Isn't it because friendship is nice and fascism is bad?
22.02.2026 08:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@phatcontroller.bsky.social
Academic working on digital citizenship, digital rights, digital authoritarianism, digital disinformation, civic tech, digital surveillance and all that jazz. Free typo with every post.
Isn't it because friendship is nice and fascism is bad?
22.02.2026 08:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Johnson's Tories were funded by Russian money just as Starmer's Labour is now funded by Israeli 'donations. As Musk decides which right-wing party to bankroll in the next election, is it perhaps time to ban all 'donations' and ask politicians to represent the interests of their constituents?
22.02.2026 08:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How AI repeatedly discriminates against women
22.02.2026 08:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Musk endorses white supremacist party in UK (as if the anti-immigrant Labour, Tory and Reform parties weren't bad enough).
22.02.2026 08:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exporting the US healthcare system might constitute an international act of aggression
22.02.2026 02:25 β π 209 π 48 π¬ 10 π 6Surveillance-enabling research
22.02.2026 08:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If AI is so forking smart ...
then why does it feed me content in the language of every country I travel to instead of serving me content in the languages that I understand? Is that really a big ask for an imminently sentient technology?
We need to go back to a situation where racism is shameful rather than electorally advantageous.
22.02.2026 06:58 β π 453 π 110 π¬ 13 π 3Our biometric digital-ID data will be used against us by the state and corporations.
22.02.2026 07:50 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
22.02.2026 02:10 β π 8449 π 3203 π¬ 209 π 70When we talk about authoritarianism, itβs not just Donald Trump.
Musk owns X
Bezos owns Twitch
Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook
Larry Ellison controls TikTok
Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.
Remember that The Guardian ran 148 stories carrying the lie that Labour's last authentic PM was anti-Semitic. Pants on fire! The Guardian's function is to act as an Overton Window to restrict critical thinking of the centre left.
21.02.2026 18:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There was a more authentic PM who doubled Labour's membership ...
21.02.2026 18:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exactly π₯
21.02.2026 13:14 β π 17 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0Brilliant
21.02.2026 17:02 β π 106 π 28 π¬ 11 π 1Why Is Anonymity Important for Activist Safety?
lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com/question/why...
π₯ This is important. Please do have a read.
21.02.2026 09:32 β π 243 π 163 π¬ 11 π 8βIndividual ICE agents get money per head that they detain β the guards told me that,β Karen says.
21.02.2026 08:29 β π 15 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0Zuckerberg in Denial as he faces his victims in court
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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20.02.2026 19:19 β π 7 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0OpenAI suppressed evidence of future mass shooting
21.02.2026 08:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01/2 Judge just told Tesla to cough up $243M for an Autopilot death. That ainβt a βfreak accident,β thatβs a pattern. How many crashes you gotta have before we stop blaming βbad driversβ and start blaming the genius who coded the car to be dumber than a cabbie?
20.02.2026 16:32 β π 443 π 150 π¬ 29 π 9Are there really no law enforcement agencies in the US interested in enforcing the law in these heinous cases?
21.02.2026 08:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It does not appear that any amount of evidence will result in the Attorney General Pam Bondi arresting any of the men who raped and trafficked young girls? Are there really no law enforcement agencies in the US prepared to enforce the law in these heinous cases?
21.02.2026 08:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Epstein worked for Putin and Mugabe laundering their money through US companies including Trump's failing businesses.
21.02.2026 08:23 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The removal of accountability is a necessary step en route to authoritarianism
21.02.2026 08:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.
20.02.2026 21:59 β π 699 π 230 π¬ 21 π 19Join The Resistance
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