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mediamorphis.bsky.social
. @davidakaye.bsky.social has a good piece @techpolicypress.bsky.social: the Trump Admin's lies about the EU's DSA aim to shield big tech from any regulation & "distract from the unprecedented censorship & repression [that it] has been implementing in the US". www.techpolicy.press/the-trump-li...
The Trump Lie About Europe and Why it Matters
The Trump administration is promoting disinformation about European law and policy for reasons that go well beyond social media regulation, writes David Kaye.
www.techpolicy.press
January 19, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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marawilson.bsky.social
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
The tech industry has no better friend in its drive for deregulation and tax avoidance around the world than Donald Trump. His bullying has led countries to give up their sovereign power to safeguard the public interest. And now Big Tech is asking for more. From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/13/t...
Where Big Tech and Trump Are Demanding Tax Cuts and Deregulation - The American Prospect
A new analysis shows that Big Tech is seeking changes to national law in 64 countries. The Trump regime is helping them.
prospect.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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johnmenadue.com
After documenting Israel’s conduct in Gaza, UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese has been sanctioned, isolated and barred from travel. The response tells its own story, writes Chris Hedges.
#Gaza #UN #InternationalLaw #PearlsAndIrritations #auspol
Francesca Albanese and the lonely road of defiance
The UN special rapporteur investigating Gaza is sanctioned, blacklisted and treated as a criminal. The response reveals how power reacts when accountability is applied to the powerful.
johnmenadue.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Two things can be true at once: 1) Trump and Miller were hoping a civilian got killed by ICE, so they could have a big public fight about it.

2) This killing may not work out how they hoped.
January 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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brexitbin.bsky.social
"What has the ECHR ever done for us?" 🤔
[SOUND ON 🔊]
June 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
signal.org Signal @signal.org · Oct 3
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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seanhowe.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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theonion.com
24 Years Ago Today: The September 11th Issue
Issue 37•34: The September 11th Issue
theonion.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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athul.acharya.cc
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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madisonkittay.bsky.social
Yeah, we're cooked.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S8pVQq/
September 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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ositanwanevu.com
It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. By Rogé Karma The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development. By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction. The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Hi All, Latest Europe Dispatch by @alanderminna.bsky.social just appeared. Russia is waging a form of (hybrid) warfare against Europe--why are people so reluctant to face it? open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Schrödinger’s GPS Jamming and Not So Hybrid Warfare
Russia may or may not have GPS-jammed the EU Commission president's plane. In any case there was no response, Minna Ålander recounts in the Europe Dispatch.
open.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
The moral panic about “kids online safety” is leading to a slew of bad laws (which many on the left moronically support) while both parties unite to censor speech so that there can be no criticism of power, US foreign policy, etc. We are seeing the effects of these laws in real time in the UK
The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.

“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”

This will kill people.
ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads
By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…
etsc.eu
August 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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brezwrites.bsky.social
Ben Barnes, star of #TheInstitute on MGM+, goes deep on the loneliness of heroes on our latest episode of The Kingcast.

Listen here 🎙️: tinyurl.com/BenBarnesKin...

And this gets … say, 50 retweets, I’ll post the photo that got me nicknamed “Prince Caspian” at work once upon a time.
August 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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keithfitzgerald.bsky.social
Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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hmohr.bsky.social
Palantir er det system regeringen har tænkt sig PET må bruge til at overvåge og analysere alle danskere. Nå ja, og gemme data i 20 år. Tjek her i denne korte video, hvad deres stifter, ejer og CEO mener om demokrati.
beverleykendall.com Beverley Kendall Author 👩🏾‍💻📖🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇾 💙 @beverleykendall.com · May 13
They’ve been letting us know what they’re up to for YEARS!!

Domination!
May 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
Can you hug a city
May 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
It's not disruption that's being prosecuted in this country. It's dissent.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot
It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Seriously -- he's broadcasting plans to violate state and federal election laws, in support of his quest to sway a state Supreme Court election.

Arrest him.

Yes, even though he's really rich.

Arrest him.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Mar 28
Elon’s coming to Wisconsin to hand out million dollar checks in his bribe scheme.

They should arrest him when he does.
ariberman.bsky.social Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · Mar 28
This latest vote-buying scheme by Musk incredibly corrupt, at same time Tesla suing Wisconsin, and likely illegal

It is a felony in Wisconsin to offer, give, lend or promise to lend or give anything of value to induce a voter to cast a ballot or not vote.
March 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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augustjpollak.bsky.social
Seriously: arrest him. The governor should have state police arrest him and charge him with election fraud. Then immediately hold a press conference explaining you arrested someone for committing election fraud and will continue to do so. Just fucking arrest him already. You can actually do this
lebassett.bsky.social Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Mar 28
Elon’s own AI bot is calling this illegal ⚰️
March 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM