On Monday, June 5th, RMS will give a talk, "Digital Freedom and Digital Privacy", in Rende, Italy, in the Great Hall at the University of Calabria.

The talk will follow a roundtable, "Relating Language Models, Future Artificial Intelligence, Massive Data Collection, Open Source, and Free (Libre) Software":
Moderator: Giovambattista Ianni, Professor of Computer Science Participants:
Vincenzo Bruno, Founder of Coopyleft
Ines Crispini, Steering Board of the Italian Society for AI Ethics
Stefano De Carlo, Board of Hacklab
Gianluigi Greco, President of the Italian Assoc. for Artificial Intelligence
Antonello Mantuano, Senior director of Cerved S.p.A.
Giuseppe Rossi, Director of Unical's ICT Services
Domenico Talia, Professor of Information Processing Systems

Both are in English.

US citizens: call on Congress to stand up for Social Security and Medicare.

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Censorship and Oppression

An "assistant commissioner" of the UK's somewhat-national thug department asserted that he felt no political pressure to arrest peaceful protesters at the king's coronation.

If that is true, why, then, did he disregard their rights? My guess is that there was pressure and he is covering it up.

Ammar al-Baluchi is still in Guantanamo after 21 years. He is not allowed to tell us about how he was tortured, but what we know is horrific.