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Hahahaha

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Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

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An objectively accurate description would be they are "stealing money," or if you want to be a bit drier, "illegally impounding funds," but "spending cuts" is not what's happening because Trump/Musk have no authority to "cut" appropriations as in the same term we'd use to speak of Congress doing it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

Let’s see more institutions use their financial clout to stop funding technofascism. As individuals we have limited choices give their monopolies, but by directing funds to more beneficial alternatives, institutions can cultivate competition and undermine US corporate tech coercion

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A college president offers a class in standing up to Trump. “The story of American higher education has been hijacked by people who’ve benefited from it. They’ve succeeded in life in part because of the education they’ve had. But they get out and then they kind of pull up the ladder”

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As Trump dismantles the agencies that monitor foreign influence operations, the national security concerns around TikTok remain. But how could we even know if TikTok's algorithm has been influenced, either by China or another adversarial actor? Our latest in @lawfare.bsky.social 🧵👇

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Looks like Musk wants control of yet another communications platform - access to USG’s mobile alert system and the power to unilaterally broadcast government messages to everyone’s personal devices www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

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The New York Times analyzed the electoral impact of annexing Canada instead of asking why the president is talking like a dictator. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analy...

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

These are the kinds of stories about the human costs of the Trump-Musk coup that desperately need telling right now. Local news outlets and independent journalists can do a lot of important work here, for their own communities but also for the national effort to push back against this insanity.

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

Good. Standing up to American technofacism is not optional and indeed Europe should be thinking outside the box and reduce its dependency on the US broligarchy www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

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Yet more manipulation by billionaire-owned media: @washingtonpost.com pulls ad calling for Musk to be “fired” from DOGE worth $115K but risk putting Bezos’ other businesses in the crosshairs, esp. now that Musk may have access to proprietary GSA, IRS & Treasury data www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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Here is the ad the Washington Post accepted and then rejected:

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Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

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The Trump administration is severely undermining the First Amendment protections to freedom of the press by barring the Associated Press from accessing a White House press event...

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Our director @courtneyr.bsky.social reacts to news organizations' lawsuit against AI content theft: "It is good to see the news industry come together to fight back against the illegal exploitation by AI firms of their intellectual property... 1/3 www.newsmediaalliance.org/lawsuit-agai...

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It’s been a busy few weeks at @wired.com, and we’re just getting started. Many of you have asked how you can support our journalism in a bigger way, so we’ve introduced a new option for WIRED Superfans: $100 a year, because you really love us. www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

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Nicely done Guardian

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Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

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Good news for those who oppose the theft of copyright protected content to fuel AI under the guise of fair use. Also helpful to see a judge evolve as new facts and technologies emerge that require updating how we concetualize the legal issues at stake. www.lawnext.com/2025/02/brea...

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No one should be surprised by this headline. Musk has several lines of business that are directly benefiting, while giving him an anticompetitive advantage, because of illegal firings and questionably constitutional dismantling of various agencies & oversight bodies www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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Some of us already have! From my 2024 book Fearless Speech:

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This is when we need antitrust law to come in swinging hard. How many critical information and communications platforms should one billionaire own? And given Musk already owns an AI company there is a clear rationale to ensure this gets blocked www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/t...

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As a reminder, this is not a question of efficiency or saving money, as CFPB has already drawn its funds. It is simply because Trump does not like the work of Consumer Protection because he is a grifter, con artist and swindler, and hates accountability.

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Reinventing rhetoric from over 10 years ago. "AI is free of ideology" "all we need is efficiency". But cynically, because this is about using tech for undemocratic control. We CS folks need to reckon with this if we don't want to go where IBM did in the 30s. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and...

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52 of 150 gambling sites tested shared data with Meta without consent. FB then bombarded the user with gambling ads, including from firms that weren't caught sharing data. Superb investigation into how UK gambling firms & Meta profit from systematic data misuse: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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"Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” From a Treasury threat intelligence dept email www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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anticipatory obedience is “when people or institutions cede power voluntarily, they are acting not so much out of fear but rather on a set of apparently reasonable argument[s]” tend to fall into 5 categories. Get to know them & resist. via @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

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From South Africa’s admirably restrained response to Trump’s executive order offering asylum to Afrikaner “refugees.”

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Exactly 🔥 The Musk 'I-will-fire-all-and-rebuild-small' strategy was a disaster for Twitter. And this failed strategy is now used to ... run the US government 🤯 "Expect chaos, cuts driven by ideology as much as by cost concerns, intimidation and plenty of lawsuits" apnews.com/article/elon...

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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Trump calls for “termination” of 60 Minutes in fresh onslaught against the media that also included baseless claims that money from USAID had been illicitly funding news orgs. Trump probably doesn’t understand the concept paying for a news subscription! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump joins Zuckerberg in the getting rid of factchecking & canceling the news. He ordered the GSA to cancel all media contracts. These subscriptions to professional journalism products that help users stay updated, informed. Are they just going to rely on X now?! www.axios.com/2025/02/06/t...

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BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

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NEW: We've urged the UK's Competition and Markets Authority to break up Google's search monopoly as it undertakes a major investigation into the tech giant www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

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“While monopolies may offer periodic advances, breakthrough innovations have historically come from disruptive outsiders, in part b/c huge behemoths rarely want to advance technologies that could displace or cannibalize their own business” @Lina Khan reminds us www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

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So many computer breaches, website and dataset deletions, DNS tampering as Musk & Trump seize the digital infrastructure of the USG to manipulate it in ways that are legally dubious and raise massive security and privacy concerns. Great, if terrifying, thread.

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FTC's Alvaro Bedoya notes that new @FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has quietly removed five requests for public comment from consideration -- including one that sought comment on “surveillance pricing.” www.ftc.gov/system/files...

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This story shows how INDEFENSIBLE it is to allow large social media platforms to block news as it it were business as usual. Mark Zuckerberg acted as if his business was 'cornered' by regulation but has no problem with profiting from harmful news media impostors. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"Paramount's efforts to settle Trump's frivolous lawsuit against 60 Minutes is not only a financially stupid move given already strapped news budgets, but it is also dangerous for press freedom... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

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A right-ward power shift on the already cash-strapped, short-staffed National Labor Relations Board will likely make it more employer-friendly, make union organizing more difficult, meaning more strikes, worse conditions for journalists via @hanaatameez.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/what...

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