You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

This reads like a bland puff piece @restofworld.org, you should know better. It only takes a quick search to find a myriad of evidence about UpScrolled's content governance problems. restofworld.org/2026/upscrol...

From Lúcio's report: “This account demonstrates that the challenges of moderation go far beyond graphic and disturbing content. They are rooted in a business model that treats human beings as disposable resources.” Full report available at data-workers.org/lucio/

How it feels reading LinkedIn at the moment. 🙃

Madrid woke up snowy today! ⛄️

This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry must be destroyed.

These people have been told that the chatbox is an everything machine. The way out can't be to provide a better everything machine because that can't exist.

Found an account on Instagram that shared cultural activities/plans in my city and it looked pretty cool at first. Then the owner started posting videos made with GenAI (e.g. using artists’ likeness, to simulate taking selfies with Dalí, etc.). Quickest unfollow.

I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading. This is one of those cases.

a wild story that encapsulates how tech executives view AI. Anthropic's Deputy CISO made his Discord server a ghost town by forcing an AI chatbot onto it despite community protests

My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean... verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

Can someone with an enlightened business mindset explain to me what Disney stands to gain from this? I have yet to read a convincing argument of why this was a "no brainer".

If it wasn't enough for Disney to milk Marvel, Star Wars and other franchises dry with bland shows on D+, now they're eagerly welcoming AI slop. openai.com/index/disney...

Apple now directly encouraging students to use "AI chatbots" and promoting all the usual suspects. Hardly surprising (30% cut on in-app subscriptions...), but remember this when they try to pass as a human creativity-first brand.

"AI music is the future, basically no difference" Sure, buddy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOtC...

Final NCP ruling: Telenor violated the OECD Guidelines in its disengagement from Myanmar 🚨 Telenor should now take an active role in remediation and provide financial support to a Myanmar digital security relief mechanism, according to the decision. Read more: www.somo.nl/telenor-fail...

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"Although the trading platform surged in popularity last year when people used it to predict the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential elections, a large portion of Kalshi’s trades are actually tied to sports" so...glorified gambling. techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/k...

A new @cdteu.org report looks into export licensing systems in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱 & finds that existing frameworks are not ⚠️fully equipped to address challenges related to #spyware trade, incl. current market dynamics (e.g. complex corporate structures) that prevent oversight & control. cdt.org/wp-content/u...

Anytime you see Microsoft or any US company state the CLOUD Act is not such a big deal for Europe, do ask them if they can reassure us on FISA 702 and EO12333 as well. You will not get an answer. Here EDRI sets it out nicely: edri.org/our-work/pro...

like big tobacco funding cancer research

I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found: • Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data; • Oura *can* access its users' data; • Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.

more than anything, this should remind you how bad generative has ruined the information ecosystem

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut: If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order?? >>

what gives

Crowdstrike (Microsoft), AWS, Cloudflare failures: "These incidents are not random. They reflect a deeper, structural issue: Internet consolidation has reached a point where the failure of a single provider can destabilize significant parts of the global Web."

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

ICYMI: Yesterday, market investigations were launched on potential designation of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services under the DMA. A third investigation will assess whether the DMA is equipped to address fairness and contestability issues in cloud:

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros! As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊

The ACLU and the EFF are suing San Jose over its Flock cameras. There are nearly 500 cameras in the city. It is essentially impossible to drive anywhere in the city without being tracked. Cameras outside of immigration law firms, abortion clinics, places of worship www.404media.co/aclu-and-eff...

Talking about the frail infrastructure of the web. Nothing showcases the issues with concentration and dependency like a good old outage. #Cloudflare

A survey of 300 attendees at the Cerebral Valley AI Conference asking which AI startup attendees thought was most likely to fail ranked Perplexity in the top position. Second place? OpenAI.

Excellent @euobserver.com oped from @krisshrishak.bsky.social on how EC leadership is running high on AI fumes and immolating public money. euobserver.com/digital/ar68...

Lobbyists for Big Tech now outnumber MEPs On average, there are 3 meetings a day between Big Tech lobbyists + senior EU figures. Meanwhile an NGO fighting to stop people's water supplies being hoovered up by data centres will wait months to get a single meeting. A fascinating listen 👇

Resisting authoritarianism comes in many flavors. When public officials fail to play their constitutionally mandated oversight role, a powerful tactic is to build alternative mechanisms to shine a light on corruption, abuses of power, and other malfeasance.

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

The so-called 'post-naive' internet era: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/10/the-socalled-postnaive-internet-era.html

I've noticed the extent to which "do you need a VPN for that?" has cropped up in general conversations about the Web and has become a go-to nudge nudge wink wink on podcasts. But also, there is a whole world in which this could have been easily anticipated by Ofcom and DSIT

Why does this smell like they're getting out while the bubble has hit its peak?

Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump. www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

If you ever needed a reason to stop using Instagram, forced “ad breaks” are it.

To me this is the proper official #MozFest closure/wrap-up panel.

“I enjoy the ads I see online” is a bonkers sentence to say out loud in panel of a digital rights events. #MozFest

narrator: no, it cannot