I shared this on FB but wanted to post here too. Prompted by ppl like Paris Marx recent posts.
Technosocial contracts could gate #bigtech access, and mitigate the unsustainable stealing of open web knowledge by extractive #BigAI for vast profit.
All #universities shld run prof dev in #DigitalSovereignty, what it means, affects, how it works. Its part of basic #digitalliteracy for #academia to have an informed criticality about what is going on in the world.
𝖬𝖤𝖳𝖠 𝖡𝖴𝖲𝖳𝖤𝖣 𝖥𝖮𝖱 𝖲𝖤𝖫𝖫𝖨𝖭𝖦 𝖣𝖱𝖴𝖦𝖲 𝖮𝖭 𝖥𝖠𝖢𝖤𝖡𝖮𝖮𝖪/𝖨𝖭𝖲𝖳𝖠𝖦𝖱𝖠𝖬 & 𝖱𝖤𝖯𝖴𝖡𝖫𝖨𝖢𝖠𝖭𝖲 𝖳𝖠𝖯 𝖳𝖱𝖴𝖬𝖯 𝖩𝖱. 𝖠𝖲 𝖦𝖮𝖯 𝖲𝖴𝖢𝖢𝖤𝖲𝖲𝖮𝖱
https://odysee.com/@TheRingOfFire:c/meta-busted-for-selling-drugs-on:a
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#meta #socialmedia #ads #drugs #News #bigtech #facebook #instagram
#VorausschauendesHandeln ist unbequem.
Heutzutage will es aber die Mehrheit bequem. Auf die #Bequemlichkeit zielt #Werbung gezielt ab u. hat Erfolg damit.
Bequemlichkeit meine ich nicht nur im körperl. Sinn sondern auch im geistigen.
Das Smartphone verleitet zu geistiger Trägheit.
Heerscharen von Wissenschaftlern forschen im Auftrag von #BigTech dazu, wie sich der User lange in der App halten lässt, damit Werbung wirkt.
#Reichweitenmessung von Werbung ist zur wirtsch. Manie geworden!
AIMindUpdate News!
🚀⚡️💰 Did you know big tech is skewing AI rankings? New study reveals concerning manipulation on chatbot leaderboards. #AI #Chatbots #BigTech
Click here↓↓↓
https://aimindupdate.com/2025/05/03/ai-wars-big-techs-leaderboard-deception-exposed
Kennen jullie de serie Person of Interest en “The Machine”, een tv serie wat over een alwetende AI gaat dat alles en iedereen in de gaten houdt. Ik merk dat mijn gedachtes hier steeds weer naar toe gaan. Is dat waar we naar toe gaan of zijn we daar al?
Soms vraag ik mij af, als je bezwaar indient tegen AI trainingen (met meta bijv.) of een account indient om te verwijderen. Wordt dit dan wel gedaan? Hoe betrouwbaar zijn die diensten?
DOJ Signals Intent to Dismantle Google’s Ad Tech Empire; Schedules September Trial
#Google #Alphabet #Antitrust #DOJ #AdTech #BigTech #Regulation #GoogleSearch #GoogleAds #Monopoly #TechNews #Legal
@heisec@social.heise.de
#BigTech #Microsoft #Windows - so wichtig 🤷🤦🤡🤮🤮🤮
#OpenSource #FOSS
"[T]he more I see what the Trump administration and the tech billionaires are doing, the more I feel I can’t wait for governments to get their acts together. For the past several weeks, I’ve started identifying digital services from companies outside the United States and testing them to see if I can find reasonable alternatives to the US platforms and companies I currently rely on.
There are still places where reasonable alternatives are hard to find, or where the only ones available are made by coders for their own — the type of thing I can never recommend to a wider audience. But even with that said, I’ve found there are more options than I expected — and many of them don’t require the compromises I thought would be necessary. There is always the friction of switching and getting used to something new, but that honestly doesn’t take long to get over.
I know I’m not going to be able to fully disconnect from the US tech economy. Some platforms will be harder to give up than others, particularly when I need to use popular social media platforms to share my work. I’m also not getting rid of my Macbook and iPhone, at least for now, and even when I do find good alternatives, some of them are still on AWS or another US cloud service.
