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Has anyone made the inevitable lesbians moving to Europe joke or is that too niche outside the US?

Maybe we need to be adding new circles of hell...

Also Europe should perhaps start courting Anthropic and/or its talent, including with government contracts if they jump ship.

DOD Declares War on Anthropic and Claude DOD drafted every American frontier AI company today and there is no conscientious objector status, just a blindfold and a cigarette.

“DOD drafted every American frontier AI company today and there is no conscientious objector status, just a blindfold and a cigarette.”

Preach, @adamconner.bsky.social

www.thefunsinthefight.com/p/dod-declar...

Oh, very interesting! Thank you!

I guess Cloudflare kind of (unintentionally but maybe also not) did the opposite with the adoption of Encrypted Client Hello (which helps privacy somewhat), hiding the SNI from ISPs and their blocking software. That made traffic a LOT harder to selectively target.

Yeah, poor phrasing on my part. What I meant to say is which do we prefer? I guess the latter since neither authoritarian governments nor IP rights holders care about the collateral? Though IIRC the collateral is also what got Russia to back off on (performatively) blocking Telegram.

The UK hasn't repealed/changed ePrivacy to allow for this, has it? Then again, they probably don't care because it wouldn't be enforced anyway.

Electric car drivers ‘spied on by government’ through phones Two-year mass surveillance project commissioned by Department for Transport under Tories

“At the DfT’s request, O2 trawled people’s web browsing habits, including those of children, to identify “EV users”. … It then tracked those people’s physical movements around the country and sent “anonymised and aggregated” data to the government.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/25c4107...

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

www.wired.com/story/data-b...

We keep looking for sophisticated explanations for the crisis of liberal democracy. Maybe the unsophisticated one — plain misogyny — deserves far more weight than it's been given. Ends

To me, the most salient and pervasive revelation from the Epstein emails isn't any single political conspiracy. It's the wall-to-wall misogyny. Explicit and implicit. It is as if behind the scenes, rich and powerful men watched Gamergate, then #MeToo — with horror. 1/

"If Europe succeeds in building a sovereign payment network, it could become a blueprint for what's possible"

The #Wero is still private bank money, but within a few years a truly sovereign #digitaleuro can open windows to entirely new digital economy architectures.

"AI is rapidly becoming a cybercriminal's best friend, serving as a force multiplier that is increasing attacker success rates at each stage of a campaign."

Again, this AI thing is going just great

Right now a substantial net negative on society IMO and I don't see that changing anytime soon

“Used stolen credentials” = phishing.

Also, the theft included “account numbers, account holder’s addresses, and tax identification numbers”? Yikes!

[Proposal] Native consent requirements in PDS: TOS acceptance, minimum age, etc. · bluesky-social pds · Discussion #325 Hi y'all, I'd like to propose adding native support for two account creation requirements that are a legal obligation for PDS operators in some jurisdictions (most notably under EU regulations like...

Started a new discussion about adding new requirements to describeServer in case anyone wants to join in: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/discussions/325

David Ellison Used Political Ties, Deep Pockets to Buy Warner Bros. After the board of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. concluded a meeting Thursday afternoon, Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav called David Ellison and Ted Sarandos to let them know the results. The boar...

when the U.S. press can get within 200 yards of acknowledging corruption, the parlance is always entertaining

"I am fully committed to deliver the first simplified version of the IRIS² system by 2029, and the full system soon after, in line with our goal to achieve defence readiness by 2030"

I don't know if the policy-technical takeaway here is that IPv4 has built-in censorship costs for censors (due to collateral damage resulting from shared IP addresses) or that IPv6 could have the potential to enable more targeted censorship if cloud servers didn't use shared IP addresses and SNI.

Not a single bill passes the filter… The European Commission considers that the draft bill on Sustainable Tourism in Andalusia is incompatible with the DSA technical-regulation-information-system.ec.europa.eu/en/notificat...

You have perverse incentives here. Since enforcement costs are externalized, the incentive is always to demand more, regardless of the social optimum.

Worse, any content is competition. Blocking other content is marginally a net positive.

Ughh, thanks! Daphne's three body problem issue also, but what else is new

… All without hearing the supposed offenders and without redress mechanisms for the innocent sites, services or end-users impacted. It's a procedural fraud. In collusion, they fabricated a dynamic, à la carte, injunction allowing ISP-block (many times entire shared IPs) without judicial oversight

Good, ought to be a teaching moment for the government

EU leaders once again failing the Orbán's extortion tactic test & seemingly ready to illegally bribe him to the tune of €16bn after illegally pushing Commission in Dec 2023 to give him a 10.2bn bribe. And they're doing so days after CJEU Advocate General advised CJEU to annul this decision/bribe..

Hey, it also could've been Italy! We've got to give credit where it's due.

This reminds me of a Brussels meeting, around the time of the EU Terrorist Content reg in 2017, wherein an EU staffer innocently suggested that it would be far easier to scrub the net of ISIS videos if Toyota was to simply exercise its IP rights over online imagery of its pick-up trucks.

Of COURSE it’s Spain. And OF COURSE it’s European sports league IP holders.

Those guys are such chaos agents.

But they sure have time to send me updates every so often about how they're continuing the handling of the complaint, which is somehow at an advanced stage (whatever that means) despite them taking months to just exchange documents between the parties and coming to a position on the complaint.

Yep! Amicable settlements (unfortunately legitimized by the procedural regulation) is how the DPC does away with the vast majority of complaints, because they don't want to handle them.

In my complaint against Google, I rejected the DPC's offer to settle and they suggested it again (for no reason)!

Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google?

Answer... No.

Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions.

Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.

The rule of (no) law for the most powerful...