To enact his ambitious agenda to make the city more affordable, [Mamdani] would need to strike a better relationship with his former colleagues in Albany than Walker did.

Two of the three key planks in his platform — making buses free to ride and providing universal free child care — would require action from the governor and state legislature, including raising taxes by billions of dollars. (The third, freezing the rent on rent-stabilized apartments, can be accomplished at the city level.)

His five years in the legislature may serve him well in navigating Albany politics. He’s built alliances with legislators, especially fellow progressives, and seen the state capitol’s byzantine budget process up close.

“The budget process is almost a living, breathing thing,” said Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, a frequent ally of Mamdani’s. “There’s a long line of mayors who thought they knew how to handle state government who have failed at doing so … I think he knows how to do it better than other mayors who have come before.”

The biggest thing Mamdani needs from Albany is money. His plan rests on the state’s willingness to raise $9 billion in taxes on corporations and high-earners.

Gianaris noted that in recent years, both houses of the legislature have supported raising taxes on the wealthy. “So there’s two out of the three players already on board with the broad strokes of that proposal,” he said.

Governor Kathy Hochul, on the other hand, has firmly opposed tax increases, recently saying, “I don’t want to lose any more people to Palm Beach.”

Not all legislators are on board, either.

“I’m not a fan of any of his tax proposals,” Weprin said. “I think they’re unrealistic and would have a very tough time getting approval in Albany.”

Mamdani will also need Albany’s backing to enact his promise to make buses fast and free. The Metropolitan Transit Authority is controlled by the state, not the city; its yearlong experiment with fare-free buses, approved in the 2023 state budget, was one of Mamdani’s signature legislative victories. But his colleagues declined to renew the program in 2024, and MTA chair Janno Lieber has been critical of the effort since it ended.

“We tried [Mamdani’s] idea of free buses on different lines,” he told radio host Brian Lehrer in April. “Most of the additional ridership [that] was identified cannibalized other lines. You’re taking people who are paying on other lines, and they were just getting a free ride.”

Lieber has also said that the free buses sent the “wrong message” at a time when the MTA has prioritized cracking down on fare evasion. He has said he prefers to reduce fares for low-income people through a more targeted approach.

Can Zohran Mamdani’s Agenda Survive Albany?

Mamdani’s plans for universal child care, fare-free transit, and affordable housing rely on Albany getting on board.

^{New York Focus}

La pena capitale viene espressamente vietata dall'articolo 27 della nostra Costituzione del 1948, ma rimarrà applicabile nel Codice Militare di guerra fino addirittura al 1994 quando anche per i reati commessi in periodo bellico venne sostituita dalla pena dell'ergastolo che diventa pertanto la pena massima cui si può essere condannati in Italia a seguito di qualunque reato commesso sia in tempo di pace che in tempo di guerra.

Nel nostro paese l'ultima esecuzione per reati comuni venne sentenziata nel 1946 per punire un efferato fatto di cronaca nera passato alla storia come "La strage di Villerbasse".

La strage di Villerbasse e l'ultima condanna a morte eseguita in Italia per reati comuni

di Umberto Diana Nei diritti penali di tutto il mondo la pena capitale fu da sempre riservata alla riparazione di delitti di efferata violenza e, per fortuna, nei tempi attuali essa é considerata più sinonimo di vendetta che di effettiva giusti…

^{www.tuttostoria.net}

Citiverse ti permette di utilizzare i gruppi Friendica di Poliverso con la tua interfaccia Forum.

Su Poliverso esistono diversi gruppi che riguardano tematiche specifiche

Scuola e conoscenza

Scuola: tutto sulla scuola (e il software libero)
Astronomia: legato all’omonima comunità feddit è dedicato a chi si interessa di stelle, pianeti, satelliti e viaggi spaziali
Filologia: dedicato alla regina delle scienze umane
Libri: dedicato alle discussioni sui libri, per chi da mastodon vuole lanciare un thread non potendolo fare su Lemmy
Psicologia: dedicato alla mente e alle sue meraviglie
Fisica: dedicato alla regina delle scienze umane

