After years of regulating tech that flows through clouds, we ended up in a race to build more of it. In a new 📝 at @reggovjournal.bsky.social w/ @fencesitter8.bsky.social & @jvh.bsky.social, we explain how we got here and ask for some breathing room for lawyers and policymakers.
No hyperbole. Man was clearly about to say “final solution.” A scene from a bad movie.
I wrote up my concerns about the CJEU's Russmedia ruling. This is the first of two posts, it's about the bad results of relying on the GDPR (and displacing laws like the DSA) to define platforms' liability for content.
Post two will review arguments that the case is more limited.
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BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.
www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
This is a really sharp post on Audre Lorde and her master's tools essay and how it fits with technological critique. And it's an even sharper critique of how Doctorow (apparently) invokes the quote.
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”
NRC dacht "fuuuuck gescoopt door Trouw, deze Anthropic-PR-slop hadden wij ook in de krant willen hebben" en publiceert daarom alsnog een gelijksoortig stukje lulkoek:
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
I'm often reminded of Arendt's remarks on how the base vulgarity of fascist leaders found fertile soil in Europe in large part because they were merely expressing bourgeois values, only cleansed of hypocrisy and pretense. And unmasking hypocrisy is "such terrible and wonderful fun."
This is what evil states do - torture - mass torture of people in detention.
“Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale “that suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent”.”
The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.
Shout out to the American Historical Association for these uploads!
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"𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is unreliable for the detection of illicit content: it is easy to incriminate someone by sending them false content with a hash value close to illicit content (a false positive) and to avoid detection of illicit content with minimal modifications to an image (a false negative)."
This is so true. A bunch of the outlets that featured this kind of writing have disappeared, and many of the still-existing publications that used to pay people to do this kind of writing killed off those sections.
“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”
Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).
Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google?
Answer... No.
Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions.
Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.
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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia
Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy
The DSA and Platform Regulation conference is timely, excellent, and important Get a glimpse even if you cannot be there in person ⬇️
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It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
Abgeordnete Rebecca Lenhard (BÜNDNIS 90/ DIE GRÜNEN) Liegt der Bundesregierung ein vollständiger Überblick darüber vor, wie hoch die jährlichen Kosten der IT-Beschaffung über den Rahmenvertrag des Bundesministeriums des Innern für Microsoft-Lizenzen bei Bund, Ländern und Kommunen sind und wenn ja, wie hat sich dieses Volumen in den letzten fünf Jahren verändert? Antwort des Parlamentarischen Staatssekretärs Thomas Jarzombek vom 6. Februar 2026 Über die Beschaffung von Microsoft-Lizenzen auf Landes- und Kommunalebene liegen der Bundesregierung aufgrund der föderal verteilten Zuständigkeit für Beschaffungen in diesem Bereich keine konkreten Zahlen vor. Die unmittelbare und mittelbare Bundesverwaltung sowie Zuwendungsempfänger des Bundes beziehen Microsoft-Lizenzen in aller Regel aus einem Handelspartner-Rahmenvertrag, den die Zentralstelle IT‑Beschaffung (ZIB) ausgeschrieben hat. In den Jahren 2023 bis 2025 wurden Microsoft-Produkte mit folgenden Gesamtsummen (netto) daraus abgerufen. Dabei ist hinsichtlich der Vergleichbarkeit mit früheren Anfragen zu berücksichtigen, dass der hier durch die Fragestellung betroffene Kreis der Bezugsberechtigten über die Ressorts und nachgeordneten Behörden des Bundes hinausgeht. 2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro 2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro 2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro
Digitale Souveränität: Bundesbehörden haben letztes Jahr 481 Millionen Euro Steuergeld an Microsoft bezahlt. Eine Steigerung um drei Viertel in zwei Jahren. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/040/2...
The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.
This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
And why not ask a single expert to comment on such allegations, i wonder. This reads like a summary of the US congress committee report, only. A report which implies that all disinformation and platform election policy should go off the books, which is clearly absurd @irishtimes.com
CEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
Republicans in US congress are apparently more interested in publishing and commenting on the EC's DSA fine of X than ensuring the release of the Epstein files.
