AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins." —A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR... www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

That's a great quote.

The Netherlands should end its 31 years of counter-drugs cooperation with the US in the Caribbean Sea. By illegally killing alleged drug traffickers, the US not only tarnishes its reputation, but also that of its partners in the Joint Interagency Task Force South. www.eanews.com/30-years-col...

We kijken vooruit en hopen dat er een einde komt aan de zondebokpolitiek. Maar we maken ons ook zorgen over de voorlopige uitslag. Partijen die nu een meerderheid lijken te hebben, hebben plannen om de sociale zekerheid af te breken en fors te bezuinigen op publieke taken. www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Kwijt uit de commissie digitale zaken: Jesse Six Dijkstra (NSC), Marieke Koekkoek (Volt), Jan Valize (PVV), Martijn Buijsse (VVD). Hopelijk redt @barbarakathmann.bsky.social het met voorkeursstemmen maar anders is het een totale wipe-out van de actieve commissieleden: nerdvote.nl/diza/

"De EU heeft procedures om buitenlandse investeringen te screenen die een risico kunnen vormen ... Er zijn echter geen aanwijzingen dat toezichthouders in Ierland of Nederland de overname van strategische energieactiva in die landen door Energy Transfer hebben gescreend." www.somo.nl/nl/trump-gel...

📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power: 💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million 🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists 🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day @lobbycontrol.bsky.social

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

Dagelijkse rampverhalen over grip Big Tech op GenAI. www.nu.nl/tweakers/637...

Zie: www.groene.nl/artikel/maak...

Microsoft owns Github and Linkedin. They didn't buy them for goodwill.

Nee, @nrc.nl, dat 'ontdekte' @volkskrant.nl niet, dat ontdekten @vaemanhof.bsky.social en Joris Verbeek van @groene.nl.

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

“Within just four months between Proof of Concept and rollout, the ministry went live with a secure Nextcloud environment, operated on its own infrastructure in Austria and designed to meet strict transparency and compliance requirements.” nextcloud.com/blog/austria...

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it. @eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome. My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o... With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

So much of what's wrong with tech started from one simple phenomenon: focusing on the money-movers instead of people who actually *make* shit. Real technology matters. Inventors over investors, every time. Founders over funders. Writing code > writing checks. www.anildash.com/2025/10/24/f...

Ferguson and Kastner explore metaphysical resonances between Modern Monetary Theory’s approach to money and Kastner’s “Transactional Interpretation” of quantum physics.

"Waar blijft het Ministerie voor Digitale Zaken om de regie over tech in de samenleving terug te pakken?" vragen @marleenstikker.bsky.social en ik in NRC. #AI raakt zo ongeveer alle facetten van de samenleving. Uitermate slecht idee dus om het aan Big Tech over te laten. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Paulina Borsook "warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through The Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, a book based on her 1990s writing" www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-a...

Verbaast me niet. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Tim Fransen: Wat ik zelf een inspirerend voorbeeld vind: de talloze coöperaties die nu als paddenstoelen uit de grond schieten. Hierbij maken niet rijke aandeelhouders, maar burgers of werknemers zelf de dienst uit. Een voorbeeld? @landmeerseloop.bsky.social mailchi.mp/ad4ac626a1f3...

BBB kondigde vorige week trots aan: er was een "doorbraak geforceerd", de stikstofrekenregels worden versoepeld. Maar wat zijn de gevolgen, wat maken die soepelere regels mogelijk? Nou, dan kan ruim de helft van de veehouders zonder vergunning uitbreiden www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... (🎁)

My plea to Canada's public sector workers and unions: Reject the use of AI, and save the soul of the public sector. #CdnPoli #AI thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-...

Extreemrechts, terrorisme, spionage zijn erg, maar de grootste dreiging is nog altijd het verbond tussen mondiale techreuzen en autocratische wereldleiders. We moeten dit monsterverbond bevechten door regulering, toezicht en overstappen naar Europese alternatieven. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

BREAK! Wiersma’s stikstofplan kan leiden tot een uitbreiding van de veestapel met miljoenen extra dieren. Dat blijkt uit een groot, nieuw onderzoek van NRC, Omroep Gelderland en Follow the Money. Experts noemen het plan ‘een drama’. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ge...

De Nederlandse politiek moet niet alleen maar kijken naar AI als verdienmodel, schrijven Daniel Mügge en Marleen Stikker. Ze moet ervoor zorgen dat onwenselijke innovatie de kop in wordt gedrukt. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

I can’t agree more - also his analysis on health innovation uncritically worships the US, ignoring that they have among the worse health indicators among OECD countries. See my blog on what Europe should do instead www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/cri...

It’s time to stop worshipping Mario Draghi as the leading advocate of European technological sovereignty: his conclusions are deeply flawed. techpolicy.press/its-time-to-...

‘Informed and engaged public is the best defence against the challenges faced by our democracy’ EU Commissioner @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social on how community, strong civil society and independent media are key to protecting and sustaining democracy.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.” collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

NEW paper! 💭🖥️ “Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?” — Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Estonia is opposed to a push by the European Union to take further action to restrict kids’ access to social media, its digital minister told POLITICO in an interview.

They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition, They Don’t Have the Money, They Don’t Have the Money: Oracle and Tik Tok, Remaining CAPEX Obligation platformonomics.com/2025/10/they...

This guy, along with Larry Ellison and his nepo son, are the most dangerous people in the US right now. They come for all your news sources, personal information, and developers of propaganda for the Trumplican world. Their new war is invading every young American mind with TikTok.

The core of Peter Thiel’s campaign: don’t regulare tech, accept our rein. Bizarre packaged in an antichrist story, igniting fear and confusion that leads to hate and violence. He definitely is the Antichrist himself.

Zeekabels! De aderen die van Nederland het kloppende hart van de digitale wereld maken. Wel zo belangrijk, zou je denken, helemaal als we met z’n allen zo trots zijn op onze digitale economie. En toch hoor je weinig over zeekabels. Hoe komt dat en wat doe ik 👉🏻 www.barbarakathmann.nl/zeekabels-on...

We are well aware by now of the observer problem in quantum mechanics. Human subjectivity appears to play a key role in the results of quantum experiments. | https://bit.ly/4gqMUrx However, the observer problem reaches far beyond just quantum mechanics, argues Edward Frenkel. #philsci ⚛️ 🧪

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell

Trump's higher education compact is incompatible with the goals and ethnics of any well-respected academic institution. Glad that MIT had the courage to be the first to say no.

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft illegally tracked students, data watchdog finds. The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

All the lip gloss being put on the AI boom as somehow good for climate or the energy transition is masking that, at the present moment, it's a disaster. Not only more gas generation, but the worst, dirtiest, least efficient kind. Turning the clock back 25 years. heatmap.news/energy/natur...

Thinking about this for most of the night, I don't think normal people realise Banerjee & Duflo leaving MIT is Bad-Bunny-level academic news. www.barrons.com/news/nobel-w...

please think about this deeply & consult with experts who do NOT have Conflicts of Interest! See: Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

He’s right- I’m scared