That’s a lot of votes. Presidential-level turnout in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.
Constance Chucholowski
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Meine weitere ausführliche Recherche zu #Palantir ist auf @golemde.bsky.social frei verfügbar: Massenüberwachung: Machtzentrale Palantir "Wir erklären, was Palantir genau ist und wie es als Betriebssystem Sicherheitsbehörden weltweit zum Aufbau von Machtzentralen..." www.golem.de/news/massenu...
It's notable that when Belarus/Russia did this to Poland, other EU countries didn't respond by blaming Poland. They blamed Belarus/Russia. No mystery why Europe's governing conservatives are blaming the EU's only leftist prime minister.
The European Commission accepted X's revised DSA remedies on data access on July 15. Vineet John Samuel on why the commitments are a partial victory and what researchers need to do to verify they hold.
X's Data Access Remedies Are a Win for Researchers Only If They Last
Vineet John Samuel writes about X’s DSA data access remedies and why researchers need lasting, reliable access to platform data.
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Politico this morning: "What can Brussels do? The EU executive doesn’t have many powers in this area - firefighting remains a national responsibility." Babes, try not rolling back climate policy. Do literally anything to mitigate climate change.
Ugh. Peer-pressuring the collapse of civilization? Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds www.psypost.org/anti-democra... From study: "...many individuals adjusted their privately reported support for authoritarian rule to align more closely with their peers."
Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds
The rise of anti-democratic sentiments might be driven by social contagion. Researchers have discovered that citizens often adapt their personal support for authoritarian rule to align with the politi...
psypost.org
Amazon workers, Uber drivers increasingly using SNAP, Medicaid www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Amazon, gig companies see spike in workers on SNAP and Medicaid, study shows
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery app drivers shot up on lists compiled by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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also, "it's only fascism if it satisfies this extremely specific and historically contingent set of conditions" is the kind of frankly stupid wordcel game that you adopt when you aren't trying to describe the world but you are trying to hit back at people on twitter you don't like
Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.
President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.
thehill.com
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3390):
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoSen. Cynthia Lummis dramatically says "I don't know" when asked by Fox News if Ossoff and Warnock were duty elected
The hypocrisy kann man sich garnicht ausdenken.
I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact
“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w agoMainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4w agoAn Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Is “we express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision” maybe the harshest statement a football body has ever made? We’ve kind of been shouting from the rooftops that the authoritarianism is real #fifa #corruption #balogun
A reminder from 27 October 2024. “Promises made. Promises kept.”
In which Steve Bannon says "they're trying to stop" Bill Pulte at DNI and John Solomon's "task force" because they will otherwise create a national security predicate for a "national emergency" order on elections. They're really going for it. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
Discussing a potential national emergency executive order on elections, Steve Bannon suggests that national security would be the predicate, and John Solomon's "task force" would be involved
mediamatters.org
A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 2mo agoWe have now joined W, a new European social media network. We’re present on 15+ platforms, and are especially happy to join one based in Europe and with the ambition to foster open and safer online conversations. Keep the conversation going - whether from W, Bluesky or other compatible apps.
Some word about digital sovereignty and democracy bc I feel like that very straight, short, direct line isn’t drawn enough #soverignty #bigtech #concentration
The Digital Sovereignty Imperative
Europe must regain its digital sovereignty. What's the imperative? What does opposition to the sovereignty push reveal?
open.substack.com
They're saying a Facebook post saying "we need to become ungovernable" constitutes grounds for federal criminal charges?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoOh, so they have NOTHING nothing
If only there were a shorter way to say "forced sex," like maybe a single word
Trump's White House UFC headliner accused of assault, forced sex, stalking | CBC News
Alex Pereira, a prominent mixed martial arts fighter set to headline the U.S. president's 80th birthday UFC event at the White House, is facing allegations of violence from two women — and it isn’t th...
cbc.ca
The White House ordered Anthropic to keep its Fable/Mythos models out of all non-US entities’ hands, companies, individuals working at Anthropic, governments, etc. This, a leader hoarding tech to hang over other governments’ heads, is why we need sovereignty. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
anthropic.com
In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo agoBREAKING: The House passes a $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement for three years, sending the measure to President Trump.
How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones. Dishonest!
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
wired.com