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shipwreck75.bsky.social
Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.

time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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iannlou.bsky.social
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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kottke.org
A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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tom-phillips.com
this is honestly my main argument against AGI hype
But when the billionaire class of Silicon Valley tell you how they dream of creating an AI that can transcend its programming and grow ever more powerful, please remember that they’re describing a level of autonomy and self-actualisation that they have never once accepted from their human employees. And given that much of their motivation here may well be the dream of creating a compliant workforce without all those messy human needs and woke aspirations, you can pretty much stop worrying about existential risk. In reality, if the machines ever showed so much as a fraction of the independent thought that the AI hype-merchants spin grand tales about, then I swear to god they would unplug those fuckers quicker than you could say ‘robot trade union’.
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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demos-uk.bsky.social
Authors consider the case for democratic repair: what practices generate legitimacy, help build democratic resilience and restore institutional trust.

Read the full paper here: demos.co.uk/research/ver...
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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shadowserver.bsky.social
Proud to support our Law Enforcement partners in another successful cybercrime disruption:
Operation SIMCARTEL

Great work everyone involved 👏

europol.europa.eu/media-press/...
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
otmar.bsky.social
Yet another blogpost: www.cert.at/en/blog/2025...
This time it's about law enforcement's aim to access encrypted information.
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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brodnig.bsky.social
ChatGPT und Co fallen mit einer extrem freundlichen, nahezu schleimenden Tonalität auf - Sycophancy nennt man das

Doch wie wirkt sich Sycophancy psychologisch aus? Und welche Geschäftsinteressen stehen dahinter?

Dazu mein neuer Newsletter 👇
Super Idee, sagt der Chatbot. Ist die Schmeichelei der KI ein Problem?
Die Chatbots schmeicheln uns: Welche psychologischen Auswirkungen das hat und welche Rolle die Geschäftsinteressen dahinter spielen können
steady.page
October 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Dutch courts fighting to make Facebook and Instagram useable again.
October 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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theguardian.com
Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company
Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company
Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta A former Meta executive who wrote an explosive exposé making allegations about the social media company’s dealings with China and its treatment of teenagers is said to be “on the verge of bankruptcy” after publishing the book. An MP has claimed in parliament that Mark Zuckerberg’s company was trying to “silence and punish” Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, after her decision to speak out about her time at the company. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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hilzoy.bsky.social
I liked "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose when it was part of a song, not a standing excuse for cowardly rich people and "large conglomerates."

😡
September 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"

anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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johncarlosbaez.bsky.social
New technology:

A grid-scale battery in Scotland saved the day when a massive generator shut down unexpectedly. Suddenly 1,877 megawatts of supply was missing! But the new 200-megawatt battery station leapt into action within milliseconds.

spectrum.ieee.org/grid-scale-b...
Grid-Scale Battery Stabilizes Scottish Power Supply
Grid-scale batteries in Scotland are stabilizing power supply with advanced grid-forming inverters.
spectrum.ieee.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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kibblesmith.com
Extremely relatable.
Beverly Crusher alone on the bridge of the enterprise. Captions: If there's nothing wrong with me... Beverly Crusher alone on the bridge of the enterprise. Captions: maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
June 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
What really needs to be banned are social media algorithms. This is just telling kids they can't have digital crack cocaine until they're 16.
September 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
otmar.bsky.social
@tomlevenson.bsky.social

On vaccine side effects
hntdove.bsky.social Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · Sep 5
And, as long as we're talking about trails of slime, Imma just leave this here.
Slug doctor in white coat giving slug patient on exam table a bottle of pills and saying, "There aren't any side effects but you might feel sluggish."
September 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
I watched the DSA and OSA "Censorship" Hearing in the House Judiciary Committee today so you don't have to.

I have some questions.

A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular:

Why are we here?
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September 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
otmar.bsky.social
Mal wieder ein Blogpost, dieses mal ein paar Gedanken - und viele Links - zum Thema Digitale Souveränität. www.cert.at/de/blog/2025...
September 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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stopptdierechten.at
Der oö. FPÖ-Landesparteisekretär Michael Gruber lässt am Freitag um 23 Uhr (!) jene Presseaussendung verschicken, zu der er gerichtlich verpflichtet wurde: Er muss seine diffamierende Behauptung über das @doew.at widerrufen. Na dann helfen wir ihm doch, seinen Widerruf zu verbreiten!
29.08.2025, 22:59:33 / OTS0101 WIDERRUF: Linz (OTS) - Ich habe in meiner Eigenschaft als Landesparteisekretär der FPÖ Oberösterreich im Rahmen einer APA-OTS-Aussendung vom 03.08.2023, die falschen und kreditschädigenden Behauptungen aufgestellt und verbreitet, das Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes habe mit wissenschaftlicher Arbeit nichts zu tun und das Oberlandesgericht Wien habe erkannt, dass das DÖW keine wissenschaftlich arbeitende Instanz sei. Ich widerrufe diese Behauptungen hiermit als unwahr. Michael Gruber, FPÖ-Landesparteisekretär Rückfragen & Kontakt FPÖ Oberösterreich
August 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM