#secrecy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #secrecy, aggregated by home.social.
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“CAN ANDY BURNHAM MAKE MI5 RESPECT THE HILLSBOROUGH LAW?”
by Richard Norton-Taylor in Declassified UK
@uk_politics
@Declassified_UK
@UKLabour“If the prime minister wants to ‘rewire’ Whitehall, then holding MI5 accountable could be his toughest test”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/can-andy-burnham-make-mi5-respect-the-hillsborough-law/
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #Burnham #MI5 #MI6 #Secrecy #HillsboroughLaw #Accountability #ISC #Scrutiny #Hillsborough #OfficialSecretsAct #Candour #SpecialForces #Tyrie
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@greenpeace
What a shame the corporations ‘all in’ on “cultural vandalism” don’t do anything, anything at all to improve life on earth in an admirable way. Founding libraries, instead of ripping & burning books. ☹️#GenAI #LLMs #GrandTheftAutoComplete #culturalVandalism #bookBurning #secrecy #shameful
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#BernardKeane is not one to mince his words and in his latest tirade, aimed at the Department of Defence (#DoD), though uncontroversial, is a tell-tale dig at #AlboPM ‘s govt entrenched #Secrecy and #Opacity bordering on a #Conspiracy to cover up anything that might tarnish the already low esteem we have of it.
“With the Defence budget to grow to more than $60 billion over the next four years, the lack of transparency and accountability around often spectacular procurement and contract management failures means taxpayers have no faith the department can competently administer such large sums effectively, or that it can do so honestly. The determination of a dominant government that has no meaningful opposition to suppress anything inconsistent with its cheery narrative guarantees billions will continue to be wasted.”
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To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
You need advice from me): Be careful about
The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
[Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “To Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #caution #circumspection #confidence #confidentiality #discretion #gossip #hearsay #informer #prattle #prudence #secrecy #secret #tattle #trustworthiness
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https://virginiamercury.com/briefs/after-taking-off-in-charlottesville-feds-plan-national-electric-aircraft-charging-network-rollout/ “Virginia will host future advanced air mobility demonstrations featuring aircraft and technologies of different sizes, transporting passengers, medical resources, and other cargo. None of them will be public” #cville #energy #secrecy
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What I was reading circa 1999
(Printed on used printer paper at work to read at home)
#ComputerArcheology #computerarchäologie #secrecy #privacy #anonymity #internetarchaeology #internetarchäologie -
#SaveMyLouisiana leads protest against Applied Digital data center
Story by Melinda Martinez, July 20, 2026
"Save My Louisiana organized a #protest against the #AppliedDigital #datacenter being built in the small Central Louisiana community of Boyce on Saturday, July 18.
"Those at the protest were concerned with non-disclosure agreements [#NDA's] signed by local officials, higher utility costs and the #EnvironmentalImpact of the Applied Digital data center. A few also questioned the true economic impact of the project, which they think will benefit the company, but not Central #Louisiana.
"Applied Digital, a Dallas-based digital infrastructure company, broke ground in January on #DeltaForge1, a large-scale artificial intelligence data center located at James Road and La. 121 near Boyce. A news release issued by the Louisiana Economic Development states it is expected to be finished by mid-2027.
"At a news conference held in May announcing the building of the $3.6 billion data center, Applied Digital board director Richard Nottenburg said that the Delta Forge 1 data center is not a traditional data center.
"Applied Digital has been working on transitioning from air cooled to liquid cooled data centers, said Applied Digital president and co-founder Jason Zhang at the same news conference.
“ 'Our design is a proprietary design that allows us to use very minimal water,' he said, adding that it’s an issue that is very important to communities where data centers are built." [So, in other words, an alleged "closed loop system"! But even closed loop systems have to be flushed periodically!!!]
#AIDatacenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks
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Wait, what..? Something both the #Left and #Right can agree on?!! Maybe the right is waking up to #CorporateColonialism! Good! Our #CorporateOverlords take advantage of everyone!
