Dude that’s huge. How is this the first I’m hearing of this?
If you don’t want to watch YouTube: https://transparentelection.org/
Our approach leverages each state’s authority to define corporate powers, creating a pathway to campaign finance reform that doesn’t rely on restricting speech but instead focuses on not granting political spending powers to corporations in the first place.
Yeah I had never seen a comparison before. My expectation was just based on the amount of news I see on surveillance in a given area.
Huh I would have guessed London would be far higher than LA.
Lots of countries are talking a big game but Spain is out there doing it.
Beautiful
Whoa, did a piece of software take the roof lines and compare it to satellite imagery? That’s impressive
In the US, politicians are rarely in on the schemes themselves, they get money more indirectly from lobbyists, superPACs, or insider trading. Are politicians in the UK not able to profit from their votes?
Update! Update!
Wow I missed this post originally but your experience getting delisted makes it clear that google has really poor footing for taking more control over the apps people use on android. It won’t be so easy as registering as a developer with google, they can still crush you through their malice or stupidity.
Yeah caffeine has been around a long time. I’m sure these simple solutions won’t last much longer. They will us AI to monitor the actions are meaningful so people will use AI to make the actions look meaningful and so on…
Yeah… Its also hard to know scale if you are looking at a picture of bare walls but yeah tiny furniture doesn’t help.
Also the fish-eye lenses they use don’t help
Wow I knew they were virtually staging houses for sale, which I thought was fine until I realized the process doesn’t just add furniture, it also cleans up imperfections in the house.
AI photos for a short term rental seems like fraud by default
Very cool. I’m excited to see more creative ways to build trust for moderating online spaces, from the fediverse to git repos.
Edit: this seems like a similar solution for git repos
And even if the AI fails to make any improvements, they will still have aggregated a bunch of global manufacturing under one roof, theirs.
It is really helpful to hear your position. Thank you for sharing.
Gaza is a disaster that my country is directly supporting, so there are clear steps (not selling arms to Israel) that should be taken that I can protest/petition/vote for.
There are a lot of horrible things in the world but its much less clear what I can do, or what my country should do. I can support more refugees.
Society hasn’t developed great methods for intervening into some of these atrocities, that I know of, and they are slow to develop them because its easy not to care about someone else’s problem. And its easy to “mind your own business”
For example the Iran nuke deal in 2015 seemed promising because it avoided war and most sanctions. Sure it wasn’t as proactive as war or sanctions but I think people will need to learn to be comfortable with more subtle solutions like that if we are to make progress.
I would be interested to hear what you think should be done.
Really great idea!
This is what I see:
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer included it among several procurement issues in the annual report on foreign trade barriers he submitted Tuesday to U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump.
As always, Canada’s tightly controlled dairy market got a mention. So did the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act, which Greer has flagged as priorities for the coming review of the North American trade pact. The federal government’s Buy Canadian policy for contracts over $25 million is a new one this year, as are moves by some provinces to keep U.S. alcohol out of liquor stores. The long wait for regulatory approval of aircraft and a proposed change to the disclosure rules regarding fragrance allergens in cosmetics also debuted on this year’s list. Gabriel Brunet, a spokesperson for Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, said the government’s trade team is reviewing the report.
On the sovereign cloud, the report cites an August 2025 “request for information” by Shared Services Canada, the federal government’s central information technology agency, asking Canadian suppliers about their ability to provide the federal government with a “fully sovereign public cloud solution.”
That feedback would then be considered in future procurement policy development, which the agency framed as a response to “emerging challenges relating to digital sovereignty.” Shared Services did not mention the U.S. specifically, but the onset of Trump’s trade war and his threats to annex Canada by “economic force” months earlier had thrust the issue into the spotlight.
Greer’s report notes the proposal calls for cloud services where data would be “processed, transmitted and stored exclusively in Canada.” It would exclude suppliers subject to laws letting foreign governments access Canada’s data without written consent. (Another requirement Greer did not mention: providers could not be “subject to foreign laws that permit foreign governments to request measures that could affect or discontinue the service.”)
Shared Services said it was unable to comment in time for publication, but an update to the request for information suggests the conditions highlighted in Greer’s report remain. In its notice, the agency said it had invoked the National Security Exception for all stages of the procurement process for sovereign cloud services. That means nothing in any of Canada’s free trade agreements barring such protectionism would apply.
There is a difference, though, between exploring the possibility of creating a “fully sovereign public cloud solution” and actually doing it—especially without U.S. tech giants.
The federal government acknowledged as much last October in its “framework” on digital sovereignty: “It is impossible for the [government of Canada] to obtain a state of complete digital sovereignty, known as digital autonomy, due to the absolute interconnected nature of the digital world.” Manav Gupta, IBM Canada’s chief technology officer, told The Logic last month that the views of Canadian politicians on digital sovereignty had been “maturing.”
In January 2025, the federal government said it would review its business relationship with Amazon after the e-commerce firm closed its fulfillment centres and sorting facilities in Quebec. As The Logic reported, that review led officials to conclude that Ottawa’s reliance on Amazon Web Services, its second-largest cloud vendor, limited its leverage against the tech giant.