European politicians and leaders must act NOW to protect democracy
Eine gute Nachricht vom @DeutscherWetterdienst gestern:
„📌 Wir ziehen weiter!
Zum 1. Juni 2025 lassen wir unsere Beiträge auf X ruhen.
Wir sind weiterhin mit aktuellen Wetterinfos, Klima-Themen & vielem mehr aktiv auf:
🌐 Mastodon: social.bund.de/@DeutscherWetterdienst
🌐 Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/dwdder… sowie Instagram, Facebook & Youtube!“
Bleibt zu hoffen, dass andere diesem guten Beispiel folgen!
#LeaveX @drk @bevoelkerungsschutz
🎤En direct de la conférence : "D'HelloQuitteX à EscapeX, une campagne sous influence" avec Benoît PIÉDALLU, le créateur d’EscapeX. Nous allons plonger dans la genèse de ce mouvement ! #SIivim #Adullact #EscapeX
At least for French politicians, we can soon ask them to stop using a porn website for their official communications. 😆
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-considers-requiring-musks-x-to-verify-users-age/
BREAKING: President Zelenskyy has offered to negotiate a peace deal between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
“I know Trump well. I know Musk well. I would get that war ended in a period of 24 hours. One hundred per cent, it would be easy. That deal would be easy.”
Twitter's new encrypted DM system stores your private key material on Twitter-owned services, protected with nothing more than a 4-digit PIN. If hostile, or if legally compelled to, Twitter could easily decrypt all your messages. It's also MITMable and doesn't secure metadata. Use Signal.
Marco Rubio, "Außenminister" des Trump-Regimes kündigt Einreise- und Visa-Beschränkungen für Teilnehmer der #rp25 an.
Diese würden sich öffentlich für die Regulierung US-amerikanischer Online-Plattformen aussprechen und damit die Meinungsfreiheit der US-Amerikaner einschränken.
"Ob in Lateinamerika, Europa oder anderswo – die Zeiten der nachsichtigen Behandlung jener, die die Rechte von Amerikanern untergraben, sind vorbei."
📣 The number of followers of German scientific institutions in the #Fediverse surpassed the 160k mark 💥 last weekend, see
👉 https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/?liste=institute-de
Yes, it's true: we shouldn't get caught up in this nonsensical discussion about #reach of #socialmedia.
On the other hand, it’s a great success 🏆 for initiatives such as #Unis4Mastodon, #Byebyeelon, #WissXit, #SaveSocial, @helloQuitX, @leavex and others that more than 150 research institutions in Germany are contributing to the expansion of the Fediverse.
To our friends in the #USA, we say that we are alarmed at how the new #USpolicy is attacking #science. We are trying to build decentralized and independent #socialnetworks to make our research institutions and democracy resilient to attacks from #autocrats and #hostilitytoscience.
And we think this transformation should happen in other countries, too, to strengthen #democracy.
This is such a powerful, beautiful, empowering TED Talk ❤️
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like
"Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, you are not gods. You are men, and you are careless."
"We are not poweless."
We're excited to announce that our initiative, Leave X, is joining the international campaign EscapeX to improve the digital public space!
Learn more at https://escape-x.org.
If you know someone who hasn't left X yet, share https://openportability.org with them. This app helps users finally leave one of the most harmful disinformation platforms.
X fuels hate, spreads disinformation, and pushes a far-right agenda. It’s time to move towards healthier, more democratic digital spaces!
STOP using corporate platforms! 🚨🛑
From demanding "real names", official IDs, and face scans destroying pseudonymity,
To carefully keeping track of everyone you interact with,
To tracking everything you do on the internet *outside* these platforms linking it back to your profile without your knowledge,
They will now utilize, process, tag, and judge everything you post to feed their AI models or sell it back to someone else's models.
It will only get *worse* from now.
You have no control whatsoever on what will be done with this AI-compiled profile of you later on.
The only solution to stay safe from their insatiable greed is to leave and delete,
before they eat you whole.
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #X #Twitter #Reddit #LinkedIn #Discord #Slack #Privacy #HumanRights #NoAI #AI
@_elena if a campaign logo counts, this profile consents.
Dear Fedi friends, I need your help!
We are working on motion graphics for the Fediverse promotional video... and we would love to do a sequence at the end with a mosaic of people's profile photos. For that, I need your consent.
If you'd like to have a small cameo in our video, can you let us know if we can use your profile pic?
Thanks! 🙏
Can you please boost this?
DANKE an - 128 Pressestellen der deutschsprachigen Wissenschaft - den @idw-online.de (auch für die schwer erfolgreiche X-Blacklist!) - Kurator & Ideengeber Bastian Herbst (#HumboldtLabor) - und wie immer @amreibahr.bsky.social und @mhundhausen.bsky.social!
#Grok auf X erkennt den „White Genocide“ als real an – ein rassistisches Narrativ, eine Lüge. Direkt in den Algorithmus gebaut. Sogar, wenn man Musks Chatbot nur nach Tulpen oder Brad Pitt fragt. Wie radikal muss Elon noch werden bis alle Demokraten den #eXit machen? #Manipulation #Desinformation
Essay: Refusing Tech Fascism · "We are only at the very beginning of conceptualizing anti-fascist tech, but the task is more urgent than ever." @tante
If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.
Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-is-making-users-who-opted-out-of-ai-training-opt-out-again-watchdog-says/
This is the random ass opt out URL, which isn’t advertised in their apps: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019
Instagram opt out: https://help.instagram.com/contact/233964459562201
Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).
But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.
Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever
#Twitter / X hat 11 Millionen User in der #EU verloren. In den #USA haben ca. 20% die Plattform verlassen, in #Großbritannien ca. 30%. Das sind ermutigende Zahlen!
Aber: viele Politiker:innen hierzulande treiben sich dort immer noch herum, als gäbe es den Irrsinn von #Musk und #Trump nicht. Sie füttern weiter das Sprachrohr der Faschisten, über die sie sich so oft aufregen. Heuchelei!
Liebe Politiker, zeigt Rückgrat und Moral, verlasst endlich X!
“Hate speech online, disinformation, and election interference—research is one of the tools we use to examine and combat these dangers on platforms. With today’s decision, we have achieved the important clarification that we were entitled to file suit here and have paved the way for further claims to access research data,” said Simone Ruf, litigation coordinator at @Freiheitsrechte
“The decision is a crucial step towards platform transparency. It confirms that researchers can turn to their national courts when platforms deny access to data or make it difficult to research data. This makes the DSA more relevant and actionable in the real world,” said Michael Meyer-Resende, Executive Director at DRI.
