Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty The open-source initiative promises seamless document compatibility, transparent governance, and reduced dependency on non-European platforms tech.eu/2026/03/27/e...

🇪🇺 Historically, the unanimity vote in EU was introduced because small EU MS feared that a FR/DE/IT steamroller could just walk them over on everything. Ironically, the concern that one EU MS could be compromised by a third party and maliciously block the bloc didn't really come up back then.

"The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s X as an 'innovative' tool to help do it."

It is absolutely shameful that the Irish, or any other, government still continues to trade, not just with goods and services from the Occupied Territories, but with the state of Israel itself. Supremacy is never the solution. Now more than ever, this is an apartheid regime, and it must end.

great article about the failure of the US media chomping at the bit and believing every single piece of bullshit said by CEOs and the billionaire class

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes

It's nice to see Zuckerberg sapped of $400m in an afternoon, but we should be wary of celebrating too much about Meta's day in court. www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...

Olivier Sylvain is a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of a new book titled Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, published by Columbia Global Reports. I interviewed him at Book Culture, a bookstore on 112th Street in New York City.

If there’s an “obvious” or “simple” solution to an issue and it hasn’t been tried; 1. The “obvious simple solution” will make the problem much much worse… Or 2. Somebody is making obscene amount of money out of this situation and are actively blocking any meaningful change.

music is not apolitical

There's no point in a poor or middle-class person taking their grievance to court. That's not what it's for.

As @wikipedia.org turns 25, what do we learn from Wikipedians about our potential to organize for the common good? Yesterday @sarahagilbert.bsky.social & I gave a main stage talk at Wikipedia’s 25th birthday in NYC on the science of cooperation. The talk is here: citizensandtech.org/2026/03/disc...

My government told me that there was a housing crisis. So, I asked how many homeless people there are, they told me they don’t know, they keep going to property conferences to get more landlords, so I said it sounds like you’re just feeding the social contract to landlords.

I wrote this in an absolute rage, and I'm really beyond grateful that the Irish Times approached me to write it.

Already seeing posts about the forthcoming oil and fuel shortages as “Lockdown 2” another” manufactured fake crisis” by leftist global elites to push their agenda. So buckle up folks for “COVID 2: Electric Boogaloo”

In times of crisis people are *much* more likely to help each other than trample each other in a panic.

This feels like it’s important news which needs sharing

My government told me that there was a housing crisis. So, I asked how many homeless people there are, they told me they don’t know, they keep going to property conferences to get more landlords, so I said it sounds like you’re just feeding the social contract to landlords.

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I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

When are we going to talk about the fact that Elon Musk is arguing in multiple courts that he should be allowed to make and sell child pornography

We have the most expensive electricity prices in the EU. We import basically all of our energy. We keep allowing corporations to build energy intensive infrastructure with no real societal value. Increases demand will always lead to increased costs. This is not sustainable.

Michael Taft is a research officer with SIPTU and writes very well on economic issues. He makes the point that, despite all the talk of GDP as a proof of economic success, when you add in the cost of living we're not doing well compared to other wealthy European countries. This is another example.

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Great piece from @fediversereport.com on protocols (including ATProto, the one that Bluesky runs on), and why open protocols need to answer the governance question if they intend to truly protect communities from consolidated power.

My Clan? Wu-Tang.

I’ve been seeing some things about this, and I’m pointing to it because it’s such a good example of how easy it is to form an opinion from a screencap of a headline. It’s a good reminder: if it makes you angry/irritated/annoyed, it’s worth looking into what’s actually being said.

The Oversight Board flagged that a global Community Notes expansion in repressive human rights regimes, and conflict and election-sensitive countries, could create significant human rights risks and tangible harms that Meta must address, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

Democracy Volunteers the Election monitoring organisation that was the solitary source of the completely unsubstantiated “family voting” claim should be barred from acting as election monitors in the UK & EU. And need to be brought before a parliamentary committee to explain themselves.

Jacob Mchangama and I have a piece in the WSJ about the dangers of regulating online speech. www.wsj.com/politics/soc...

Allegations of “family voting” was *the* top story on the BBC news summary the morning after the by-election. It was specifically alleged or implied by spokespeople from every major political party. It was directly reported by the political editor of Sky and the political editor is the Spectator.

Feb 3 2025: Musk tweets about putting USAID "into the wood chipper" which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Later that day Zuckerberg texted Musk to say he would censor content threatening DOGE & "Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help." Actively helping destroy govt agencies.

It’s always interesting to see which subjects Meta will refuse to do content moderation on because “free speech,” and which content moderation the CEO will volunteer to do in advance to curry favor. In this case it was “naming a DOGE employee”

As legal challenges mount and courts take a closer look at platform recommendation systems, the question is shifting from whether platforms are allowed to make editorial decisions to whether those decisions foreseeably incentivize behavior toward the edge of real-world harm, writes Dylan Moses.

Ireland is blocking ICCL from taking the cases it needs to take to protect vulnerable children against dangerous and addictive social media companies. www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...

This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again

Some new exhibits just dropped in Musk v Altman trial including these texts with Mark Zuckerberg and Musk

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

Ireland's transposition of the EU Collective Redress Directive means that we and other organisations cannot raise money from third-party funders for collective public interest actions. ICCL has made a complaint to the European Commission about this. www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...

This is very disappointing and sad to see. At one point Gemma was possibly the finest provider of bespoke artisanal hand crafted conspiratorial bullshit in all of Ireland. To see her reduced to peddling generic AI slop… Whatever happened to taking pride in your workmanship and craft?

Ah, sure, lookit would you have wanted to qualify for this World Cup anyway? #2030

Ever on call cardiologist in Ireland just got paged to come into work.

Oh FFS

I'm delighted to forward this to my undergrads in quant soc methods, because I used this example a couple of weeks ago to badmouth web panels. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A Dutch court has ruled Grok must stop generating non-consensual undressing images of Dutch residents worldwide and child sexual abuse material in the Netherlands, with €100,000-a-day fines for non-compliance, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

If you’re an Irish journalist and you haven’t started working on some kind of defenestration reference for your draft copy, why are you? #Speirgorm #czhIrl #Coybig

For years, we’ve been shouting about dodgy or fake discounts at Black Friday. A major sweep of online retailers by Ireland’s competition authority now shows that a third of stated discounts during Black Friday/Cyber Monday are problematic. www.independent.ie/business/tec...