You know what emergent tech of the last decade actually works well, and was adopted by millions? 3D printing. It’s great! So many applications. But also nobody is sneering at you for not having or utilizing 3D printing. Nobody is trying to sneak a 3D printer into your garage without your consent

Thomas Meier and Kristina Khutsishvili contend that the challenge to democracy posed by concentrated digital power is not merely institutional, economic, or ethical, but a disruption of the very conditions for democratic citizenship.

Oh to be able to achieve so much with so little as this drawing by Frédéric Forest.

⚠️Democracy in #Romania is going through a turbulent period! The Constitutional Court👩‍⚖️annulled the first round of the election last year, now they’ve barred #far-right candidate #CalinGeorgescu. Fair play or power play?⁉️ 📺Watch @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social breaking down these exceptional rulings🔽

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

El Espectador journalist Natalia Herrera Durán reports on the risks of digital sexual abuse faced by Colombian minors on Facebook. The article is part of the “Innocence at Risk” project, a journalistic collaboration between Tech Policy Press, Professor Lara Putnam, and El CLIP.

A beautiful take on the events in the Oval Office last week. Gratitude, a virtue of free men and women, nurtures loyalty, trust and cooperation. They win when we allow fear to become the only currency in human relationships. substack.com/home/post/p-...

WhatsApp is now a Very Large platform in the EU, and will face tougher regulation

X is ignoring our researchers' requests for data access. So we are taking them to court❗ The platform is hindering our efforts to understand trends in online public discourse during the upcoming German elections. According to the DSA, this is unlawful, so today, we filed a lawsuit against X. 1/2

Let's recap the timeline for those of you who haven't been following. Friday: a deportation flight containing 88 Brazilians takes off from American soil. The deportees are handcuffed and bound in leg irons, as is standard practice on such flights. The Americans are flying into a trap.

Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion pill providers. Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations. nyti.ms/4h3PF1x

Big Tech pulls back from commitments under the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation (soon Code of Conduct), hitting fact-checking support the hardest. At @democracyreporting.bsky.social, we’re analysing the CoP’s new shape and its interplay with the DSA framework. Stay tuned! tinyurl.com/3mwvjk83

Our very own @lukasmogge.bsky.social just published a paper in @jeem-econ.bsky.social. The study titled "Perception and Protection" provides new evidence on how experiencing risk affects demand for index-based insurance in Mongolia. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

The RWI − Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (@rwi.bsky.social) invites applications for a student research assistant position based in Berlin to work on climate impacts and adaptation with DENeB's @lukasmogge.bsky.social and Julian Roeckert. More info here: t.ly/B7bOm

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Dimitra Rizou. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/eALDi3I

It’s wild how fast people jump at any excuse to hate and harass women. Platforms know it—and it’s great for their business. If external researchers can map out how smear campaigns or tactics to boost unknown political candidates (like in Romania) work, why can’t platforms address them proactively?

The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.

🇷🇴⚖️Tremendous: the Romanian Constitutional Court, tasked with hearing electoral protests and validating the elections, decides to annul the first round of the presidential election (effectively ordering them to be retaken in entirety at a later date). 1/

Position from 17 German constitutional law experts - an application to ban the far-right party Alternativ für Deutschland would likely be successful.