Yeah, sure clean all yards but start with your own.

Do you say that to Europe, to China, or both?

It’s obvious you’re addressing only Europe. Why?

This is what I meant with ‘The West bad, China bad okay’. It’s hypocritical. It’s double-standards. It’s ignorant and disgusting.

What about cleaning all yards? This ‘the West bad, China bad okay’ stance is dehumanising and ignorant. [Edit typo.]

I posted this elsewhere already, but it also fits here goven many of the posts in this thread: It is not just about data/privacy concerns (which are underestimated imo, as China pursues an own agenda with collecting your data through Chinese tech) and ‘unfair’ subsidies, but about gross human rights violations.

In short, some parts of the cheap Chinese cars are made in concentration camps where people are forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

Yes. We need human responsibility for everything what AI does. It’s not the technology that harms but human beings and those who profit from it.

You wouldn’t trust the Chinese supplier (or any supplier). You’d go to the bauxite shipment company and let them register with the network, you’d send independent auditors to their premises, very much as we do it with ibdependent audits nowadays.

We do need to physically access the premises across the supply chain to verify that ‘on-chain personas’ reflect their ‘real’ identities. But no single authority can control the data, we can be quite sure that all transfers of ownership across the supply chain have been authorized by their controllers. Compared to centralized systems, the blockchain provides us a much higher level of transparency and certainty over the fidelity of the information.

there’s no way tovtrack where resources, material, items come from, who made them

Independent audits are done -they are very common in many industry for a variety of reasons- and they work if done properly.

We could even track the provenance of each material through a trustless system like a blockchain to guarantuee a high level of credibility and transparency, just to name a relatively new technology. This is done already.

They have been already managing that for a long time. Independent audits are common - except in a few countries.

Forced labour in Chinese prisons isn’t limited to Xinjiang, nor to the car industry. A lot products we use in Europe and North America and elsewhere around the globe are made by Chinese prisoners forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

There is strong evidence for this provided by many independent sources, among them a documentary by Arte (a French-German media outlet). If interested:

Forced Labour - SOS from a Chinese Prisoner – (documentary, 95 min.)

A desperate cry for help written in Chinese was discovered in a pregnancy test sold in France and made in a Chinese factory. It revealed a hidden world of Chinese prison-companies where prisoners are forced to work for 15 hour days manufacturing products for export. This documentary tries to find out who wrote the letter.

(And, yes, prison labour exists also in the U.S., and it is as evil, but this doesn’t make the autocratic Chinese government any better.)

This is maybe a good idea. What would an emoji analysis tell us about a network? 😃

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Vor kurzem bin ich auf den Blog https://www.tomfichtner.com/article/de/offene-netze/ gestoßen. Das könnte ein guter Start sein, um sich mal schnell einzulesen.

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Es hat zwei Sekunden gedauert, aber dann hab ich es kapiert 😅

Vor allem im Vergleich zu Steuerhinterziehung.

Ja, die Hinterziehung kostet dem Staat viel Geld und wird in Deutschland wie auch in vielen anderen Ländern trotz Strafbarkeit nicht stringent genug verfolgt, aber sozial viel ungerechter ist die völlig legale Steuervermeidung. Damit entgeht dem Staat viel Geld, wobei fast ausschliesslich grosse Unternehmen profitieren. (Von anderen Dingen wie der Erbschaftssteuer, die in Deutschland effektiv bei unter 3% liegt, ganz zu schweigen.)

Das passt zum Thema:

What Can Improve Democracy? Ideas from people in 24 countries, in their own words (in Englisch)

Pew Research Center surveys have long found that people in many countries are dissatisfied with their democracy and want major changes to their political systems – and this year is no exception. But high and growing rates of discontent certainly raise the question: What do people think could fix things?

Roland Berger hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten u.a. auch öffentliche Institutionen beraten und damit Milliarden verdient. Wenn sie die “Bürokratie wirklich reduzieren” und/oder andere “Lebenslügen beenden” wollten, hätten sie das schon längst machen können.

UN: “The repression that environmental activists who use peaceful civil disobedience are currently facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights”

Scholz will keine Taurus-Lieferung an Ukraine. Er wollte (will?) Anteile am Hamburger Hafen an China verkaufen. Er will endlich “in grossem Stil abschieben”.

Sorry, aber bei welcher Partei ist der nochmal?

Ja, wir könben froh sein, dass das so ist. Aber wenn niemand Klage einreicht, dann gibt es auch kein Urteil.

Letztes Jahr half Lindner der Finanzindustrie und verhinderte das Provisionsverbot für Anlageberater (August 2023), CSU-Abgeordneter Ramsauer hilft bisweilen einem Unternehmerverband (Januar 2024). Die Liste ist lang.

Das gleiche gab es vergangenes Jahr in Österreich auf der Salzburger Tauernautobahn. Dort wurde das Tempolimit von 100 abgeschafft, weil die Luftqualität messbar besser war als vor dem Tempolimit.

Data Leak at Anthropic Due to Contractor Error

TL;DR - Anthropic had a data leak due to a contractor’s mistake, but says no sensitive info was exposed. It wasn’t a system breach, and there’s no sign of malicious intent.