Regulator and lawmakers around the world are finally targeting organisations that use #darkpatterns to manipulate consumers into using products or services.

Chandni Gupta, Deputy CEO of the Consumer Policy Research Centre (and friend of EFA) has wrapped up some fantastic research on this issue. Chandni met with scores of regulators, enforcement agencies, consumer advocacy groups and choice architecture experts in the US, UK, Singapore and India about dark patterns and how they regulate them.

Case in point is Amazon's Project Iliad, a process designed to make it harder for customers to cancel their Prime membership. How? By making the process so needlessly complex that many users would give up and abandon the form.

Chandni writes that Australia is falling behind on protecting citizens from dark patterns. Legislating consumer potections against dark patterns is vital to protect us from manipulation of our behaviour and choices online.

Read the CPRC report: https://cprc.org.au/report/made-to-manipulate-report

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Play and Scaleway partner to give Poland sovereign cloud https://www.byteseu.com/951332/ #CloudInfrastructure #DataSovereignty #DataCentres #hyperscalers #Iliad #IliadGroup #PlayPoland #Poland #Scaleway #SovereignCloud

Have Wine for Breakfast, Put On a 51-Pound Suit and Get to the Battlefield https://www.diningandcooking.com/1991019/have-wine-for-breakfast-put-on-a-51-pound-suit-and-get-to-the-battlefield/ #armor #BrassAndBronze #copper #DefenseAndMilitaryForces #greece #GreekCivilization #GreekWine #HistoricalReEnactments #homer #Iliad(Book) #Mycenae(Greece) #PLoSOne(Journal) #Research #Thessaly(Greece) #Wine

#Iliad, maison mère de #Free , investit 3 #milliards d’ #euros pour devenir un #leader de l’ #IA #AI en #Europe #UE

https://www.ecranmobile.fr/Iliad-investit-3-milliards-d-euros-pour-devenir-un-leader-de-l-IA-en-Europe_a77612.html

The Iliad.
First binding completed of 2025! This was started last year in a class at the American Academy of Bookbinding.
With this design, I wanted to represent the depth of a decade long war and how entrenched both sides would have been.

(More in comments).

Picked this up in HomeSense today at a discounted sale price. Looking forward to reading it soon. Might have to dig out a translation to read in parallel.
#books #booksky #homer #iliad

→ Kyutai, le commando français contre l’IA américaine
https://revue21.fr/article/lia-en-mode-commando/

« Une poignée de génies de l’intelligence artificielle, au cœur de Paris, peut-elle rivaliser avec les mastodontes de la tech, sans avoir leurs moyens ni leurs salaires ? C’est l’ambition du laboratoire Kyutai, financé par Xavier Niel [patron d'#Iliad], Rodolphe #Saadé [patron de #CMA_CGM] et Eric #Schmidt [ex CEO de #Google]. Une fondation sans but lucratif, mais pas sans espoirs. »

**Modern Iliad vs 500-Year-Old Iliad!**

Tom Ayling

#Video length: fifty-six seconds.

https://youtu.be/riFvT6tySRk

#Iliad #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Le nouveau projet de Xavier Niel : la conquête des data centers en Europe
https://mac4ever.com/185799
#Mac4Ever #IA #Iliad #InfraVia #News

BBC: Italian burglar caught after sitting down with book
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4kpv3p4zo #literature #Iliad #Homer

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday!

"Hermes is the god who is thought most to care for and to increase flocks, as Homer puts it in the #Iliad: ‘Son was he of Phorbas, the dearest of Trojans to Hermes, rich in flocks, for the god vouchsafed him wealth in abundance.’"
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.3.4

Sacrifice to #Hermes, 425–420 BCE

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt

Have a beautiful Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday

"The numerous struggles of Trojans, breakers of horses, and bronze-armoured Akhaians [Greeks], struggles that they endured for her [Helen's] sake at the hands of #Ares."
Homer, #Iliad 3.128

Finger ring with engraved gem

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #TrojanWar

Did you know that the city of #Troy from the #Iliad was believed to be fictional... until it was found?

Until the 18th century, the #trojan #war & its city described by #Homer was rejected as literary fancy.

But when hobby #archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began digging in 1870 in Hisarlık, Turkey, he discovered not one but 9 different cities spanning 3600 years.

One of them is believed (but not confirmed) to be Troy.

"Sing, Muse, of Peleus' son, #Achilles, that destructive wrath which brought countless woes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to #Hades many valiant souls of heroes, and made them themselves spoil for dogs and every bird; thus the plan of #Zeus came to fulfillment."
#Iliad 1

A petty quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon, ignites Achilles' wrath and he refuses to fight for Agamemnon, causing his (boy)friend Patroklos to pretend to be him to lead their men. It gets him killed.

The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
Simone Weil

"The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away. "

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simone-weil-the-iliad

Digital discography: $7.70 (includes new split, Realm of Antiquity)

https://www.spaceseer.bandcamp.com

Help us raise money for our journey to Texas Dungeon Siege! We plan to support the artists as much as we can by purchasing merch and stimulating them to keep creating and making music for the world to enjoy.

It’s on like #DonkeyKong.

Had enjoyed #MadelineMiller's #Circe, but halfway through "The Song of Achilles", I think I like it even better. Not a joke to adapt "The Iliad" and retell it in this way.

#Iliad @bookstodon