Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Regulation that impedes the operation of US digital behemoths – anything short of blanket permission to do as they please – will apparently be treated as a hostile act and an affront to human liberty.</p><p>This is an imperial demand for market access cynically camouflaged in the language of universal rights. The equivalent trick is not available in other sectors of the economy. US farmers hate trade barriers that stop their products flooding European markets, but they don’t argue that their chlorine-washed chickens are being censored. (Not yet.)</p><p>That isn’t to say digital communications can be subject to toxicity tests just like agricultural exports. There is wide scope for reasonable disagreement on what counts as intolerable content, and how it should be controlled. The boundaries are not easily defined. But it is also beyond doubt that thresholds exist. There is no free-speech case for child sexual abuse images. The most liberal jurisdictions recognise that the state has a duty to proscribe some material even if there is a market for it.</p><p>The question of how online space should be policed is complex in principle and fiendishly difficult in practice, not least because the infrastructure we treat as a public arena is run by private commercial interests. Britain cannot let the terms of debate be dictated by a US administration that is locked in corrupting political intimacy with those interests.</p><p>It is impossible to separate the commercial and ideological strands of Trump’s relationship with Silicon Valley oligarchs. They used their power and wealth to boost his candidacy and they want payback from his incumbency. There is not much coherence to the doctrine. “Free” speech is the kind that amplifies the president’s personal prejudices. Correcting his lies with verifiable facts is censorship."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/16/trump-defending-free-speech-submission-usa-president" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/apr/16/trump-defending-free-speech-submission-usa-president</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContentModeration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ideology</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a></p>
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aproitz<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/@CCC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CCC</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> ist wohl nicht mehr in der Lage, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Datensicherheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Datensicherheit</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> und <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Datenintegrit%C3%A4t" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Datenintegrität</span></a> zu garantieren. Die <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Entflechtung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Entflechtung</span></a> hat begonnen. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigdata</span></a></p>
Retired Librarian 🍁<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AnarchoNinaAnalyzes</span></a></span> </p><p> A great (and disturbing) read regarding this topic. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fascisim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascisim</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/uspoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopia</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>When TechBro billionaire oligarchs were the darlings of "liberal" capitalist society, their homages to sci-fi literature were considered "quirky." Today, on the verge of what some call a "techno-feudalist" dictatorship in America, paid for by many of those same TechBro billionaires, a recent opinion piece in The Guardian raises an important question; was society ignoring the warning signs that these rich megalomaniacs took the wrong lessons from the stories we all grew up loving?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2025/apr</span><span class="invisible">/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world</span></a></p><p>The Big Idea: Will Sci-Fi End Up Destroying the World?</p><p>"We can see this most clearly in the way the dystopian settings of so much cyberpunk fiction are seen by today’s tech leaders as prophetic visions of a world they need to try to escape – whether by colonising Mars, building metaverses or, in the case of Vance’s billionaire patron Peter Thiel, backing efforts to create new city states by buying land in developing countries. In the original novels it tended to be people like them responsible for creating the dystopias in the first place, but they’ve somehow projected the blame on to the masses.</p><p>In Snow Crash there’s something called “the Raft” – a collection of boats filled with infected, mind-controlled refugees headed for America’s west coast. It’s an image that recalls the viciously racist 1973 French sci-fi novel The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, in which a huge fleet of Indian refugees destroy western civilisation. It’s had a far-right fandom ever since and has been referenced by former Donald Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon. It’s a particular favourite of Stephen Miller, Trump’s lead policy adviser and close friend of Musk (Miller’s wife, Katie, is the Doge spokeswoman).</p><p>It’s not much of a jump to see the actions of Thiel and Musk, and many of those around them, as an attempt to forestall this fate, linking, as they do, the racial obsessions of the far right with their odd brand of tech-utopianism. When Thiel writes that “I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible”, or when Musk makes up wild stories about the Democrats using benefit fraud to import migrants, they are unabashedly expressing this fear of being overrun. The greatest irony of all is that in their desperation to build escape routes, they risk creating the very dystopias they fear."</p><p>To answer our question above, yes society did ignore the warning signs that these TechBro billionaires were reactionary freaks with terrible ideas and increasingly, enough money power to try and make those ideas a reality; but not necessarily for the reasons the author implies in this article. I think at this point it's pretty uncontroversial to say that guys like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and even Jeff Bezos are deeply unserious thinkers whose wealth allows them to surround themselves actual scientists, engineers, and inventors who can turn their pulp fiction fantasies into reality; so it's not really a huge surprise that these rich dilettante get their ideas from mass market sci-fi novels. What I think is far more instructional however, is to look at *which* science fiction ideas these folks gravitate towards; specifically the hyper-capitalist, racist, fascist, and authoritarian ideas commonly found in the sci-fi novels they grew up with. </p><p>I'm not a psychic of course, but I don't think it's an accident that billionaire TechBros who buy whole governments and seem intent on installing a technologically-enhanced form of fascism in America, gravitate towards stories and ideas about power, superiority, and the apocalypse that many critics have rightfully described as fascist in nature; nor do I think its a coincidence that these would-be "Masters of the Universe" have that in common with fascist propagandists like Curtis Yarvin, or even the Trump regime that Musk has bought outright control of. When you factor in that almost all of these same people are also interested in things like eugenics, neo-fascist corporate dictatorships, and racialized birth rates on a global scale, it becomes pretty clear that the origin story here is about powerful people looking for ideas that support their reactionary, supremacist, authoritarian beliefs; not a fascination with literary fiction. </p><p>In the end, I think that's the handle many people are missing when they're trying to understand the so-called "Dark Enlightenment." These folks don't believe in fascist ideology because they think they're right; these rich bastards are folks who have been presented with the problem of how to maintain their wealth and power on a boiling planet, even as the capitalism that grants them everything is going to kill billions, and fascist ideas are the only way they can square that circle, so they're always on the lookout for more of them. Sci-Fi stories aren't going to destroy the world; but the fascism that was so easily hidden inside many of them just might.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CurtisYavin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CurtisYavin</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopia</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️<p>Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cjr75wyp</span><span class="invisible">g0vo</span></a><br><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715884" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">3715884</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discord</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MassSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassSurveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigData</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Winbuzzer<p>EU Puts Apple, Meta DMA Penalties on Ice Amid U.S. Tariff Talks</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DMA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalMarketsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalMarketsAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Regulation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TradeTalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeTalks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USTrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brussels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechPolicy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USTariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a></p><p><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/18/eu-puts-apple-meta-dma-penalties-on-ice-amid-u-s-tariff-talks-xcxwbn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winbuzzer.com/2025/04/18/eu-pu</span><span class="invisible">ts-apple-meta-dma-penalties-on-ice-amid-u-s-tariff-talks-xcxwbn/</span></a></p>
Matthias Weiler<p>I gave a talk about all the positive developments and influential initiatives that shaped technology (and our world) in the last decades.</p><p>A listener asked "what we can do individually". What is your answer?</p><p><a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/GAFAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GAFAM</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/SaveSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveSocial</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/OpenStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStandards</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/SolarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunk</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/Decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decentralization</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones.</p><p>This is the first time that Japan has issued such an order against any of the major U.S. technology companies referred to collectively as GAFAM — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.</p><p>“By binding smartphone manufacturers and telecommunication carriers, Google has made it difficult for other competing search engine applications to be used on Android phones,” Saiko Nakajima, a senior investigator for digital platform operators at the commission, said.</p><p>“Google's conduct in this case has created a risk of impeding fair competition concerning transactions — thus, we have determined that this is an act in violation of the Antimonopoly Act,” she added."</p><p><a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/16/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/business/2025</span><span class="invisible">/04/16/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monopolies</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Competition</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antimonopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antimonopoly</span></a></p>
Winbuzzer<p>Microsoft Fires Engineers After Protests Disrupt 50th Anniversary Over Israel AI Military Ties</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CloudComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CloudComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Azure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Azure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmployeeActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmployeeActivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechEthics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoAzureForApartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoAzureForApartheid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SatyaNadella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SatyaNadella</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BillGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillGates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProjectNimbus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectNimbus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> #</p><p><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/18/microsoft-fires-engineers-after-protests-disrupt-50th-anniversary-over-israel-ai-military-ties-xcxwbn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winbuzzer.com/2025/04/18/micro</span><span class="invisible">soft-fires-engineers-after-protests-disrupt-50th-anniversary-over-israel-ai-military-ties-xcxwbn/</span></a></p>
Winbuzzer<p>Meta Sought Funds for Llama AI Model Development from Amazon and Microsoft</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Llama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Llama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIFunding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Llama4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Llama4</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a></p><p><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/18/meta-sought-funds-for-llama-ai-model-development-from-amazon-microsoft-xcxwbn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winbuzzer.com/2025/04/18/meta-</span><span class="invisible">sought-funds-for-llama-ai-model-development-from-amazon-microsoft-xcxwbn/</span></a></p>
Et Al<p>Tesla Offers 'Miles Offset Credits' to Adjust Reality-Challenged Odometers<br><a href="https://isglitch.com/article/2025-04-18-tesla-offers-miles" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">isglitch.com/article/2025-04-1</span><span class="invisible">8-tesla-offers-miles</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/isGlitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>isGlitch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/bigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/techNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p>
Erik Jonker<p>Interesting analysis "Multiple countries in Europe are critically dependent on services provided by Microsoft. Querying mail-servers teaches that in some countries, over 70% of all public services rely on this American provider."<br><a href="https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/european-critical-dependencies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/</span><span class="invisible">european-critical-dependencies/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/municipalities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>municipalities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dependencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dependencies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalsovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalsovereignty</span></a></p>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🚀 Ah, the esteemed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arXiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arXiv</span></a>, the digital throne of academic pretense, now hitching a ride on Google Cloud! Because nothing says "independent research repository" like moving into Big Tech's basement. 🙃 Who knew "open access" meant "open to Google's servers"? 📚☁️<br><a href="https://info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleCloud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openaccess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicresearch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
