Erika Souklaye

Buy their full content on a usb stick. Best gift ever. Available on the Wikimedia Foundation website.

Same.
Eternal happiness. Tears of joy.

🚨 Police in Bedfordshire are working with tech giant Palantir to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate people's personal information...

...including health records, sex lives, and political opinions

Read the full story libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...

Meet us tomorrow in Seville! 🇪🇸

#DYK 👉🏾 UNCDF is the only #UN entity with a capital mandate? We provide catalytic financing through grants, concessional loans & guarantees to public & private sector

Learn about us ahead of #FFD4 & see where we'll be speaking: uncdf.org/uncdf-at-ffd4

@undp.org

Chalk on pavement beats fancy YouTube ads today.
#nyc #mamdani

Good news/bad news from the upcoming 2030 reform of the UN's Standard for National Accounting.

Good news: extraction of non-renewable resources such as oil, gas and minerals are to be counted as a negative component of GDP. GDP of petrostates goes down.

Bad news: crypto assets, crypto mining […]

Been saying this for awhile, but will repeat it for emphasis: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

"The current global financial system is simply not working for Africa"

Read below our (modest yet ambitious) contribution to fixing it. 👇

I have waited my whole life, for this moment....

Immensely proud to see the very clear role @uncdf.bsky.social plays to unlock opportunities and make capital flow in places largely considered unbankable.

Have a read and reach out!
#developmentfinance #blendedfinance #missingmiddle

What happens when markets are too fragile, and risk too high— even for concessional capital?

🔗 bit.ly/4ih3OrU 👉 a powerful reflection by our Executive Secretary, inspired by a @financialtimes.com op-ed by World Bank President Ajay Banga.

A chart showing rising bandwidth from 2024 onwards

Wikipedia's rising bandwidth due to AI scraping. It's sending their infrastructure costs through the roof and threatening the free availability of information.

www.linkedin.com/posts/maciej...

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

"Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, an investigation by SourceMaterial and the Guardian has found." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And so it is starting.

World’s ‘warmongers’ must end disdain for global order, UN chief insists With no end to numerous protracted conflicts - not least in Ukraine, three years to the day since the full-scale Russian invasion - UN chief António Guterres on Monday scorned the world’s “warmongers”...

“One by one, human rights are being suffocated... by autocrats, warmongers & voices of division & anger who view human rights not as a boon to humanity, but as a barrier to the power, profit & control they seek.”
- António Guterres UN Secretary General
news.un.org/en/story/202...

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

FDA Office of Minority Health is gone.

If anyone is documenting the pages going missing, I have a small database. I will not be taking it on long-term but am using it right now and am willing to hand it off to a relevant group. Pages as simple as Women in the Federal Workforce have gone missing.

“a random word blender being used as a source of information.”

i think kendrick is president now?

Goran World - yesterday As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides

www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

(Quite literally.)

Here is the merch store store.wikimedia.org I highly recommend the internet-in-a-box, limited availability but probably the greatest gift to a kid: planetary #wisdom and #collectiveintelligence, for ever protected and available.

Last month I started becoming a regular monthly donor to #wikipedia If you can, consider join me, every penny counts! And if you ever look for a gift, make it count, check their merch and defend #informationintegrity and #democracy in the meantime.

👉 donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

New to open source? Here’s everything you need to get started Explore our simple guide to finding projects, understanding guidelines, and making an impact.

What tips would you give to someone wanting to get into open source?

Here are ours👇
github.blog/open-source/...

Thanks, that’s definitely where I aim to move the conversations but not sure how it will be effective. Did you have to make a lot of convincing?

A friend reported this too. Could it be that you were following Kamala Harris’ account before?

Same here, except that I squarely deleted both accounts. For IG I’m in a pickle but could delete it. It’s WhatsApp that’s the most challenging to replace I find.

a woman says " maybe it 's time " on a nbc poster ALT: a woman says " maybe it 's time " on a nbc poster

Deleted my X account. I opened my Twitter account 16 years ago. I should feel nostalgic, I just feel relieved. Just closed #Facebook too. Instagram is more psychological. But #WhatsApp… how do you all feel? Most professional conversations happening there seem so hard to move elsewhere. Any tip?

WHO comments on United States’ announcement of intent to withdraw The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the organization.

@who.int plays a crucial role in protecting the health & security of the world’s people, including Americans, by addressing the root causes of disease, building stronger health systems, detecting, preventing & responding to health emergencies, including disease outbreaks.
www.who.int/news/item/21...

huh...