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#Ubisoft says upon termination:

“You must immediately uninstall the Product and destroy all copies of the Product in Your possession.”

Is this even legal @EUCommission?

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There is something in Roman Law called retroactivity, which is applied only if it's beneficial to the recipients of that regulation.

So, if you bought Assassin's Creed Origins in 2016 without that clause, and afterwards that clause is made effective, it only affects to people who bought the game after that change.

However, if something in the EULA is removed or changed for the better, it affects to every body, no matter what.

Not sure if it's the same in Common Law.

in reply to stux⚡

EULAs in general, aren’t worth anything because you only have one AFTER you purchase the product, so they claim ‘agreement of contract by default’, which is not how contracts work. You can fight any EULA and win, but it may take months, or longer. I beat Gateway Computers EULA but I had access to investigative assistance and could do it on my own. Anyone else would spend $$$ and take awhile to recover it. Fuck UBISOFT


xAI’s gen #AI: Grok AI, is unhinged comp to its competitors.🚨It’s scooping up a ton of data that ppl post on X. Here’s how to keep your posts out of Grok—& why you should.

In July, Musk came under fire from European regulators after it emerged that users of the X platform were automatically opted in to their posts being used to train Grok.

Concern: Image-gen capabilities of Grok-2 LLM -users: easy it was to create outrageous & incendiary depictions of pol... 2024:
#Tech wired.com/story/grok-ai-privac…

#ai #tech
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The Rebel Tech Alliance is a non-profit dedicated to bringing down #SurveillanceCapitalism

We explain the problem, provide extensive lists of vetted Alternatives, and show you who else is fighting this fight so we can Unite. We also have loads of Resources and Guides.

Please read through the site - it's in chronological order - and share widely. The more people leave #BigTech the less data Big Tech has, the less power they have. #Privacy is power!

rebeltechalliance.org/

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Sadly Komoot has been sold to Bending Spoons. I'm very excited to try wanderer.to/ though!
in reply to calligraffiti

@calligraffiti oh damn. That's the end for Komoot then.... what a shame - it's a great app.

Thank you for the heads up about Wanderer - that's a very interesting approach, and very cool that it is integrated with ActivityPub 😊



"At a 2021 conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), Zohran Mamdani discussed various short-term reforms favored by the organization. But alongside offering his thoughts on the groups’ immediate aims, he also had something to say about “end goal” of socialist politics: “seizing the means of production.”

In the last week, the clip resurfaced on right-wing social media, where it’s been treated as a damning discovery about Mamdani, who just won a primary to become the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City.

National Review ran a brief item on the clip under the headline “Uh, That’s Literal Communism!” On CNN, Scott Jennings concurred, saying that Mamdani was “using the language of the Bolsheviks.” Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) said that this was “the scariest thing Mamdani has said” and that it was “straight out of Karl Marx’s Communist playbook.”

It’s unclear why these remarks about the end goal of socialist politics are supposed to be shocking. Days before this supposedly scandalous clip surfaced, when a CNN reporter asked Mamdani whether he “like[d] capitalism,” his response was a forthright “No, I have many critiques.”

And of course, Mamdani constantly called himself a “socialist” during the primary election in which he delivered a knockout blow against former governor Andrew Cuomo, defeating the former governor by 12 points in the final round.

A socialist advocating the socialization of the means of production should be exactly as surprising as a libertarian advocating “liberty” from economic redistribution or a conservative calling to conserve the status quo. This is socialism’s core defining proposition, and it is a mark of how alien many of the ideas of the Left are to the media class that Mamdani’s comments have come as a surprise."

jacobin.com/2025/07/zohran-mam…

#USA #NYC #Mamdani #Socialism #DemocraticSocialism #DSA



Tours è bella, per carità. Ma essendoci arrivati dopo il silenzio e le vie quiete di Bourges, tutta la sua vita e viavai ci ha quasi disturbato.
E comunque ha meno attrattiva architettonica. Sarà la turisticizzazione.
Però abbiamo mangiato benissimo.

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So, Robert Chote, head of the Office for National Statistics is 'stepping down' because of the obvious failures at the ONS in the last few years..... or is he?

Well, he's certainly leaving, but stepping straight into the Presidency of Trinity College, albeit at around half the salary, but with considerable 'benefits' including housing & living costs....

So, as so often with our managerial class, not so much paying the price of failure, but leaving the wreckage behind....

