🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

Wie steht es um die Informationmssicherheit in Österreich und inwieweit hat das etwas mit der #NIS2 Umsetzung durch das #nisg2026 zu tun? darüber habe ich mit @otmar.bsky.social in der #arsboni #Waschkueche gesprochen. Via youtu.be/_bRPWZTfGvc #joinus #wirnennenesarbeit

White House.. Situation

Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant

It's high time that some country gives Musk the Durov in France treatment.

1/Quick thoughts on Venezuela oil and what it means for world politics. Rather than a simple story of corporate oligarchy, more about Trump putting himself at the center of spoils that can be used to consolidate power i.e neo-royalism. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...

Occasionally as a litigator you run across an opposing party who repeatedly breaches contracts and settlement agreements and legal requirements — just never abides by them. Generally competent lawyers point out that you shouldn’t do business with or enter contracts with that person. /1

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

1/ Elon Musk faces a spiralling worldwide crisis and growing legal jeopardy over child pornography and nonconsensual sexual images being generated through his Grok AI chatbot. Multiple countries and jurisdictions have now announced investigations into X and xAI. ⬇️

(1/X) The most popular thing leaders in either parties could do is throw an oligarch in jail. Srsly, would you blame someone for voting for Trump because Trump threw Zuck in the clink? And they all belong there, not just morally (they deserve far worse than a few years in jail morally), but...

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

It’s interesting how the risk awareness that dependence on US systems - be it in digital services, defence, or payment methods - has been internalised fairly quickly in Europe. National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives

Ich habe eine sehr ernsthafte Frage: Warum postet die Präsidentin der Europäischen Kommission, Ursula von der Leyen, so etwas auf Twitter/X (Oh, the irony!) und die Europäische Kommission - Vertretung in Österreich repostet es auch noch? Quelle: x.com/vonderleyen/...

Der US-Präsident, der Medien auf zig Milliarden klagt, zusperren will, als „Volksfeinde“ denunziert und Journalistinnen als „Schweinchen“ beschimpft, geht mit Sanktionen gegen den „globalen Zensur-industriellen Komplex“ (aka EU) vor. Es ist nur noch irre.

So much for freedom of speech. Alternative voices aren't even allowed into the deeply divided country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sehr gute Erklärung, warum dieser Fake-Werbe-Müll ständig auch auf seriösen Websites zu sehen ist. In Wahrheit müsste man „Programmatic Advertising“ - das völlig unkontrollierte vollautomatische Ausspielen von Werbung über Online-Marktplätze - verbieten. Wäre auch besser für die Medien.

Santa can keep the toys… What we really want for Christmas: people before algorithms.

Elon does not fundamentally believe that any government or governing body should be allowed to constrain or regulate him in any way and he is deploying all of the vast resources at his command to make it so governments should act accordingly

Drawing a line from Monty Python's "Life of Brian" to LLM security: a new blogpost from me: www.cert.at/en/blog/2025...

Ex-Kanzler, Unternehmer und Vater Sebastian Kurz begehrt folgenden Widerruf gem. § 13 MedienG. dietagespresse.com/auf-begehren...

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed. time.com/7336204/meta...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]

this is honestly my main argument against AGI hype

Authors consider the case for democratic repair: what practices generate legitimacy, help build democratic resilience and restore institutional trust. Read the full paper here: demos.co.uk/research/ver...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Proud to support our Law Enforcement partners in another successful cybercrime disruption: Operation SIMCARTEL Great work everyone involved 👏 europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

Yet another blogpost: www.cert.at/en/blog/2025... This time it's about law enforcement's aim to access encrypted information.

ChatGPT und Co fallen mit einer extrem freundlichen, nahezu schleimenden Tonalität auf - Sycophancy nennt man das Doch wie wirkt sich Sycophancy psychologisch aus? Und welche Geschäftsinteressen stehen dahinter? Dazu mein neuer Newsletter 👇

Dutch courts fighting to make Facebook and Instagram useable again.

History repeats.

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?

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

I liked "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose when it was part of a song, not a standing excuse for cowardly rich people and "large conglomerates." 😡

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

New technology: A grid-scale battery in Scotland saved the day when a massive generator shut down unexpectedly. Suddenly 1,877 megawatts of supply was missing! But the new 200-megawatt battery station leapt into action within milliseconds. spectrum.ieee.org/grid-scale-b...

Extremely relatable.

What really needs to be banned are social media algorithms. This is just telling kids they can't have digital crack cocaine until they're 16.

@tomlevenson.bsky.social On vaccine side effects

I watched the DSA and OSA "Censorship" Hearing in the House Judiciary Committee today so you don't have to. I have some questions. A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular: Why are we here? 1/

Mal wieder ein Blogpost, dieses mal ein paar Gedanken - und viele Links - zum Thema Digitale Souveränität. www.cert.at/de/blog/2025...

Der oö. FPÖ-Landesparteisekretär Michael Gruber lässt am Freitag um 23 Uhr (!) jene Presseaussendung verschicken, zu der er gerichtlich verpflichtet wurde: Er muss seine diffamierende Behauptung über das @doew.at widerrufen. Na dann helfen wir ihm doch, seinen Widerruf zu verbreiten!

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Unangenehm. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte...