Wietze Brandsma 🏴‍☠️

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Software Engineer | Free Open Source Software #FOSS | MSc Applied Mathematics | Kandidaat #5 Piratenpartij TK2025 | Board member
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RE: https://newsie.social/@TheViking/116321947715561180

Hey folks, just discovered a very cool account here...

Lillian @TheViking

What Lillian does is present, usually without commentary, various random short video clips, images and news items, like the post below.

Just scrolling through her profile page has been very interesting and entertaining. Looking forward to following and boosting posts from this great account!

This is a big deal. Court finds Meta and Google liable for kids’ social media addiction under product liability theories. This strategy gets around Section 230 protections because the focus is on the platforms’ product designs, not the content posted by users. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-25/social-media-lawsuit-trial-meta-google-verdict
Landmark verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids

The outcome Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court is potentially precedent-setting for thousands of other pending lawsuits nationwide and could reshape how tech companies are held accountable for children's harm caused by their products.

Los Angeles Times

State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/31/actual-federalist-society/#mayday
Donald Trump has announced his intention to steal the midterms with a voter suppression law.

This voter suppression campaign is Trump's number one policy priority

Pluralistic: State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms (31 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

De feiten liggen op tafel. Het mechanisme is bekend. De cyclus herhaalt zich. We kunnen woekerwinsten voorkomen en gewone mensen beschermen https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/oil-crisis-research-rich-costs-wealth-redistribute
Wat ontbreekt, is niet kennis. De vraag is of er politieke wil is.
We can tell you who will really get rich from this oil crisis – and how we can stop them

Soaring oil costs signal the great transfer of wealth away from households, but also a new opportunity to redistribute it, say economists Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk

The Guardian

The question is not whether there will be extraordinary fossil fuel profits this time. The question is how much, who will receive them, and whether governments have the will to intervene.

Soaring oil costs signal the great transfer of wealth away from households, but also a new opportunity to redistribute it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/oil-crisis-research-rich-costs-wealth-redistribute

We can tell you who will really get rich from this oil crisis – and how we can stop them

Soaring oil costs signal the great transfer of wealth away from households, but also a new opportunity to redistribute it, say economists Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk

The Guardian

However, most of today’s global economy is run by giant corporations that set their own prices, and our research shows that cost shocks helped them coordinate price hikes. They did not swallow the cost of pandemic and war but pushed it on to consumers, protecting their margins and lifting their bottom line in the process.

This is sellers’ inflation.

Corporations transmit price explosions in essential inputs across the whole economy through their own price-setting, ultimately causing inflation.

The world energy shock is coming https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2026/03/the-world-energy-shock-is-coming
The US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran will provoke a global economic catastrophe
The world energy shock is coming

Do you remember the days when the world already knew that there was a Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan and that it was spreading rapidly, but you were not under lockdown yet? An in-between moment when it wa

New Statesman
De aasgieren van het auteursrecht https://taaldokter.nl/de-aasgieren-van-het-auteursrecht/
Achternaamloze, krukkig juridisch Nederlands schrijvende inningsmaffia incasseert buitenproportionele sommen gelds bij particulieren en kleine zelfstandigen, wegens vermeende auteursrechtschendingen.
De aasgieren van het auteursrecht – Taaldokter.nl

Wie volgt met een desinfecterend zonnetje voor de fototrollen?

https://taaldokter.nl/de-aasgieren-van-het-auteursrecht/

De aasgieren van het auteursrecht – Taaldokter.nl