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Tensions Between Privacy and Transparency Re-emerge in India’s Electoral Regulations | TechPolicy.Press Amber Sinha explains how the ECI’s voter roll cleanup in Bihar raises concerns over privacy, transparency, and disenfranchisement ahead of state elections.

In the Indian state of Bihar’s voter roll purge, the Election Commission claims “privacy” to limit scrutiny—yet keeps public voter rolls exposing personal data, writes Tech Policy Press contributing editor Amber Sinha. The real conflict isn’t privacy vs. transparency, but power vs. accountability.

Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent | TechPolicy.Press Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock says the Trump administration is targeting anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations.

Amidst a violent crackdown, the Trump administration has set its sights on anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations—and it’s turning to major tech companies to help, writes Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock.

The images that will stick in my mind from this week include jackbooted thugs rappelling from a Blackhawk helicopter to rip children from their beds in Chicago and yet another indiscriminate murder from the sky, both events celebrated by a lawless administration in videos shared on social media.

EU’s Role in Teen AI Safety as OpenAI and Meta Roll Out Controls | TechPolicy.Press European policymakers warn that stronger rules are needed to address the growing risks of AI on teen mental health, reports Raluca Besliu.

Parental controls address short-term risks but not the deeper issue of unchecked AI use. European policymakers warn that stronger rules are needed to address the growing risks of AI on teen mental health, reports Raluca Besliu.

Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection Trump official plots “impossible” deal moving Taiwan’s chip supply chain into US.

‚The Trump administration is pressuring Taiwan to rapidly move 50 percent of its chip production into the US if it wants ensured protection against a threatened Chinese invasion, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told NewsNation this weekend.‘

Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis: Transnational Insecurities and Geo‐Spatialized Resiliences Among South Asian Students in Finland On the basis of ethnographic research among South Asian students in Runolahti (anonymized), this article explores their experiences during a time of compounded crises. It examines how COVID-19 polici...

Our new article
'Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis:..South Asian Students in Finland', that shows how precarity is cumulative, temporal and transnationally accumulated, while strategies of resilience are more situated, can be accessed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.70033

Neoliberalism and Race | Stanford University Press Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studi...

“Neoliberalism and Race shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking… neoliberal thought is constitutively racialized—its racial motifs cannot be extracted from neoliberalism without rendering it theoretically and politically incoherent.”

Man kann nur immer wieder betonen, wie weit zurück die deutsche Berichterstattung und Einordnung zur US-Autokratie ist. Verharmlosende Stimmen dürfen unwidersprochen Fakenews verbreiten und verzögern damit die grundsätzlichen Überlegungen, die sich aus dem
Trumpschen Faschismus für Europa ergeben.

This vampire just keeps rising from the ole crypt

One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.

Europas Demokratien müssen sich vor diesem Techno-faschistischen Alptraum schützen, dessen Macher gerade hart gegen jegliche KI-Regulation in Europa Lobby-Arbeit betreiben.

Wirklich vorhersehbar, das alles. Was ich dabei deprimierend finde, ist wie sehr jener Diskurs, der z.B. vor dem Überwachungssystem in China warnte, fast automatisch das Überwachungssystem aus Silikon Valley ausgeblendet hat. #digitalOrientalism

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

Interested in teaching EU governance, political economy and crises—but don't know where to start?

Then this one’s for you
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Thanks to 3 excellent recent volumes by @manuelamoschella.bsky.social+co-authors @amyverdun.bsky.social @achimhurrelmann.bsky.social
A Bongardt/F Torres

Und so beginnt sie die Unterwerfung einer traditionellen Institution Europas durch US Tech Oligarchen. Ich bin nicht gegen die Nutzung von LLM. Universitäten sollten ihre eigenen Open Weight oder Open Source Modelle bauen, um nicht ihre Autonomie aufzugeben und sich an Firmen wie OpenAI auszuliefern

Das Bild zeigt ein Zwischenresultat der Oberbürgermeisterwahl 2025 in Potsdam. Es beinhaltet ein Stimmendiagramm mit der Wahlbeteiligung von 51,3% und der prozentualen Stimmenverteilung auf die einzelnen Kandidaten. Noosha Aubel führt mit großem Abstand (33,8%). Die Daten basieren auf 116 von 131 ausgezählten Gebieten und stammen vom 21.09.2025, 19:11:37 Uhr.

Das Bild zeigt ein Zwischen-Ergebnis der Oberbürgermeisterwahl in Frankfurt (Oder). Es wird die Wahlbeteiligung mit 53,4% angegeben. Ein Balkendiagramm zeigt die Stimmenverteilung der vier Kandidaten: Möller (AfD) mit 30,2%, Schrade (CDU) mit 28,8%, Koß (SPD) mit 8,6% und Dr. Strasser (EWV Dr. Strasser) mit 32,4%. Das Ergebnis basiert auf 67 von 67 ausgezählten Wahlgebieten, Stand 21.09.2025, 19:02:07 Uhr.

