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⚡ We condemn the complaint against our partner @freepressunlimited.bsky.social over its Gaza-related fundraising letter. Even if rejected, such actions risk creating a chilling effect on organisations supporting journalists. We stand in solidarity with FPU. www.mapmf.org/alert/34743

Fresh evidence linking the Greek government to #PredatorGate. Today's @tovimagr.bsky.social revelations confirm the long held suspicion that Predator was to be paid from EU funds. Will @ec.europa.eu demand clarifications? (spoiler: it won't). A clear case for the EU Public Prosecutor #EPPO

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

“Aimé Césaire observed that fascism became objectionable to Europeans only when it unleashed in Europe the brutality they had inflicted on the “inferior” peoples of Asia and Africa.” www.equator.org/articles/aft...

Greece has emerged as one of the most important allies to the genocidal state of Israel www.news247.gr/magazine/rep...

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

The story about MSFT building a massive DC in AMS despite a ban on hyperscalers is indicative of the legal system’s limitations in capitalism. The fixation on nonEU being the issue by some (next para shows int’l capital flows btw) reveals true goals of “dig sovereignty” archive.is/ZXx0H#select...

#OtD 12 Jan 1904 a rebellion began by Herero people in Namibia against German occupation. Eventually however, they were defeated by the Germans, who attempted to exterminate all Herero people in what is considered the 1st genocide of the 20th century stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8394...

PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky

In 2023, the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 identified Venezuela as one of "the five countries on which the next Administration should focus its attention." Excerpt below offers a justification for the US' imperialist and colonialist ambitions.

The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.

Trump ne menace pas seulement ce qui restait de droit international en attaquant le Venezuela. Il menace aussi la planète toute entière en faisant main basse sur d'énormes réserves de pétrole dont la combustion accélere le chaos climatique.

Why is so much news focused on the ‘operation’ and the ‘logistics’ of the Venezuela invasion? More is needed on the illegality, casualties, reasons for absent and lukewarm political reactions, precedent setting, and implications. 🤷

The claim that “this is not the time to comment on” US’s illegal imperialist invasion of Venezuela makes me deeply ashamed and enraged as a Greek, further showing the EU’s demise. This, just a few days after he met with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. He must be brought to justice.

Mainstream Big media will always prioritise protecting the ruling class than upholding so called democratic values no matter how much they purport to work in favour of the latter: www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

How much dystopia can you withstand

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

the most shameless statement. But not so surprising given the EU’s complicity in Gaza’s genocide

2026 commence très fort avec l'enterrement définitif du droit international.

The EU is irrelevant, in a semi-dead state, acting as a vessel of the US, ready to support its illegal invasion of a sovereign country. Insane.

READ: More than 10,000 bodies buried beneath the rubble in Gaza. Read what recovery looks like after 2 years of Israeli genocide. 👇 mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...

How it started (quote post) How it's going (linked article) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

For all the critique I've done to the COM, the DSA enforcement team deserves so much praise. 1) Deceiving users with blue checkmark; 2) obscuring info re: ads; 3) making life of researchers re: data access difficult = €120M. Not bad ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

This is absolutely insane. More than $1bn a month of European social wealth transferred to US defence tech companies, massively intensifying the potential for war. And no political leaders speaking out against it.

There'll be no burst bubbling, because they're actively being bailed out (& de-risked) by governments as we speak (as @smw.bsky.social has said). AI companies are becoming "too important" to fail as more govts get infrastructurally dependent on them, with the risk of enshittification increasing.

We need our policymakers everywhere to be attuned to the needs of the people, not the whims of CEOs -- and especially not CEOs in the grip of TESCREAList fantasies. Thank you @abeba.bsky.social and @krisshrishak.bsky.social for speaking up www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...

"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social ✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Here is a new paper on the structural transformation of the Greek economy into a “café economy”-an economy dominated by cafés (they are everywhere in Greece!), restaurants and tourism. 🧵

"Despite promises of productivity gains through labor market and product market reforms, the Greek economy has experienced a sharp decline in labor productivity and a significant reallocation of employment towards low-productivity sectors" 👏@mnikiforos.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/Hellenic-Obs...

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...

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i'm not saying we shouldn't talk about all the ways in which AI fails in the market. it just seems like we've clearly gone way past that point and we should think about what it will look like when a failed project has already been internalized by an empire or an oppressive settler colonial project

States welcoming Trump's plan for 🇵🇸 are destroying the remaining of the "liberal/rule of law world order" facade. These decisions-if we're to believe in this order-must be openly deliberated in int'l fora. Stripping Palestinian's right to self-determination legitimises fascism.

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

www.rosa.gr/opinions/to-... Έγραψα μερικές κουβέντες για την πολύ προβληματική ανακοίνωση συνεργασίας της ελληνικής κυβέρνησης με την OpenAI. / I wrote an op-ed on why the announcement of the collab btn the Greek govt & OpenAI for ChatGPT in our classrooms is *BAD*

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "The subtext is that the promised land is in sight – but that only the investments and regulatory changes demanded by large technology companies will get us there." ...

Great to see this out! With @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu we analyse the DSA “Statement of Reasons” database, the EU-mandated archive of moderation decisions by online platforms. We examine what kind of platform observability the database affords & find large regional and cross-platform differences.

[New paper] Trading nuance for scale? Platform observability and content governance under the DSA, By @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu & @favstats.eu policyreview.info/articles/ana... #DSA

The multibillion-pound deal will build up to 12 modern nuclear reactors in northeast England and power data centres.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Here's part 2 of this week's two-part episode of Better Offline. I walk you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta’s AI capex - and how this will harm both our economy and markets. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

That’s the key in this vague statement by Microsoft: if you treat a whole population (under illegal occupation) as terrorists (also MSFT basically accepting the false labelling of Palestinians as terrorists), then it’s ok. MSFt directly buys into and legitimises Israel’s apartheid and surveillance

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see

Λίγοι στίχοι είναι μεγαλύτεροι από το δίστιχο «τα καλοκαίρια μας μικρά / κι ατέλειωτοι χειμώνες» του Μιχάλη Μπουρμπούλη, και ερμηνεύτηκε από τη Μπέλλου.

How much more of a live-streamed genocide do we still need to BDS the Zionist state? Brave professional and citizen journalists are getting murdered live streaming their deaths and people still approach this trying to rationalise the genocide. Palestine shows us the way to liberation.

My first podcast appearance-and what a great company to appear in–I'm floored. I was very happy to chat w @themaybe.org on how the hidden costs of digital sovereignty play out in the Greek context coorganised with @laurensnaudts.bsky.social & @plixavra.bsky.social www.themaybe.org/podcast/afte...