Mastodawn

The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney).

"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

#CanPoli #CanadianPolitics #CanadaPolitics

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

The European Union should focus on regulating large social media platforms instead of imposing bans for minors to use them, Estonia’s Education Minister Kristina Kallas said on Friday. Europe…

POLITICO

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺18h ago

The Toast Man 19h ago

Sorry everybody. I appear to be angry about politics this morning. And whilst that makes for good social media engagement, I really do try my very best to avoid it because it makes me crazy. And I don't mean hyperbolically - I mean it makes me breakdown and disassociate and fall into an infinite black sea of poisonous angry depression, which takes me days and sometimes weeks to come back out of, destroying everything that is good in my life. So I'm keen not to do that. Let us move through it and over it. Billy Joel said it best - 'Oh, la, la-la, di-dee-da. La-la, di-dee-da, da-dum' - wise words I'm sure you'll agree. Anyway let's change the subject. Who wants to hear about some guy smuggling thousands of individually packed ants to illegally sell to what are apparently known as 'ant enthusiasts'? Yeah you do....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz788z27j2jo

Chinese national sentenced to a year in prison for smuggling ants out of Kenya

Zhang Kequn was arrested in March while trying to travel to China with more than 2,000 live ants.

BBC News

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺1d ago

Richard Littler 1d ago

If anyone is in the Whitehaven area, could you pop over to the Jawas and ask if they have any secondhand droids for sale, thanks.

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺2d ago

JuneSim63 💚2d ago

The UK is seeking to grant ministers wide-ranging new powers to rewrite significant portions of the Online Safety Act through amendments tucked into two unrelated bills.

The changes would allow ministers to amend the act by adding as much as a third to the regulatory regime using so-called Henry VIII clauses, limiting Parliament to a simple yes-or-no vote on an unforeseeable number of new rules, rather than full debate or amendment.

#OnlineSafetyAct #UKPolitics #AI

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-online-safety-act-ai-harms-government-labour-grok-elon-musk/

UK plan to tackle AI harms would ‘bypass democratic process’

The government is seeking powers to allow ministers to rewrite significant portions of the Online Safety Act

openDemocracy

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺2d ago

Ben Pate 🤘🏻2d ago

Have you seen this news?

#Mastodon just got funding to add end to end encryption into their software.

So, some time next year, you’ll be able to send truly private messages to the vast majority of the #Fediverse

Im so excited about this.

Because it’s an open spec, this opens the doors for every Fediverse app to join the party.

Yesterday, this project was a proof of concept. Today, Mastodon has turned it into a stampede.

#E2EE

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

Sovereign Tech Agency funding

Announcing a service agreement for new work to improve Mastodon and the broader ecosystem.

Mastodon Blog

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺2d ago

Yorkshire Bylines 2d ago

What needs to happen to get the UK back into the EU? | Evidence suggests that Brexit has been bad for the UK and a majority of the public now agree but should we – can we – rejoin the EU? | John Cole
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/what-needs-to-happen-to-get-the-uk-back-into-the-eu/?fsp_sid=4710

What needs to happen to get the UK back into the EU?

Evidence suggests that Brexit has been bad for the UK and a majority of the public now agree but should we – can we – rejoin the EU?

Yorkshire Bylines | Powerful Citizen Journalism

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺3d ago

James R.B. Eastwood 3d ago

The boys accidentally turned on the radio this morning, and tuned it to static. I set out to re-tune it to WQXR (Classical) and wound up on WBGO (Jazz). They were transfixed, and wanted to know where the music was coming from, and if there would be another song after this one. I explained there is a person who works in an office with shelves full of records, and when the song finishes that person will choose the next one. They didn't want to go to school until they heard the DJ's next song.

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺3d ago

Michael 3d ago

How Trump’s support delivered the kiss of death to Orban’s election chances https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hungary-election-viktor-orban-europe-magyar-b2956377.html

How Trump’s support delivered the kiss of death to Orban’s election chances after landslide defeat

The Hungarian PM had sought the backing of the Trump administration to see his struggling party over the line in elections to shape the future of Europe. Instead, it appears that the President’s backing may have harmed his chance, writes James C. Reynolds

The Independent

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺4d ago

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Ged Maheux 4d ago

Viktor Orbán passed a law labeling gay people as pedophiles. He banned Budapest Pride and made it a criminal offense to attend with €500 fines organizers facing prison time. And when people showed up anyway, he let police use facial recognition to hunt them down at the parade.

Millions of Hungarians stood in lines for hours to say they've had enough.

I pray we are inspired by them. #USPolitics

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺4d ago

Sheryl Weikal 4d ago

HOLY SHIT ORBAN LOST

GOOD RIDDANCE ASSHOLE