Statement EU Commission on U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals: "The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values and international commitments." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

It's time for Europe to recognise what the American National Security strategy means for us. This clip from Merz shows the kind of words we need from our European leaders. Let's hope 1. they get repeated everywhere and 2. they will be followed by action

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Today I'm at the launch of the EDIC Digital Commons. A collaboration between the govs of NL, DE, FR, IT and other countries to jointly work on open source initiatives that improve our Digital autonomy in Europe. Exciting to see all the talk of Digital Sovereignty put into practice!

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Catherine Tait, Philipp Schild, @amlung.bsky.social, @sandervdwaal.bsky.social and @ivansigal.bsky.social discussed how interoperable infrastructure can reinvent media’s relationship with audiences, break down platform monopolies and preserve journalistic independence. vimeo.com/1140417552?s...

I spent the day at #EuroskyLive and it is so energizing to hear developers make a better case for European innovation and competition policy than a whole high-level summit on digital sovereignty yesterday...

"What we see with media organisations is that they have to go to YouTube and TikTok to find their audiences but then they get shadowbanned when they mention genocide." — @sandervdwaal.bsky.social #EuroskyLive

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

It's very notable that this room has plenty of developers and builders, and whenever someone says that deregulation is stupid they're getting full-throated applause. The people pushing deregulation are disconnected from those of us who are building the future. #EuroskyLive

As @alexandrageese.bsky.social mentioned at #EuroSkLive, we need the European Commission to stand up against big tech. Very timely with the important campaign launched by @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social!

Amazing inspiring presentation by @bmann.ca that inspires new ideas of apps that can be built on ATProto. #EuroSkyLive

Great to see @alexandrageese.bsky.social on fire. Takeaways: 1. EU capital investing in US tech instead of European 2. Public procurement power not deployed to prefer EU tech 3. The unbelievable admiration(!) in EC circles for big tech. But momentum building for building OUR tech #EuroSkyLive

#EuroskyLive “we’re not building a space agency” - @seabass.bsky.social sad but okay. So what are they building for our #ATproto ecosystem? 🚀

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p... It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

Mooie quote van wethouder Scholtes in het tweegesprek met Elisabeth IJmker "Ik heb ook naar @[email protected] geluisterd" als ondersteuning van punt dat stappen gezet worden in de gemeente om digitaal onafhankelijker te worden #PubConf2025

Ooh look at that, Bluesky creates a link to Elena's account that is on Mastodon! Love this cross platform feature ❤️

Its clear @_elena is the first genuine superstar of the Fediverse? #pubconf2025

This @politico.eu piece threatens a reality checks against a position that, uh, no one has been advocating for. They erect a strawman position backed by no quote or reference according to which European tech sovereignty involves "decoupling" from the world. Huh? www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Don’t be deceived by democracy- and sovereignty-washing: The US government has most to gain from ‘OpenAI for countries’ ↘️ on.ft.com/4kJLh93

So, Internet, we really do need to talk about Elon. How did we get to a place where a single billionaire with daddy issues could take over and control our global public square? I picked up my paintbrush as a means to answer that question.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump has brought me to my breaking point with US tech. I’m going to keep pushing for governments to get serious about digital sovereignty, but in the meantime I’m looking for non-US alternatives — and will have more on what I’ll be using instead soon.

You have to read this article. "The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants." By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

The movement's official website...

"My name is Ibtihal, and for the past 3.5 years, I’ve been a software engineer on Microsoft’s AI Platform org. I spoke up today because after learning that my org was powering the genocide of my people in Palestine, I saw no other moral choice."

The dominoes keep falling. Doing the government's bidding, changing speech rules, and harming vulnerable minorities is still appeasement. Even if you do it YouTube style, quietly and with little fanfare.

.. and that's the whole point..

Trump and Musk have ushered in the era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this @jksteinberger.bsky.social

One major challenge of any opposition to authoritarianism is to make critical thinking, self-responsibility, acknowledgement of and desire to repair crimes, more appealing to the public than insane nationalistic narcissism.

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile removed by employer Indiana University, & had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

In December, I wrote a piece about people's declining ability to process information, to distinguish fact from opinion, etc, and how this might soften us up to become overly-dependent on AI. You could read it, but this guy just summarised it in two tweets!

Investigative journalism on the Gates Foundation is always difficult--b/c it means challenging the one-sided narratives most newsrooms push out. Now climate activists are adding to the misinformation, amplifying Gates's bogus claims on climate change. Read on! timschwab.substack.com/p/divesting-...

Lordy. The Dutch. Hardly the frontline of anti-Americanism www.reuters.com/world/europe...

I am moderating this round table on social media moderation policies. Register below! We have a great lineup of speakers @muendges.bsky.social @ovinhas.bsky.social @sandervdwaal.bsky.social @waag.bsky.social Sarah Eskens, MacKenzie fomer @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Meta Oversight Board.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

JD Vance last month: "If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there’s nothing America can do for you" www.politico.com/live-updates...

Can journalists please be a bit more helpful here? The fact that journalists are not asking their questions from the perspective of being baffled by the position the US president is taking is NOT HELPING

Incredibly expected and nevertheless incredibly disappointing.. where previously the brolichargy may have pretended to have some form of integrity, the masks are now truly coming off..

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.