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  So, the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu has rolled out @element@mastodon.matrix.org chat as a backup system to their default #Teams for the 33k officials. One official defended the new #Matrix-based system on an internal chat, according to Politico, by saying Teams wasn't as secure because "all we have is a guarantee that #Microslop [sic!] will not peek inside," and how can anyone not love that official. #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalSecurity #e2ee

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  What an amazing campaign video about #Meta #SpyGlasses from @bitsoffreedom@chaos.social ❣️ Filmed in front of the Meta offices in #Amsterdam featuring real Meta employees. :)

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  But but but blah blah blah something about "fair use." 😠 https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/

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  Now it's official: On Thursday, the EU Commission will propose a new law they call the #KIDSAct. It will ban young people from a range of different online services and be enforced by the Commission themselves. What a waste of political capital and legislative resources. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-propose-new-legislation-on-minors-protection-on-thursday/ #MinorsProtection #ChildRights #OnlineSafety #DigitalRights

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  Oh for fuck's sake what is wrong with these people? " #Calibre 9.14 introduces more #AI features, including the ability to generate #book covers using AI with different cover styles such as #romance, #scifi, pulp #fiction, etc., as well as #Anthropic and #Grok backends for #Claude and Grok models..." I love Calibre and have used it for many years but what it needs is a UI facelift, not this. 🤦‍♂️ https://9to5linux.com/calibre-9-14-open-source-e-book-manager-is-out-with-more-ai-feat...

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  Die @tagesschau@ard.social hat schön aufgeschrieben, wie #Merz beim #Sommerinterview lügt und trügt bis sich die Balken biegen, auch wenn sie das beim #Faktencheck sehr diplomatisch nicht Lügen nennen, sondern mit "irreführend", " nicht nachvollziehbar" und "ungenau" beschreiben. https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/sommerinterview-faktencheck-merz-100.html

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117025201149070216 It's never been easier to use a deGoogled phone than today. #DigitalSelfdetermination

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  Me: Yay the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu has a new #AISafety team under the #AIAct to make sure #AI is not harmful. Also me: Oh no, their number 1 core concerns is AI enabling a chemical, biological, or nuclear attack. 🙄 What a waste of public resources.

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  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@digitaleu/116991569328960213 What about a policy that stops us burning fossil fuels so we don't need all those "smarter adaptation strategies"? Just an idea.

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  While #France and #Spain are burning, #Bangladesh received a record 412.3mm (!) of rainfall in 24 hours. Unprecedented rainfall across #Asia brings flash floods and typhoons as a result of climate breakdown. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/28/extreme-rainfall-asia-flash-floods-typhoons-climate-change #ClimateCrisis

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  Important reminder that tech solutions like #encryption, panic buttons, and duress #passwords alone are unlikely to save us from #authoritarianism. #Democracy and #HumanRights need organising and real-world resistance to be protected. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116979393065998604 Of course it does. #venezuela #icc

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  I don't know if anyone here has read #Project2031, a made-up #fantasy plot in which physical and environmental boundaries don't exist, #cybersecurity works like in Sandra Bullock's "The Net", and only radical "far-right and far-left populists" can possibly be anti-AI. The plot could be a B-movie but is sold as foretelling the future if Europe doesn't go "all in" with the #AI tech bros. It's so bad I feel uncomfortable linking to it.

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  Revealed: how #Europe’s most powerful #farming lobby killed EU’s #pesticide law https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #lobbying #nature #biodiversity #agriculture

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  Another pretty cool #NGO #job opening: Digital #Campaigner @ #Foxglove https://www.foxglove.org.uk/news/jobs/digital-campaigner/ #fedijobs #campaigning

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  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116894635345643401 Oh my, @heiseonline@social.heise.de you should really know better than peddling #Anthropic's PR bullshit and selling it as "research." No, #Claude does not "lie" or "cheat" and has no "consciousness" or "secret thoughts" just because the company makes those claims. Is this supposed to be tech journalism or just copy-pasting industry press releases? (Maybe something for @m...