#politics
h/t FT

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It does seem as if there's a social layer that are allowed to fail sideways when they show their incompetence. Hard not to believe that their entry to their initial roles weren't equally (err) <em>facilitated</em>


#Paulofigueiredo #direita #politica #noticias #politics Com apoio de Lula, Edinho Silva é eleito presidente nacional do PT paulofigueiredoshow.com/com-ap…


Esplorare Nettuno: la Cina svela la sua audace missione per il 2033
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:boost_ok: drugs question (stupid)

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What the fuck is it with #overlay companies and their apologists commenting on my blog?

I got two today (on the same post):
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-…

They are promoting their water-carrying shill-piece over on LinkedIn.

#accessibility #a11y

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Oh yay, the overlay shill is still spouting aspirational distractions on my site while failing to outline anything useful:
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-…

And one of the humans (not just a nameless sales person) responded to my comment on LinkedIn.

in reply to Adrian Roselli

The overlay shill is not just a shill, but an overlay vendor itself.

It may have failed to disclose that when asking for, and engaging in, a “balanced” and “open” debate about overlays on LinkedIn.

Overlay vendors continue to be ethically dubious (at best).

#overlay #accessibility #a11y



Moss on a log, over a small creek orange with iron-loving bacteria 😀 #mosstodon #BlueMountains

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Una astronauta della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale ha fotografato la fugace apparizione di un enorme “folletto rosso”
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Noch mehr gute Nachrichten! Eine weitere Regierung befreit sich von Tech-Giganten und Anbieterbindung. Das dänische Ministerium für Digitalisierung gibt Microsoft Office/365 auf und wechselt zu #LibreOffice, um die Kontrolle zurückzugewinnen:
de.blog.documentfoundation.org…
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung


Trouble ahead. My grandson has figured out how to send emojis and stickers from his mother's phone.



#Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2025 fixed a zero-day
securityaffairs.com/179738/sec…
#securityaffairs #hacking


From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Jeremy Cuenca, a photojournalist for the Collegian Wired, was hit by impact projectiles while covering an immigration protest in LA on June 8 — one struck him on the leg, another nearly severed the tip of his pinkie.

He later underwent surgery.

pressfreedomtracker.us/all-inc…

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Clitorises, and finding them

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Una storia sbagliata · Fabrizio De André

#music #pop #fabriziodeandre #mastoradio #unoradio

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Building a new U.S. political party from scratch is a daunting task, even for the world's richest man. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/… #worldnews #politics #elonmusk #us #donaldtrump #republicans #democrats


Ah. I see John may have deleted the Daily Stormer Nazi shit he posted yesterday, in which he "linked" Anthony Blinken to Jeffrey Epstein with red strings on a corkboard by pointing out that they and some colleagues were Jewish... but he's doubling down.


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I once did that, not because I only applied front brake but because the rear wheel came off the ground and once that happens, well you see above. I also landed on my head but I was wearing a helmet.


"The urban terrain, the resilience of Hamas and the people of Gaza, the balance of forces in the region and new warfare technologies posed distinct challenges for the Israeli Defence Forces, who were now fighting on multiple fronts with more ambitious goals than just recovering the hostages: destroying Hamas and then Hezbollah, controlling Southern Lebanon—in addition to making life unbearable for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. It was the continuation of the Nakba—an uncivil war of land expropriation.

In those early days, watching with mounting anxiety the indiscriminate bombing of a defenceless population, I wondered why such an eruption of violence had not occurred in apartheid South Africa. Many had anticipated a similar Armageddon. The States of Emergency between 1984 and 1994 saw the militarization of townships, death squads, chemical warfare, assassinations, torture and detention without trial. During this period, an estimated 20,000 were killed in South Africa, the vast majority black; another 1.5 million died in South Africa’s ‘destabilization’ of neighbouring countries. How, after ten years of civil war, did this culminate in a negotiated settlement, the dismantling of the major planks of the apartheid order, and the first elections based on majority rule? Why does such an outcome—with all its problems—seem so remote when we turn to the plight of the Palestinians and the spiralling violence, internal and external, of the Israeli state? How was it that the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995 intensified confrontations rather than making progress towards a two-state solution? Why did Israel abandon the Abraham Accords, which outlined collaboration with Arab states, preferring the disproportionate massacre of Palestinians after Hamas’s incursion?"

newleftreview.org/issues/ii153…

#SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Israel #Colonialism #LandTheft #Palestine #Gaza #SettlerColonialism #Afrikaner #Zionism









Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest at the courthouse, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

missionlocal.org/2025/07/video…



🚜 Loi Duplomb : Une « trumpisation en marche » du Parlement

En validant la loi Duplomb quelques jours après le Sénat, l'Assemblée nationale prête allégeance à l'aristocratie de l'agriculture mondialisée, en sacrifiant la santé humaine, la biodiversité et la paysannerie.

