Tock-tock: "The US thinktank the Heritage Foundation, architect of Project 2025, a far-right agenda for the Trump presidency, is reported to be actively seeking ties with European thinktanks" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The White House doesn’t care about environment, health or suffer of people. Peace, justice, cooperation or prosperity are not among its priorities. Not even the great legacy of US to global governance. And they spell it out. HTTPS://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/climate/trump-un-climate-treaty.html

Hey y'all, if you're a California resident, the state's new privacy program to opt out and delete your information from data brokers is now available. Couple of steps to get a request completed but it's fairly simple. privacy.ca.gov/DROP/

Shouldn't we in Europe follow Colombians' example? Who's first? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

The US exiting UNCTAD while getting the name wrong?

"The administration’s actions amount to an expansion of its “drill, baby, drill” mantra well beyond U.S. borders" www.wsj.com/business/ene... brace for more "expansions"

From here, it looks like one of the possible reasons the OECD didn't show up on this list, for now www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Us/nous/noi ➡️ Zweig's time ➡️ Montaigne's time was also pretty terrifying

"“Sticking it right into his Monroe [aka Donroe] Doctrine,” www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

I'm sorry for anyone who thought we might see improvement in Venezuela rather than just more pure Trump corruption

"Maduro is no saint either" x.com/davidschwart...

Perhaps we need to discuss that the "US will be exempt from [OECD] global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Maybe "Trump felt he needed a victory to counter “tough headlines” and “slumping poll numbers.”" Maduro a bit like Vercingetorix x.com/ericlevitz/s...

"The threat that AI posed to Google’s search dominance proved to have a silver lining" Judge Mehta's ruling. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

Brutal, perfect, all the way to the end.

"If there's scope for entry, then there'll be entry, and some of it might be...Vietnamese" 😉

Ribera's "preferred option would be a woman that is “sound, respected, that can bring pressure and that can also allow the team to feel the pride and the reliability and the confidence to stay happy and proud of what they do”. Any suggestion ['do-or-die' scenario:urgent] www.ft.com/content/2c9c...

"Amazon aims to convince customers to share their personal documents, emails, and calendar access with Alexa+, so its AI can become a sort of hub to manage the goings-on at home, from kids’ school holidays and soccer schedules to doctor’s appointments and other things families need to remember..."

Computational Antitrust? "The best code is no code at all" et al. @todddavi.es ourcuriousamalgam.com/episode/358-...

"Verwendet ein Sachverständiger bei der Erstellung seines Gutachtens in erheblichem Umfang KI, ohne dies dem Gericht gegenüber zu deklarieren, so kann allein deswegen seine Vergütung auf EUR 0,00 festgesetzt werden" www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/documen...

"The suggestion that Apple is unaware of the problems is not just ridiculous, it’s demonstrably false. Apple knows exactly what the issues are. It is simply refusing to address them"

Many shades of "finished" already there. Will it have the strength to rise again? Or is it more like 476 AD?

The "head of office at US Big Tech lobby CCIA Europe, told Euractiv that he would warn EU lawmakers against efforts to decouple too sharply from US technology, as this would risk provoking countermeasures"

"The interim measure consists in requiring Meta to immediately suspend the application of the new contractual terms adopted on 15 October 2025 under the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms, insofar as such conduct produces effects within the territory of Italy" en.agcm.it/dotcmsdoc/pr...

"“We are contributing to our own surveillance and it is comprehensive. The tech corporations are in the hands of men with power which we give them,” the group said.“" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

España, al menos, no nos hace sentir vergüenza de ser europeos. ¡Bien hecho!

🔴 DIRECTO | España, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Uruguay publican un comunicado conjunto en el que manifiestan su rechazo a "las acciones militares ejecutadas unilateralmente" en Venezuela social.elpais.com/9pb…

"Lina Khan, the former Federal Trade Commission chair, co-chaired Mamdani’s transition team and may have a role in his government; that is to be determined, sources tell the Prospect"

While the EU continues "monitoring [whatever] situation"? Not a word about it?

"Even the current enforcement of digital rules was “too little, too late,” said Alexandra Geese, a European lawmaker... “There is an attack on our democracy going on, led by the tech oligarchs on social media, and we’re not really defending ourselves.”" www.ft.com/content/ca6f...

"es stimmt schon, es reicht nicht, das Völkerrecht nur zu beschwören....Europa muss endlich souverän werden – es braucht politische Souveränität, militärische Souveränität, digitale Souveränität. Wer das immer noch nicht begriffen hat, mit dieser US-Regierung, dem ist nicht mehr zu helfen"

How long before they conclude that the EU is being mismanaged and feel compelled to come to our “rescue”?

Remind me, how much did Big Tech spend?

Obviously.

...not perfect, but

"Digital platforms are now among the most powerful institutions in our societies. The question is not whether they should be subject to rules, but whether those rules serve democratic values or merely private interests"

The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

"By exploring the ways that Western legal systems empower individuals to advance their interests against society, Katharina Pistor reveals how capitalism is an unsustainable system designed to foster inequity" yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

"The scrubbing, Meta teams explained in documents regarding their efforts to reduce scam discoverability, sought to make problematic content “not findable” for “regulators, investigators and journalists.”"

Memories of Giphy and Within being raised? Times when competition authorities at least tried to apply merger control to Big Tech?

"Selling to Meta gives Manus 🤚 access to distribution channels such as WhatsApp and Instagram and a well-funded owner able to help cover computing and infrastructure costs" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

"Meta says it plans to continue to operate and sell Manus’s service and integrate it into its suite of social-media products" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

Orthogonal to any type of digital regulation

"“President Trump is leveraging his close relationships with private-sector titans to cement American technological dominance for the rest of the 21st century,” she said" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/t...

"Because history is insufficiently studied, because perspectives are limited by human lifespans, because the same mistakes are repeated over and over,momentous events are hailed as watersheds, landmarks and epochal inflection points.Almost invariably, they’re not" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity

Although not yet final, a DMA ruling requires Android to allow the use of third-party email services...💪🏽

"Wir kennen das Playbook: Nach der Verweigerung der Einreise in die USA kommt die Aufkündigung der Zugänge zu US-amerikanischen Online-Diensten - von GMail bis MS 365, von Amazon bis Paypal" #HataAid www.linkedin.com/posts/jhorst...