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Resisting Big Tech Empires - Global Justice Now 📅 April 25, 2026 | ⏰ 11am–6pm📍 London. Join international speakers including Cory Doctorow, Anita Gurumurthy and Nick Srnicek to challenge big tech power and explore how we can reclaim technology…

Wanna resist the Big Tech empire? Don’t we all.

Get your schooling this Saturday with @globaljusticenow.bsky.social, @doctorow.pluralistic.net and friends.

All the details 👇 www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...

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As things stand, foreign actors are still exploiting gaps in our political system to buy access, shape debate and pull strings behind the scenes.

Help us build momentum with @openbritain.bsky.social 👇👇

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Job Opening: Campaign Lead - Digital Sovereignty - The Citizens Location: UK based with remote working. Preference for London-based or someone who can regularly come to London.  Type: Freelance. Reports to: Executive Director.  Day Rate: £200 – £300 depending on…

Do you understand digital sovereignty and why it matters? Want to turn that into real-world impact?

Come work with us 👇

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Let’s All Go to the Movies Plus: Quitting Time

ICYMI: What to know, watch and do this week. citizensreunited.substack.com/p/lets-all-g...

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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

"Orbán’s loss brings to an end the assumption of inevitability that has pervaded the MAGA movement"

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how did Tisza did it

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Discover great films in creative spaces | Kinema A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders

Sometimes we make suggestions, and sometimes we really mean it.

This week? You really, really need to watch Ghost In the Machine @berthadochouse.bsky.social

Find in-person screening times here 👇

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Job Opening: Campaign Lead - Digital Sovereignty - The Citizens Location: UK based with remote working. Preference for London-based or someone who can regularly come to London.  Type: Freelance. Reports to: Executive Director.  Day Rate: £200 – £300 depending on…

📢 We’re hiring 📢

Come join our small, ambitious team as our Campaign Lead (Digital Sovereignty) to help shape who controls the systems, data and infrastructure we rely on

⏳ Rolling deadline

Apply 👇

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If Trump intends to attempt a coup, here are five ways he could do it Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian

The war against Iran are the ideal conditions for Trump to seize power in a coup, writes @timothysnyder.bsky.social for @thenerve.news

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Resisting Big Tech Empires - Global Justice Now 📅 April 25, 2026 | ⏰ 11am–6pm📍 London. Join international speakers including Cory Doctorow, Anita Gurumurthy and Nick Srnicek to challenge big tech power and explore how we can reclaim technology…

Get your schooling on resisting Big Tech empires next Saturday from @globaljusticenow.bsky.social with @doctorow.pluralistic.net and others

This is not one to miss 👇👇

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Let’s All Go to the Movies Plus: Quitting Time

What to know, watch and do this weekend 🤓

@timothysnyder.bsky.social on five ways Trump could attempt a coup, your next must-watch at @berthadochouse.bsky.social and how the fight against foreign interference continues with @openbritain.bsky.social

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This a great opportunity to make impact for a talented big tech campaigner. If you know someone it could fit, please share. Thanks! 👇

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The fight for our legal action against foreign interference continues - and we need you on this one.

Our partners at @openbritain.bsky.social have launched a petition. Add your name here 👇

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Let’s All Go to the Movies Plus: Quitting Time

The defeat of Viktor Orbán with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, weaning yourself off Big Tech and how the fight against foreign interference is heating up @openbritain.bsky.social

Here’s what to know, watch and do this week 👇 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/lets-all-g...

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Job Opening: Campaign Lead - Digital Sovereignty - The Citizens Location: UK based with remote working. Preference for London-based or someone who can regularly come to London. Type: Freelance. Reports to: Executive Director. Day Rate: £200 – £300 depending on experience. Time: Minimum 3 days a week. Deadline: Rolling application. About Us The Citizens is a not-for-profit organisation focused on holding power to account in […]

Job opening: https://the-citizens.com/2026/04/job-opening/

Campaign Lead – Digital Sovereignty

I know the management at The Citizens. They're good people, so come on fediverse, bring forth your best!

Please boost 😁

#jobopportunity #jobopening

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Job Opening: Campaign Lead - Digital Sovereignty - The Citizens Location: UK based with remote working. Preference for London-based or someone who can regularly come to London.  Type: Freelance. Reports to: Executive Director.  Day Rate: £200 – £300 depending on…

The UK is deeply reliant on a handful of US tech companies to run critical public services and AI infrastructure.

💥 We’re hiring someone to help change that. 


Join us 👉

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Job Opening: Campaign Lead - Digital Sovereignty - The Citizens Location: UK based with remote working. Preference for London-based or someone who can regularly come to London.  Type: Freelance. Reports to: Executive Director.  Day Rate: £200 – £300 depending on e...

Digital sovereignty means having real control over the tech and systems we depend on. Right now, in the UK, we don’t have that.

💥 We’re hiring a Campaign Lead to push this onto the agenda.

More details 👇
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AI chatbots are fuelling a new era of violence against women From "sycophantic" chatbots to deepfake sexual abuse, the dehumanisation of women is the calculated cost of untested, unregulated AI.

Gender-based harm is being built into the very architecture of AI chatbots, fuelling a new era of violence against women

What can be done about it ⬇️

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AI chatbots are fuelling a new era of violence against women From "sycophantic" chatbots to deepfake sexual abuse, the dehumanisation of women is the calculated cost of untested, unregulated AI.

From "sycophantic" chatbots to deepfake sexual abuse, the dehumanisation of women is the calculated cost of untested, unregulated AI.

In collaboration with @everyonesinvited.bsky.social we deep dive into how untested AI is industrialising misogyny

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Thousands of readers trust us to make sense of how power operates.

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AI chatbots are fuelling a new era of violence against women From "sycophantic" chatbots to deepfake sexual abuse, the dehumanisation of women is the calculated cost of untested, unregulated AI.

NEW: How AI chatbots are fuelling a new era of violence against women, in partnership with @everyonesinvited.bsky.social

Full article here: citizensreunited.substack.com/p/ai-chatbot...

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The AI Slopaganda Proxy War Plus: What Meta’s Moment Means

Existential threats to humanity! Global domination! Peter Thiel’s hot tub! 

ICYMI: Here’s what to know, watch and do this week

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Subscribe to Citizens Reunited Stopping the tech coup starts here. Click to read Citizens Reunited, by The Citizens, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Subscribe to the Citizens for more explainers on the unchecked power of Big Tech 👇

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AI chatbots are fuelling a new era of violence against women From "sycophantic" chatbots to deepfake sexual abuse, the dehumanisation of women is the calculated cost of untested, unregulated AI.

Chatbots are devastating lives, right now, fuelling a new era of gender-based violence

How much more evidence is needed before this is taken seriously?

Our full article in collaboration with @everyonesinvited.bsky.social ⬇️

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The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

Seven months out from a midterm, and against the backdrop of war, @timothysnyder.bsky.social says these are the conditions where a coup attempt can emerge in plain sight 👇

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Here's Why Google Searches for "Bimbofication" Are Surging Searches for "bimbofication" have surged to their highest levels in just a single day for an incredibly bizarre reason.

We’ve just gotten to understand the term “enshittification".

Now, thanks to Kristy Noem, we’re learning a whole new concept:

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For Meta, The Mask Is Off: They Knowingly Harmed Children Two guilty verdicts are a landmark in the long road to social media accountability

“This is the type of evidence social media companies have fought tooth and nail to prevent from ever entering a courtroom."

What comes next in the push for accountability? Read @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social for @contrariannews.org ⬇️

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Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War “White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”

“White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”

@mjgault.bsky.social of @404media.co dissects the AI slopaganda proxy war playing out… and it has a surprising winner

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Here's Why Google Searches for "Bimbofication" Are Surging Searches for "bimbofication" have surged to their highest levels in just a single day for an incredibly bizarre reason.

Why the sudden interest in hyper-feminine transformation? Joe Wilkins explains for @futurism.com

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Sign the Petition Hold a Parliamentary Debate on Palantir’s Role in UK Defence, Security & Public Services

Outcry is growing over Palantir’s unholy alliance with the NHS - but it’s not enough yet.

Thiel isn’t the kind of villain who walks away from hundreds of millions.

Let's keep up momentum. Sign our petition ✍️

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