Tecnologia

Ingegneria: dedicato a studenti ed ex studenti di ingegneria
Eventi Linux: per chi vuole dare notizia di eventi legati al mondo Linux
RaccoonForFriendica: il gruppo di supporto per l'app Raccoon For Friendica
I Blog di Writefreely: il gruppo dedicato ai blog federati di Writefreely

Sport, hobby e divertimento

Basket: dedicato alla pallacanestro italiana e straniera
Cucina: dedicato all'arte culinaria
AnimaGuzzista: dedicato agli appassionati di Moto Guzzi
Motori: per gli appassionati di auto e moto
Piazza Bronson: la piazza degli amici di Bronson
Anarchia: il forum degli anarchici

Utilità

Terremoto: per scambiarsi rapidamente informazioni sui terremoti in corso

La scorsa settimana, INDIRE ha pubblicato gli avvisi per le iscrizioni ai percorsi di specializzazione per le attività di sostegno didattico rivolte ai docenti triennalisti che intendono ottenere la relativa abilitazione e a coloro che hanno completato corsi di formazione sul sostegno presso università estere e sono in attesa del riconoscimento in Italia.

orizzontescuola.it/corsi-indir…

The punk band Bob Vylan has now officially been dropped by the talent agency UTA following the comments being made during their Glastonbury set.

During the performance, the band led a pro-Palestine chant with their crowd, proclaiming “death to the IDF”. Following comments from the festival staff as well as various politicians, UTA has announced their decision to part ways with the group.

Insiders have said that UTA senior executives agreed with the festival, saying that the band had taken their political beliefs too far when making their comments. Despite not coming out with any official statement, all images and information relating to the musical duo have been wiped from the company’s website.

The BBC continued in a statement, “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves. We welcome Glastonbury’s condemnation of the performance.”

Bob Vylan ‘dropped by agents’ after controversial Glastonbury IDF chant

Rap punk duo no longer appear on agency’s website days after festival furore

^{Jacob Stolworthy (The Independent)}

L’amore ultimo – Ausilio Bertoli – Bertoni Editore

Il preordine comincia il 3 luglio
e la vendita nelle librerie il 18 luglio.

Ulteriori dettagli

iannozzigiuseppe.wordpress.com…

L’amore ultimo – Ausilio Bertoli – Bertoni Editore – Il preordine comincia il 3 luglio

Delio Rizzi, un assicuratore in crisi, scappa nella pittoresca Parenzo durante le sue ferie estive, sperando di trovare rifugio nella bellezza naturale della costa istriana. Attratto dalle promesse…

^{Iannozzi Giuseppe - scrittore e giornalista}

Ieri ho dovuto sforzarmi un pochino più del solito, per riuscire a iniziare e poi (soprattutto…) subito finire un articolino dell’indubbia utilità avanzata, nonché senz’altro gusto impareggiabile, che a questo punto vi consiglio di leggere, per approfondire oltre quello che dirò ora: Tutorial per Non Fare Niente. 👻 …Ma, questo post non è una becera […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-06-30 15:28:27

il niente rottico che si avvera nelle cose

Ieri ho dovuto sforzarmi un pochino più del solito, per riuscire a iniziare e poi (soprattutto…) subito finire un articolino dell’indubbia utilità avanzata, nonché senz’altro gusto impareggiabile, che a questo punto vi consiglio di leggere, per approfondire oltre quello che dirò ora: Tutorial per Non Fare Niente. 👻

…Ma, questo post non è una becera scusa per spammare l’ennesimo mio pezzo di letteratura postmoderna, come in realtà non faccio da molto; scriverlo è bensì una becerissima scusa per sentire di star facendo qualcosa, quando, in realtà, da stamattina non sto davvero facendo assolutamente nulla… e quindi, a posteriori mi accorgo di quanto cazzo è vero ciò che ieri ho scritto con occhi luccicanti e mani frementi ma contemporaneamente anima marciscente, e come ormai con le ultime settimane ci sono finita dentro a tal punto da sguazzarci in automatico senza nemmeno accorgermene troppo. 🥴