I still have some more testing to do and categories to explore, but in the next few weeks I plan to do a much longer write up on what I’ve found and what services you might consider if you want to join me in reducing your reliance on US tech platforms."
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-im-getting-off-us-tech
#USA #Trump #Tariffs #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #SiliconValley
@wurzelmann@mastodon.wurzelmann.at
#NieWiederMicrosoftIstJetzt
Und hier schon seit 20 Jahren.
#Microsoft #BigTech #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #Nachhaltigkeit #Datenschutz #TeamDatenschutz
Recently on Twitch I've been repeatedly shown an ad for a lingerie brand that is pornographic by most definitions of the word. I do not want to view pornography.
There is no way to skip this ad. I have to minimize my browser, look away, etc. There is no way to block it. I did find a way to provide feedback, and I did so. But there is no guarantee I won't be shown such ads in the future.
I've already been on the fence about being done with Twitch, but this has probably pushed me over.
Specific ad content aside, the quantity of ads we are exposed to EVERYWHERE these days - online and in real life - is out of control. And it's only getting worse.
We must do whatever is necessary to protect our attention and our time. Even if it means we must stop or avoid certain activities so that we are not exposed to this pernicious content. It's one of the reasons I deleted all my legacy social media accounts and have found refuge in the Fediverse.
#ads #Twitch #attentionEconomy #fediverse #socialMedia #bigTech #amazon
Jeff Bezos Plans To Sell Amazon Stock Worth Up To $5B
#News #Amazon #Bigtech #BoardofDirectors #JeffBezos #Stock
https://deadline.com/2025/05/jeff-bezos-amazon-stock-1236384056/
"In this paper, I explain why the EU’s support for OSS and open standards dissipated between 2004 and 2010 despite the EU’s unchanged, unequivocally positive rhetoric about OSS and open standards, and despite the continuing dominance of Microsoft in the EU’s software market. My research [..] offers valuable insights into the current and future landscape of AI governance in the EU."
Nachdem ich nicht nur eine (und viele andere auch!) #Dystopie 1) sondern über ein Dutzend Realität werden sehe, und keiner weiss, was übermorgen in der Retrospektive verboten sein wird (#GreatFirewallOfChina, #Palantir, Massenausweisungen von ausländischen Studenten durch #USgov, usw.), halte ich es für extrem gefährlich, #BigTech aus #China oder den #USA #PII oder #Metadaten...
Het kabinet komt met kaders om afhankelijkheid van #BigTech te verminderen https://www.security.nl/posting/886444/
Nu nog zorgen voor voldoende aandacht voor het #onderwijs !
Jeff Bezos Plans to Sell $4.75 Billion of Amazon Shares as Company Navigates Tariffs and Taxes
#Amazon #JeffBezos #AMZN #StockMarket #StockSale #Tariffs #TradeWar #Ecommerce #BigTech #USEconomy #Politics #Trump #AWS
Meta AI Copyright Case: Judge Signals Market Harm, Not Piracy As Key Test For "Fair Use"
#Meta #AICopyright #FairUse #CopyrightLaw #GenAI #LLaMA #AIethics #KadreyVMeta #SarahSilverman #TechLaw #BigTech
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Envisions Fully Automated AI Advertising, Cutting Out Ad Agencies
#Meta #AI #Llama4 #MarkZuckerberg #GenAI #Advertising #AdTech #OpenSourceAI #LLMs #MetaAI #LlamaAPI #FutureofAds #TechNews #BigTech #API
Destroying Autocracy – May 01, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Happy May Day! Cast off your chains.
Featured Item(s)
Cory Doctorow writes:
The point of AI isn’t to make workers more productive, it’s to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses.
Tech workers are workers, and they once held the line against enshittification, refusing to break the things they’d built for their bosses in meaningless all-nighters motivated by vocational awe. Long after tech bosses were able to buy all their competitors, capture their regulators, and expand IP law to neutralize the threat of innovative, interoperable products like alternative app stores, ad-blockers and jailbreaking kits, tech workers held the line.