Patrick Leavy<p>Palantir. Ffs are the UK government that corrupt, or just stupid? Or both? </p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/ice-just-paid-palantir-tens-of-millions-for-complete-target-analysis-of-known-populations/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/ice-just-paid-pala</span><span class="invisible">ntir-tens-of-millions-for-complete-target-analysis-of-known-populations/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://archive.is/2020.05.18-165248/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/inside-story-cia-backed-palantir-embedded-nhs-socialite-running/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/2020.05.18-165248/h</span><span class="invisible">ttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/inside-story-cia-backed-palantir-embedded-nhs-socialite-running/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillancecapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oppression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palantir</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigdata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillancestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillancestate</span></a></p>
Medialist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@kaffeeringe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kaffeeringe</span></a></span> </p><p>Einfach nur noch </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WahnSinn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WahnSinn</span></a> der <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechGiganten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechGiganten</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IrrSinn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrrSinn</span></a> von <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZerschlagtDieMonopole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZerschlagtDieMonopole</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechnikF%C3%BCrB%C3%BCrger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnikFürBürger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technikF%C3%9CRdemokratie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technikFÜRdemokratie</span></a></p><p>Nutzen wir die Feiertage, zu reflektieren...<br>...solange sie NOCH nicht wegen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GewinnMAXImierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GewinnMAXImierung</span></a> <br>abgeschafft wurden von <br>BigTech und TechGiganten</p><p>Vielleicht erscheint ja bis Pfingsten dem ein oder anderen (z.B. der <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CxU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CxU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/koalition2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>koalition2025</span></a> ) noch der heilige Geist.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HoffnungStirbtZuletzt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HoffnungStirbtZuletzt</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2004886/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2004886/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Why von der Leyen’s Big Tech tax plan is bluster – POLITICO <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AntiCoercionInstrument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiCoercionInstrument</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChristineLagarde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristineLagarde</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DigitalTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalTax</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Eurozone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eurozone</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/exports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exports</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>germany</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>industry</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ireland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>italy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/luxembourg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>luxembourg</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MathiasCormann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MathiasCormann</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Miche%C3%A1lMartin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicheálMartin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/pharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pharma</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Platforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Platforms</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Services" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Services</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tax</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UrsulaVonDerLeyen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrsulaVonDerLeyen</span></a></p>
Dave Mason<p>Headline: Google loses ad tech monopoly trial, faces additional breakups.<br>Google plans to appeal as DOJ seeks to untether ad products.</p><p>Me: I find it odd that the current administration (and the extreme right in general) seem to be anti-big tech. They're both pro-capitalism, anti-consumer, pro-baby crushing machines, etc. It should be a match NSFW in heaven. But apparently not? 🤷</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/google-loses-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-faces-additional-breakups/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/google-loses-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-faces-additional-breakups/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
Leave X - Protect Democracy<p>Excellent: EU race to rearm is pointless if hostile foreign powers can still use online algorithms to boost authoritarians to power across Europe. Europe’s new “Democracy Shield” should immediately shut them down. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/us-europe-military-spending-trump-ireland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/apr/15/us-europe-military-spending-trump-ireland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>x</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leavex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leavex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
JKN<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> is code. It does whatever we tell it/let it do. Talking about AI as if it is a conscious moral being, is misleading and irresponsible at best. </p><p>Without making any direct claims, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mediaindustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mediaindustry</span></a> has been taking advantage of public misconceptions based on popscience and TV. </p><p>This is outright malice.</p>
Koen de Jonge - SynQ<p>Stop calling <a href="https://procolix.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> emotion draining engagement sites <a href="https://procolix.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> they are not social at all! They are just trying to profile you and sell your data for profit. Yes I am also looking at you <a href="https://procolix.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a></p><p>The only true <a href="https://procolix.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>social</span></a> network right now is the <a href="https://procolix.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> Everybody should tell their friends and family to spend some time here, it would make it even more social!</p><p><a href="https://procolix.social/tags/MakeSocialsSocialAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MakeSocialsSocialAgain</span></a></p>
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