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CNIL, ANSSI, PEReN and the IPoP project of PEPR Cybersecurity are launching PANAME (Privacy Auditing of AI Models), a project aimed at developing a tool for auditing the privacy of AI models www.cnil.fr/en/paname-pa...

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Professors Are Using ChatGPT, & Some Students Aren’t Happy About It, calling it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...?

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‘The No10 communications team has banned any official from speaking at events that include question and answer sessions, or where the media are expected to be in attendance’. Ridiculous. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gove...

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Tonight, the European family came closer together. As President Zelenskyy said: “This tribunal gives us a real chance to bring justice for the crime of aggression.” Let’s rally behind it. No reward for aggression. Vive l’Ukraine libre. Vive l’Europe.

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For those with a hangover from yesterday's Hannan Day celebrations. Good Morning.

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we get numb to this awfulness but can we just take a moment with the basics, namely (1) his hostility to independent reporting is deep, (2) he puts individual journalists at real risk, (3) this is strategic deterrence & sadly, given our media ownership, often works, & (4) this is propaganda.

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NEW AUDIO: Michigan State Rep. Karl Bohnak (R-Deerton) says he does not support women making their own health care decisions. CONSTITUENT: "So you don't support a woman’s autonomy over her own body?" BOHNAK: "I don't."

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Irish author Donal Ryan wins Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for novel Heart, Be at Peace

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Exclusive: US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intel assessment. The WH says the assessment is "flat-out wrong." www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

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Thank you to everybody that attended the 19th #1984Symposium. Another life affirming get-together filled with hope. More details in documentally.net on Friday.

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🧵 AI copyright and AI slop

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The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has elected Hugh Mercer as the UK’s next judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇 🔗 pace.coe.int/en/news/9943... #Democracy #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #ECHR @coe.int @pace.coe.int @echr.coe.int

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Does anyone here use a pay-per-minute consultancy service? I want something where someone can book a (video) call with me and be charged €x/minute. I'm getting tired of sending quotes and chasing invoices for ad-hoc consulting work. What do you use?

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Good to meet you today @documental.ly Apologies that I couldn’t stay longer.

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if media and pols and think tanks could just appreciate this truth, the reporting and discourse would be much more rooted in reality. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Orwell is buried in a village nearby. 25 June is the birthday of Eric Arthur Blair I decided to go along & pay my respects - reflecting on the unprecedented surveillance eroding privacy & other fundamental human rights .. of the increasingly authoritarian & fascist nature of the current US admin

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Data flows and digital repression: Civil society urges EU to reassess Israel’s adequacy status edri.org/our-work/dat...

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Millions of Afghan refugees in Iran now face uncertain future

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Activist demands compensation from Europol for illegal surveillance - via @statewatch.bsky.social www.statewatch.org/news/2025/ju...

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Regulators around the world are tackling mobile platform monopolies. But every time new laws like the EU’s DMA or the UK’s DMCC emerge to allow more competition, Apple and Google raise one predictable objection: “Security” Let’s unpack why that doesn’t hold up. 👇 1/19

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Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the Islamic Republic.

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If, like me, you have been a bit mystified as to why free speech champion Kemi Badenoch has been calling for Glastonbury to drop Kneecap from this year's lineup, this might help - the band took her to court last year, and she was found to have acted illegally: www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

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Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

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Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’ Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

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PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz

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Charlie Chaplin. The Great Dictator. 1940

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Government’s plan to genome sequence every baby at birth from 2035 medconfidential.org/2025/governm...

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🚨 Be Aware: The idea of enrolling your child in Jiu-Jitsu / mixed martial arts class might seem appealing, but a White Supremacy movement has been using the combat sport to recruit young boys into their neo-Nazi ranks...most recently in Tennessee. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Tiberius— "There has never been a better time to watch this video"

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Seems like almost no one has noticed that Council Regulation (EU) 2025/1208, on mandatory biometrics on some national ID documents, has been passed and published on the OJ. Now adopted under a new legal basis (hence Council Regulation) after the previous Regulation 2019/1157 was annulled in C‑61/22.

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22 June 1900 | Italian Jewish woman, Elena Spizzichino, was born in Velletri. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. Together with her daughter Franca she was among 839 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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"It would see the U.S. and EU enter a dialogue on how to implement Europe’s Digital Markets Act—a tech-competition law that has drawn complaints from large American firms—and exempt U.S. companies from enforcement during those talks" WTF www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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WW2 shooting of black US soldier in Lancashire taught in school www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Oh fgs we're back to the 'hiring super smart people for government' garbage? A soundbite in place of a strategy? www.ft.com/content/0b10...

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Is the EU really going to give the US a say in how it implements the Digital Markets Act? The WSJ reports that Brussels & Washington could enter a dialogue on how to implement the DMA and US companies would be exempted from enforcement while those talks took place. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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🍿Getty vs Stability and now this .. rubs hands.. www.ft.com/content/b743...

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If the UK political battle is over who can bring back the factories then you might as well vote for anyone because it isn't going to happen. Might equally well debate who's going to generate more fairies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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The UK High Court has ruled that Shell plc + its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for historic oil pollution which has devastated the environments of the Bille + Ogale communities in Nigeria. There’s a long way to go in the case, but congrats today @leigh-day.bsky.social

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