Trumps Regierung bedroht Verbündete, missachten das internationale Recht & geht mit brutaler Gewalt gegen Migrant*innen und Demonstranten vor. Es gibt keine Grundlage für die Fussballweltmeisterschaft in diesen USA mehr - schon wegen der Gefahr für die Fans. Es ist Zeit für ein #WMBoykott.

ICE has spent hundreds of millions on surveillance. Some technologists are building tools to find it, map it, and push back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

We're getting ready to launch - making sure we've got testing, observability and backups all in good order. It's taking a smidgen longer than we hoped but first invites will arrive on the first week of February and roll out throughout the month. Thank you for your patience 🙏

The EU should urgently reconsider its law enforcement cooperation with DHS, FBI, DOJ. No more data sharing, no more access to EU data bases, no more extraditions until respect for the law and fundamental rights has been restored.

It's a pretty good time to be part of the world's largest customs union. Fancy joining, Canada?

"Deepfakes betreffen nicht überwiegend Politiker*innen, sondern Frauen. So kam eine Studie aus dem Jahr 2019 zu dem Ergebnis, dass 96% der verfügbaren Deepfakes im Internet pornografischer Natur sind." verfassungsblog.de/pornografisc...

This report was a long labour of love — many thanks to all involved! — and it's the only coherent, comprehensive digital sovereignty strategy in the political sphere. Very different from the directionless rambling of the Franco-German Summit last November. @ec.europa.eu *must* act, but also states.

VOLT CONGRES Wat een dijk van een speech van @julietbroersen.bsky.social , fractievoorzitter Volt Amsterdam. Over hoe geopolitiek direct raakt aan alles wat lokaal gebeurt. Stem Volt op 18 maart!

Bluecast links are now available in the Bluesky app’s Live Now! Huge thanks to the Bluesky team, and thank you to everyone who supported us!

Het gaat om deze video youtu.be/LqyrEAzqPGI?...

Gevaarlijke ontwikkeling dit, censuur van Linkedin / Microsoft. decorrespondent.nl/16689/linked... #linkedin #microsoft #trump #censuur

Launching their new social network, W, the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe. But their map is wrong. Here's what Bluesky and the broader Atmosphere actually look like arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/?source=at

Introducing Microsoft's Security Placebo: I did not expect Bitlocker to be as secure as Invermectin is at curing cancer, yet here we are: techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/m...

Leaflet is on @standard.site! A big joint effort — and we're finishing a big migration to get Leaflet records standard-site-ified :) Log in to Leaflet & you'll be migrated automatically. Read this post for details, and let us know any q's. Social publishing. Atmospheric publishing. Together!

This is not only about Greenland. It is about the kind of Europe we choose to be. Read our statement: https://volteuropa.org/news/greenland-its-people-and-european-sovereignty-are-not-for-sale By @melsklabbers.volteuropa.org 💜

Deutschland gehört zu den Ländern, die am hartnäckigsten auf dem Hass- und KI-Porno-Portal "X" bleiben; mutmaßlich auch, weil Politik und Medien aus unverständlichen Gründen die Hölle des Hitlergrüßers nur zögerlich verlassen. Sprecht sie darauf an! Holt sie da weg!

"Judge James Donato expressed concerns that the agreement — which he indicated would involve Epic “helping Google market Android” and Google newly “using Epic’s core technology” — could have led Epic to soften its demands for changes to the overall Android ecosystem" www.theverge.com/policy/86614...

With Flux2 anybody can generate any arbitrary, photorealistic image (it takes seconds). Locally, without querying any server. This cannot be blocked. Awesome potential!

You may have missed it amidst the chaos of the last few days, but there is a new high-level EU report in town: A Franco-German task force led by Jörg Kukies and Christian Noyer presented recommendations to tackle the scale-up financing gap. Here is what it says and why you should care about it.

Interessant in Duitsland worden elektrische auto's met overheidssubsidies betaalbaarder, met inkomensgrens voor die subsidie, nu Nederland nog, www.bundesumweltministerium.de/foerderung/f...

And…we have got a new attack vector!

New report by @bulletprooflama.bsky.social: How are India, Brazil & the EU reshaping digitalization? We examine IndiaStack, Brazil's DPI & EuroStack—unpacking the promises & power dynamics behind digital public infrastructure.

On track B, #BOBkonf2026 continues with Markus Schlegel's experience report "Git meets Linked Data – A Tale of an Unusual Architecture". Find out more: bobkonf.de/2026/schlege...

While the landscape is certainly different, Bluesky turns -2- on February 6, 2026. (Public launch date). It has 42 million users. At 2 years old, twitter had about 5 million.

Good news! The OSCE Democracy Office suggests sending a full election observation mission to Hungary, with 200 observers on election day. Highly necessary, considering the charged situation and persistent fairness issues. @europarl.europa.eu should send a mission too! odihr.osce.org/node/661804

Wooo! Apple fixed a lot of incorrect behavior for sidebars in SwiftUI on Mac! Previously every time you'd select a sidebar item, it would recreate the view. It wouldn't persist any view state but as of 26.2, it now works as expected! I can now work on the #SwiftUI version #PDXTransit for Mac!

And…we have got a new attack vector!

Targeting communities gets easy. Bad news for democracy. This isn’t hypothetical. AI is already used in influence operations. And there will be more. In my work I show the blueprint for an autonomous system. It’s a matter of time. www.wired.com/story/ai-pow... arxiv.org/abs/2508.20186

Massive change. Average unemployment in southern and northern Europe is now the same economist.com/finance-and-... from The Economist

Always interesting to listen to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social. Finally the Dutch citizens get to have a splendid interview to get to know her and her warnings about (non)privacy. youtube.com/watch?v=54jI...

LISTEN: EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social gave a crash course on cybersecurity threat modeling on the latest episode of @kqednews.kqed.org's Close All Tabs podcast. www.kqed.org/news/120705...

Today, the EU provided the first €10 million for a new Special Tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for their role in Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Russia’s leaders are responsible for this war, and they must be held accountable. There can be no impunity. (1/2)

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties

Apply now to become our Community & Policy Organiser and help shape the heart of Volt Europa by connecting, empowering, and growing communities across Europe. 💜👉 https://loom.ly/a_30SA4

Glashelder. "Europa zit klem tussen het imperialisme van Rusland en Trump, die de EU wil ontmantelen. Tijd om snel te bouwen aan een Europees leger.", aldus @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org en @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org.

Track A at #BOBkonf2026 continues with "Generating tests from formal specification: the good, the bad and the messy" by Nicolas Osborne, a talk on the how to, pros, and cons of generating model-based testing from formal specifications in the OCaml ecosystem. For more, see bobkonf.de/2026/osborne...

MEPs endorse tech sovereignty plan, urge cancellation of US travel restrictions www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

🇫🇮🇺🇦 Stubb: Have faith, Ukraine is going to win this war. People are saying that Russia wants to continue the war because they want more territory. That is rubbish. Russia has to continue the war because this war is too big for Putin to fail.

This year, we will present a new European Framework for climate resilience and risk management. Here is why ⬇️

AI coding/work assistants (like Claude) may be used to infect systems and spread malware. As they become indispensable technology tools they may become single points of failure, or worse even. Writing a short note with a proof or concept attack tool…

Nachdem der US-Handelsminister den Menschen in Europa vorwirft, auf Wind- und Solarkraft zu setzen, hier ein kleiner Reality Check, wie die USA den wachsenden Strombedarf (auch für KI-Rechenzentren) der kommenden 2 Jahre zu decken gedenken. Das ist aus mehreren Gründen interessant:

I think Axis of the Weasels works well for this bunch.

That is great news! Make SwiftUI the cross platform standard 😎

Dit is een krachtig betoog dat uitlegt hoe we Europa en dus ook Nederland veilig kunnen stellen in het tijdperk van grootmachten.

Ik had een leuke middag, met onverwachte inzichten. Jacco maakte het eerste uur even tijd: hij is druk bezig met klussen in zijn vintage-winkel die binnenkort opent. Het tweede uur sprak ik met Hans en Martijn over privacy, big tech en de vrijheid om je eigen pad te kiezen.

Every accusation Trump makes is a confession!

The most impressive meeting in Davos is with the Ukrainian war heroes. They share experiences from the battle field. Their bravery and innovative capacity is outstanding. These are the defenders of freedom and security in Europe, and deserve our full attention and support! 🇳🇱🇺🇦