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  • German carmaker Volkswagen to exit China's Xinjiang, sell factory

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  • I agree in principal with that view, but there was pressure from VW's top investors (Union Investment, Deka) to clarify the situation in Xinjiang. An audit turned out to be extremely flawed which put further pressure on the management. It's hard to tell how much this contributed to the decision, but at least some shareholders weren't indifferent about the situation.

  • Multilingual, open source and a 'distinctly European perspective': Germany's Fraunhofer Institute's OpenGPT-X research project releases large language model

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  • The USA can certainly do this, they have all what it takes. Public investments for such stuff will be hard to get in the next four years I guess, but there could be some private initiative?I don't know the U.S. good enough in that respect, though.

  • Hong Kong's LGBTQ community won a major victory as the city's top court affirmed the housing and inheritance rights of same-sex couples, ruling against the government

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  • Yeah, and hats off to the judges.

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    Hong Kong's LGBTQ community won a major victory as the city's top court affirmed the housing and inheritance rights of same-sex couples, ruling against the government

    www.france24.com /en/live-news/20241126-hong-kong-top-court-affirms-housing-inheritance-rights-for-same-sex-couples
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    Hong Kong: International Trade Union Confederation denounces sentences for union leaders for participating in elections

    www.ituc-csi.org /hong-kong-ituc-denounces-sentences
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    Push for traceability of critical minerals gains traction at COP29

    news.mongabay.com /short-article/2024/11/push-for-traceability-of-critical-minerals-gains-traction-at-cop29
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    The U.S. Chinese immigrants running Temu shipping centers from their homes

    restofworld.org /2024/chinese-immigrants-home-e-commerce-hubs
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    Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."

    www.cbsnews.com /news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-message-human-please-die
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    Russian spy ship escorted away from area with critical cables in Irish Sea

    www.theguardian.com /world/2024/nov/16/russian-spy-ship-escorted-away-from-internet-cables-in-irish-sea

  • Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

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  • I am afraid they already did:

    ~[Commission concludes that online social networking service of X should not be designated under the Digital Markets Act](https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/commission-concludes-online-social-networking-service-x-should-not-be-designated-under-digital-2024-10-16_en?prefLang=en) -- (October 2024)~ Please see the comment by @[email protected], I am mistaken here.

    I would have loved to see the initiators to go the official way for the petition as I agree that change.org won't change much. Here we go: https://commission.europa.eu/get-involved/engage-eu-policymaking/petition-eu_en

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    Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

    ban-x-in.eu

  • Legendary Kenyan lawyer takes on Meta and Chat GPT: Mercy Mutemi stands up for Kenya’s data annotators and content moderators, arguing the work they are subjected to is a new form of colonialism

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  • I understand. You are right and everyone else is wrong. Classic.

  • Legendary Kenyan lawyer takes on Meta and Chat GPT: Mercy Mutemi stands up for Kenya’s data annotators and content moderators, arguing the work they are subjected to is a new form of colonialism

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    I know exactly how the terms are, and I know there is overlap in the exploitation game.

    This is apparently not the case. The 'exploitation game' is not unique to any of form of capitalism (there are many) as there has been exploitation of large groups of people also in the pre-industrial feudal system, just to name an example.

    Unfortunately, we see similar over-simplified narratives all over the web spaces, also on the Fediverse. This is not a grave issue in itself, we all can be mistaken, but very often these narratives are communicated in a very dogmatic and offensive way. This is unnecessary and not very smart, especially as you are wrong here.

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    BYD Worker Sexually Harassed and Illegally Fired: Management Hostile, Union Silent

    clb.org.hk /en/content/byd-worker-sexually-harassed-and-illegally-fired-management-hostile-union-silent
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    Legendary Kenyan lawyer takes on Meta and Chat GPT: Mercy Mutemi stands up for Kenya’s data annotators and content moderators, arguing the work they are subjected to is a new form of colonialism

    www.codastory.com /authoritarian-tech/social-media-authoritarian-tech/mercy-mutemi-meta-lawsuit

  • AI's $1.3 trillion future increasingly hinges on Taiwan

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  • You could short individual stocks.

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    AI's $1.3 trillion future increasingly hinges on Taiwan

    www.business-standard.com /world-news/here-s-why-ai-s-1-3-trillion-future-increasingly-hinges-on-taiwan-124103100102_1.html

  • Dutch publisher to trial using AI for English-language translations

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  • I can't elaborate on the Dutch, but I feel that your prediction that they won't hire native speakers/chartered translators will hold true not only for the Netherlands. I used to work for international publishing houses in various roles and guess I have some idea of this industry, and I think they won't hire experts just for saving money (not because they overestimate their language proficiency). They won't care about quality as long as the financials are fine, even if such a commercial success has a short life.

    The only exceptions I see at the moment are some small media organizations and/or grassroots media. But large publishing houses will use AI to further drive down costs, no matter what.

    A user in another thread on this topic has guessed that there will be a 'parallel economy' (their word) dedicated to human-made goods, while the rest is AI generated. Maybe that's the future?

