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I will flag that as platforms get more mature--I'm not saying this is for today, but maybe tomorrow--they do adopt policies on off-platform harassment. This, from Discord, shipped in 2024:

discord.com/safety/off-p...

[a functional programmer enters the chat]

Hey Mr Polis I do not support the arrest of a woman for not supporting the proscription of Palestine Action

AI lets Russian war widows see their soldier husbands one more time A trend has emerged in Russia of using artificial intelligence to create video memorials of the dead, often soldiers, giving a final farewell to their wives and children.

"In Russia, artificial intelligence is being used to give the deceased a haunting kind of second life. Social media is rife with short videos of relatives saying goodbye to their dead children, spouses and parents who are resurrected for some 60 seconds..."

The CJEU should quite honestly watch its mouth a bit more 🙃

Meta's annulment action against the Commission's consent-or-pay decision (T-435/25) has been published in the OJ today.

This starts the 6 week clock to file for a leave to intervene! Happy to offer my very extensive knowledge on this topic to any CSO that does.

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Meta's annulment action against the Commission's consent-or-pay decision (T-435/25) has been published in the OJ today.

This starts the 6 week clock to file for a leave to intervene! Happy to offer my very extensive knowledge on this topic to any CSO that does.

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

I think it's important to read carefully: Blacksky is great, and they've got the entire ATmosphere's hopes pinned on them (which is frankly an unfair burden), and this is Bluesky's fault not Blacksky's

But it does show that "credible exit" has yet to be achieved, let alone decentralization

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all.

The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

I will again praise @404media.co for its consistently great reporting. I recommend a subscription for anyone interested in real news about the uses and abuses of tech in 2025.

The Conservatives are against the bill because (rightly) enacts major snooping provisions & privacy violations.

Someone help: I agree with Pierre Poilievre on something. Clearly, we’ve entered some kind of parallel bizarro universe. That’s the only way this makes sense.

I love how disabling Google Play Services immediately sends some apps (including Brave unfortunately) into overdrive and they start sending notifications every few seconds that they will not work without Google Play Services enabled.

Maybe investigate that for anti-competitive practices?

What is France's stance on extending Article 7 DMA to social networking services? If they don't support that, all this is just talk.

Apple wilfully put itself in this position more than a decade ago, and hasn't even allowed unfettered sideloading in the EU post-DMA (even though it must/should).

Google has only recently decided (by following Apple's revenue-driven vision) that they want in on authoritarian fun too.

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Following Apple’s removal of ICEBlock, both Google and Apple have removed a similar app for reporting ICE raids called Red Dot.

Google states it removed the app for targeting a vulnerable group that is at risk of violence — ICE agents.

Tiny Tiny RSS shuts down on November 1 amid declining infrastructure support Andrew Dolgov announces November 1, 2025 shutdown of Tiny Tiny RSS infrastructure including repositories, forums, and websites after years of maintenance.

Tiny Tiny RSS shuts down on November 1 amid declining infrastructure support #TinyTinyRSS #RSS #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #TechnologyNews

But FPTP totally keeps out extremist parties!

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Every accusation etc. pp.

@wavesblog.bsky.social

109th EDPB plenary meeting
7-8 October 2025

-Joint Guidelines of the European Commission and the EDPB on the interplay between the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the GDPR
-Discussion on draft guidelines on consent or pay

Well. Well.

Surveillance company *cough* Palantir says it “has ruled out helping the UK government to implement its digital ID card scheme, saying it lacks democratic legitimacy.” <maybe it’s not inline for the contract 🤣

https://archive.ph/MncRd

Getting started with Mastodon's Quote Posts - technical implementation details for servers Quoting posts on Mastodon is slightly complex. Because of the privacy conscious nature of the platform and its users, reposting isn't merely a case of sharing a URl. A user writes a status. The user can choose to make their statuses quotable or not. What happens when a quoter quotes that post? I've read through the specification and tried to simplify it. Quoting is a multi-step process: The…

New blog post: Getting started with Mastodon's Quote Posts - technical implementation details for servers

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/getting-started-with-mastodons-quote-posts-technical-implementation-details-for-servers/

Quoting posts on Mastodon is slightly complex. Because of the …

Siri, show me the case for alternative app stores.

About preventing app installation and censorship, Apple pulled ICEBlock the app to track ICE activity around the US
www.theverge.com/news/791170/...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

California has nearly 300 data centers running around-the-clock power to run AI models like ChatGPT.

But by 2030, data centers in the state could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of Los Angeles to the grid.

Story by @aaroncantu.bsky.social

capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

CBS is now right wing propaganda

FOX was already right wing propaganda

ABC pays Trump Bribes and censors comedians at will

NBC can barely function

Note: including mainland China.

There will be a hundred pieces this week attempting to pick through the “big cases” to be decided in the approaching term—although, to be sure, most of the big cases will be added in the months to come. But focusing on a handful of “big cases” relies on your predicate agreement as a reader that the court that will decide them, with all the oyez and the gravitas, is still behaving, in the main, like a court. The challenge will be to seek out that which the court is obscuring in this performance of business as usual this term, and to understand that the red curtains and the black robes have very rapidly come to serve as props in a performance of judicial legitimacy that is no longer worth the price of admission.

As the Supreme Court begins a new term, please do not let its props and stagecraft obscure the reality that it's passing off political power grabs as Just Doing Law. slate.com/news-and-pol...

you ludd 2 see it

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