Can't be correct, is it!?

🇬🇧👍Estonia won't be approving #chatcontrol either. 👎But Germany's vote on Oct. 14th is still up in the air, risk of a dangerous coalition compromise. 💪28 days left to increase the pressure on your government and defend digital privacy and security: https://chatcontrol.eu

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

My good friend @nisishawl.bsky.social, the author of Everfair and Kinning, is having a fundraiser for a book she literally dreamed into existence. You can check out the details here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisi-...

"400 scientists speak out against chat control" in heise online: heise.de/en/news/400-... #ChatControl

"Hunderte Wissenschaftler:innen stellen sich gegen Chatkontrolle" in netzpolitik.org: netzpolitik.org/2025/offener... #chatcontrol

"Nearly 500 researchers urge EU to rethink controversial CSAM scanning proposal" in Help Net Security: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/09/c... #chatcontrol

"It's just smoke and mirrors." Over 500 cryptography scientists warn that the EU’s #ChatControl proposal still breaks encryption, enables mass surveillance, and won’t work as promised. EU Council decides on Sept 12. www.techradar.com/computing/cy... @techradar.com

"Criminals will find ways to trick the software", says Prof Bart Preneel in De Morgen. 400+ experts warn the EU’s #ChatControl plan is unworkable, expensive & dangerous: it breaks encryption, creates mass surveillance, and floods police with false reports. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/meer-...

Small tweaks, big risks. The Danish #ChatControl proposal still mandates on-device scanning, weakens anonymity, and opens the door to censorship & mass surveillance. Encryption without privacy is meaningless. Bart Preneel in Datanews: datanews.knack.be/nieuws/eu-ch...

There is a new open letter signed by more than 450 scientists who have serious concerns on the latest (July 2025) version of the chat control proposal. If you are a scientist, reach out to Bart Preneel to receive the link to sign #chatcontrol #csa #AI csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Bart Preneel warns EU’s #chatcontrol is dangerous & ineffective: criminals will evade scanners, millions of false positives expected, and end-to-end encryption for all could collapse, threatening privacy, journalists & activists. #Privacy #Encryption #EU www.demorgen.be/nieuws/meer-...

Check out the new open letter signed by more than 450 scientists who have serious concerns on the latest (July 2025) version of the chat control proposal. csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Wieder mal ein offener Brief, um eine desaströse politische Entscheidung zu verhindern. Unterzeichnet von über 500 Wissenschaftlern, darunter alle Top-Experten auf der Welt, die mir zu dem Thema einfallen würden: csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Europe is still pushing for the scanning of all your outgoing messages for potential child sexual abuse material (the so called 'chat control' proposal). This is bad for privacy, cripples end-to-end encryption, and makes apps like WhatsApp and Signal no longer secure for business and government use.

Hundreds of scientists warn: The EU's proposal to break e2e crypto in apps - supposedly to fight child abuse - will not make children safer. It undermines security & privacy for all citizens, businesses & institutions, at a time of rising international threats. csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Heat pumps are truly the coolest things ever. Or hottest, depending on which end you are on.

Slightly diminish (a) book(s) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System The Restaurant at the Marginal Decade of the Universe Life, the Universe and Many Things So Long, and Thanks for a Lot of Fish 🤔

As do facts. And science, for the matter.

All algorithms implemented in Python for education or learning purposes. This is how you build solid programming backgrounds. Give it a try. github.com/TheAlgorithm...

I feel attacked! 😯 (At least they changed the last name and location for privacy)

Wow A WONDERFUL takedown by The Lancet of RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, & their MAHA movement This movements pushes a "dangerous pseudoscientific programme of work" that supports an "unscientific wellness industry" & "seeks to discredit mainstream medicine" 🔥🚒🧯 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.

I saw so many responses and reposts yesterday. Lots of y'all said it helped you feel less alone. I wanted to build on this a little, and gently ask/recommend that you choose kindness whenever possible (with others and yourself) because you never know; your kindness could make the difference.

Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology. “It is nothing less than astonishing and unbelievable that we have achieved so much progress in so little time.” [theguardian.com]

Das bekannte Stimmungsbild in EU-Staaten, der aktuelle Vorschlag ist auch nicht neu: EU-Juristen kritisieren Vorschlag zur #Chatkontrolle netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

Neue Perspektiven für die #Photovoltaik: Forschende u.a. des #KITKarlsruhe zeigen in @nature.com Energy den Stand und die Potenziale der hocheffizienten #Perowskit-Dünnschicht-Tandemsolarzellen. www.kit.edu/kit/202507-a...

Wie resilient ist unsere Demokratie? Wie können wir sie gegen populistische Angriffe verteidigen? Heute Mega Line Up auf Online-Panel mit @paulinafroehlich.bsky.social & Prof. Hans Vorländer @forum-midem.bsky.social 💯 Und mir. 📅 04.07. 12.00 Uhr shop.freiheit.org#!/Veranstalt...

If any republican wins any elections within the next 25 years there's no chance my faith in humanity would ever be restored. apnews.com/live/donald-...

Am Tag der Informatik blicken wir auf das vergangene akademische Jahr zurück, würdigen herausragende Leistungen und verabschieden Absolventen. Freitag, 01.08.2025 ab 16 Uhr im Audimax Im Anschluss Empfang und kleine Sommerparty der Begabtenstiftung Informatik Anmeldung über s.kit.edu/tdianmeldung

From a European perspective, maybe we should regulate the populist weapon that social media really is as long as we can, before risking our democracy to be dismantled, like the US American is right not.

Well this is a pretty huge problem. …and also exactly why privacy folks been warning against normalizing facial recognition in govt the whole time

Germany tells Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores

New from 404 Media: the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)—the data broker owned by airlines such as Delta, United, American—which has been selling your flight info to the government for years, only just registered as a data broker. Seems it violated California law www.404media.co/airline-owne...

Das #KITKarlsruhe hat sich im renommierten QS World University #Ranking erneut verbessert und gehört in der diesjährigen Ausgabe mit Platz 98 zu den besten 100 Hochschulen weltweit. Damit klettert das KIT im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um vier Plätze nach oben. www.kit.edu/kit/202506-k...

netzpolitikOrg wirkt: Unsere Recherchen zum unkontrollierten Handel mit Daten aus dem Ökosystem der Onlinewerbung haben inzwischen zu Durchsuchungen von Datenschutzbehörden bei zwei deutschen Unternehmen geführt. netzpolitik.org/2025/kw-25-d...

Insanity. 5%GDP for weapons. We don't have money for climate action, we don't have money for refugees and to fight NAZIs, but we have 250bn euros (insteaof 51 now) PER YEAR to play big boys? Complete insanity. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

From thelifeofsharks.com

After an on-site audit, the Berlin GDPR regulator found that Berlin-based location data broker Adsquare has been processing personal data unlawfully at scale, as disclosed in its annual report and confirmed to netzpolitik org: www.datenschutz-berlin.de/jahresberich... netzpolitik.org/2025/nach-un...

But... But.. "innovation!1!!1!" (And who would supply "intelligence" agencies with all the information they aren't allowed to collect, otherwise...)

Maybe June 17, 1953 needs a Hollywood remake 🤔

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

No one should be surprised when a planet that accumulates heat more than twice as fast starts to see temperatures go up more than twice as fast. This isn't rocket science, but we do need more of these NASA satellites. 🌍🛰 To keep us from going blind. bsky.app/profile/leon...

I literally almost passed out with joy just now.

I had the pleasure of giving a keynote APVP '25 in Poitiers yesterday on a topic that’s becoming increasingly urgent: the (non-existing) privacy of behavioral biometrics.