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Zoom, Google Teams, Webex, GoTo -- France
"The French government referenced some of these concerns when it announced last week that 2.5 million civil servants would stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — by 2027 and switch to Visio, a homegrown service."
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
#xodus
Microsoft Office, OS -- Lyon, France
"The French city of Lyon has taken a major step toward digital sovereignty by officially starting a move away from Microsoft software. . The city is gradually set to replace Microsoft Office with open source alternatives like ONLYOFFICE and switch from Windows to Linux-based operating systems to reduce dependency on proprietary offerings."
Microsoft Exchange and Outlook - Schleswig-Holstein
"Schleswig-Holstein has moved from Microsoft Exchange and Outlook to Open-Xchange and Thunderbird for e-mail."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-replaces-microsoft-exchange-and-outlook-with-open-source-email/
#xodus
.... or proud scientists!
X - German and Austrian universities
https://www.dw.com/en/german-institutions-depart-x-a-day-after-musks-weidel-talk/a-71266331
X - Paris, France
Chippenham, UK
Turku, Finland
Palantir - Switzerland
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data, a deal-breaker for the neutrality-focused Alpine nation. "
https://www.newscase.com/palantirs-swiss-exit-highlights-global-data-sovereignty-challenge/
Xodus thread.
Entities that have discontinued use of Big Tech
Includes social media platforms, "AI" platforms, cloud hosters, all that.
X -- New Brunswick
possibly Nova Scotia
"Since New Brunswick premier Susan Holt signalled her government will abandon the social media platform X, previously know as Twitter, it’s prompted the Nova Scotia government to consider its use of the platform."
"The risks we describe are troubling not only for their magnitude but also for their uncertainty. We do not yet know the exact thresholds for many tipping elements, or how quickly tipping cascades might unfold. Evidence nevertheless shows that overshooting 1.5°C or even the current temperatures increases their probability. Uncertainty about where tipping thresholds lie is therefore not a reason for delay, but a compelling reason for immediate precautionary action."
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322%2825%2900391-4
"The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.
The public and politicians are largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth."
@alison @mekkaokereke @le_bleu
There are people who call themselves "avid cyclists". They have expensive bikes and wear biking clothes. They have the leisure and the money to enjoy biking as a recreation.
I don't know how this group gets melded with the people who must bike because they can't or choose not to, for one reason or another, drive a car, and use their bikes as transportation not for recreation. This group is significantly larger than the first group, but nobody wants to see them.
Charles Brown would have some things to say about the larger landscape of racism in which Black people move physically.
Arrested Mobility is his book; also he gives a great - if grim - talk.
That's if you're privileged enough to have the car as an option as well as the bike or your feet.
But those among us who are too young to drive, to old to drive, too poor to drive, or don't have the required documentation, don't have the option to change transportation mode.
It's your feet, your bike, or someone else's car.
And don't start me on public transit.
I actually heard CelloDad (tall white dude) say, as we're encountering this and that on our bikes, "This is like racism, only on the street." I could almost hear the switch flip in his head.
Vehicular discrimination is discrimination.
@ron_olafsson @mattblaze @briankrebs @ai6yr
I am nobody, and still my voicemail recording doesn't have my voice on it. And I don't pickup on unknown numbers, if it's important they will leave a voicemail.
Signal FTW
"Much of the world’s building stock is entering its middle age under environmental conditions it was never designed to face."
https://insideecology.com/2026/02/09/city-skylines-need-an-upgrade-in-the-face-of-climate-stress/
"The absence of any formal briefing or ministerial comment is itself revealing – climate risks appear to be treated differently from other risks to national security. It’s hard to imagine a report warning of national security risks from AI [or] China getting the same treatment.
This episode is not even especially unusual, historically.
Climate deniers insist governments are exaggerating the threat. In reality, the evidence increasingly suggests the opposite."
"The national security assessment on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse was supposed to have been published in October 2025, but Downing Street sought to make it disappear. Apparently there were two reasons: because its conclusions were “too negative”, and because it would draw attention to the government’s failure to act.
When the report at last appeared, The Times reported that it had been significantly “abridged”."
"What was supposed to be a model for how the government could get people out of harm’s way along the country’s steadily eroding coastlines has become a cautionary tale for the estimated 2.5 million Americans who could be forced to relocate away from the coast over the next 25 years.
[Nelson and Birch] wrote about the pitfalls of relocation initiatives in [Louisiana]. The best approach, they say, is to deeply involve the people who need to move away from the coast."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28092025/louisiana-isle-de-jean-charles-climate-relocation/
City plans are made for a climate that no longer exists. Re-designing them will not be without pain. Not re-designing will bring a lot more pain.
"Floodplains belong to the rivers. For too long, we have tried to make them part of the property of humans and a place for human habitation. That simply cannot continue—not without more tragedies like those we have just witnessed on the Guadalupe and in Houston."
https://www.texasobserver.org/flooding-houston-hill-country-planning/