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David Meyer
Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing.
So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...
So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...
At least one German state-level criminal police department (LKA) purchased location data from digital advertising for surveillance, despite lacking a lawful basis, prompting an investigation by the state's data protection authority.
Highly problematic on many levels:
netzpolitik.org/2026/daten-s...
Highly problematic on many levels:
netzpolitik.org/2026/daten-s...
netzpolitik.org
Deutsche Polizei nutzt offenbar rechtswidrig Databroker
Europe creates its own ICE, including home raids, deportations and indefinite detention in far away countries. There will be gross and large scale human rights violations. This is pure far right policy and anyone endorsing it does so knowingly. Don’t let anyone ever pretend they did not know.
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu
Negotiators have agreed new rules to speed up and increase deportations from the EU, including making it possible to send failed asylum seekers to hubs outside the bloc.
politico.eu
EU negotiators agree new migrant return law
Scientists are asking if it might be unconscious
The Independent @the-independent.com
Claude down: Anthropic AI not working in major outage
trib.al
Claude has gone offline
Europas Open-Source-Herausforderung an Microsoft startet am 9. Juni. Das Projekt vereint IONOS, Nextcloud, EuroStack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Open-Xchange und Office eu.
Ob daraus ein echter Herausforderer wird oder ob es ein Nischen-Tool bleibt, wird sich noch zeigen.
Ob daraus ein echter Herausforderer wird oder ob es ein Nischen-Tool bleibt, wird sich noch zeigen.
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Temu got hit with a €200M EU fine for selling dangerous crap on its platform, which is fair enough on its own - but this crackdown does come with added benefits. Yay for protectionism? youtu.be/lVskv21G3sw
I waited for the bit where this petty dispute would prove worth writing about in a big paper but no
The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com
Her promotion to commodore of Sausalito Yacht Club was supposed to be a formality. Instead it got blocked, sparking a fight that has torn the club apart. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4uC5lzx
Hey, so this is top-tier writing advice here from an award-winning pro…no project is too precious for you to jackhammer it apart and use it for scrap.
If it’s not working, that’s fine! You didn’t make the meal you wanted but you’ve already chopped the veggies for the next dish.
#writing #amwriring
If it’s not working, that’s fine! You didn’t make the meal you wanted but you’ve already chopped the veggies for the next dish.
#writing #amwriring
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social
That awkward moment where you figure out how to fix a failed novel by changing one aspect of it only *after* you've begun recycling bits of it as elements of an entirely new (and more fun) novel-in-progress …
(Ho hum, now to see if I can figure out how to write them both!)
(Ho hum, now to see if I can figure out how to write them both!)
Temu got hit with a €200M EU fine for selling dangerous crap on its platform, which is fair enough on its own - but this crackdown does come with added benefits. Yay for protectionism? youtu.be/lVskv21G3sw
New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down:
www.404media.co/cities-are-c...
www.404media.co/cities-are-c...
Well, this is going to be a disaster.
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
* US DHS SECRETARY MULLIN SAYS AGENCY COULD SOON STOP PROCESSING INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS AT NEWARK AIRPORT OVER IMMIGRATION DISPUTE -- FOX NEWS INTERVIEW
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
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