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    Dutch publisher to trial using AI for English-language translations

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    France: Parents of teenagers who took own lives sue TikTok over harmful content

    www.france24.com /en/france/20241104-parents-of-french-teenagers-who-took-own-lives-sue-tiktok-over-harmful-content
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    European Commission picks consortium to built own satellite broadband system ensuring the bloc's independence on foreign entities

    defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu /iris2-european-commission-awards-concession-contract-spacerise-consortium-2024-10-31_en
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    "EU-Linux:" Petition calls for the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries

    www.europarl.europa.eu /petitions/en/petition/content/0729%252F2024/html/Petition-Nr.%25C2%25A00729%252F2024%252C-eingereicht-von-N.%25C2%25A0W.%252C-%25C3%25B6sterreichischer-Staatsangeh%25C3%25B6rigkeit%252C-zur-Einf%25C3%25BChrung-eines-EU-Linux-Betriebssystems-in-den-%25C3%25B6ffentlichen-Verwaltungen-aller-EU-Mitgliedstaaten
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    European Commission to launch investigation into Chinese online retailer Temu over sale of allegedly illegal products

    www.marketscreener.com /quote/stock/PDD-HOLDINGS-INC-45049866/news/European-Commission-to-launch-investigation-into-Temu-Bloomberg-reports-48209537
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    China 'compromised' Canadian government networks and stole valuable info for years, Canada's cyber spy agency says

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/cse-cyber-threats-china-1.7367719

  • Ukraine war: China's TikTok “more dangerous” in terms of spreading Russian disinformation than the Russia-founded messaging app Telegram, Ukrainian expert says

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    TikTok Has Pushed Chinese Propaganda Ads To Millions Across Europe -- ( July 2024, updated September 2024)

    According to TikTok's newly public advertising library, ads from China’s largest state media outlets touting everything from China Covid lockdowns to tourism in the troubled Xinjiang region have been broadcast to millions of the platform's European users.

    TikTok Ads Paid for by Chinese Media Target European Users -- (August 2023)

    Chinese media sponsored over a thousand ads on TikTok targeting European audiences. Additionally, accounts that carefully obscure their connections to China may pose further risks in coordinated information manipulation campaigns.

    This are just two examples, there is much more across the web.

  • How the Chinese surveillance state is suffocating its citizen: Over the past decade and a half, the Chinese techno-authoritarian state has deeply entrenched itself in the day-to-day lives of citizen

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  • As an addition:

  • Colombian president slams police purchase of Pegasus spyware

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  • Does China have a tech company which does NOT develop spyware?

  • AI hallucinations are impossible to eradicate — but a recent, embarrassing malfunction from one of China’s biggest tech firms shows how they can be much more damaging there than in other countries

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  • I don't know the reason for the prompt in this particular case, of course, but there is a persistent form of racism in China, namely the prejudice that the Han Chinese are more advanced than other cultures inside and outside of China. Some experts say this view is even promoted by the government's propaganda.

    There is also a good video by a foreigner living in China (19 min): CHINA: RACISM: China’s Ugly, Disturbing yet Open Secret --- (archived link).

    Last year, Human Rights Watch urged the Chinese government to combat anti-black racism on Chinese social media.

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  • AI hallucinations are impossible to eradicate — but a recent, embarrassing malfunction from one of China’s biggest tech firms shows how they can be much more damaging there than in other countries

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  • There is a good article by the China Media Project from April 2024 about the Chinese Communist Party's AI policy:

    Tracking Control: Bringing AI to the Party --- [Archived link]

    China’s release this week of new draft rules governing the generation of AI content, coming just months after the launch of ChatGPT, might give the impression leaders are scrambling to catch up. But for years now, the Chinese Communist Party has planned to power up AI innovations — even as it contains them.

  • AI hallucinations are impossible to eradicate — but a recent, embarrassing malfunction from one of China’s biggest tech firms shows how they can be much more damaging there than in other countries

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  • I corrected it, sorry.

  • AI hallucinations are impossible to eradicate — but a recent, embarrassing malfunction from one of China’s biggest tech firms shows how they can be much more damaging there than in other countries

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  • In a video posted on Xitter, a Russian soldier who defected to Ukraine says his unit were using Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet via an IP address in Latvia. They were paying for the subscription over Telegram.

    https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1826370717241540922

  • Musk's X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about U.S. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris

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  • The article relates to the share of advertising revenue these Maga guys get. Musk and his dozens of shareholders earn Xitter's bottom line, of course, but this is a different story.

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  • Elon Musk Urges To Free Telegram Chief Pavel Durov After His Arrest In Paris --- (Archived link)

    The Telegram chief executive, Pavel Durov, was arrested by the French Police in Paris this morning, and the X owner, Elon Musk, has reacted to his arrest. Musk shared a snippet from one of Durov's interviews where he was talking about X. While sharing this snippet, Musk wrote, "#FreePavel." [...]

    According to Russia's TASS state news agency, the Russian embassy in France is taking "immediate steps" to clarify this situation [...]

    By operating from the United Arab Emirates, Telegram has managed to avoid the content moderation laws that Western countries are imposing on major platforms to combat illegal content.

  • Don’t Shield Foreign Spyware Company from Human Rights Accountability in U.S. Court, Rights Group Says

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  • As a legal layman I would say that domestic companies aren't shielded anyway from human rights accountability.