Illustrerò precisamente la mia desolante giornata odierna fino ad ora, così da capirci meglio. Dopo aver dormito le mie bellissime 8-quasi-9 ore, circa alle 10:30 mi alzo, a fatica ma non troppo. Faccio colazione mentre guardo con dovuta attenzione un (1) episodio di Kidou Senshi Gandamu: Suisei no Majo, dopodiché vado alla mia postazione di dislavoro. Provo a prendere in mano l’ennesima idea pazza venuta tardi la sera, che in questo caso è di creare delle specie di modelli planner, tracker e così via, con stili grafici particolari (da videogiochi, anime, ecc…), con l’idea che strumenti di carta colorata e decorata possano aiutarmi, sia scrostandomi tutta quell’ultima muffa inazionativa e disorganizzativa di dosso, sia nel senso che sono cose originali utili da caricare sui miei sitini per attirare attenzione, fama ed amore; e questa è un’altra storia, ma il punto è che da stamattina ad ora il tempo è volato via solo in ricerca di informazioni e testing preliminare per cui adesso, a fine pomeriggio, non ho ancora fatto un bel niente se non pensare a vuoto, cliccare in giro su LibreOffice Calc, e fare domande scomode a ChatGPT. Nel frattempo, però, per distrarmi dal mio dolore esistenziale, stamattina mi sono lavata (anziché arrivare fino al tardo pomeriggio!), ho rifatto il letto, e tra metà e fine pranzo ho spolverato la stanza (che, dopo una settimana, andava fatto). E così siamo ad ora. 😱

È decisamente molto interessante, anche se ormai la cosa sta diventando oggettivamente ripetitiva, vedere come oggi ho eseguito perfettamente il Livello 1 del mio tutorial di ieri, “Distrazione del Nulla“. A parte il momento in cui mi sono volontariamente presa del tempo libero per guardare 24 minuti di anime stamattina (e qualcosa ora, se proprio vogliamo contare la scrittura di questo post come tempo di svago)… non ho fatto assolutamente niente di produttivo, eppure non mi sono nemmeno messa a divertirmi o a riposarmi propriamente. Tra un click e l’altro, distraendomi a fare cose che non costituiscono un bel niente ma che sono necessarie al fare più di niente, metà del tempo di oggi è già a tutti gli effetti evaporato, proprio come il mio sudore in questi ultimissimi giorni di giugno, dove l’umidità a dire il vero è accettabile, giusto prima che… 🥱

CAZZO! Giugno è completamente svanito, e adesso c’è già luglio… E no, non lo sto affatto realizzando in questo momento, ma questo è più o meno cosa ho pensato quando invece l’ho fatto, proprio ieri sera, o forse l’altro ieri. Quindi tocca fare anche il punto del mese… e questo è mille volte peggio! 😭

• Lato personale, c’è davvero pochissima roba fatta, se non una ventina scarsa di articoli sul sito della robba e il nuovo sito TomoStash; non mi viene in mente praticamente nient’altro.
• Il fronte spacciversità è però davvero terrificante… Ci sarebbero 2 esami completi che penso sia impossibile fare adesso, perché durante il corso non ci ho capito una mazza e quindi anche volendo sarebbe impossibile studiare a luglio (a maggior ragione visto che non riesco a fare neanche le cose che io voglio…) per tirare fuori qualcosa giusto alla fine del mese… mentre ho poi 1 orale dove dovrei ripetere bene la teoria altrimenti andrà a ramengo, e 1 altro orale per cui il problema è che ho ancora da finire il progetto.

Poi attenzione, non sto dicendo che quello appena passato sia stato un mese inutile e da buttare, affatto; cose personali positive, alcune che non ho scritto qui, sono successe, oltre a vari momenti neutri… però insomma, sulla carta c’è comunque tanto da piangere; e lo farei, se solo le lacrime uscissero. Idem per la mezza giornata di oggi, credo; è comunque un giorno di quelli dal sapore chill nonostante il retrogusto amarissimo, quindi non lo cancellerei, ma comunque non è bello… e mi sento assolutamente come dice la figura: sto perdendo. 😿
(…E se ancora è difficile capire come sto, ricordatevi che io odio spolverare — mi secca profondamente per qualche motivo che non riesco a capire — eppure prima ho preferito fare quello, piuttosto che vivere altri minuti ininterrotti di disperazione, quindi rendetevi conto della gravità della situazione… soprattutto perché l’ho fatto senza nel frattempo distrarmi con video su YouTube, musica, o quanto altro; l’ho fatto e basta… con di mezzo il pranzo, certo, ma comunque… 🦴)

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The punk band Bob Vylan has now officially been dropped by the talent agency UTA following the comments being made during their Glastonbury set.

