Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just.”

www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

I agree. I still believe technology has enormous potential to be a force for good but if tech companies won’t behave responsibly there is no alternative to regulation. I’ve lost all patience with the obsession for “innovation” at any price. Technology must serve humanity, not the other way around

In-House Data Harvest: How Social Platforms' AI Ambitions Threaten User Rights | TechPolicy.Press The centralization of AI within social media companies grants them unprecedented power to govern user feeds and data, writes Ameneh Dehshiri.

The centralization of AI within social media companies grants them unprecedented power to govern user feeds and data, writes Ameneh Dehshiri.

Leaving aside that the PM has publicly supported Ukraine this morning, I query the idea that we should remain silent in the hope that we might be spared some financial pain. Our values aren’t for sale. The world’s on the precipice. We must stand up, stand firm & stand unequivocally with our allies

Brute Corporate Power and Billionaire Whims Now Define the US Tech Scene | TechPolicy.Press Paul M. Barrett says we are mired in a period when malign economic and political might will trump reason, with no immediate way out.

Farewell, regulation, and forget about reform, writes @NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights deputy director @Paul M. Barrett. “This is a moment for the shameless exercise of sheer economic and political power.”

If I’m going to believe in god, I’m really gonna have to see some smiting pretty soon

Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance Google published principles in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled.

Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people,” “technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms,” and “technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”

Google has updated its AI Principles, including removing language promising not to pursue “technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”
www.wired.com/story/google...

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Here's an idea for tax reform:

1. stop subsidising gas and coal mining
2. start making them pay their fair share of tax

You can help by adding your name to our petition to increase the PRRT: theaus.in/increasePRRT #auspol

just because everything is public doesn’t mean u have to be a piece of shit about it

If so many experts oppose a social-media age ban, why is the government intent on rushing it through? Labor has been at pains to say people won’t need digital ID or to hand over their passport – but there’s nothing in legislation preventing it

No details, little scrutiny, and no guarantee it will work - so why is Labor rushing through a social-media age ban that most experts oppose?

#socialmediaban #socialmedia

I’ll give it a go - thank you

Thanks, didn’t know you could do that. I have a nom de plume and a better face on X and Mastodon and now facing the conundrum of whether to reveal my real self or start all over again 🤔

Thanks for being friendly in my fist day

Feeling a bit like a new kid on the first day of school. Looks pretty much like the other place but will I find friends here?