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Post WWII, the allies (mostly US / UK) told DE & JP "break up your monopoly & put competition law in your new constitution. Because whenever a company gets too large, either it takes over the government or the government takes over it, and either way you get autocracy." 1/2 wapo.st/3L3lFHT

"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it"

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

The final slide of my 10 minute talk. CC @helenamalikova.bsky.social @helene-rey.bsky.social

This racist violent rhetoric from Young Republicans is disgusting. I'm sure past and present members of the International Young Democrat Union like Youth of the European People's Party and European Young Conservatives will want to condemn their US counterpart. Right? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The journalists are some of the heroes. Thank you for not only writing your articles, but getting them where people see them. bsky.app/profile/dlkn...

Ellison warned the audience that #AGI was coming sooner than expected. What, Blair asked, should governments be doing? “The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed & used by the AI model,” Ellison responded. 🙄 Even if you accept A, B does NOT follow.

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Klein is making the case for bad-actors as if it's a debate about the Nazis marching in Skokie. Tolerance in that setting seems quaint now, but even Rawls suggested that when "the institutions of liberty are in danger," we might have to recalibrate. Klein does not move an inch. 3/

Ad history gone? 🤯 Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...

"Other passengers criticised her for filming. One passenger replied 'so what?' after she explained she had been racially abused. She said: 'I was shocked and angry about the children's reaction but the adults' reactions are what broke me and brought me to tears.'"

In case you were curious who funds this kind of thing, here's a partial accounting.

Less sexy than 🥂or cognac, 🇪🇺accounting standards are one of Europe’s best exports. Adopted by countries from Korea to Israel, European IFRS standards are more attractive for companies than the US GAAP alternative. Common reporting standards matter for accountability and investments on.ft.com/3VeDyVY

Women Against Fascism newsletter #10 is out: mailchi.mp/2cbefaf4401b...

With apologies to Anu Bradford, I think the real #BrusselsEffect is a bit simpler than she does. (I don't know much about the people who were interviewing me, maybe Kurdish?) #AIA #digitalGovernance #AIEthics cc @hertieschool.bsky.social www.gulanmedia.com/en/story/344...

NYC is in the middle of an affordability crisis of essentials like food now exacerbated by Trump’s austerity policies eroding SNAP. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s municipal grocery stores are an important experiment. The old ways have failed. Policy innovation is necessary to pave a way out.

Question: how important is medical data in performance of AI capabilities? Is it just more data or does it have special value / premium value? @j2bryson.bsky.social anyone who knows? And any references to dispel or confirm any special interest for AI companies in medical?

@CEPS.eu Associate Senior Fellows and ex-EU envoys sign an open letter to top Commission and Council leaders demanding effective EU action against the Israeli government crimes in Gaza. They float measures that can be adopted without unanimity: www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...

Truly remarkable, the Trumpian fantasy of a technofascist state built on the places of dispossessed Palestineans. Every ugly vector of power knotted into one ugly vision.

For the enablers, not even the sky is the limit: BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza on.ft.com/403ORmH

Sad to see EU’s legitimacy contested in dramatic visual in front of European Commission’s HQ the Berlaymont in Brussels.

#BudapestPride #LoveisLove #Freedomcannotbebanned telex.hu/belfold/2025...

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“Judge Blocks a Trump Effort to Prevent International Students at Harvard.” This decision was inevitable. What does Trump do now? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Democracy will not defend itself. We gathered today to protect European democracy. @sophieintveld.bsky.social @defenddemocracy.bsky.social

Zuck off! Musk off! European democracy is not for sale. Today we stand to defend democracy and the rule of law. @sophieintveld.bsky.social @defenddemocracy.bsky.social

Not surprising. They will capture it and then enclose it again. Isn’t that exactly what happened to data?

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Democracy cannot defend itself, WE have to do that! A like on social media is not enough: we need to get up and speak out! Join us Wed 16/4 at 13h at Schuman for a strong message about protecting our democracy from Techbros, Trump and Putin #HandsOff More info: defenddemocracy.eu/europeans-st...

Muddling Islam and feminism to denigrate both has become a hobbyhorse for the far right in the European Parliament. But it's not going unchecked. Here's Swedish liberal @abiralsahlani.bsky.social owning Dutchman Sebastian Kruis from the far-right group run by Le Pen and Orbán. @europarl.europa.eu

Please follow this advice!

Sorry to self promote (? not for money) but I just ran into the video of me on a panel with Microsoft Uber Nvidia at the #AIActionSummit & I'm actually proud of the turns I took – stuff I learnt from @helenamalikova.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and others www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLYj...

In an era of overlapping emergencies, price spikes in essentials can topple governments, writes @isabellamweber.bsky.social. “When people find that, through no fault of their own, the goods they cannot live without suddenly become dramatically more expensive, they lose trust in the system.”

While the Trump administration loudly guts diversity and inclusion — a quieter rollback is underway at the EU. "This is not just a bureaucratic decision" "In the US we see how inclusion and diversity programs disappear one by one." h/t @marcangel-mep.bsky.social @europarl.europa.eu

Also shows that twitter is essential and global infrastructure; the US should not have permitted its sale into private hands. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to propose regulatory options when I’m on the mainstage of business day at 2:40pm #AIActionSummit

“Real drone warfare isn't like playing Call of Duty, a special Ukrainian unit says, but gamers make great drone pilots” www.businessinsider.com/drone-warfar...

Hugely important decision today from the European Court. The Irish Data Protection Commission sued its European peers for voting to force it to investigate Meta’s misuse of people’s most intimate data. Today the Court has ruled eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Sympathetic about plagiarism & main-stream media critique, but STOP LOOKING AT LARGEST COMPANIES, YOU ARE JUST PRIVILEGING BAD REGULATION AND PROMOTING INEQUALITY AND ITS ASSOCIATED CHAOS. Look at absolute increase in GDP, *and* share of global GDP! Anyone looking at "top" companies is NOT helping!

Breakthrough moment for female film directors and producers from India www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

When Steve Bannon calls you racist and evil…

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X. Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.

Proud to have signed this open letter with @wafeurope.bsky.social in relation to Meta's removal of fact-checking.

My latest comment @theguardian.com👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gaza war and displacement narrated by an 8-year old girl, feels like listening to Anne Frank’s diary. A version where Anne, here Banias, can still be saved. On @thisamericanlife.org www.thisamericanlife.org/849/the-narr...

I'm extremely surprised to read in Playbook that "La faute à l'Europe", a show on EU affairs carried by the French public broadcaster, has been part financed by the European Parliament. I don't think viewers were aware of this and it's... not OK?

If indeed American exceptionalism is "the mother of all bubbles", pumped by deficits and mania, I wonder how that changes the narrative around Europe. Looking back, will we end up thinking "Europe looked like it was falling behind for a bit, until America popped"? www.ft.com/content/9a0d...