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Sometimes I imagine a world in which European leaders like @president.europarl.europa.eu spent as much time supporting the European model of tech as they do cosying up to foreign oligarchs with openly anti-democratic projects and anti-European foreign interference activities. 🧵

"It is not for trans people to dance weirdly but for us to acknowledge that these laws and policies that cisgender people have predominantly created are themselves a weird dance" - Sean Mulcahy at CPDP session Algo-rhythms: How data-driven systems perpetuate unnecessary suffering

Funky (and scary) early morning session at #CPDP: Algo-rhythms: How data-driven systems perpetuate unnecessary suffering  🎵 www.cpdpconferences.org/culture-club...

Applauding this important action by @beuc.eu Platforms like Meta, TikTok and Google must be stopped to make profits with impunity by displaying financial scam ads to millions of consumers. Strong enforcement of the DSA is essential to protect people online. www.beuc.eu/press-releas...

Early morning panel at #CPDP by @beuc.eu on the Digital Omnibus and what "simplification" means for consumers (= lowered protections), citizens (= fewer rights), European businesses (= less legal certainty) and innovation (= less competition and no level-playing field).

#ToiletGate #CPDP #CPDP2026

Very enlightening panel at #CPDP on challenges for researchers to access platform data under the #DSA. Wondering if there is a database somewhere of research projects under the DSA so that policy-makers can track? Many thanks to @cgoanta, @pfchap, @clairepershan, and Victor Alamercery from EU COM

Just arrived at #CPDP - and first stop of course is the EDRi booth with 💫 shiny stickers and lovely people 🤩

Agreed text of revisions to EU AI law - for the prohibition of 'nudification' AI, see the text on pages 30-31 - data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

Wedium, W-Social, Flashes, es tut sich was bei europäischen Plattform-Alternativen. Was langfristig den Unterschied ausmacht, ist Interoperabilität. Damit Nutzer*innen wirklich wechseln, müssen europäische Plattformen miteinander sprechen.

Viel Überzeugung, und leider wenig Verständnis für die Risiken für Kids bei datenschutzhungrigen Lösungen für #Alterskontrollen netzpolitik.org/2026/es-ist-...

Well, at least I can use @eurosky.social!

Die dreckige Wahrheit über NIUS: Die haben kaum echte rechte Leser. Was sie haben ist ein riesiges Botnetz, eine Handvoll Nazis, und Millionen geschockter Linker die nicht aufhören können hinzugucken. 🧵

Als die Grünen so viele Stimmen hatten wie die AfD jetzt und vor der Union lagen, hat sich ein signifikanter Teil der Medienlandschaft zusammengetan, um sie mit Desinformation & Schmutzkampagnen zu vernichten – und hat sie erfolgreich halbiert. Entlarvend, dass das jetzt mit der AfD nicht passiert.

Good news from the Greens/EFA team who negotiated the AI Omnibus 👏 until wee hours in the morning: there will be a ban on nudifier apps à la Grok - the rules are entering jnto force at the end of this year, while rules for high risk AI rules only in December 2027.

Google verstößt gegen den Digital Markets Act – Die EU bereitet eine Milliardenstrafe vor. Doch Berichten zu folge stoppt Ursula von der Leyen die Strafe in letzter Minute. Ein Skandal!

Packed day today at the EU Parliament: - at 14:30: Exchange of views on Anthropic's Mythos, live: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream... - at 15:00: Hearing on Age Verification and Age Estimation Techniques online, live: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

A German newspaper reports that @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has personally intervened to postpone the fine against Google for violating the Digital Markets Act. We call on the EU Commission president to enforce the DMA and fine Google without further delay. 🚨 static1.squarespace.com/static/5e449...

What could possibly go wrong?

Really good analysis on the marketing bullshit from Anthropic's Claude Mythos and the alleged "Thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities” ➡️ PR vs the system card ! 🤔 www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that...

Recommended reading from @nicdawes.bsky.social.

