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This moment demands that the #EU offers an alternative to nationalism and unfettered capitalist imperialism, based on #democracy, #humanrights and the #environment. Instead the leadership is proposing to give in to wealthy corporate interests and gut protections... euobserver.com/eu-political...

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The CEO:

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For "exploration and search and rescue," read also #surveillance and battlefield reconnaissance...

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Is it a #smartcity? Is is a #ghostcity?

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Back to the days of "Are you or have you ever been...?"

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The company “currently tracks approximately 186,000 immigrants using devices such as ankle monitors, smart watches and a facial recognition app…” “…company executives said that they expect that number to grow past its previous peak of 370,000 to 450,000 immigrants within the next year.”

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Most jurors in US pipeline case against Greenpeace have fossil fuel industry ties www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks.”

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“Alberta’s technology minister has said the province hopes to see $100 billion worth of artificial intelligence data centres under construction in the next five years. The massive operations require an immense amount of electricity to run and cool off computer servers.”

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This week's column asks a question that should be in everyone's minds, as Trump reshapes the world's alliances: How, given that our defence and security capacities are completely infiltrated by the US state, do we defend ourselves if the US becomes our opponent? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

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New study finds carbon capture ineffective & costly compared to investing in renewable energy CC+DAC increase CO2, air pollution, CO2 pipes, fossil mining, energy needs, energy costs & social costs (by 10x) v WWS environmentamerica.org/center/updat... The study web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

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"Trump was particularly outraged by the concept of digital services taxes, under which countries like the UK + Italy levy a small tax...on the local revenues of online platforms like search engines and social media services. He alleged that these laws are designed to “plunder American companies.”

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Scott Langmack works at a property company that uses AI to help real estate investors predict future property prices Its mission? "To aggregate the hardest to find data.” He now has unrestricted access to US federal housing data thanks to #ElonMusk www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

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Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

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New article out📑 "The end of economic hegemony? Studying economic ideas in a post-neoliberal world" In the 20th century, debates on economic policy were closely tied to academic economics. From Keynesianism to neoliberalism, economic schools of thought have shaped historical epochs.

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Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value futurism.com/microsoft-ce...

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The world's leading proponent of "free speech" has stymied rules requiring social media platforms to disclose how they moderate content. In Musk's world, "free speech" means the freedom to algorithmically manipulate with zero accountability or transparency. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Musk's level of empathy, and competence, is "whoops, we did an ebola!" 🤬

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Trump's new FBI Director on his first day in office threatens "the world's largest manhunt" against anyone wishing harm on "our way of life," promising "we will find you and we will decide your end-state.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-new...

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There’s a parallel track of tech barons becoming more comfortable w/being openly fascist while their companies push devices that are more and more invasive, and I don’t think it ends with people happily installing these things in their homes, and wearing them on their faces.

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The RCMP need to lay off their heavy handed tactics with journalists: After a blistering report and an apology to a journalist, should the RCMP have the power to decide who is and isn't media? #RCMP #journalism #media #pressfreedom #policing #Canada www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/25/n...

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Holy shit. Jeff Bezos is turning the Washington Post editorial page into.... the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

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Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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Serbian authorities raided the offices of the fact-checking organization Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability in Belgrade citing "unsubstantiated claims of corruption about USAID made by Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump as justification."

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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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‘The forests are going up in flames – so is the rule of law’: #Argentina’s climate of fear - www.theguardian.com/global-devel... "Wildfires are devastating Patagonia. In response, Argentinian authorities are removing environmental protections and raiding Indigenous communities" #milei the destroyer

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Libre Office is the answer here (or Scrivener if you just want to write). There's no need to use Microsoft. www.libreoffice.org scrivener.app

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Let me make this clear: having done my PhD on the NSA's global #surveillance network and knowing the history of the USA's interventions and invasions, I am no fan of the #FiveEyes SIGINT network. However, this is not the way I expected it to go... 1/n www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

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We're delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Surveillance Book Prize is: Profiles and Plotlines, by Katherine D. Johnston (University of Iowa Press).

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"The Paris AI Action Summit showed us that “participatory AI” and “public interest AI” are often co-opted by government and industry to advance their own agendas for geopolitical and economic power, mass surveillance, and national security." www.techpolicy.press/ai-countergo...

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New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it: www.404media.co/all-50-state...

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Very funny article about a tech billionaire trying and failing to revolutionize something outside their domain of expertise archive.is/W1MnG

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Israeli-made surveillance technologies and “training expeditions” are accelerating the militarization of campus police departments across the US.

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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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Today @citizenlab.ca publishes a new, short commentary piece co-authored by @kate-ro.bsky.social and myself, highlighting grave constitutional and human rights issues that would arise with a Canada-USA CLOUD Act agreement, which the two governments have been negotiating since 2022. 🧵

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By definition, generative AI is an unreliable source of information. GenAI evangelists who claim that it’s great if people use it the right way are ignoring both how it’s being sold to the public and how the public is actually using it. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

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