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  A proposed change to the German Intelligence Services Law (#BND-Gesetz) would--if enacted--require #cybersecurity authorities to notify any #0day to the German foreign and domestic intelligence service to that they can abuse it until it's fixed. This means friendly hackers that find and notify such #vulnerabilities through official channels would directly contribute to their exploitation by government spies. https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/gesetzgebungsverfahren/DE/OESI2/nachrichtendie...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@ppcland/116882926455601689 This is the kind of dumb assessment bred by the #BuyEuropean narrative: The #DigitalMarketsAct led to the #Mozilla #Firefox browser to gain 6 million EU users and we whine about it not being "European." And no need to reply how terrible Mozilla's decision often are, I'm aware. But they currently maintain the only reasonably successful alternative engine to #BigTech and it's #FOSS. Of course this should be celebrated...

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  You can't make this shit up. 🤦‍♂️ #AI #WaterCrisis #WaterBankruptcy

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  RE: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnes/116766459997022139 Europe: We have successfully launched our public response to the US billionaire-dominated space race! We've used this #Ariane6 launch to put... ehm *checks notes*... put 36 #satellites from this other US billionaire into space. 🤷

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  Who would have thought that #surveillance cameras in public spaces would be abused by men, eh sorry I meant creeps. In other news, Belgian #police has since recently gained warrantless real-time access to 21,000 surveillance cameras in trains, subways, trams, busses, and stations. What could possibly go wrong. 😓 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/milan-tram-drivers-used-whatsapp-for-sexist-chat-about-female-passengers #privacy #HumanRights #Belgium #stib #sncb #delijn #tec

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  #Wsocial : We don't do #ElonMusk. #Nazis are very welcome on our platform but they must be European. @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu President: Yay, we'll join Wsocial the new European unicorn or something! 🎉 #BuyEuropean #DigitalSovereignty

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  Brilliant analysis by @corporateeurope@mstdn.social and @lobbycontrol@bewegung.social of how much money large corporations spend on influencing laws in Europe. No surprise: #BigTech dominates again. I mean the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu really should not grant any company 1-2 high-level #lobbying meetings every month for 12 years straight. This can only lead to dangerous over-representation. https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eu-corporate-lobby-league-2026

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  This week I spoke to a room full of non-techy NGO people and for the first time there were more folks with #Fediverse than #Threads accounts in the room 🎉

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  You know something is off in your #democracy if somebody complying with a court order is considered newsworthy.

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  On invitation of a member of the European Parliament I'm sitting in a room to discuss the @EUCommission's attempt to dismantle people's #GDPR / #privacy rights. 3 participants from civil society 1 academic 20 industry lobbyists Of course corpos all want to weaken #consent and make sure people don't understand how their #PersonalData is being processed. Edit: 3x civil society :) #lobbying #democracy #EUpolicy

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  RE: https://hamishcampbell.com/the-eus-tech-sovereignty-plan/ So well put: " #OpenSource is not simply a collection of code repositories, it survives because communities maintain it. "The danger is that #Europe treats open source as a procurement strategy rather than a social ecosystem. "Beyond #sovereignty is the deeper question – not whether Europe controls its technology stack. The deeper question is whether citizens control the systems that shape their lives.&a...

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  My 6-year just old saw a picture of an oil drilling tower and asked me why there was an #EiffelTower in the desert and I could only agree.

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  RE: https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Curia/116684940972542605 Oh my that was not on my bingo card today: The EU's General Court says Meta's #Marketplace isn't really a #gatekeeper under the #DMA because #Meta has made changes to its business user functionality which the EC didn't properly assess. The Court also confirmed that designating Messenger as a gatekeeper was correct. So kind of a half-win half-loss for the EC but I fear this will make the EC e...

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  Gotta love how the @EUCommission press conference video stream about the #DigitalSovereignty package is hosted by #AWS. Also: everyone who wants to access any EU law online needs to run #Amazon's #JavaScript on their device. 🤷