UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B -

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

: OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings

"OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings" UK gov is scrabbling around for pennies, and yet wasting billions on this intrusive and unnecessary scheme

Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel #Farage reject ‘banter’ claims -

the Guardian

Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims

Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt

he was a #racist, is a racist and always will be a racist

Why “public #AI”, built on #opensource software, is the way forward for the #EU -

Why “public AI”, built on open source software, is the way forward for the EU – Walled Culture

and someone else agrees:

Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty – Open Source Initiative

#Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures -

TechCrunch

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch

Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company b...

"part of the organization’s transition to a non-profit structure, announced at the beginning of the year. "

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ -

the Guardian

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison

The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to reali...

hugely important point: #AI is creating a flavourless, limited information monoculture

RE:

Mastodon 🐘

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek@mstdn.social)

Mozilla is the browser vendor equivalent of centrist political parties. > We can do whatever the fsck we want because who you gonna vote for, the ...

excellent comparison View quoted note →

Why Solarpunk is already happening in #Africa -

Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa

Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past

"But here’s the meta-point: This is the template for building infrastructure in the 21st century." amazingly hopeful stuff; do read. (v slashdot) #renewables

Ryanair tries forcing app downloads by eliminating paper boarding passes -

Ars Technica

Ryanair tries forcing app downloads by eliminating paper boarding passes

Ryanair CEO admits "there’ll be some teething problems."

#ryanair being ryanair

#Mamdani’s Win Shows That Believing In Something Beats Performative Hatred -

Techdirt

Mamdani’s Win Shows That Believing In Something Beats Performative Hatred

Last week, I wrote about how the Trump administration has replaced any sort of concept of governance with governance-by-trolling—a government opt...

"There’s one more element to Mamdani’s success that’s worth highlighting: joy." another @npub14j85...pjuf special

Backlash after #NewZealand government scraps rules on incorporating #Māori culture in classrooms -

the Guardian

Backlash after New Zealand government scraps rules on incorporating Māori culture in classrooms

Minister says obligations for school boards to ‘give effect’ to the treaty are unfair while critics argue the move will sideline Indigenous edu...

extraordinary and racist backtracking