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Michael Puntschuh
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tech, governance, human rights | Executive Director @efn.no | Co-Founder Beyond AI Collective | 🖖 | 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇳🇴🇩🇪🇨🇿 | he/him
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robin.berjon.com
Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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andersskyrud.bsky.social
Det er noe… «faglig» som skurrer litt for meg i denne nyhetssaken og debatten som har fulgt siste uka, og skal prøve å forklare hva. www.vg.no/i/lngVKy?utm...
Internasjonale forskere vil ha tiltak mot ultraprosessert mat
Global forskning viser helseutfordringene ved ultraprosessert mat og etterlyser tiltak på nasjonalt nivå – også i Norge.
www.vg.no
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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eivindtraedal.bsky.social
Tenk at USA har sunket så dypt at de danser etter pipa til en kjeltring som Putin. Det nye utkastet til "fredsavtale" som har blitt forelagt Ukraina er en skam. I praksis går USA inn for å belønne Russlands angrepskrig i Europa, og permanent svekke Ukraina.

www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Gx...
Trumps fredsplan: – Full kapitulasjon for Ukraina
Den nye planen for fred i Ukraina er fullstendig på russiske premisser, mener forsvarsforsker Karsten Friis.
www.vg.no
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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noyb.eu
📰 "#Privacy activists are predictably outraged. Billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to put Europeans over #American tech CEOs lined the street outside the #Commission HQ, the Berlaymont, throughout Wednesday morning."

👉 Continue reading: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...
EU’s digital law cuts spark fears and doubts on competitiveness | Euractiv
"If it's about competitiveness, this is certainly not helping," said Mario Mariniello from a Brussels-based think tank
www.euractiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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corporateeurope.org
The Commission’s deregulation agenda has opened the door to Big Tech lobbying.

🫂 During a tour in Silicon Valley, EU Commissioner Virkkunen shamelessly courted Big Tech CEOs promising to ‘simplify’ EU rules.
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
gloptimist.bsky.social
I've been reading a few people's reactions to the #DigitalSovereignty Summit #Digitalgipfel in Berlin yesterday. The summit did not seem to live up to its expectations. Talk of simplification, deregulation and "the market will solve this" is exactly how we got into this mess: ...
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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cstark.bsky.social
Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
gloptimist.bsky.social
Digital suverenitet betyr å gjøre bestilling av burgere uavhengig av store amerikanske internettselskaper
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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kode24.no
Nå har Cloudflare-problemene gått for langt:

@arnfinns.bsky.social fikk ikke bestilt burger på Max.
Cloudflare-problemer tar ned nettsider over hele verden
Alt fra kode24 til ChatGPT og burgere hos Max sliter tirsdag ettermiddag.
www.kode24.no
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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digitalrechte.bsky.social
Michael Kolain mit einer Zusammenfassung was bisher beim #DigitalGipfel besprochen wurde.

Es wird Ankündigungen geben, was alles passiert, aber es gibt keinen politischen Nachfolgeprozess, dass diese Geschäftsmodelle dann auch in Richtung einer gemeinwohlorientierten Infrastruktur geht.
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.

"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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arnesemsrott.bsky.social
Mit Verweis auf "Bürokratieabbau" will das Finanzministerium die Lizenzschranke zur Besteuerung von Tech-Unternehmen abschaffen.