🔥 I took a couple of days to compile this long analysis. The elections in Hungary tomorrow are seismic, globally. So I cover: - The rise of Orbán - Orbán’s weakening - The emergence of Péter Magyar - The election battle - The JD Vance visit - What it all means for Hungary, the EU, Putin & Trump

Some wholesome content in between all the bad news: on the first bikepacking trip with the kid on the beautiful #RAVeL - moving across the network of slow ways in the countryside south of Brussels 👌 🤩

Even better: stop treating tech monopolies as if they're an immovable part of the landscape which we can only accept, ban, or regulate. We have the means to replace toxic social apps with better ones, including youth-designed and youth-governed alternatives.

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

Als Reaktion auf die jüngsten Pläne, einen „formellen Dialog“ mit der US-Regierung über die EU-Vorschriften für den Technologiesektor aufzunehmen, fordern EDRi und andere zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen die Kommission nachdrücklich auf, dieses Vorhaben zu stoppen.

💫Win for transparency and environmental protection 💫 The Commission refused to give us access to key documents on how they decided, together with Member States reps, to approve a toxic chemical in pesticides. So we took them to court - and they confirmed that such opacity is unlawful.

Wer meint, sexualisierte Deepfakes "nur" zu erstellen, sei irgendwie okay, hat es wirklich nicht verstanden. Grüße gehen raus an alle, die das auch in unserer Kommentarspalte so sehen. netzpolitik.org/2026/digital...

Big win on privacy! EU Parliament backs our proposal on #ChatControl: no more mass scanning of everyone’s private messages. Instead, targeted checks only for suspects with judicial approval. A major step for fundamental rights - fight continues in final negotiations: greens.eu/chat-control...

Lobby-Ministerin Katherina Reiche beim Abschreiben erwischt - schon wieder! "Eine Recherche von Lobbycontrol und Campact legt nahe, dass die geplante Novelle des Energieeffizienzgesetzes maßgeblich von Microsoft, Google & Co. beeinflusst wurde – teils wortgleich." Alle Informationen gibt es hier:👇

As a devastating result, Europeans now have more privacy

Prien kürzt Demokratieförderung: Das ist so bitter. Erst Desinformation, dann Diffamierung und schließlich Defunding. Das autoritäre Playbook schlägt zu. Dabei ist demokratisches Engagement und dessen Förderung gerade so wichtig wie selten zuvor! www.deutschlandfunk.de/prien-baut-p...

A Berlin court has ordered X to grant researchers API access under the Digital Services Act. Daniela Alvarado Rincón, Simone Ruf and Jürgen Bering explain how they won the case, and why it’s a major step for researcher data access.

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

"Palantir's Maven Smart Systems – a software platform that supplies militaries with intelligence analysis and weapons targeting – uses multiple prompts and workflows that were built using Anthropic's Claude code, according to two people familiar with the matter" www.reuters.com/technology/p...

Contrary to Trump administration claims that the European Commission is interfering in elections across Europe, the Commission has not yet published any DSA decision related to electoral processes and civic discourse, writes Luise Quaritsch.

Turning on the ‘for you’ feed on X in 2023 shifted political opinions to the right, but turning it off did not: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #DSA

The money that Germany spends for Microsoft licences 😱

This looks like Trump's tactic of "it's not me, it's you" is spreading

My highlight of #Fosdem was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act' Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our alliance ‘Open Networks' Thanks @jmason.org for his excellent moderation. Thanks @alexandrageese.bsky.social who took the time for this important debate.

Lobbyismus: Benjamin Brake arbeitete im Ministerium an der Regulierung von Künstlicher Intelligenz. Jetzt setzt er sich für ihre Deregulierung ein. www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/l...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI. Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

There have been increasingly shrill accusations against the EU over its digital legislation, based on accusations of "censorship" by defenders of "free speech" -- including, so it appears, the right to peddle an AI app that seemingly produces child sexual abuse material (CSAM). 1/9

So where is the censorship if not in the DSA? It's in the USA. The Trump administration has censored free speech in 236 actions as of today trumpcensorship.com/ Who would have thought. 9/9

Der Digital Fairness Act der EU könnte Europas erstes Gesetz gegen süchtigmachendes & manipulatives Design digitaler Dienste werden. Noch bevor der erste Entwurf überhaupt veröffentlicht ist, laufen die Lobby-Armeen von Big Tech Sturm gegen die mögliche Regulierung. Bericht von @corporateeurope.org:

Trump TikTok impact, privacy. www.mi-3.com.au/27-01-2026/n...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free