There’ve been half a million US tech layoff since 2023. Tech workers’ scarcity-derived power has been vaporized. Tech workers can avoid the fate of the factory, warehouse and delivery workers their bosses literally work to death — but only by unionizing.
In other words, the workers in re-shored factories and tech workers need the same thing. They are class allies — and tech bosses are their class enemies. This is class war.
The enshittification of tech jobs
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
Tech Policy reports:
Labor Unions Can Counterbalance the Big Tech Oligarchy, But Only If They Rediscover Their Power
Expats Czechia reports:
Court rules that Czechia collects phone data illegally in landmark decision
Mashable reports:
Elon Musk’s X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Calyx Institute: A Case Study in Grassroots Innovation
EFF Leads Prominent Security Experts in Urging Trump Administration to Leave Chris Krebs Alone
EuroNews reports:
EU governments discuss action on disinformation over climate policy
Fast Company reports:
How Big Tech’s Faustian bargain with Trump backfired
Framablog has:
The Verge reports:
A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store
The Register reports:
Cook’d: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges
Double awesome.
Neutral
The Register reports:
DARPA to ‘radically’ rev up mathematics research. And yes, with AI
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety has:
Science and Causality in Technology Litigation
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
TechDirt has:
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Ars Technica reports:
Trump’s hasty Take It Down Act has “gaping flaws” that threaten encryption
The Register reports:
DOGE may help Elon Musk’s biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe
Framablog looks at:
L’État artificiel : la vie civique automatisée
Pariah States
BleepingComputer reports:
France ties Russian APT28 hackers to 12 cyberattacks on French orgs
DarkReading has:
Putin’s Cyberattacks on Ukraine Rise 70%, With Little Effect
Adversaries Are Toying With US Networks & DC Is Short on Answers
Billbug Expands Cyber-Espionage Campaign in Southeast Asia
The Register reports:
China now America’s number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed
Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users
Big Media
NPR reports:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues Trump after he tries to fire board members
The Daily Beast reports:
MAGA Billionaire Leads L.A. Times to Lose $50 Million
Ars Technica reports:
CBS owner Paramount reportedly intends to settle Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit
Big Tech
Semafor reports:
The group chats that changed America
The Guardian reports:
Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators
Meta slowest to remove scam content, says City watchdog
TechCrunch reports:
Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors
OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations
404 Media has:
Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
Mbin or PieFed, peeps.
This Is Palantir’s Justification for Building ICE’s Master Database
Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Lawfare covers:
Advancing Secure by Design through Security Research
404 Media reports:
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
The Markup reports:
How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn
BleepingComputer reports:
Hackers ramp up scans for leaked Git tokens and secrets
FBI shares massive list of 42,000 LabHost phishing domains
Tech Policy Press reports:
Reverse Keyword Search Warrants and the Threat to Online Privacy
The Jacobin reports:
Big Tech Wants Free Rein to Sell Your Data
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Fosstodon has more on its drama:
ActivityPub for WordPress announces:
V5.8.0 – If it’s on the Fediverse, you can embed it.
ActivityPods shares:
Key learnings from building social apps with ActivityPods
Matthew Tift has:
Finding an Ethical Path Through Social Media: Why I Choose Mastodon
PieFed has:
PieFed development update Apr 2025 – S3, OAuth, Federation retry queue, Stripe
NodeBB has:
NodeBB v4.3.0 — Remote Categories are a go!
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
WinBuzzer reports:
Bluesky’s Decentralized Network Faces Major Outage Caused by Centralized Servers
The Internet Review asks:
Where Does Bluesky Go from Here? What is the Bluesky of 2036?
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse
#114 #ActivityPub #AI #ATProtocol #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Mastodon #NodeBB #PieFed #StopChina #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #WordPress
Een stukkie over urban sketching en de ontwikkelingen in internet-land. Hopelijk inspireert het.
https://urbansketchers.nl/2025/05/02/usk-den-haag-en-delft-minder-facebook/
#UrbanSketching #internet #bigtech #socialmedia #alternatives #signal #pixelfed #mastodon