Ersparnis: 10.000 Euro Verwaltungskosten.
Entgangene Steuern: 1.000.000.000 Euro.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
gloptimist.bsky.social
Today we demonstrated against Palantir at the Norwegian Digitization ministry ⬇️
efn.no Elektronisk Forpost Norge @efn.no · 14d
‪I dag tidlig var vi med å protestere mot Palantir i Norge når de hadde et møte med digitaliseringsministeren. Daglig leder @gloptimist.bsky.social holdt appell og påpekte at Palantirs programvare brukes internasjonalt til å krenke menneskerettighetene.
Michael Puntschuh, daglig leder, holder appell foran gruppen som demonstrerer. Folk har plakater og palestinske flagg. Gruppen som demonstrerer. Folk har plakater mot Palantir og palestinske flagg.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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efn.no
‪I dag tidlig var vi med å protestere mot Palantir i Norge når de hadde et møte med digitaliseringsministeren. Daglig leder @gloptimist.bsky.social holdt appell og påpekte at Palantirs programvare brukes internasjonalt til å krenke menneskerettighetene.
Michael Puntschuh, daglig leder, holder appell foran gruppen som demonstrerer. Folk har plakater og palestinske flagg. Gruppen som demonstrerer. Folk har plakater mot Palantir og palestinske flagg.
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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attacnorge.bsky.social
Vi brukte morgentimene til å protestere mot Palantir i Norge når de hadde invitert seg selv til salgsmøte hos digitaliseringsministeren.
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
gloptimist.bsky.social
Kode24 rapporterer om vår demonstrasjon mot Palantir i morges ⬇️
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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roofjoke.netzpolitik.org
Das Echo auf die von uns veröffentlichten Pläne der EU-Kommission zum Kahlschlag bei KI- & Datenschutzregulierung ist verheerend. Mehr als 120 NGOs warnen vor dem Grundrechteabbau. Auch drei Fraktionen im EU-Parlament stellen sich gegen die durchgesickerten Pläne. Wird von der Leyen einlenken?
Digitaler Omnibus: „Größter Rückschritt für digitale Grundrechte in der Geschichte der EU“
Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament ...
netzpolitik.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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efn.no
I dag møtte digitaliseringsministeren Palantir. EFN tok del i dagens markering mot samarbeidet mellom den norske regjeringen og #Palantir (initiert av @attacnorge.bsky.social). Norge er bygget på verdier som demokrati, åpenhet og tillit. Palantir står for det motsatte. #StopPalantir
En plakat for en markering. På plakaten står det "Palantir ut av Norge"
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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michielvanhulten.eu
When industry says “simplify” they mean “deregulate”. ‘Deregulation’ means less privacy, more consumer harms, less competition, and fewer safeguards. The tech bros will get even richer and Europeans will pay the price. Let’s not allow Big Tech and its authoritarian allies to tell the EU what to do.
cciaeurope.bsky.social CCIA Europe @cciaeurope.bsky.social · 14d
In 1843, Ada Lovelace pioneered computer programming with her #algorithm. 🧠 Today, red tape could bug the system.

🧭 Be bold. Be ambitious. Simplify EU tech rules. #UnlockEUInnovation
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
gloptimist.bsky.social
Vil du ha Palantir ut av Norge? Kom nå til DFD @Akersgata 49 for markeringen mot overvåking og mot samarbeid mellom regjeringen og Palantir
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.” Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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j2bryson.bsky.social
"Given the complexity and length of the song text, coincidence can be ruled out as the cause of the reproduction of the song lyrics," the court wrote in a press release.

#AIEthics #digitalGovernance good to see a judicial system NOT in thrall to us tech, unlike the UK, apparently.
j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d
good news

OpenAI loses song lyrics copyright case in German court

OpenAI lost a copyright infringement case in a lower German court for using popular song lyrics in its ChatGPT language model without paying royalties […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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krisshrishak.bsky.social
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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anneroth.bsky.social
"Zum ersten Mal übertreffen Maschinen den Menschen in dem, was uns bisher einzigartig machte: unsere Intelligenz."

Sagte der deutsche Digitalminister vor ein paar Tagen.

Für alle, die sich deswegen Sorgen machen: Das ist totaler Quatsch. Macht Euch Sorgen wegen des Ministers.
Pressekonferenz Industrial AI Cloud - strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty
Rede von Dr. Karsten Wildberger Bundesminister für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung bei der Pressekonferenz Industrial AI Cloud - strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty
bmds.bund.de
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM