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Palmer Luckey Is Our Most Terrifyingly Deranged Billionaire
The Silicon Valley “war king” thinks an uncontrolled arms race is the route to peace. He is so, so wrong.Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs Inc)
Château Big Tech. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#BigTech #data #DataHarvesting #SocialMedia #Meta
Human rights chief warns against banning social media for kids
archive.is/2026.03.24-204653/p…
Ban the harmful algorithms of Big Tech social media instead.
#BigTech #SocialMedia #EU #Children
@ProjectLincoln While we're at it!
Where is the #Mastodon button and why not active? 
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project is a leading U.S. pro-democracy organization dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy.The Lincoln Project
“A jury in LA has delivered a damning verdict for two of the world's most popular digital platforms, Instagram and YouTube.
It ruled those apps are addictive, and deliberately engineered that way – and that its owners have been negligent in their safeguarding of the children who have used them.
…
Some experts have described the verdict as big tech's "big tobacco" moment, and we know how that worked out - although it didn't stop people smoking altogether.”
bbc.com/news/articles/c87wd0d8…
#BigTech #SiliconValley #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTobacco #Instagram #YouTube
What next for big tech after landmark social media addiction verdict?
The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)
3/3 🚨 With the Parliament still unconvinced, four EU Commissioners decided to interfere, trying to pressure MEPs to support their mass surveillance proposal, even promoting the interests of #BigTech companies like Google, Meta and Snapchat!
Despite this blatant attempt to cow the Parliament into abandoning their position, MEPs held strong and continued to reject the mass scanning of our private communications 👏🏽
This is the democratic accountability we expect and deserve from our lawmakers!
#BigTech Meta er ved en domstol i den amerikanske 🇺🇸 delstat New Mexico blevet dømt til at betale 375 millioner dollar – 2,4 milliarder kroner – i erstatning
Meta får milliard-bøde for at bringe børn i fare på sociale medier
Moder-selskabet til Facebook og Instagram er blevet dømt for at vildlede forbrugere om #sikkerhed på platforme
politiken.dk/viden/tech/art107…
#EndOf10 trifft sich dieses Wochenende am Sonntag den 22. März wieder in #Hamburg / #Steilshoop und hilft bei der #Linux - #Installation
Hier ein tolles Interview zu dem Thema: taz.de/Softwareentwickler-uebe…
#Freiheit #foss #floss #endof10hh #Microsoft #Windows #bigtech #Software #computer
Softwareentwickler über Linux: „Nicht alle können sich einen neuen Laptop leisten“
Durch den Umstieg auf Windows 11 bleiben viele Computer auf der Strecke. Carsten Neumann kennt eine Alternative – und will andere von ihr überzeugen.Johannes Strauch (taz)
Your AI chatbot may be stealing your conversations.
Many #BigTech platforms:
• use chat inputs for training
• store conversations indefinitely
• process data in centralized clouds
What does that mean for #dataprivacy?
We break it down 👇
nextcloud.com/de/blog/the-prob…
The problems with Big Tech AI data collection: privacy concerns and how to protect your data - Nextcloud
AI privacy concerns are growing as Big Tech keeps collecting data. Learn the risks and how privacy-first AI solutions help protect your data.Katrin Goethals (Nextcloud)
Thinking of #DeGoogling but not sure where to start? You've come to the right place.
This is your go-to guide for how to use Tuta Calendar - the #BigTech free, private calendar, that's free to use!
Link 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-use-tuta-…
Why Tuta Cal? 📅💙
✅️ End-to-end encrypted
✅️ Green
✅️ Open-Source
✅️ Zero ties to Google
✅️ Zero ties to Big Tech
How to set up & use Tuta Calendar | Tuta
Tuta Calendar is not only the best calendar for privacy, but it also helps you stay organized and plan your schedule. Today, we show you how to set up and use Tuta Calendar.Tuta
@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
> I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions
Well, great article, Elena ! I would love to disseminate a French version.
Did you link with @leavex ? They carry roughly the same message though not ruling out Bluesky.
Thank you for your thoughts about Bluesky, by the way! I am struggling to understand eurosky. Any thoughts on it?
📝 New post 🚀
"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"
🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/openness…
mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb
Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse
An article making the case that the Fediverse is a fantastic communication platform for public institutions - because of its openness, transparency and reach.Elena Rossini
RE: social.publicspaces.net/@publi…
Happy to share the good news of another @publicspaces conference happening this year!
Join us on June 4, 5 and 6th in Amsterdam.
Looking forward to work on this once again 😄
#Tech #Fediverse #BigTech #TechPolicy #PublicSpaces #PubConf2026 #OpenSource #Ethics #AI #ATProto #SocialMedia #Democracy #SocialWeb #EU #NL #Conference
PublicSpaces (@publicspaces@publicspaces.net)
Attached: 1 image PublicSpaces Conference 2026 on June 4, 5 and 6! Together with @waag@waag.social we are happy to announce the 6th edition of the PublicSpaces Conference. This year, we will focus on the impact of technology on our democracy.PublicSpaces (PublicSpaces Social)
Welcome to the world of Alex Karp, one of the leaders of the new wave of techno-militarists in Silicon Valley:
"If they are not scared, they don’t wake up scared, they don’t go to bed scared, they don’t fear that the wrath of America will come down on them, they will attack us. They will attack us everywhere.”
~Alex Karp, CEO Palantir
juancole.com/2026/03/unhinged-…
The solution? Buy more Palantir
#USPol #EUPol #Palantir #BIGTech #USWarmongering #Racism .
A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk
Karp loves verbal combat as much as he likes running a firm that makes high-tech weaponryTomdispatch (Informed Comment)
Just to not forget the economic extraction that we're suffering from BigTech. Only the cloud services business in Europe extracts some 264B €, as calculated in the Asterès Report.
That generates an estimated 2 million jobs in the US instead of generating them in our local communities.
That's one of the costs of NOT having #DigitalAutonomy and #TechnologicalSovereignty
Here in English: cigref.fr/wp/wp-content/upload…
cc @DigitalCoup #BigTech #extraction
> most sensitive and immutable data” — names, faces, birthdays, home addresses — to their online activity
Not at all. This is a strawmen meticously built by #bigTech lobbyists.
The #agever is possible without giving up privacy of the users. Just there is no "political will" to make it this way. Once upon a time I tried to push such non-intruding system through RFC editor. I had been told it would be "against policy to be not political" and it will not get thru the IETF. It did not help I was a co-founder of the ISOC Chapter in my country.
Will #eff support going thru the IETF process against all that money that is now close to get the whole planet biometrics reaped/robbed? If so I might revive this RFC sketch and bring it to the current times.
Hej! Jag är ny här på Mastodon. Jag har tillsammans med två vänner satt upp en webbsida på svenska inspirerad av bland annat DanmarkSkifter. Målgruppen för sidan är inte du som läser detta nu, utan snarare dina släktingar, kollegor och vänner som ännu inte insett faran i att fortsätta låta Big Tech ha det inflytande som de har idag.
Adressen är suddigare.com
Jag blir glad om du besöker och kanske också delar sidan vidare. Tack!
*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken...*
(4/n)
...year.
OFC the Government no NEEDS at least on of the #BigTech #AI companies to do ist #Unconstitutional bidding.
👉 Or is #UncleSam merely in a competition with the #OrangePeril for the new title of #LieATollah?!? (thx #jimmykimmel 😂 👈
Ok, enough laughing.
If you still...
#OpenAI #Anthropic
#Claude #SamAltman
#Pentagon
#DepartmentOfDefense
#USNews
#Privacy
#TheEndOfPrivacy
#LieATollah
@bbc
*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken...*
(3/n)
...#AutonomousWeapons. After backlash, #Open #AI CEO👉 #SamAltman said the company would prohibit the use of its systems to spy on #Americans.👈
😂 Does "Uncle" Sam really think anyone having graduated from high school is going to believe this? - In particular, after his #BigTech #TESCREAL body, #Elon, tore apart virtually all privacy walls, Chinese or otherwise, as he has head of #DOGE only last....
#BreakingNews
#WarInTheMiddleEast
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*ICYMI: BEWARE - #Enshittification of #SocialMedia galore*
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PLEASE NOTE #Netiquette:
I do not support any state- or #BigTech sponsored #SocialMedia. As linking back to them generates hits, likes, retweets, and ultimately cash for them, I am not (direktly) linking the them (here: #TikTok).
I've striven to provide all content provided on these #TechnoFeudalist / #Authoritarian web sites here in the Fediverse. (Which was 50x as much work...
Data centers have a massive environmental impact. Today’s cartoon by Fergus Boylan. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com/
#BigTech #DataCenters #environment #climate
