I'm sure this is totally coincidental. #hitler #trump #nazipropaganda

"Security guarantees for #Ukraine require readiness to fight Russia, says Finland’s president" Finally, someone says it like it is. #eupol https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/security-guarantees-for-ukraine-require-readiness-to-fight-russia-says-finlands-president

When a company says it has "no plans" to enshittify its product, you should take that to mean it will proceed fairly soon with enshittification. Today's example is Samsung: https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

In August, the State Dept "gave official notice to staff that it was terminating more than two dozen agreements" that had been "designed to create common language and tactics to push back against Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and terrorist influence campaigns overseas."

La gendarmerie va sortir le « centaure », son nouveau blindé anti-émeute ce 18 septembre. « C’est la représentation de la sagesse, il sera utilisé à bonne escient », promettent les militaires au Parisien. Ce monstre à 600 000 euros pièce, qui peut embarquer 12 gus à bord, lance des grenades et […]

Behold, the patriots #ukpol

Tired of years-long debates about whether European administrations are too dependent on US software? Have a read about a German state busy at work replacing Microsoft Office with open alternatives. Read my article at @euractiv […]

[UK Politics] Young Brits: can we rejoin the EU and tax the rich, please? Labour: Sorry, best we can do is persecute trans people and ignore genocide. #ukpol

When all kinds of people tell you that your reaction to this douchebag's death is wrong. Quote him. Charlie disagrees.

This is potentially very significant for the roll out of ETCS (a signaling and safety system for the whole continent for rail) Previously retrofitting old trains with ETCS has been hellish hard and/or expensive. The Signalling Company - a Belgian firm that belongs to Škoda, and has been working […]

Good moment for France to not have a defence minister, btw.

BTW there is no reason you shouldn’t have full access to your #computers. there is also no reason whatsoever you shouldn’t install software you’ve developed or is developed by sources you vetted and trust. this is a post about the (micro)computers in your pockets and purses that are marketed […]

Since January 20, Russian air raids in Ukraine have intensified dramatically

Earlier, the department spiked a plan to reveal a Chinese information campaign, on the grounds that it prefers"telling the truth to our adversaries." Meanwhile the administration is gutting America's foreign broadcasters, so unclear who exactly will do that www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What if #shakespeare wrote the #jet2 holidays advert?

Oh wow, a HUGE majority of Europeans (and not just the French) say it has negative consequences for Europe to buy US military equipment. Source: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/0...

@paul_denton Je ne comprends pas ce que fait LREM en ce moment. Il est clair qu'ils ne sont plus légitimes pour gouverner, mais ils continuent la même stratégie, et crament toute chance d'être réeélus.

Ni la gauche, ni le centre, ni la droite n'est légitime pour gouverner seul en France aujourd'hui. Une véritable coalition, avec accord de coalition, entre le centre et la gauche, est nécessaire pour gouverner le pays. On n'aura pas le programme qu'on veut, mais on aura quelque chose de plus […]

What the author means when they say “too much #regulation”, is “too much protection of the environment, consumers, fundamental & social rights, and citizens health.” Businesses that harm these things are not sustainable: they are getting rich at the expense of something that we have decided—as […]

This is the best advice for the Democrats that I have read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

i fucking hate fascism

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🎼Well sometimes I walk down the street in search of something to eat🎼 And then I pass by Walkin' Thai 🎺. 🎺 🎺. 🎺. 🎺 🎺 Walkin' thai 🎺. 🎺. 🎺. 🎺 Come and try We have a lot of dishes and not just rice The tears that the spiciness gave me when I went to tryyy 🎹🎹🎹🎹 Walkin' thai

@gabrielesvelto THIS! Whenever anyone proposes solving a probem with AI I try to present it to them like this: You have a choice between spending a few days now to hash out a procedure that eliminates this problem. It's a one-time cost. OR you can try to use AI. You'll have a ongoing cost […]

One of the side-effects of the AI bubble is that we stopped talking about alternative solutions to computing problems. Everything needs to be solved with "AI" - meaning an LLM - and nobody stops and asks if there is an alternative. This drives me mad because LLMs are not only unreliable, but […]

As the UK backslides, the #EuropeanUnion #europeancourtofjustice just set out an opinion stating that Trans people must be allowed ID reflecting lived gender! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 #TransRightsAreHumanRights #eupol […]

I agree, and the results seem more relevant than DuckDuckGo for example, and much less spammy than Google. It is not entirely without searching on Google a second time once in a while, but it makes a great default. via @jmaris https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115146063611215468

A big Fairphone welcome to Framework! Framework Team at Fairphone HQ in Amsterdam @frameworkcomputer @fairphone @iFixit https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/posts/fairphone_a-big-fairphone-welcome-to-framework-were-activity-7369290126222393367-0bAx/ […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A brief reminder that if you want to help end the #search monopoly, you should give #ecosia a try. They are #european, plant trees with their profits, and are currently rolling out their own search index in collaboration with another European Search engine, #qwant!

I wake up every morning and i embrace the inevitability of problems.

In this fascinating experiment, hundreds of strangers are paired up and paid to have a chat, what happens is a reminder of the negative impact of isolation on us all. #experiment #social #Science https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger/

The meeting of the #coalition_of_the_willing in Paris yesterday highlights the difficult reality of the situation: countries are shy to commit to deploying troops to #Ukraine, because they know that #russia will try again and we will have to fight. We shouldn't wait for Russia to try again, we […]

The Bad Guys are Winning, from 2021 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Non, Bayrou n'est pas centriste. Il est de droite. https://www.politico.eu/article/francois-bayrou-france-no-confidence-vote/ #frpol

The French far left, as fascists take power, after they repeatedly block a compromise government built with the left and the centre: AT LEAST WE NEVER COMPROMISED ON OUR VALUES!!!!!!!! #frpol

It's likely that if you know what the EU's Digital Markets Act is about that you have comments on it. There is a consultation open to which you can contribute your experiences and views […]

Finally a response from @EUCommission Vice-President #Virkkunen on the American attacks against #democracy in Europe (unfortunately on #LinkedIn): "The #DSA and #DMA are our sovereign legislations - Non-discriminatory, applying to all online platforms in the […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Excellent open letter from the @fsfe 🔥 https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html

How a Powerpoint presentation might have killed the crew of Columbia. https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx

Thierry #breton has shot back, and I'm afraid to say I love it. #DSA #dma #digitalservicesact #digitalmarketsact #trump https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/eu-donald-trump-tariffs-us-europe-tech

What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

“These #censorship allegations against the [#digitalservicesact] are nonsense. They are completely unfounded, and they’re completely wrong. Do you guys feel censored in the EU? I guess not,” spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters on Thursday. Finally the @EUCommission finds some appropriate […]

Revealed: US Vice President #jdvance called comander-in-chief of of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy #Zaluzhny to discuss “potential leadership changes” after Oval Office meeting of February 2025. Zaluzhny refused to talk, instead immediately called Zelensky to inform what Vance was planning […]

Glad to see open source bootloaders advertised publicly! #grub

Tout le monde demande de nouvelles élections, mais ça ne changera probablement pas le fait qu'il n'y a pas de majorité. Seul un gouvernement du centre à la gauche disposerait d'une majorité pour gouverner. Pour cela, il faut élaborer un accord sur une programme, et faire des compromis (a […]

"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software. Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority: - sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon) - sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from […]

I think that an enormous part of citizens frustrations stem from the inability of the state to solve problems quickly, while facing more problems than ever before. We need to stop outsourcing to consultancies, automate administration, & bring more expertise into the public sector. We need […]

As a rule, when you see a need to keep what you are doing from the public, it's usually because you're doing something wrong. https://lina.sh/blog/telefonica-sabotages-me #depol

After U.S. President Donald Trump announced his plan to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, her lawyer says she is suing. @NBCNews explains how Trump’s limited authority over the Federal Reserve may not be enough to win this time. https://flip.it/Uj1UyA #trump #cook #lisacook […]