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Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty

Simply to say the words “I stand with Palestine Action” is now an offence. If I were to say those words, I could be sent to jail. So could you, writes Ronan Bennett.
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two men are looking at each other and one has a shirt that says beauty on it Alt: I have a couple questions

She calls the fines on Apple and Meta "enforcement" but we all know that those fines were basically giving a parking ticket to a full-size tanker truck full of heroin. Will that stop trafficking?

OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

"OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with AI tools."

Just wait 'til you see what the hallucinations cook up here.
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/o...

NEW: It looks like Palantir is helping Trump build a mega-database of Americans' private information so he can target and spy on his enemies, or anyone. @aoc.bsky.social and I are demanding answers directly from Palantir.

Did Meta deploy Russian technology and tactics to monitor and track activities of billions? Especially in current circumstances it would be very concerning. This must be investigated and explained in full transparency. It’s 2025.

Thought I’d take a break from the internet by looking at art. Now can’t unsee the parallels to current political and techno solutionist hubris.

“Firefox, Microsoft Edge and DuckDuckGo browsers were also affected”

This from @rachelgriffin.bsky.social looks great on DSA “systemic risks.” I 💯 agree that this framing depoliticizes (or just hides) distributive/ideological conflicts.
I take from that a fear of govt. Who will call the shots at the Commission? She fears platform capture. Porque no los dos, I guess…

Big Tech’s AI Endgame Is Coming Into Focus One app to rule them all

For a long time, the “bargain” companies claimed to offer was some surveillance in return for “relevant ads,” ostensibly free platforms, & algorithmic suggestions.

The next “bargain” is all-consuming surveillance in return for a system they claim will know you, interpret your world & direct you.

Microsoft didn’t cut services to International Criminal Court, its president says Chief prosecutor’s email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad.

This @politico.eu article about whether Microsoft suspended ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan's email account or not, or whether they might do that to European official, is somewhat confusing word salad.

Let's disentangle it a bit.

www.politico.eu/article/micr...

YouTube video by FNV Hoger onderwijs: staak opnieuw mee op 10 juni 2025! #fnv #news #actie #onderwijs #hbo #wo

Op 10 juni voeren we weer actie!
Filmpje van @fnv.bsky.social
youtu.be/qlHTza5KvUw

Meta is working on a high-tech helmet for the U.S. military Social network company Meta is partnering with weapons-maker Anduril to develop military technology for the Pentagon using AI and augmented reality.

Meta is a defense contractor. "The company announced on Thursday that it will work with defense technology start-up Anduril to offer the U.S. military and its allies technology for soldiers involving augmented reality and artificial intelligence software."

Microsoft’s vast advertising business is target of ICCL Enforce application for class action launch under EU data law Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU

www.iccl.ie/digital-data... Today we apply in court to take a class action against the massive data breach at the heart of Microsoft’s advertising system (Real Time Bidding “RTB”)

there’s been no more effective force at normalizing mass surveillance than US tech companies

Great event on the intersection of academic freedom and surveillance, just announced!

www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm...

Online surveillance is justified by a narrative that it helps to ‘optimise’ ie rationalise advertising. Aside from the law & ethics of that, it can’t even be possible if the metrics are made up by platforms, as also discussed in Subprime Attention Crisis by @timhwang.bsky.social

This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value” As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and...

‘Other communications show that researchers worked to remove the copyright pages from the books they had downloaded.’

If you’re a writer or artist of any kind, this piece will turn your stomach.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

A new bill would allow the Danish domestic intelligence service (PET) to combine health and social security data with data from social media and 'movements around the internet and in the physical world' (autotranslate), and use an analysis platform to identify suspicious patterns in large data sets:

Reminders:

"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.

Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.

Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.

Never again is now.

Quote from our published article by authorNikolaus von Bernuth: “The DSA’s regulatory framework rests on a central premise: a baseline level of trust in the good faith of its addressees. Considering the rapid politicisation and reorientation of major very large online platforms (VLOPs), this premise is seriously challenged.”

Will the DSA's regulatory framework withstand the growing political influence of tech giants?

NIKOLAUS VON BERNUTH (@nbernuth.bsky.social) examines the risks the DSA faces as platforms increasingly act outside the regulations.

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'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade I've reported on Facebook for years and have always wondered: Does Facebook care what it is doing to society? Careless People makes clear it does not.

I wrote about Careless People, an infuriating yet very cathartic read that definitively answers the questions: Does Facebook know the damage it's causing? (yes) and Does it care? (no)

www.404media.co/careless-peo...

This Thursday, Tilburg University will strike!

Though the main programme starts at 12:30 in the city center (Willemsplein), teach-outs will take place all over the city.

See below for the most recent schedule, which includes two extra locations as compared to the one shared last week.