Cori Crider
@coricrider.com
Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement. Executive Director, Future of Tech Institute & Tech@Meliore. Hon. Prof. UCL. Fellow, Open Markets. Ex Foxglove, Reprieve. https://futureinstitute.tech https://www.coricrider.com
Also because my TL looks like I hate fun and don’t know what summer is, look at the incredible flesh of these flat peaches!!
Honestly.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5h agoNew from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...
🙌 Great to see Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (German conservatives) add its voice to the growing chorus for a) smart, safe social b) building bridges to next-gen social (yes, thru interoperability). With a big announcement expected from VDL at SOTEU, this is a strong signal www.kas.de/en/analysen-...
Safe Social: Social Media That Protects Kids and Strengthens Sovereignty
Proposal for the creation of a new interoperable European “Safe Social” market: For a social media ban for under-16s – linked to an EU-wide system of certified exemptions
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Lists on Bluesky are the best thing about it. Want a human-curated feed that is real time and not algorithmically moderated? They are the RSS of the social age. Here are a few of mine, hopefully self-explanatory (thread) bsky.app/profile/did:...
Data centers have become one of the U.S.'s most potent political flashpoints, uniting coalitions on the left and right like few issues do. We sent @mollytaft.com on a journey into the data center resistance. The Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders made appearances along the way:
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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Cool summer reading list from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, feat. a take on surging anti-Valley sentiment: "Put simply, there is too much money, some of it too untraceable, giving a small group of unelected people too much power over the people. That’s data politics." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here.
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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FT back at it on the stats on Palantir helping the NHS being faulty! “It’s shocking the NHS published claims about Palantir’s positive impact on patients even after its own staff raised concerns about the methodology being used." - Ben Coleman MP. www.ft.com/content/bc58...
NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
Changes to two most widely cited claims come as scrutiny grows over US tech company’s contract
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ICYMI - great read in the FT feat. @dncampbell.bsky.social and @foxglovelegal.bsky.social's work on data centres. The big question: how can we shape this market so new compute doesn't suck up so much of the power and water we need to live? With the homes we must build? www.ft.com/content/67db...
Data centres vs housing: how London became a central battleground
The city has become the largest hub for AI power centres across Europe, competing with homes for energy, space and water. Its priorities are being called into question
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AI isn't just a race for the most capable model anymore. As open-weight models improve, organizations are thinking more about flexibility, transparency, resilience, and avoiding vendor lock-in—not just benchmark scores. Read more from The Economist: www.economist.com/business/202...
America’s AI labs are under threat from cheap Chinese rivals
Demand for open-weight models is soaring
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OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The estimable @coricrider.com joined me on this week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech to talk better social media bans, the promise of Eurosky and TikTok expands to AI moderation. You won’t regret listening! www.patreon.com/CtrlAltSpeec...
Making the Best of a Ban Situation | Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Making the Best of a Ban Situation by Ctrl-Alt-Speech on Patreon. Join Ctrl-Alt-Speech's community for exclusive content and updates.
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🇪🇸 Viva España 🇪🇸 Roll on digital sovereignty www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...
Moncloa veta a la multinacional estadounidense Palantir en contratos y empresas públicas
El Ejecutivo traslada a empresas públicas la necesidad de evitar acuerdos con la firma tecnológica estadounidense por motivos de soberanía y seguridad, en línea con los movimientos adoptados recientem...
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I gave birth in an NHS hospital during this period and am angry about the midwifery care we received to this day. Anyone who claims there was no cultural drive in this period against pain relief, against 'medicalised' birth, is gaslighting.
Shaun Lintern@shaunlintern.bsky.social · last mo.🚨 Amos did find evidence of normal birth impacting patient safety. Her own experts agreed the wording only for Amos to unilaterally change it prompting Kirkup to resign. Was Amos involved in a cover-up? Why? Who got to her? Another nail in the coffin of the Amos review: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What happened in Makerfield? Some new constituency polling between @persuasionuk.bsky.social & Convergent (most accurate pollster in the race!), covering among other things: - Burnham assembling a coalition Lab needs nationally - 'Get Starmer out' + 'public ownership' at the centre of it. 🧵👇
Once again: the fact that tech monopolies don't want Europe to stand on its own two feet shows us exactly why we must make more urgent moves to do so.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo agoSpaceX warns EU satellite plan risks undermining connectivity in Ukraine ft.trib.al/b2iZktj
ICYMI, great piece by the excellent @jitorreblanca.eurosky.social at @ecfr.eu. We agree that opening up social media to competing services - and building a bridge out via interoperability - is how we take back control of our public square from Musk and co. ecfr.eu/article/musk...
Musk’s war on European democracy: How to open up X and fight back – European Council on Foreign Relations
The EU should apply two remedies to address political interference via X
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The UK announced its legislative path today, Canada did so last week and the G7 Summit also has child online safety on the agenda. But is there a smarter #SocialMediaBan? Indeed, we at FOTI believe there is #ASmarterBan. Read our proposal for a smarter ban now: futureinstitute.tech//assets/doc/...
Am I the only one who is surprised that this only happened now? Degoogled my entire business in Jan 2025 because I half-expected this to happen with Google/Microsoft products.
Cori Crider@coricrider.com · 2mo agoThis I expect will turn out to be a big deal in the tech sovereignty devates www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/t...
This I expect will turn out to be a big deal in the tech sovereignty devates www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/t...
U.S. Bars Foreigners From Using Anthropic’s Most Advanced A.I. Models
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Muve to the beat. Muve the conversation. Muve mountains. Today @eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new microblogging app to experiment with the future of social! 🪩💖
Spain achieved ~78% carbon free electricity in May with solar power taking the top spot with 33.4%. Nuclear: ~17% Wind: ~15% Gas: ~14% Hydro: ~13% Other: ~5% www.expansion.com/empresas/ene...
La fotovoltaica bate un récord histórico un año después del apagón
El pasado 29 de mayo fue el día con mayor generación solar fotovoltaica en la historia en España, con un total de 269 gigavatios hora (GWh), que aportaron el 33,4% de la...
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This isn't about posturing: the man with whom @president.europarl.europa.eu is shaking hands there runs a company that *knowingly* makes 10% of its revenue — $16bn/year — from ads for scams. This primarily harms the most vulnerable (youth and elderly). www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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but pray tell - which surveillance Ray-Bans did she buy, Instagram 🫠
Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 2mo agoSometimes I imagine a world in which European leaders like @president.europarl.europa.eu spent as much time supporting the European model of tech as they do cosying up to foreign oligarchs with openly anti-democratic projects and anti-European foreign interference activities. 🧵
Good news: The Dutch Government - after a months-long saga - is *finally* blocking the US take-over of Solvinity, the company that manages the Netherlands' highly sensitive online identity management system (which basically underpins most government services). nos.nl/artikel/2615...
Staatssecretaris verbiedt Amerikaanse overname Solvinity, bedrijf achter DigiD
Dat is volgens Aerdts (Economische Zaken) "ter bescherming van het publieke belang".
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Expect to see a lot more of this kind of sovereignty-preserving market intervention.
Pieter Haeck@pieterhaeck.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAK: The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of a vital Dutch supplier to a widely used online identification tool, which was set to be acquired by a U.S.-based company. open.overheid.nl/details/ec64...
Interesting
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...
Reading the Papal Encyclical again, it strikes me that not only is there no mention of the theft of creative work behind AI - there is no acknowledgement that pre-training data includes people’s creative work at all. This is an unfortunate omission. 🧵 1/6