#Datacenter opponents stage 142 #protests across 42 US states
Story by Valerie Volcovici and Lisa Baertlein, July 18, 2026
Excerpt: "Opponents of the rapid buildout of #datacenters held 142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first nationwide effort to channel anger at the #AI infrastructure expansion that has ramped up over the past year and roiled local politics.
"The protests were coordinated by #HumansFirst, co-founded by a former leader of the modern-day #TeaParty. She compares growing opposition to data centers to the right-wing populist movement that emerged in 2009 to protest what it saw as excessive taxation and government overreach.
"Protesters rallied against what HumansFirst calls the 'unaccountable' buildout of #datacenters and 'unacceptable infringement on our liberty.'
"In #FredericksburgVA, one young man carried a sign reading, 'We thrive on water not data.' In #AtlantaGA, a small knot of protesters wielded signs reading, '#Georgia never voted for #hyperscale #AIDatacenters. ' "
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/data-center-opponents-stage-142-protests-across-42-us-states/ar-AA28cU6m#ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck
#NoisePollution #LightPollution
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#VicksburgMS residents #protest planned #AmazonDatacenter
Acie Lewis
Sun, July 19, 2026Excerpt: " 'It's being put up right next to the main elementary school for the City of Vicksburg. And there are several #environmental and health concerns surrounding these #datacenters. And so, being right next to a school, that hits home to me because I really care about children. I have kids,' said Stuart English.
" 'We know nothing about it. No one said anything about it. So, we're just finding a location and putting it wherever we could fit, no matter how many children are there. These are our babies. We've got to take care of them, and I am,' said Claude Lee, a Vicksburg teacher."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/vicksburg-residents-protest-planned-amazon-134114884.html#ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #Datacenters #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks #AmazonDatacenters #AWS #Mississippi
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
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Keep matters for a time in suspense. Admiration at their novelty heightens the value of your achievements, It is both useless and insipid to play with the cards on the table. If you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention. Mix a little mystery with everything, and the very mystery arouses veneration. And when you explain, be not too explicit, just as you do not expose your inmost thoughts in ordinary intercourse. Cautious silence is the holy of holies of worldly wisdom. A resolution declared is never highly thought of; it only leaves room for criticism. And if it happens to fail, you are doubly unfortunate.
Besides you imitate the Divine way when you cause men to wonder and watch.
[Llevar sus cosas con suspensión. La admiración de la novedad es estimación de los aciertos. El jugar a juego descubierto ni es de utilidad ni de gusto. El no declararse luego suspende, y más donde la sublimidad del empleo da objeto a la universal expectación; amaga misterio en todo, y con su misma arcanidad provoca la veneración. Aun en el darse a entender se ha de huir la llaneza, así como ni en el trato se ha de permitir el interior a todos. Es el recatado silencio sagrado de la cordura. La resolución declarada nunca fue estimada; antes se permite a la censura, y si saliere azar, será dos veces infeliz.
Imítese, pues, el proceder divino para hacer estar a la mira y al desvelo.]Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 3 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #anticipation #discretion #divineplan #divinepurpose #expectations #ineffability #mystery #obscurity #secrecy #silence #suspense #uncertainty
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@KatCopseyGreens
Beautiful illustrations! 🙏🏻 Good to see some facts… on data centre consumption of land, water, power… all leading to a suggested reasonable course of action.
Friends are shocked at the no. of data centres already in place & proposed. They say there’s been no discussion & it’s hard to get even basic information… The social license for these things is very thin. In popular culture the outcomes they enable are universally negative (eg 2 current programs: The Capture (ABC) - on the misapplication of surveillance, & Vigil (SBS) on the use of AI targeting & kill programs & mistakes). Less secrecy & more open dialogue might help. But when govts are secretive there’s often corruption behind it - how many & large are the lobbyist-purchased lunches & how big the donations into party coffers? 🤔#AusPol #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AITargeting #AIKillPrograms #secrecy #lobbyists #politicalPartyDonations #TheCapture #Vigil #SocialLicense #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses
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Real power begins where secrecy begins.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42155/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #obscurity #power #secrecy #restraint
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Don’t write anything you can phone. Don’t phone anything you can talk. Don’t talk anything you can whisper. Don’t whisper anything you can smile. Don’t smile anything you can nod. Don’t nod anything you can wink.
Earl Kemp Long (1895-1960) American politician, orator.
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/long-earl/6396/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #earllong #hueylong #communication #detection #discretion #offtherecord #secrecy #trail #evidence #surveillance
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@eff , #TEDIC and #CEJIL Challenge #Secrecy in the Use of #FaceRecognition in #Paraguay
Seeking #transparency and #accountability in Paraguay’s use of facial recognition, EFF, the Association of Technology, Education, Development, Research, Communication (TEDIC), and the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights against the state for arbitrarily denying access to information about its implementation and use of the technology as a tool for mass #surveillance that erodes people’s #privacy #rights.
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Cost-shifting saga shocks
"Reports auths shifted #energy costs for public streetlights to consumers r shocking.. Consumers already bear costs such as Ft fr #government #procurement of excess power fr producers.. Energy #policymakers & prev govts allowed it to happen w/o informing #public. Tis cost shifting's eg of te #secrecy & #inequality underly'g how #electricity tariffs & #policies r formulated. There's no truly independent #regulatory body oversee'g 🇹🇭s energy sector"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3276179/costshifting-saga-shocks -
I am physically revolted by the notion that out political class is swayed by #SnakeOilMerchants and their #GenAISlop propaganda and lobbying. The idea that our politicians could be in cohoots with those #TechBros pushing for massive #Datacentres (to do what? one wonders if anything but hoovering cash) on the pretext that Australia Might Loose Out — in a Race to Financial ruin. #LLM #GenAi ‘s claim to fame is its #FinancialBubble, #CrossInvestments and #EphemeralProfitsInTheNeverNever. The whole GenAI thing and its datacenters is a ponzie scheme that our political #trainedMonkeys are enabling with glee and scant regards for the society they are stewarding (in name only). Gosh this is upsetting.
Worse is the #Secrecy and total lack of #Clarity and #transparency from Govt Ministers down. Hail the brave whistleblowers come out, come out, and sink this stupid circus.
Dear Zeus, a day out of my box and I’m breathing fire from both nostrils in less than 10 minutes over this bit of reporting.
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"It is another foundational #principle of #English #law that no one should be convicted of an offence that has not been charged & proved. In this case, the principle was suspended. The #secrecy compounds the injury."
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves.
[Nous oublions aisément nos fautes lorsqu’elles ne sont sues que de nous.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶196 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #crime #error #fault #flaw #hiding #secrecy #selfawareness
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#NorthCarolina #Democrats Propose Changes to Block #GOP Power Transfers and #Secrecy
#Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina introduced a trio of #constitutional amendments this week aimed at protecting traditional powers of the state’s governor and reforming oversight of its court system.
The effort was prompted in part by ProPublica’s reporting, including an investigation that found that over nearly a decade, #Republican lawmakers had pushed through law after law shrinking the powers of North Carolina’s governor, always a #Democrat during that time.
#politics #electionshttps://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-legislation-governor-power
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If AI Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret?
https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/if-data-centers-are-so-great-why
#HackerNews #AI #Data #Centers #Secrecy #Technology #Ethics #DataPrivacy
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That is not to say that #DefenceProjects never suffer changes in #Requirements and #Specifications, or don’t have to contend with #ProjectCreep and #BudgetOverruns. In fact those are quite common. The real issue here is #Secrecy and #MixedMessages neither of which will shore up our trust in the knowledge that the people in charge know what they’re freeking doing. (NOTE: All the while consultants are lining their pockets and are as happy as pigs in mud).