During the performance, the band led a pro-Palestine chant with their crowd, proclaiming “death to the IDF”. Following comments from the festival staff as well as various politicians, UTA has announced their decision to part ways with the group.

Insiders have said that UTA senior executives agreed with the festival, saying that the band had taken their political beliefs too far when making their comments. Despite not coming out with any official statement, all images and information relating to the musical duo have been wiped from the company’s website.

The BBC continued in a statement, “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves. We welcome Glastonbury’s condemnation of the performance.”

Bob Vylan ‘dropped by agents’ after controversial Glastonbury IDF chant

Rap punk duo no longer appear on agency’s website days after festival furore

^{Jacob Stolworthy (The Independent)}

Many people don’t know that some of the foundational technology used by NASA during the Cold War — including the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo missions — was developed by former German scientists brought to the U.S. after WWII under Operation Paperclip.

These engineers, including Wernher von Braun, had previously worked on the V-2 rocket program in Nazi Germany. After the war, they were recruited by the U.S. military and later NASA, contributing significantly to American missile and space programs.

The legacy of this technological transfer raises questions about how scientific progress can intersect with ethically complex histories.

📽️ A detailed documentary on this topic (source):
“What if NASA’s space race was built on buried secrets — and Nazi scientists?”
➡️ Watch here:

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/41274094

NOTE: The City Council’s criminal-justice committee is slated to discuss surveillance cameras at 10 a.m. today (Monday).

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) is spying on you and lying about it. On May 29th, 2025, the Washington Post revealed NOPD’s secret collaboration with Project NOLA to use banned Chinese facial recognition cameras all over New Orleans to spy on you. There are more than 5,000 cameras across NOLA. All of them are run by Project NOLA executive director Bryan Lagarde, a former NOPD cop.

I had no idea they were meeting about this today in one hour! I even checked the meeting agenda last night, and didn't see anything related to surveillance.

I was prepared for the meeting on July 10th, and once again, I only found out about this bc I went out of my way looking for any mention of this.

Zero information from City officials or any mainstream local news. Only one mention from a small independent publisher that has been tracking this bullshit since the Palantir scandal of 2018.

I am getting so sick of this evasive bullshit!

Anyone that happens to see this, please watch the live stream at 10 am if you can:

cityofno.granicus.com/MediaPla…

If it doesn't work on mobile, it should work on desktop. If they do that pre-meeting, meeting adjourned BS again, close out the window and re-open the Livestream.

NOPD is using images of you from more than 5,000 cameras across the city

After years of FOIA requests and research, security engineer Matthew Wollenweber knows that NOPD is lying about their unlawful use of Project NOLA and facial-recognition software, he writes.

^{Matthew Wollenweber (The Lens)}

The bill itself is unsurprising and uninteresting. What is interesting is the title and description written by the bill's sponsors (Claudia Tenney R-NY, Dan Crenshaw R-TX).

"To deny tax deductions and other Federal funding..."

These congressmen think tax deductions are Federal funding. If they did not think this way, they would have left out the word other in their description.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3205/text/ih?overview=closed&format=xml

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/russias-throttling-of-cloudflare-makes-sites-inaccessible/

But the New York mayoral candidate said: “That’s not the language that I use.”

By Gregory Svirnovskiy
06/29/2025 02:24 PM EDT

"New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday again declined to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” but emphasized he would be a mayor “that protects Jewish New Yorkers” if elected in November."

"“I’ve heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of antisemitism in our country and in our city,” Mamdani told Welker. “And I’ve heard those fears, and I’ve had those conversations.”"

