This is so true. A bunch of the outlets that featured this kind of writing have disappeared, and many of the still-existing publications that used to pay people to do this kind of writing killed off those sections.
“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”
Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).
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.
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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia
Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy
The DSA and Platform Regulation conference is timely, excellent, and important Get a glimpse even if you cannot be there in person ⬇️
@ramshajahangir.bsky.social @pjleerssen.bsky.social @jvh.bsky.social @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ivir-uva.bsky.social
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
Abgeordnete Rebecca Lenhard (BÜNDNIS 90/ DIE GRÜNEN) Liegt der Bundesregierung ein vollständiger Überblick darüber vor, wie hoch die jährlichen Kosten der IT-Beschaffung über den Rahmenvertrag des Bundesministeriums des Innern für Microsoft-Lizenzen bei Bund, Ländern und Kommunen sind und wenn ja, wie hat sich dieses Volumen in den letzten fünf Jahren verändert? Antwort des Parlamentarischen Staatssekretärs Thomas Jarzombek vom 6. Februar 2026 Über die Beschaffung von Microsoft-Lizenzen auf Landes- und Kommunalebene liegen der Bundesregierung aufgrund der föderal verteilten Zuständigkeit für Beschaffungen in diesem Bereich keine konkreten Zahlen vor. Die unmittelbare und mittelbare Bundesverwaltung sowie Zuwendungsempfänger des Bundes beziehen Microsoft-Lizenzen in aller Regel aus einem Handelspartner-Rahmenvertrag, den die Zentralstelle IT‑Beschaffung (ZIB) ausgeschrieben hat. In den Jahren 2023 bis 2025 wurden Microsoft-Produkte mit folgenden Gesamtsummen (netto) daraus abgerufen. Dabei ist hinsichtlich der Vergleichbarkeit mit früheren Anfragen zu berücksichtigen, dass der hier durch die Fragestellung betroffene Kreis der Bezugsberechtigten über die Ressorts und nachgeordneten Behörden des Bundes hinausgeht. 2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro 2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro 2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro
Digitale Souveränität: Bundesbehörden haben letztes Jahr 481 Millionen Euro Steuergeld an Microsoft bezahlt. Eine Steigerung um drei Viertel in zwei Jahren. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/040/2...
The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.
This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
And why not ask a single expert to comment on such allegations, i wonder. This reads like a summary of the US congress committee report, only. A report which implies that all disinformation and platform election policy should go off the books, which is clearly absurd @irishtimes.com
CEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
Republicans in US congress are apparently more interested in publishing and commenting on the EC's DSA fine of X than ensuring the release of the Epstein files.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Tim Cook with Brett Ratner at the premiere screening of "Melania"
The same day Alex Pretti was murdered, Apple CEO Tim Cook, pictured here smiling with notorious sex pest and accused rapist Brett Ratner, enjoyed a gala screening of BRIBE: The Movie at the White House. Think Different, kids.
"as a tool of authoritarian conflict management, the Board of Peace arguably upholds three basic principles: Might is right, ethnic cleansing is an appropriate tool of conflict resolution, and war is an opportunity for real estate development."
read @danaelkurd.bsky.social
The Gestapo leader who oversees kidnappings promises consequences for exercising your First Amendment rights.
An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
I hope that people do realize that government disinformation is the legally easy case.
In a democracy that values freedom of expression, the people responsible in government would have to go.
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
The Trump admin's sanctions on researchers and regulators who work on content-moderation, fact-checking, and disinfo are part of an effort to protect the tech ecosystem that has allowed the the far right to flourish. Good piece from @davidakaye.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/the-trump-li...
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery.
I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.
In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
