David Meyer
@superglaze.bsky.social
Tech journalist and presenter of Tech Gets Real. Sings and plays guitar in a band called The Board. Signal: superglaze.66
On Australia's social media ban for under-16s: The downsides of the age-restricted internet are obvious, but at this point I just think we all need to wait and see whether it works at all youtu.be/Qf4uVSFwyOE
Australia's social ban: The age-restricted internet is growing
YouTube video by Tech Gets Real
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December 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
On Australia's social media ban for under-16s: The downsides of the age-restricted internet are obvious, but at this point I just think we all need to wait and see whether it works at all youtu.be/Qf4uVSFwyOE
Funny Games. The original. It was brilliant and traumatising. Even though I really like Roth and Watts, I wouldn’t even put myself through the remake.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Funny Games. The original. It was brilliant and traumatising. Even though I really like Roth and Watts, I wouldn’t even put myself through the remake.
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@consilium.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu strike deal to deregulate on due diligence. Workers and environment lose to corporate interests www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
Council and Parliament strike a deal to simplify sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements and boost EU competitiveness
Simplification: Council and Parliament reach a provisional agreement on sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements.
www.consilium.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
@consilium.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu strike deal to deregulate on due diligence. Workers and environment lose to corporate interests www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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Hey look, exactly what we said was going to happen has happened
@paulbernal.bsky.social hey, deja vu all over again www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Boy, 14, clears Snapchat’s visual age check ahead of Australia’s social media ban taking full effect
Sydney teen, who used fake date of birth when creating account, asked to verify age through selfie before Wednesday’s ban begins
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hey look, exactly what we said was going to happen has happened
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Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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⭐️Europe has the tools, we just need to embrace our strength.⭐️
“the US National Security Strategy leaves no ambiguity:
Europe must generate its own deterrent mass in the North Atlantic and its surrounding seas”
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www.futurenavy.com/p/atlantic-b...
“the US National Security Strategy leaves no ambiguity:
Europe must generate its own deterrent mass in the North Atlantic and its surrounding seas”
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www.futurenavy.com/p/atlantic-b...
Atlantic Bastion: Europe’s New Front Line
America’s new National Security Strategy quietly changed Europe’s maritime reality. With U.S. forces shifting focus to the Indo-Pacific and strategic domains like undersea warfare, Europe must now sec...
www.futurenavy.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
⭐️Europe has the tools, we just need to embrace our strength.⭐️
“the US National Security Strategy leaves no ambiguity:
Europe must generate its own deterrent mass in the North Atlantic and its surrounding seas”
1/3
www.futurenavy.com/p/atlantic-b...
“the US National Security Strategy leaves no ambiguity:
Europe must generate its own deterrent mass in the North Atlantic and its surrounding seas”
1/3
www.futurenavy.com/p/atlantic-b...
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Huge news. 007 job share.
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Huge news. 007 job share.
I see the attraction in this theory, but I’m really not sure Big Tech wants to lose the single market to gain an insane regulatory patchwork
Its crazy that after all this people still don't understand that the Big Tech gave mandate to Trump to dissolve the EU. Thats his primary goal in international relations. Not joking.
December 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I see the attraction in this theory, but I’m really not sure Big Tech wants to lose the single market to gain an insane regulatory patchwork
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Casablanca 2: Couscous Drift
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Casablanca 2: Couscous Drift
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NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Is cloudflare acting up again?? LinkedIn is DOWN. How will I get inspired by tales of professional success against the odds?
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Is cloudflare acting up again?? LinkedIn is DOWN. How will I get inspired by tales of professional success against the odds?
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Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
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Someone should make a isdowndetectordown website, and then also put it on cloudflare.
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Someone should make a isdowndetectordown website, and then also put it on cloudflare.
There goes Cloudflare again
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
There goes Cloudflare again
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom
PLUS: Artists fight for an AI transparency law in the belly of the beast, a Spotify mass deletion event, and an interview with a top video games journalist about AI and labor.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
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This reveals that European leaders are thinking exactly what you think they are thinking, all the while they call the president "daddy."
Merz: “They are playing games”
Macron: “There is a possibility that the U.S. will betray Ukraine."
Stubb: “We cannot leave Ukraine alone with these guys"
Merz: “They are playing games”
Macron: “There is a possibility that the U.S. will betray Ukraine."
Stubb: “We cannot leave Ukraine alone with these guys"
“We cannot leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys.” www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Macron warned US could ‘betray’ Ukraine in leaked leaders’ call, Spiegel reports
According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This reveals that European leaders are thinking exactly what you think they are thinking, all the while they call the president "daddy."
Merz: “They are playing games”
Macron: “There is a possibility that the U.S. will betray Ukraine."
Stubb: “We cannot leave Ukraine alone with these guys"
Merz: “They are playing games”
Macron: “There is a possibility that the U.S. will betray Ukraine."
Stubb: “We cannot leave Ukraine alone with these guys"
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What's the stupidest thing you ever got in trouble for? I have... a few, some of which I've detailed here before.
But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.
But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.
November 21, 2024 at 12:58 PM
What's the stupidest thing you ever got in trouble for? I have... a few, some of which I've detailed here before.
But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.
But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.
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Another headline I'd expect from the Onion. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Another headline I'd expect from the Onion. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Europe's privacy regulators on the Digital Omnibus: "... the proposed modification of the definition of personal data seems to go further than the recent CJEU case law, and beyond a targeted modification of the GDPR, which may risk to adversely affect the fundamental right to data protection."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Europe's privacy regulators on the Digital Omnibus: "... the proposed modification of the definition of personal data seems to go further than the recent CJEU case law, and beyond a targeted modification of the GDPR, which may risk to adversely affect the fundamental right to data protection."
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
In which I express cautious optimism about Apple's AI chances
Apple's AI chief is out. Now what? youtu.be/sEavJC9yxJA
Apple's AI chief is out. Now what?
YouTube video by Tech Gets Real
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
In which I express cautious optimism about Apple's AI chances