #GET #harm

https://anilvanderzee.com/wat-de-media-berichtgeving-over-de-long-covid-klinieken-voor-kinderen-niet-vertelt/

"#Google's parent company [is] lifting a longstanding ban on [using #AI] for developing #weapons and #surveillance tools…#Alphabet [is] dropping a section [of its written guidelines] which previously ruled out applications that were 'likely to cause #harm'."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy081nqx2zjo

"Google defended the change, arguing that businesses and democratic governments needed to work together on AI that 'supports national security'."

Which democratic governments, exactly?

#Google on Tues updated its #ethical guidelines around #ArtificialIntelligence, removing commitments not to apply the #technology to #weapons or #surveillance.

The company’s #AI principles previously included a section listing 4 “Applications we will not pursue.” As recently as Jan 30 that included weapons, surveillance, technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall #harm,” & use cases contravening principles of #InternationalLaw & #HumanRights….

#law
https://blog.google/technology/ai/responsible-ai-2024-report-ongoing-work/

This dipshit. He wasted water for a photo op. Farmers could have used that water. He is an agent of destruction #casualtiesoftrump #casualtiesofmaga #imbecile #water #california #lafires #harm #chaos #tyranny #fascism #disinformation #misinformation

I was going to post something 'else' today.. but something MUCH more important has come up.. #robyn #female #human #girl #devil #demon #art #sketch #doodle #trans #transgender #lgbtq #imp #artist #digital #emotional #support #loved #cared #prevent #self #harm #suicide

We All Lose in #Trump’s #War Against #Trans #Americans.

His cynical #executiveorders #targeting #trans #people will #harm important #American #institutions by taking away #talent, #energy, and the plain #competence our #country needs.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-all-lose-in-trump-war-against-trans-americans

Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries

"An analysis of the nine top players in the U.S. fossil fuel-derived hydrocarbon industries (oil/gas, plastics, and agrichemicals) shows tight linkages across the three different sectors, with news media, other petrochemical industry players, and politicians also frequently tagged, according to a study published January 15, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Alaina Kinol from Northeastern University, United States, and colleagues...Our study suggests that climate obstruction in different industries is more coordinated than is generally recognized...these different companies in different sectors are using the same strategic messaging to promote a distorted image of their environmental responsibility.” >>
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070135

"The use of fossil-derived hydrocarbons in fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture makes these three sectors mutually reinforcing and reliant on sustained fossil fuel extraction. In this paper, we examine the ways the fossil fuel energy, plastics, and agrichemicals industries interact on social media using Twitter (renamed X as of 2023) data analysis, and we explore the implications of these interactions for policy...."
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Kinol A, Si Y, Kinol J, Stephens JC (2025) Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries. PLOS Clim 4(1): e0000370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000370
#Fossilfuel #extraction #climate #obstruction #denial #delay #energy #plastics #pertrochemicals #agrichemochals #Hydrocarbon Industries #harm #pollution #SocialMedia #PublicDiscourse #ExtremeHeat #PublicHealth #ClimateCrisis #responsibility