Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. 🧵

A glittering showcase of the powerful outdoing themselves to get on the good side of a president whose 2nd term has been marked by demonstrations of brute power. The seating chart ought to be kept and studied as a fascinating document about the history of the West ↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...

Weg van Big Tech: waar begin je en wat is nou daadwerkelijk een goed alternatief? Om je op weg te helpen, bieden we je graag een stappenplan aan. Samen worden we onafhankelijk van Big Tech! 🙏💪 www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/st...

Fantastisk chance for at blive klogere på uafhængighed af big tech hos @politiken.dk den 16/9. Jeg ser meget frem til at høre @marietjeschaake.bsky.social og andre kompetente eksperter diskutere dette emne. #dkpol #BreakUpBigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #potato politikenplus.dk/109290/Kan_E...

Wat een prachtig en hartverscheurend stuk over India. Stil van: De ernstig gehandicapte India zit opgesloten in haar eigen lichaam en is het zat: ‘Ik heb het gehad met leven’ ↘️ www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/d...

A majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting an attempted coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

on.ft.com/45XeSHL Maga vs AI: Donald Trump’s Big Tech courtship risks a backlash ↘️

Nearly 600 economists, Nobel Laureates sign open letter supporting due process for Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve independence for the good of our economy and democracy. Great work from @tderyugina.bsky.social organizing such a quick response. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The jobs numbers in November and December '24 were great. Does anyone recall if anything happened in January '25 to cause America's economy to go down the shitter?

EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine. Earlier rumors of hold or even cancellation are untrue. Ribera correctly says: We will continue to apply our rules firmly and fairly, without fear or favour, in relation to all companies operating in Europe ↘️ on.ft.com/467uAyC

Prof. David Kaye — former UN watchdog on free speech — testified that under Trump, the U.S. has silenced scientists, censored health data, punished speech at the border, and attacked the press. His warning: “This is the tip of an iceberg of censorship that should concern every American.”

Preach @klonick.bsky.social ↘️

If true, this update is astonishing. The Commission climbed down from a planned break up of Google’s ad business to a mere fine, and then dropped even the fine for fear of offending Trump. This is for market violations that have been proven in U.S. court.

Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period ↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Just pre-ordered ‘Enshittification’ by Cory Doctorow and so can you! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Meta is building and giving users tools that will only exacerbate enforcement issues. This feels inevitable. www.reuters.com/business/met...

Meine Deutsche Freunden: Mein Buch erscheint im Oktober auf Deutsch, mit einem neuen Vorwort. Hier könnt ihr vorbestellen ↘️ www.amazon.de/Silicon-Vall...

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

While many of Trump’s corporate interventions amount to the sort of European-style dirigisme that the US business elite once loved to deride, the response to Trump’s agenda has been near silence ↘️ on.ft.com/4g0jFeE

Meine Deutsche Freunden: Mein Buch erscheint im Oktober auf Deutsch, mit einem neuen Vorwort. Hier könnt ihr vorbestellen ↘️ www.amazon.de/Silicon-Vall...

Stand up to Trump on Big Tech, says EU antitrust chief ↘️ on.ft.com/3Vq9NBu

Read every word. Europe needs to act more forcefully in a fragmented and violent world. More forcefully politically in the first place, but in real political terms and defense as well ↘️ www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Get used to hostile foreign interference of the US in Europe: Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged covert influence operations in Greenland on.ft.com/3HGWGsD ↘️

I'm one of the 37 targeted below by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. I haven't had a clearance nor worked in government since 2013. This is political theater & a dangerous example of government abusing its powers to punish private citizens for openly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. My full statement:

Re-upping my last FT column in light of Trump’s latest threats to European sovereignty ↘️ on.ft.com/4lOGfYZ Beware America’s AI colonialism

Trump Is threatening European sovereignty by threatening punishment for enforcing its own laws such as the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts. The ‘deal’ and tempered approach by EU leaders is not containing The Tech Coup

"With his AI Action Plan promising 'unchallenged' technological dominance a further ambition is clear. Will the rest of the world recognise that embracing US artificial intelligence offers Trump an even more potent tool for coercion?" - @marietjeschaake.bsky.social

Shocker: Lying liar lies www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Im old enough to remember Republicans once built their entire identities on ‘small government’ ↘️

Please repost ⬇️ Thank you! 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests 👊🏻🔥

Not even his fans would call Trump a gentleman ↘️

Trade wars show how far Trump is willing to go. The AI Action Plan offers the president the means to make that vision more vast and more permanent. The rest of the world should think twice before volunteering to take part > Beware America’s AI colonialism ↘️ on.ft.com/3UCQy7G

Beware America’s AI colonialism on.ft.com/4ly433v | opinion

Trade wars show how far Trump is willing to go. The AI Action Plan offers the president the means to make that vision more vast and more permanent. The rest of the world should think twice before volunteering to take part > Beware America’s AI colonialism ↘️ on.ft.com/3UCQy7G

A most polite and crystal clear rebuttal of Trump and Putin by the UK Defence Ministry #SlavaUkraïni ↘️

Voor mensen die wakker zijn en op #Lowlands: Om 14:00 in de ECHO een uurtje nadenken over Amerika met dank aan BKB! lowlands.nl/acts/

I read a TON of tech books in preparation for writing fintechdystopia.com The Tech Coup was one of the absolute best.

Coming Sept 16, new cover, new preface and a new (much lower) price! ↘️

Toch een beetje nieuw: nieuwe omslag, nieuw voorwoord, nieuwe prijs ↘️

Good for ⁦‪The Stanford Daily‬⁩ to take secretaries Noem & Rubio to court. Free speech is bot a privilege but a right, also for immigrants and international students! They pierce the Trump administration’s lie of protecting free speech against censorship ↘️ stanforddaily.com/2025/08/07/l...

On the one hand, a patriot with decades of experience defending America. On the other hand, a conspiracy theorist who hates Americans and American institutions. Presented here as "two visions of America under Trump" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Why politicians need to get over their tech insecurity www.ft.com/content/36eb... @marietjeschaake.bsky.social

In my book, Chasing Shadows, I describe the sordid cast of grifters and corruption that defined NSO Group's business in Mexico 🇲🇽 New reporting by Gur Megiddo in @haaretzcom.bsky.social shows Israeli businessmen bribed the former Mexican president with $25 million www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

New from 404 Media: a startup is selling data hacked from peoples' computers to debt collectors, divorce lawyers, more. People already hacked, now being re-vicitmized by startup. I used the tool, found peoples' personal addresses. “This is so gross and predatory.” www.404media.co/a-startup-is...

Interview in Bloomberg Linea: Para meus amigos que falam português ↘️ www.bloomberglinea.com.br/internaciona...

Scoop from @eileenguo.bsky.social - huge amounts of personal information are embedded in a major data set used to train AI models www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

Why politicians need to get over their tech insecurity— We need elected officials who see tech policy as central to their job, not a specialised niche. We need public debates… www.ft.com/content/36eb... @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

This is right - a great piece from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social It would make for better policymaking if politicians understood tech better. For that to happen they have to be allowed to ask basic questions and not be mocked for it, fun though that can be www.ft.com/content/36eb...

Who benefits? ↘️

Dutch media companies join forces to train fair and safe LLM in Dutch: GPT-NL ↘️