@EU_Dempsey

Not the only issue, but the plaintiff in this case appears to have relied on some fake judgments due to use of AI 🙄

What Israel/US is doing to Iran is horrifying but it doesn’t compare to what Israel, with full US support, is doing to Lebanon and Palestine. Not even close x.com/mamoun_linda...

The success of the DMA regime will depend on many factors, and one of them is the role of civil society in shaping the agenda and the narrative.
Konstantina Bania and I have invited to very noticeable speakers to discuss.
🟢 full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf9o...

Many thanks @oandriychuk.bsky.social - it a fun and wide-ranging discussion!

This is absolutely INSANE! Israel has attacked Israel and Lebanon, unprovoked, but for the EU Hezbollah is the problem. 🤷‍♂️

If your business model doesn’t work without your company becoming an accessory to murder, then you are not in business.

You’re in organized crime.

Europe’s impotence extends to energy The political momentum behind decarbonising the continent’s energy system has dissipated

Quite. @martinsandbu.ft.com "The war on Iran has again exposed the EU’s impotence, not just over world affairs but over its own economic prospects...they risk entrenching rather than reducing the bloc’s vulnerability." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A critical journalist and migration activists targeted in the same #Paragon spyware attack. Who had the means & motive: the Italian government. No-one else has a motive, and spyware is expensive and not sold to normal citizens. Like in other EU countries spyware is being used for political purposes.

So Axel Springer has bought the UK’s Telegraph?

Makes sense.

A war with no winners: The costs of US-Israeli aggression on Iran – European Council on Foreign Relations US and Israeli strikes on Iran have plunged the Middle East into wider war. Retaliation, regional entanglements and disrupted trade make one outcome clear: no s

Our big @ecfr.eu 360° reaction piece to the Iran conflict, assessing regional & global positioning, risks and implications as the war plays out in devastating fashion across the Middle East - and beyond ecfr.eu/article/a-wa...

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Utterly hopeless. EU’s complete lack of integrity and courage has hugely contributed to this. As a European, beyond ashamed. Pathetic.

But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.

Gotta say the BBC radio 4 today description of Trump’s State of the Union as some sort of mild mannered, well orchestrated speech doesn’t tally at all with the clips I’ve watched

Listening to Sarah Smith talking so effusively about Trump’s speech can’t help thinking about *that* lawsuit….

Regulate platforms, not children – Commissioner urges caution over social media bans - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 23 February 2026

Several European countries are considering social media bans for children. We must regulate platforms, not children.
I urge caution:
✅ Focus on "safety by design"
✅ Demand algorithmic transparency
✅ Enforce the #DSA & #HumanRights standards

Read my Shout Out👇
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This is exactly it @martinsandbu.ft.com "Aiming solely for resilience obscures any consideration of countervailing power that Europe itself possesses and could wield against others." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Digitale Souveränität in Bayern: Noch mehr Geld für Microsoft - Golem.de Seit Monaten wird Bayerns Regierung wegen ihrer Microsoft-Verhandlungen kritisiert. Jetzt kommt raus: Microsoft-Verträge ohne Ausschreibung gibt es schon seit Jahren.

Albert Füracker needs to resign for his lies and utter incompetence. Great reporting. www.golem.de/news/digital...

EPP targeting S&D-led Spain is also not new, see derailed Ribera hearing. But turning RoL protection partisan by naming Spain and not e.g. EPP-led Greece, ranked 89th on RSF press freedom index (even HU ranks 68th) & 48th on WJP rule of law index, does RoL no service: www.eppgroup.eu/newsroom/rul...

In documents produced in US litigation, we've gotten a small window into how online platforms measure harms and their mitigations. Why aren't DSA risk assessments -- which are designed for just this purpose -- actually assessing risk?

While Amazon touts the surveillance state enabled by its Ring cameras, remember...

Amazon's U.S. tax bill dropped by 87% in 2025, mostly thanks to Trump's tax cuts.

Meanwhile, its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion — and it announced 30,000 job cuts.

Is this the world we want to live in?

Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis The continent’s old growth model no longer works in today’s world. And EU leaders need a plan that matches the scale of this shift.

When EU leaders meet tomorrow to discuss the EU’s competitiveness agenda, they should stop chasing ghosts and confront the real problem Europe‘s economy is facing.

Our latest for @politico.eu with @nilsredeker.bsky.social and @sandertordoir.bsky.social 👇

just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

Mark O'Connell: ‘We must delete the humans,’ the AI bot told his internet pals. But let’s not panic yet Moltbook is an internet forum modelled closely on Reddit - except it is only used by AI bots

“The issue, as so often, is not machine intelligence; it’s the foolishness and delusion of humans.”

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Good essay "I proposed that this was similar to the appeal of “effective altruism”, the neo-utilitarian moral theory popular among students and tech bros, which reduces moral questions to basic calculations of effectiveness. “Exactly,” he said. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Tech wreck signals a market reset Rising tide might no longer support all sector stocks, let alone speculative dross like crypto

Pause for thought. “So far this year, the software sector is down 16 per cent, she said, while the long-unloved Stoxx Europe 600 index, crammed with nice dull commodity producers, utilities, industrials and financials, is up 4 per cent.”

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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Who fucking cares???

I’ve been begging for some CEOs to show some backbone.
I bet a lot of customers would seek out ways to support such CEOs’ companies.

really excellent assessment of House GOP claims about EU fine of X, showing just how seriously hollow the claims of censorship are.

jordan & musk & friends overreach when they put out such patently tendentious reports, which could be boiled down to: don't you ever touch american platforms!