Das Bild zeigt die Zwischenergebnisse der Bürgermeisterwahl 2025 in Velten (Stadt). Es werden die Stimmenanteile der Kandidaten Schulze (AfD), Siegert (PRO VELTEN), Müller (CDU) und Nebel (unabhängig) in einem Balkendiagramm dargestellt. Siegert liegt mit 38,8% der Stimmen vorne. Die Wahlbeteiligung beträgt 58,6%. Das Bild stammt vom 21.09.2025, 19:10 Uhr. Alle 12 Wahlgebiete sind ausgezählt.

Die Niederlagenserie der AFD im Osten setzt sich fort. Nach den vergeigten Wahlen in Meißen, Wolmirstedt, Nauen, Wriezen und Diera-Zehren konnte die AFD heute auch in Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder), Velten und Glienicke/Nordbahn keinen Wahlsieg verbuchen. Sie wird hier keinen Bürgermeister stellen.🧵

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

My Uni Lausanne historian colleague @boscha.bsky.social researches the colonial (and, yes, racist) past of Switzerland, as in the link below. As a result, he has been personally attacked by the (far) right Swiss German newspaper @nzz.ch . Please sign in support here.
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How data centre lobbying is shaping Canberra's climate policy, right down to our timid emissions target Hidden in the fine print on the Climate Change Authority's decision to pull back its emissions target? The role of artificial intelligence and data centres.

Good morning!!

Here's my latest for @crikey.com.au -> one of the reasons the CCA weakened its climate target suggestions is the possibility of uncontrolled data centre growth.

I found the lobbyists already working to sell them as 'climate solutions' in Aus ---->>>>>

Nvidia says Britain will have to burn gas to power technology revolution The company chief executive Jensen Huang says the UK’s costly electricity means new data centres will rely on fossil fuel as well as renewable energy

Shout out to the substackers doing voluntary greenwashing work for the tech companies while the actual leaders of the companies are just running into media outlets and loudly announcing the number of species they want to wipe out

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Eli Dourado @elidourado One thing I got a bit of crap for in the hallways of the Abundance conference is my not infrequent mockery of trains on Twitter. I’m sorry, trains are not an abundance technology. I think many people in the abundance scene like trains because: 1. America’s inability to build HSR is the leading example of low state capacity, and we all more or less agree that state capacity is a tenet of the abundance agenda. 2. Trains have high transport efficiency, and people coming to abundance out of the climate movement can’t shake their old habits of caring about energy efficiency ahead of other considerations. Obviously if we spend billions of dollars on high-speed rail, there should at least be some high-speed rail service. But a deeper element of state capacity is not picking dumb things for the state to build in the first place. And trains are a dumb thing to build in the 21st century. A true transportation abundance agenda has to revolve around airplanes and autonomous vehicles. The goal should be able to go from any point in the country to any other point in the country in, like, two hours, door to door. We should have supersonic airplanes made out of cheap titanium and powered by electro-LCH4. An autonomous vehicle should be available to pick you up within 30 seconds and whisk you to a nearby airfield. Security should be painless and instant (another state capacity task). If your trip doesn’t require an airplane, the autonomous vehicle should get you straight there at 100+ mph since it’s good at avoiding accidents. In cities, autonomous buses with dynamic route planning based on riders’ actual needs beat subways’ 1-dimensional tracks. We should not be trying to build marginally better versions of 20th century (or 19th century!) technology. We should be more ambitious than that. Trains are unbefitting of a country as wealthy as I aspire for us to be. Please join the anti-train faction of the abundance movement.

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👇💯 The only reason the UK remains one of the richest countries in the world - when we don't actually make anything - is because we are king pins in the weapons and money laundering trades.
Which means we're a gangster state, we ALWAYS support war and slaughter.

JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics US vice-president encourages ‘calling out’ anyone who celebrates Kirk’s murder, including notifying employers

"A mass “doxing” effort to track down, intimidate and harass people perceived not to have sufficiently mourned the killing of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was endorsed on Monday by JD Vance"

Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions Russia moved quickly to exploit conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shooting death at a Utah college, with groups linked to the Kremlin spreading false and misleading claims that experts say are desi...

Remember folks, social media is a vulnerability. We try to use these platforms for democratic deliberation, but they're not designed for that. They're better designed for propaganda. You're in the information wars.
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Yeah, well, you chose to sell the company to a much larger corporation for $326 million and you can use that money to speak out on any issue you want.

We should treat even religious extremism as part of far right ideology!

The right have launched an all-out attack on liberals and the left, in the wake of the Kirk killing, pushing narratives about left-wing violence and the need to investigate liberal nonprofits and Schumer and Jeffries are totally AWOL. The Dems are leaderless.

Shocking.

Seit Monaten ist die Richtung dieser Faschisten klar. Trotzdem gibt es überraschte Beobachter, massenweise Verharmloser & eine strategielose BuReg, die nicht weiß, wie sie auf die transatlantische Drift reagieren soll—das ist äußerst fahrlässig & gefährlich für 🇪🇺. Warnungen verhallen immer noch.

a cahrt showing falling production and increasing loss rates

New @iea.org report: both oil and gas are seeing *RISING* decline rates - ie, you need to burn more cash every year just to get the same volume.

If we don't exit this 19th century absurdity ASAP we're going to be paying for it, very literally in this case

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