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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
Michael
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Recovering #CyberSecurity specialist trying to build stuff instead.
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Alice Stollmeyer"When Moscow and Washington align around the same European leader, Europe cannot afford naïveté.
Our democracy, sovereignty and unity must never depend on external agendas."
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#EUCO #EUpol
original source (they're not on Mastodon?): https://bsky.app/profile/europeandemocrats.bsky.social/post/3mgtwv5zyw227
Street Art UtopiaAnd this in Boston.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop
Michael ShotterShout-out to Mozilla for providing a proper AI opt-out in Firefox. Nicely done. 👍 Your turn, Apple/Google.
Richard AudetteFirefox updated to version 148 on one of my PCs today, and introduced its AI controls - presenting AI features, a global and feature by feature enable/disable. I really like its implementation of on-device translation.
Firefox seems to get a lot of flak for not listening to users - for me, it remains one of my favourite and most used applications. This panel - like its reversal on terms of service March 2025, are examples of the opposite.
Glyn MoodyUS tells diplomats to lobby against foreign data sovereignty laws - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/us-tells-diplomats-to-lobby-against-foreign-data-sovereignty-laws/ get lost, matey
Pauline von HellermannRE: https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/116118729893851805
#Byelections today! Wishing Hannah Spencer, the #GreenParty, all the campaigners and all the citizens of Gorton and Denton who do not want a Reform MP the very best today. It matters SO MUCH!!
Remember: voting Green is the tactical vote. Really hoping and praying that everyone who was still planning to vote Labour will see this and back Hannah.
(Labour leadership prefer a Reform win to a Green win. Don’t listen to them. Not today, not ever. They are a shameful bunch).
George MonbiotBrainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s f...
The political effects of X’s f...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.
Alfie KohnIn case you worried that far-right politicians were just banning instructors from teaching disfavored content (e.g., slavery was bad; LGBTQ folks are human beings), it turns out they're also mandating curriculum content. So it's not just "Here's what you can't teach" but also "Here's what you must teach."
