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Tech society posts and shares from Dr Pen, Digital Media & Humanities academic based in Malta, from London. Late bloomer, a bit pithy.
#UserExperience #UGC
#DataSociety #DigitalSociety #SmartCities
#smalltech #webdev
#Fediverse #openeducation #knowledgecommons #opensocialweb
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The ecosystem behind Telegram’s abuse networks.
An AI Forensics investigation revealed a network of nearly 25 000 users across Italy and Spain spreading non-consensual sexual images of women, and child sexual abuse material (CSAM), on Telegram.
“There is a sort of shared pedagogy of sexual violence – one that is facilitated by the platform and knows no geographic borders”.
#Telegram #CSAM #SocialMedia #Tech #Italy #Spain #Doxxing #Deepfakes
The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.
We're taking decisive action to enforce open, fair, and contestable digital markets. Our measures had real consequences:
🛡️ Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices
⌚ Required strict hardware interoperability for smartwatches and connected wearables
☁️ Launched three investigations into dominance in cloud services and into search engines hiding media
Accountability is here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/YTddh6
Interesting book: "**Transforming universities with an equity focus"**, focusing on decentralisation. This complements my submitted paper to Digital Society (Transformation through decentralisation: learning, democracy and technological sovereignty). If I get the chance I'll add this book to citations.
- blogpost: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/transforming-universities-with-an-equity-focus/
- download PDF/epub: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0520
via Radical Open Access Collective
#fediverse #decentralisation #digitalsovereignty #academia #academicchatter
Almost half of Gen Z says AI is making them dumber
https://www.fastcompany.com/91539232/almost-half-of-gen-z-says-ai-is-making-them-dumber
LinkedIn has always been trash. But now it's almost entirely slop.
Corporate executives are paying Filipinos to use AI to ghostwrite posts which these same people then reply to with congratulatory comments.
This is the doom loop future internet that oligarchs want everywhere. https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/
People worry AI will replace programmers.
Lol. Have you seen the code it trains on? Half the internet is one regex away from a national emergency.
Thank God I listened to @gruber when he said to try Kagi. I’ve been using it for a year, and just renewed with a family pro plan last week!
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/