Ask #Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?

Mozilla Foundation had 4 lawyers, 3 privacy experts, & 2 campaigners look at Microsoft’s new Service Agreement. None could tell if Microsoft plans on using your personal data – including audio, video, chat, and attachments from 130 products, including Office, Skype, Teams, and Xbox – to train its AI models

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/

#privacy #AI #Office #software #Greed #CapitalismFails #data #BigData #Office #Teams #Xbox #personal

Blackwater paved the way for Wagner

The use of contractors in the US ‘war on terror’ inspired Russia and other powers to outsource war

For the US, Russia, & other powers, military contractors are serving as convenient means for proxy warfare which offer plausible deniability & mitigate potential domestic tensions over foreign wars

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/8/12/blackwater-paved-the-way-for-wagner

#RussiaInvadedUkraine #WagnerGroup #Blackwater #capitalism #CorporateTerrorism #CapitalismFails #PeopleNotProfits #military #contractors

how many Earths do we need, FFS?

#greed #CapitalismFails #Ecocide

#Wirtschaft #Economy #Rezession #Germany #Recession #USA #Russia #Sanctions #Briefing 256 #capitalismfails #Capitalism #Inflation #Wirtschaftsdemokratie #Demokratie #partizipation #BRICS #Europa #EU #Industrie #Reindustrialisation #Deindustrialisierung

Die deutsche Wirtschaft performt miserabel, Russlands Ökonomie wächst – Blick hin zur Funktionsweise des Kapitalismus und ein Blick auf mehr Demokratie in der Wirtschaft (Leitkommentar) | Briefing 256 | Wirtschaft (...)

https://derwahlberliner.com/2023/07/29/die-deutsche-wirtschaft-performt-miserabel-russlands-okonomie-wachst-blick-hin-zur-funktionsweise-des-kapitalismus-und-ein-blick-auf-mehr-demokratie-in-der-wirtschaft-leitkommentar-brie/

NHS’s 75th birthday is make or break moment for privatisation

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said up to 500 people may have died every week late last year because they could not access the urgent care they needed

The state of the NHS was predicted & predictable

The situation is worsening because politicians are failing to take necessary action to safeguard lives

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-75-privatisation-waitlists-politicians-action/?utm_source=Diaspora

#NHS #Healthcare #CapitalismFails #privatisation #ToryCorruption #SaveOurNHS #ToryCronyism

House in a skip:

A converting skip was the only way he could afford to live in London. Skip House reportedly cost £4,000 to build, and he pays £50 per month to an arts charity in rental fees for the land

Tiny house movement embodies a complex mixture of counter-cultural ideals, economic pragmatism & the entrenched sheltering of privilege. They are not a fix-all, but neither should they be dismissed

https://theconversation.com/house-in-a-skip-even-tiny-homes-cant-address-the-privilege-and-insecurity-of-the-housing-market-203274?utm_medium=email

#TinyHomes #housing #culture #consumerism #CapitalismFails

In a world that glamorises stress, ‘burnout’ is a badge of honour. But there is a cure

Pretending wellness is a matter of personal choice is a convenient way for society to uphold systems of oppression

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/06/stress-burnout-cure-wellness-society-systems-oppression

#propaganda #stress #workplace #bullying #WorkplaceBullying #WageSlaves #slaves #CapitalismFails #HumanRights #MentalHealth

That feeling when the automated HR system says you haven’t checked off the on boarding training, so you have to watch a video about a product you helped develop and launch.

🤣

https://youtu.be/lV4aE84PCxc

#HR #DayJob #CapitalismFails

Telling workers to return to the office to be a good steward of the company's real estate investments is one of the dumbest reasons I've heard for ending #WorkFromHome policies.

#CapitalismFails #Socialism #Google

Why people can't afford housing, in a nutshell. These psychopaths are hoarding them all, keeping housing prices so high, and they're proud of themselves for it. #housing #affordability #millionaires #CapitalismFails

Chorley GP’s fight to save practice from corporate take over

We are a small pocket of the NHS that’s working really well; why are we disrupting that?

Dr Robinson said: “My receptionists have worked here for over 20 years, they know when people ring up if they’re poorly or not

So that continuity & trust is just gone in a heartbeat. Around two-thirds of our staff will leave

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23249557.chorley-gps-fight-save-practice-private-company-take/

#SaveOurNHS #ToryCorruption #privatisation #greed #CapitalismFails

UK: Warning issued to drivers filling their car incoming days

Warning retailers such as Shell, Esso & supermarkets, have failed to fully reflect the fall in wholesale prices.

Wholesale diesel cost plunged 32p per litre - but the pump price has only fallen by 20p

Petrol plunged by 23p at the forecourt, the prices have only been reduced by a mere 18p

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/warning-issued-to-any-driver-filling-their-car-with-petrol-or-diesel-in-coming-days/ar-AA16VIC8

#CapitalismFails #diesel #petrol #UK #UnitedKingdom #corruption #ToryCostOfLivingCrisis #economy #ToryCorruption

Whenever CEOs talk about “shareholder value” it means they’re cannibalizing the business for the filthy rich to profit from.

#SouthwestAirlines is in a death spiral of unhappy employees, infrastructure decay, and pissed off customers while the board and a handful of mega-rich investors bleed it dry.

#CapitalismFails

Southwest Airlines Has a Problem Bigger Than its Technology - TheStreet https://apple.news/A-ZFPmXx7TXOLIu0HLEOeNQ