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I saw so many responses and reposts yesterday. Lots of y'all said it helped you feel less alone.

I wanted to build on this a little, and gently ask/recommend that you choose kindness whenever possible (with others and yourself) because you never know; your kindness could make the difference.

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology. “It is nothing less than astonishing and unbelievable that we have achieved so much progress in so little time.” [theguardian.com]

Internes Protokoll: EU-Juristen kritisieren dänischen Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle Dänemark schlägt wieder eine weitreichende verpflichtende Chatkontrolle vor. Der Juristische Dienst des Rats bezeichnet auch diesen Vorschlag als rechtswidrig. Ob das Gesetz noch kommt, könnte von…

Das bekannte Stimmungsbild in EU-Staaten, der aktuelle Vorschlag ist auch nicht neu: EU-Juristen kritisieren Vorschlag zur #Chatkontrolle netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

Neue Perspektiven für die #Photovoltaik: Forschende u.a. des #KITKarlsruhe zeigen in @nature.com Energy den Stand und die Potenziale der hocheffizienten #Perowskit-Dünnschicht-Tandemsolarzellen. www.kit.edu/kit/202507-a...

SharePic Siegeszug der Populisten? Resilienz unserer Demokratie auf dem Prüfstand

Wie resilient ist unsere Demokratie? Wie können wir sie gegen populistische Angriffe verteidigen?

Heute Mega Line Up auf Online-Panel mit @paulinafroehlich.bsky.social & Prof. Hans Vorländer @forum-midem.bsky.social 💯
Und mir.

📅 04.07. 12.00 Uhr
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Live updates: House passes Trump's signature bill, sending it to the president's desk House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s signature bill, bringing $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and spending cuts, money for deportations and Medicaid cuts.

If any republican wins any elections within the next 25 years there's no chance my faith in humanity would ever be restored.

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Grafik mit Design des Tag der Informatik am KIT 2025 und Text: Tag der Informatik 2025 1.August 2025 Audimax Programm ab 16:00 Uhr Sektempfang & Registrierung Foyer Audimax 16:30 Uhr Akademische Feier Hörsaal Audimax Neues aus der Informatik Verabschiedung und Ehrung der Promovierten Alumnivortrag Ainara Miller-Askar, Solutions Architect, MongoDB Verabschiedung und Ehrung der Absolventinnen und Absolventen Anmeldung Wir bitten um Anmeldung unter dem Link im Post Als Absolvent:in oder Promovierte:r kommen Sie bitte am Veranstaltungstag zusätzlich an die Registrierung im Audimax- Foyer. Hier erhalten Sie ihr Namensschild und werden für die Urkundenvergabe erfasst. Die Registrierung ist ab 16:00 Uhr bis zum Beginn der Akademischen Feier besetzt. Nach der Akademischen Feier lädt Sie die Begabtenstiftung Informatik Karlsruhe herzlich zum Empfang und zur kleinen Sommerparty ein!

Am Tag der Informatik blicken wir auf das vergangene akademische Jahr zurück, würdigen herausragende Leistungen und verabschieden Absolventen.

Freitag, 01.08.2025 ab 16 Uhr im Audimax

Im Anschluss Empfang und kleine Sommerparty der Begabtenstiftung Informatik

Anmeldung über s.kit.edu/tdianmeldung

From a European perspective, maybe we should regulate the populist weapon that social media really is as long as we can, before risking our democracy to be dismantled, like the US American is right not.

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

Well this is a pretty huge problem.

…and also exactly why privacy folks been warning against normalizing facial recognition in govt the whole time

Germany tells Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country's app stores | TechCrunch Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores, saying the company transfers users' data to China illegally.

Germany tells Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores

Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker It’s a legal requirement for data brokers to register in the state of California. ARC, the airlines-owned data broker that has been selling your flight information to the government for years, only ju...

New from 404 Media: the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)—the data broker owned by airlines such as Delta, United, American—which has been selling your flight info to the government for years, only just registered as a data broker. Seems it violated California law www.404media.co/airline-owne...

Unglaublicher Wahnsinn, 215Mrd entsprächen 44% des aktuellen Bundeshaushalts, wie kann man so einen Unsinn unkommentiert berichten?

Symbolbild: KIT-Flaggen vor der Bibliothek am Campus Süd

Das #KITKarlsruhe hat sich im renommierten QS World University #Ranking erneut verbessert und gehört in der diesjährigen Ausgabe mit Platz 98 zu den besten 100 Hochschulen weltweit. Damit klettert das KIT im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um vier Plätze nach oben.
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KW 25: Die Woche, als wir zwei Datenschutz-Erfolge verbuchten Die 25. Kalenderwoche geht zu Ende. Wir haben 18 neue Texte mit insgesamt 129.462 Zeichen veröffentlicht. Willkommen zum netzpolitischen Wochenrückblick.

netzpolitikOrg wirkt: Unsere Recherchen zum unkontrollierten Handel mit Daten aus dem Ökosystem der Onlinewerbung haben inzwischen zu Durchsuchungen von Datenschutzbehörden bei zwei deutschen Unternehmen geführt. netzpolitik.org/2025/kw-25-d...

NATO einig bei Ausgaben-Ziel von fünf Prozent Die NATO hat bei den Verteidigungsausgaben eine Einigung erzielt. Das melden mehrere Nachrichtenagenturen. Demnach wollen sich die Bündnisstaaten bereit erklären, die Zielvorgabe auf mindestens fünf P...

Insanity. 5%GDP for weapons. We don't have money for climate action, we don't have money for refugees and to fight NAZIs, but we have 250bn euros (insteaof 51 now) PER YEAR to play big boys?
Complete insanity.

www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

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From thelifeofsharks.com

After an on-site audit, the Berlin GDPR regulator found that Berlin-based location data broker Adsquare has been processing personal data unlawfully at scale, as disclosed in its annual report and confirmed to netzpolitik org:
www.datenschutz-berlin.de/jahresberich...
netzpolitik.org/2025/nach-un...

But... But.. "innovation!1!!1!"
(And who would supply "intelligence" agencies with all the information they aren't allowed to collect, otherwise...)

Maybe June 17, 1953 needs a Hollywood remake 🤔

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

YouTube video by Harald Fairhair Air from Hair the musical

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No one should be surprised when a planet that accumulates heat more than twice as fast starts to see temperatures go up more than twice as fast.

This isn't rocket science, but we do need more of these NASA satellites. 🌍🛰

To keep us from going blind.

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I literally almost passed out with joy just now.

We explored what breaks, what might still work, and why understanding and protecting behavioral data is one of the toughest-and most important-challenges in privacy today.

Slides available online upon request :-)

💪 @kastel-labs.bsky.social and CeTI at work 💪

From gait and gaze to WiFi signals and XR avatars-our bodies reveal far more than we think. I shared empirical results showing how easy it is to re-identify individuals in so-called “anonymized” datasets, even when advanced techniques like federated learning or differential privacy are applied.

I had the pleasure of giving a keynote APVP '25 in Poitiers yesterday on a topic that’s becoming increasingly urgent: the (non-existing) privacy of behavioral biometrics.

From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.

Oh and so does one ministry in Denmark, the ministry of digital transformation:

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