Pour Agir pour l’environnement, en renonçant à écouter les alertes de la communauté scientifique, une majorité parlementaire de circonstance verse dans un « trumpisme en marche ».

Suite ⬇️



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Next picture I’d like to see: Nobel prize commitee uses the letter for removing cat poo.

But I am sure there will be humans in the committee who seriously think of and discuss a nomination.



ICE driving their van through a crowd in San Francisco today

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Mastodon 4.4 introduces a Featured tab for hashtags and accounts, a carousel for pinned posts, and a widget for mutual followers. It also improves media controls, accessibility, and mobile navigation alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/…
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Hentor A: One of seven cairns marked on the OS map and spread in a roughly east-west direction across the top of Hentor Warren. It includes a cist with an irregular coverstone, dating to the Bronze Age. 📷 Bladup More: megalithic.co.uk/article.php?s…


Evening news: When journalists spread misinformation about vulnerable groups, it deepens division and distrust.

Sarah Vine’s (former wife of 'cocaine lines' Michael Gove!) inaccurate Motability claims show why stricter rules are needed.

Join the conversation on media accountability and protecting the truth.

#FakeNews #DisabilityRights #MediaAccountability #SarahVine #UKPolitics
voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=9890…



4) cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epste… #JeffreyEpstein contact names revealed in unsealed documents. key takeaways from files. list of #JeffreyEpstein alleged victims, associates some of whom have been accused of being involved in disgraced financier's exploitation, abuse of underage girls could be unsealed, made public as soon as today. That comes after judge ruled in mid-Dec that the information should be unsealed, but delayed the release until January to give those involved time to appeal their listing.
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10) WIRED: #Metadata Shows the #FBI’ ‘Raw’ #JeffreyEpstein #Prison Video Was Likely Modified. Metadata embedded in the #video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video #forensics experts shows...the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool #Adobe Premiere Pro. #maga #trump #fbi #DOJ wired.com/story/metadata-shows…


💫 All the Saints of Italy 💫

(Marry an Italian 😇)



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France Travail : des robots pour contrôler les chômeurs·euses et les personnes au RSA
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"France Travail déploie actuellement des robots visant à automatiser et massifier le contrôle des personnes inscrites à France Travail. Depuis le 1 janvier 2025, cela inclut également les personnes au RSA. Il s'agit d'une nouvelle étape du dangereux projet de gestion algorithmique des personnes sans-emplois, porté par le directeur général de





"Job market cooling may be an early omen for midterms" Bloomberg writes.

Ya think?



Good evening. It's 10PM, Tuesday, 8th July. The headlines: Preliminary results from the Post Office probe are out. At a state dinner, King Charles and President #Macron stressed UK-France unity. #Texas floods have taken 100+ lives. Gregg Wallace exits MasterChef. The US proposes a 30% duty on South African imports, while the first infant malaria remedy gets the nod. #BBC #News


Comincia la raccolta dei semi dai fiori del giardino (e da quelli che crescono spontanei lungo le strade che percorrono, come la Nigella). La speranza è quella di aiutare a crescere sempre più erbe spontanee e qualche pianta resistente e colorata per abbellire il giardino!

#semi #giardinaggio #papaveriGiganti nigellaSativa

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It's a twofer! Barnes & Noble members can get 25% off if they pre-order Automatic Noodle AND We Will Rise Again (a glorious anthology about hope and resistance that I co-edited with @older and Karen Lord). Today through Friday!


TL;DR: Adam Unikowsky of Jenner & Block explores the capabilities of AI in oral arguments, demonstrating that AI can effectively mimic Supreme Court lawyers during legal proceedings. abovethelaw.com/2025/07/you-ca… #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum


Hey, it's #PortFolioDay !

I'm a Spaniard artist, who love to draw creatures and SCIFI worlds. 🦖🐉 🌌 👨‍🚀🚀

I'm currently in a small hiatus due to I'm taking care of my first daughter, but don't hesitate to dm me if you have a project that could match with my style! ✉️

My linktree: linktr.ee/NumenSkog

Sharing is welcome !

#art #MastoArt #PortFolio #artistsonmastodon #fantasy #fantasyArt #scifi #scifiart #NoAI
#illustration

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