While we await hearing whether a mooted GRANITE Act federal blocking statute materialises, everything you need to know about extraterritoriality and the transatlantic free speech wars. #OnlineSafetyAct www.cyberleagle.com/2026/02/extr...

Noch 11 Tage und dann läuft die Vernehmlassung zur Plattformregulierung KomPG ab. KomPG= Schweizer Äquivalent zum "Digital Services Act der EU= Grundgesetz des Internets. Halt wie immer in milder Variante. Hier die Unterschiede&Gemeinsamkeiten. Vernehmlassungslink: www.uvek.admin.ch/de/newnsb/6T...

The secret life of data, WiFi edition scitechdaily.com/researchers-...

Lancement au Parlement européen du groupe d'intérêt contre les logiciels espions Parmi nos objectifs avec mes collègues de plusieurs groupes politiques: obtenir enfin l’application des recommandations de la Commission d'enquête #PEGA, notamment leur stricte régulation #Pegasus #Paragon

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org

Data brokers’ millions of dollars in lobbying spending in 2020 rivaled that of some Big Tech firms

JAMA study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

AI in education is not just about toys for teacher workload reduction or student engagement, but a serious techno-financial-political enterprise. And African nations are going to be its new sites for testing in the wild and live evidence making.

Always been pretty sceptical of "AI inevitability" claims in education but jeez the cash being pumped into it by the Gates Foundation and Abu Dhabi sovereign fund to make AI happen in education in sub-Saharan Africa ... investment is how you make AI "inevitable" www.wamda.com/2025/12/adq-...

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

A new report by the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown University and the ACLU uses computational tools to analyze legislative trends on AI across 1,804 state and federal bills, while offering recommendations for how to integrate the technology into policy analysis.

“Once the country adjusted the playing field that had long favored oil and gas, renewables outperformed on every front: halving costs, creating 50,000 jobs, and protecting the economy from price shocks.”

🤡"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!" "Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.🤷🏿‍♂️ "Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.🤷🏿‍♂️ "Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it.

Zwei Forschende haben verschiedene Wege genutzt, um an die Daten großer Plattformen zu kommen. In einem Vortrag auf dem #39C3 berichten sie von Hindernissen, aber auch davon, wie wertvoll das Recht auf Datenzugang ist. netzpolitik.org/2026/datenzu...

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

It happened again!

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Worth bringing back this briefer on how encryption protects and promotes human rights www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog - www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv... #ukgov is out of its tiny mind #encryption

All you need: your computer or smartphone, some free tools, and your child’s internet- or Bluetooth-connected toy

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Beautiful and so important indeed!

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

VPNs starting to enter the regulatory frame: now in Denmark www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/d...

2025 was the year AI hit hard in education after a long lead in If anyone's left with a job in the social sciences and humanities to keep studying it critically in the future, here's a reading list I've been compilung all year to get you going

👀👀 DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools. The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”

Really worth reading and reflecting on! Gosh, I wish I could join those classes!

This description/reflection from @mattdinan.bsky.social on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...

Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/ This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.

Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

why? it will ruin what made Wallace & Gromit so fantastic in the first place

Don't let anyone — not even the US Secretary of State — tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.

OHCHR welcomes Seoul Statement of ISO, IEC and ITU that highlights the importance of integrating human rights into tech standard development. www.linkedin.com/posts/home-i...

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

From our summer intern at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: "S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it." directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...

ARTICLE 19 is proud to have engaged with and contributed to the OHCHR’s recent research. Ensuring technical standards development is linked to and rooted in human rights will empower us all to exercise our rights to communicate and to access information freely. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

24. November 1936 #VictorKlemperer #Tagebücher #NS #Nationalsozialismus #Faschismus #Antisemitismus #Propaganda #LTI (See alt-text for English)

What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.

Couldn’t be more timely!

A man in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights.

📅Nov 19 @ 9AM | Digital identity systems are transforming governance across Africa while raising big questions about privacy, inclusion & power. Join DFRLab's Democracy+Tech Initiative as we explore how digital identity is reshaping governance, elections & rights across the continent bit.ly/3K4IPxk

Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary

Cinema paradiso

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Precht insinuiert hier das Bild einer "ursprünglich proletarischen Linken" mit einem "derben und martialischen Jargon" als Gegenstück zur heutigen "akademischen" Linken. Polarisierung, Vereinfachung, historisch kontrafaktisch. Schauen wir in die Arbeiter*innengeschichte. Los geht's 1/

If you think you can do better at content moderation, check out the two content moderation games listed on the Digital Literacy page of our Deepfakes Tracker research portal: 1) Moderator Mayhem and 2) Trust and Safety Tycoon. deepfakestracker.org/digital-lite...