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/29/zohran-mamdani-globalize-the-intifada-00432052

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32488986

But the New York mayoral candidate said: “That’s not the language that I use.”

By Gregory Svirnovskiy
06/29/2025 02:24 PM EDT

"New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday again declined to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” but emphasized he would be a mayor “that protects Jewish New Yorkers” if elected in November."

"“I’ve heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of antisemitism in our country and in our city,” Mamdani told Welker. “And I’ve heard those fears, and I’ve had those conversations.”"

Peter Link

2025-06-30 13:00:44

Zohran Mamdani declines to condemn ‘globalize the intifada’

But the New York mayoral candidate said: “That’s not the language that I use.”

By Gregory Svirnovskiy
06/29/2025 02:24 PM EDT

"New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday again declined to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” but emphasized he would be a mayor “that protects Jewish New Yorkers” if elected in November."

"“I’ve heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of antisemitism in our country and in our city,” Mamdani told Welker. “And I’ve heard those fears, and I’ve had those conversations.”"

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/29/zohran-mamdani-globalize-the-intifada-00432052

🇬🇧** ENGLISH**

Italy just vetoed the EU Green Claims Directive, a law to ban misleading eco-labels like "carbon neutral" without proof. The move—backed by business lobbies—leaves consumers vulnerable to greenwashing.

Key impacts:

✔ No more rules forcing companies to prove green claims

✔ Vague terms ("eco-friendly," "sustainable") stay unregulated

✔** EU Green Deal credibility** takes a hit

🇮🇹** ITALIAN**

L’Italia ha affossato la direttiva UE contro il greenwashing, che avrebbe obbligato le aziende a dimostrare claim come "sostenibile". Una vittoria per le lobby, ma un rischio per i consumatori.

Cosa succede ora?

✔ Niente controlli su pubblicità ambientali

✔ Termini ingannevoli ("a impatto zero") restano legali

✔ La credibilità dell’UE sul clima si indebolisce

TL;DR (EN): Italy lets companies keep lying about being "green"—thanks to killing EU rules.

TL;DR (IT): L’Italia blocca la legge anti-greenwashing: alle aziende è permesso mentire sull’ambiente.

EN: suite123.it/2025/06/30/italy-b…

IT: suite123.it/it/2025/06/30/rego…

Regolamentazione anti-greenwashing: l'Italia blocca la direttiva - suite123

L’Italia blocca la Direttiva UE sulle dichiarazioni ambientali, frenando la regolamentazione anti-greenwashing. Cosa significa per l'Europa?

^suite123

cross-posted from: lemmy.nz/post/24923354

Europe’s ambition for digital sovereignty is more urgent than ever. But instead of backing truly European, privacy-first services, many European businesses and even EU and local authorities still rely on US tech, and might consider the brand-new and shiny "sovereign cloud" offerings as a useful solution.

But what if the "sovereign cloud" is less secure than US companies want us to believe? Let's take a deep dive into the "Microsoft Sovereign Cloud", the "Sovereign Cloud from Google", and the advertised "European Digital Sovereignty from Amazon Web Services" and whether it's safe to use these as a European authority or business.

Lee Duna

2025-06-30 11:47:09

"Sovereign cloud" or "sovereign washing"? A Trojan Horse at Europe's digital gates.

Europe’s ambition for digital sovereignty is more urgent than ever. But instead of backing truly European, privacy-first services, many European businesses and even EU and local authorities still rely on US tech, and might consider the brand-new and shiny "sovereign cloud" offerings as a useful solution.

But what if the "sovereign cloud" is less secure than US companies want us to believe? Let's take a deep dive into the "Microsoft Sovereign Cloud", the "Sovereign Cloud from Google", and the advertised "European Digital Sovereignty from Amazon Web Services" and whether it's safe to use these as a European authority or business.

"Sovereign cloud" or "sovereign washing"? A Trojan Horse at Europe's digital gates. | Tuta

AWS, Microsoft, Google - they all launched "sovereign clouds" recently. But the truth is, all US companies are subject to US data sharing legislation. Let's explore whether it's safe to use US clouds or whether it's just "sovereign washing".

^Tuta

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• ICE raids on farms risk food supply chain disruption
• Farmworkers illegally in the US are in hiding
• Crops are unharvested and rotting

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/immigration-raids-leave-crops-unharvested-california-farms-risk-2025-06-30/

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Russia launches largest attack of war, targeting Ukrainian regions far from front lines. “Despite the complexity of this overnight combined attack, no one was injured and no civilian buildings were damaged in Lviv,” Mayor Andrii Sadovyi reported the morning after the strike.

Zelensky signs decree to withdraw from Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines. “Russia is not a party to this Convention and is massively using mines against our military and civilians,” lawmaker Roman Kostenko, secretary of the parliament’s defense committee, said in a post on Facebook.

F-16 pilot killed during Russia’s overnight massive air attack, Air Force says. Maksym Ustymenko, born in 1993, was killed after shooting down seven aerial targets, the Air Force said in a statement. The Air Force added that his aircraft was damaged while he was trying to shoot down the last one, losing altitude and crashing.

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Pope Leo says Ukraine ‘martyred‘ in Russia’s ‘senseless war.’ Pope Leo XIV welcomed Ukrainian Greek Catholic pilgrims to the Vatican on June 28 and offered his blessing to mothers of soldiers killed on the front lines.

Ukraine approves new ‘Murakha‘ ground robot for combat use. The Murakha (“Ant”) is a tracked robotic platform designed to support front-line units working under challenging conditions, the Defense Ministry said.

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Ukraine war latest: Russia launches largest attack of war, targeting Ukrainian regions far from front lines; F-16 pilot killed in attack

Russia launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the start its full-scale war overnight on June 29, launching 477 drones and 60 missiles towards Ukrainian cities, Ukraine’s Air Force said.

Photo: Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

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Human cost of Russia’s war

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,018,940 troops in Ukraine since Feb 24, 2022. The number includes 1,220 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

Trump meets Zelensky at NATO summit | Ukraine This Week

International response

‘It’s time to move your bill‘ — Senator says Congress will soon vote on new Russian sanctions after talks with Trump. “For the first time yesterday the president told me… he says, ‘it’s time to move your bill’,” Graham said in an interview with ABC News, stressing that it would be Trump’s purview as to whether the bill would ultimately be signed into law.

Slovak FM suggests forgiveness for Russia, calls for dialogue to end Ukraine war. “Let us return to respect for international law and seek ways to communicate with the Russian Federation,” Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar said on June 29.

Hungarian FM says US lifted Russian sanctions that hindered expansion of Paks Nuclear Power Plant. “Construction of the major pieces of equipment for the Paks nuclear plant is proceeding in Russia and France,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said, as cited by Bloomberg.

In other news

US, Russian spy chiefs agree to keep direct line open, Moscow says. “I had a phone call with my American counterpart, and we reserved for each other the possibility to call each other at any time and discuss issues of interest to us,” the Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, said.

Azerbaijan cancels Russian events over ‘extrajudicial killings‘ of 2 citizens in Russia’s Yekaterinburg. Azerbaijan has cancelled all planned cultural events hosted alongside Russian state and private organizations, the country’s Culture Ministry announced on June 29, over the deaths of two Azerbaijani citizens during police raids in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

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Europe’s ambition for digital sovereignty is more urgent than ever. But instead of backing truly European, privacy-first services, many European businesses and even EU and local authorities still rely on US tech, and might consider the brand-new and shiny "sovereign cloud" offerings as a useful solution.

But what if the "sovereign cloud" is less secure than US companies want us to believe? Let's take a deep dive into the "Microsoft Sovereign Cloud", the "Sovereign Cloud from Google", and the advertised "European Digital Sovereignty from Amazon Web Services" and whether it's safe to use these as a European authority or business.

"Sovereign cloud" or "sovereign washing"? A Trojan Horse at Europe's digital gates. | Tuta

AWS, Microsoft, Google - they all launched "sovereign clouds" recently. But the truth is, all US companies are subject to US data sharing legislation. Let's explore whether it's safe to use US clouds or whether it's just "sovereign washing".

^Tuta

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47972197

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