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• Post #4335249

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117025201149070216 It's never been easier to use a deGoogled phone than today. #DigitalSelfdetermination

• Post #4237528

  Me: Yay the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu has a new #AISafety team under the #AIAct to make sure #AI is not harmful. Also me: Oh no, their number 1 core concerns is AI enabling a chemical, biological, or nuclear attack. 🙄 What a waste of public resources.

• Post #4190194

  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@digitaleu/116991569328960213 What about a policy that stops us burning fossil fuels so we don't need all those "smarter adaptation strategies"? Just an idea.

• Post #4158268

  While #France and #Spain are burning, #Bangladesh received a record 412.3mm (!) of rainfall in 24 hours. Unprecedented rainfall across #Asia brings flash floods and typhoons as a result of climate breakdown. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/28/extreme-rainfall-asia-flash-floods-typhoons-climate-change #ClimateCrisis

• Post #4133388

  Important reminder that tech solutions like #encryption, panic buttons, and duress #passwords alone are unlikely to save us from #authoritarianism. #Democracy and #HumanRights need organising and real-world resistance to be protected. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

• Post #4085002

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116979393065998604 Of course it does. #venezuela #icc

• Post #3884460

  I don't know if anyone here has read #Project2031, a made-up #fantasy plot in which physical and environmental boundaries don't exist, #cybersecurity works like in Sandra Bullock's "The Net", and only radical "far-right and far-left populists" can possibly be anti-AI. The plot could be a B-movie but is sold as foretelling the future if Europe doesn't go "all in" with the #AI tech bros. It's so bad I feel uncomfortable linking to it.

• Post #3869098

  Revealed: how #Europe’s most powerful #farming lobby killed EU’s #pesticide law https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #lobbying #nature #biodiversity #agriculture

• Post #3820802

  Another pretty cool #NGO #job opening: Digital #Campaigner @ #Foxglove https://www.foxglove.org.uk/news/jobs/digital-campaigner/ #fedijobs #campaigning

• Post #3712276

  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116894635345643401 Oh my, @heiseonline@social.heise.de you should really know better than peddling #Anthropic's PR bullshit and selling it as "research." No, #Claude does not "lie" or "cheat" and has no "consciousness" or "secret thoughts" just because the company makes those claims. Is this supposed to be tech journalism or just copy-pasting industry press releases? (Maybe something for @m...

• Post #3711619

  A proposed change to the German Intelligence Services Law (#BND-Gesetz) would--if enacted--require #cybersecurity authorities to notify any #0day to the German foreign and domestic intelligence service to that they can abuse it until it's fixed. This means friendly hackers that find and notify such #vulnerabilities through official channels would directly contribute to their exploitation by government spies. https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/gesetzgebungsverfahren/DE/OESI2/nachrichtendie...

• Post #3670258

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@ppcland/116882926455601689 This is the kind of dumb assessment bred by the #BuyEuropean narrative: The #DigitalMarketsAct led to the #Mozilla #Firefox browser to gain 6 million EU users and we whine about it not being "European." And no need to reply how terrible Mozilla's decision often are, I'm aware. But they currently maintain the only reasonably successful alternative engine to #BigTech and it's #FOSS. Of course this should be celebrated...

• Post #3414299

  You can't make this shit up. 🤦‍♂️ #AI #WaterCrisis #WaterBankruptcy

• Post #3351799

  RE: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnes/116766459997022139 Europe: We have successfully launched our public response to the US billionaire-dominated space race! We've used this #Ariane6 launch to put... ehm *checks notes*... put 36 #satellites from this other US billionaire into space. 🤷

• Post #3351798

  Who would have thought that #surveillance cameras in public spaces would be abused by men, eh sorry I meant creeps. In other news, Belgian #police has since recently gained warrantless real-time access to 21,000 surveillance cameras in trains, subways, trams, busses, and stations. What could possibly go wrong. 😓 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/milan-tram-drivers-used-whatsapp-for-sexist-chat-about-female-passengers #privacy #HumanRights #Belgium #stib #sncb #delijn #tec

• Post #3332631

  #Wsocial : We don't do #ElonMusk. #Nazis are very welcome on our platform but they must be European. @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu President: Yay, we'll join Wsocial the new European unicorn or something! 🎉 #BuyEuropean #DigitalSovereignty

• Post #3297363

  Brilliant analysis by @corporateeurope@mstdn.social and @lobbycontrol@bewegung.social of how much money large corporations spend on influencing laws in Europe. No surprise: #BigTech dominates again. I mean the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu really should not grant any company 1-2 high-level #lobbying meetings every month for 12 years straight. This can only lead to dangerous over-representation. https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eu-corporate-lobby-league-2026

• Post #3284758

  This week I spoke to a room full of non-techy NGO people and for the first time there were more folks with #Fediverse than #Threads accounts in the room 🎉

• Post #3219279

  You know something is off in your #democracy if somebody complying with a court order is considered newsworthy.

• Post #3164548

  On invitation of a member of the European Parliament I'm sitting in a room to discuss the @EUCommission's attempt to dismantle people's #GDPR / #privacy rights. 3 participants from civil society 1 academic 20 industry lobbyists Of course corpos all want to weaken #consent and make sure people don't understand how their #PersonalData is being processed. Edit: 3x civil society :) #lobbying #democracy #EUpolicy

• Post #3164547

  RE: https://hamishcampbell.com/the-eus-tech-sovereignty-plan/ So well put: " #OpenSource is not simply a collection of code repositories, it survives because communities maintain it. "The danger is that #Europe treats open source as a procurement strategy rather than a social ecosystem. "Beyond #sovereignty is the deeper question – not whether Europe controls its technology stack. The deeper question is whether citizens control the systems that shape their lives.&a...

• Post #3164546

  My 6-year just old saw a picture of an oil drilling tower and asked me why there was an #EiffelTower in the desert and I could only agree.

• Post #3087492

  RE: https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Curia/116684940972542605 Oh my that was not on my bingo card today: The EU's General Court says Meta's #Marketplace isn't really a #gatekeeper under the #DMA because #Meta has made changes to its business user functionality which the EC didn't properly assess. The Court also confirmed that designating Messenger as a gatekeeper was correct. So kind of a half-win half-loss for the EC but I fear this will make the EC e...

• Post #3087491

  Gotta love how the @EUCommission press conference video stream about the #DigitalSovereignty package is hosted by #AWS. Also: everyone who wants to access any EU law online needs to run #Amazon's #JavaScript on their device. 🤷

• Post #3087490

  Dear journalists. "Cyber" is not a thing. Which means "What tech sovereignty means for cyber" is not a headline. Yes I'm looking at you #PoliticoEurope.

• Post #3087489

  #DontLookUp https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html

• Post #3087488

  If @nextcloud #Talk was built on the @matrix protocol that would solve a big conundrum for me.

• Post #3011450

  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116651733534611734 It's great that the European Commission take another #DSA non-compliance decision. There is so much infringement of the law out there, this is very necessary. But a 200m EUR fine is laughable. That's worth less than a few days of net profit for #Temu's holding PDD. It could have been 6% of annual global turnover, or 2.8 billion EUR. With these ridiculously low fines the DSA will never be respecte...

• Post #3011449

  I look forward to participating in one of the more interesting #competition policy and law conferences out there: the #ECForum Brussels in June. https://ecforum.eu/

• Post #3011448

  Is Friedrich Merz Germany's Liz Truss?