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Interview: The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right

How Silicon Valley’s toxic libertarianism evolved into a global far-right propaganda machine, and why tech journalists failed to sound the alarm.

And what happens next with AI, surveillance, & billionaire power?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA

#USPol #EUPol #TechFascism #AI #Democracy .

The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right

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Europe, our home 🌍

Today, we celebrate the European dream and the values that bring us together.

The Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 laid the groundwork for the European Union that we know today.

And if you are in Brussels or nearby, come celebrate and visit us, at our Berlaymont building.

Europe Day is your day! 💙

Come visit us: https://commission.europa.eu/europe-day_en

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

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@letsencrypt is in the middle of an active incident. Issuance of new certs has ceased. Heads up. https://letsencrypt.status.io/
Let's Encrypt Status

Support for Let's Encrypt services is community-based and information on current status and outages can be found at: https://community.letsencrypt.org

Bedankt voor al je mooie en waardevolle bijdragen, over de 'perfide invloed van Big Tech', degelijk (journalistiek) onderzoek en nodig verzet https://www.spaink.net/2026/05/08/exit-spaink/
"Voor de dood ben ik niet bang.
Wat ik wél altijd vreesde, is afhankelijkheid."

Rust zacht, Karin Spaink ❤️

A new study in The Lancet shows that the rate of fake citations increased more than 12x between Jan 2023 and Feb 2026.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext

#AI #Citations #Hallucinations

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285

The day the Universe changed (a tiny bit)🖖

Europe could usher a fantastically better digital society if it could only stop fawning at whatever the "move fast and break things" techbros have inflicted on us. 🇪🇺

Even faster now.

Again, these pages are randomly generated, and each line is a page request from a crawler.

To think of the energy expended at a global scale, the waste. All the money, water & minerals thrown at this. These AI companies are near DoS'ing the human web as they deep-sea trawl our content.

Computationally, infrastructurally, & culturally, it's an obscenity,

Somehow digital tech turning unapologetically evil in the hands of a tiny minority will force society to re-examine the whole thing. Not sure exactly how it will happen, but it will. I mean yes, deeply flawed species, deserves an asteroid extinction etc, but let's not undersell ourselves. There is hope 🌱
have we tried putting all the cruise ships together so they can build up herd immunity