So is it possible that apologising and admitting to distribution of CSAM might bring some personal liability in EU countries so Zuck might be not admitting to facilitating the distribution of CSAM?

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 5h ago

Notably that Mark Zuckerberg reportedly apologized to the government of India over CSAM ads running in that country. The ads @wired.com covered ran below in the US, UK, and several EU countries: www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Once again for those at the back, Vimes is *not* about wealth. It's about poverty. If you keep trying to make it about wealth, you're showing your own focus and ignorance. It's about how expensive it is to be poor.

Space X investors better not ask what happened after Elon passed through North Haverbrook.

Simpsons: Marge vs. The Monorail Cafe

ALT: Simpsons: Marge vs. The Monorail Cafe

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The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterday

SpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.

SpaceX, the investment opportunity for people who didn't learn their lesson after spending $300k on a jpeg of a monkey

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

So what is the latest on the EDPS election? Have both sides just given up and accepted that Wiewiórowski will remain as its head due to the deadlock? Reminder: his mandate ended on 5 December 2024. Fingers crossed that he ends up holding onto the post though 🤞 @mariamagierska.bsky.social

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

Oh dear gods, public procurement is hard enough for the purpose of public procurement, let alone as a device for economic policy.

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterday

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

Ceuta is NOT part of Schengen - thank you @theatlantic.com for the write up www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

theatlantic.com

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I haven't used the Microsoft suite in a while but I can't believe they are getting away with this.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Please spread and make Jeremy Clarkson shine like a brown dwarf star 🟤 #justBRILLIANT #jeremyclarkson "That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them." "And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm."

Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I’m hearing that An Post are adding the new €3 charge to B2B deliveries from UK to Ireland, where the total value is less than €150 – even though the new regulation only applies to B2C deliveries. This is potentially devastating for Irish businesses including bookshops.

A cargo bike retailer runs the numbers: "A second family car costs an Irish family €4,218 a year, on the AA's own numbers. A cargo bike costs around €50..." blog.greenaer.ie/family?

Family & Cargo E-Bikes Ireland · School Run, Kids, Cargo | GreenAer

Family and cargo e-bikes in Ireland — carry one to three kids, ditch the second car, and enjoy the school run. Free test rides in Dublin, Mullingar and Cork.

blog.greenaer.ie

Hmm #BMW need to realise that if they build a car that is a mobile phone on wheels and users pay for a data plan subscription then there are “issues” when pushing adverts to the device connected to the public communications network under the ePrivacy Directive www.techspot.com/news/113327-...

BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

The promotion began on July 27, 2026, and is scheduled to run through August 10 across more than 70 markets. On supported vehicles, starting the car brings...

techspot.com

‘The EU has come under fire for placing more demands on businesses, and rules that will ultimately force all content to be labelled given the rapidly growing widespread use of AI across Europe.‘ Please, spare us the sob story. If you can make it, you can label it. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

AI-generated label becomes mandatory in the EU

Companies creating or using AI-generated content have to label it clearly for users to know, as part of an EU guideline implemented on Sunday. #EuropeNews

euronews.com

So, Anthropic’s CEO has expressed concern that new talent is coming to the firm for the money rather than the mission. So many corporates & start ups don’t put employees first, & have terrible benefits inc holiday/sickness. Little wonder folks want to financially protect themselves.

Unlike what Minister Jack Chambers claims Ireland has one of the lowest per capita ratio of civil servants among EU member states. And significantly fewer than other high tax member states like Sweden, Finland and Denmark

Sigh. If Bluesky’s new CEO wants to put the “fash” into “fashionable online place to hangout and engage in relaxed discourse” then perhaps he should, I don’t know, buy X?

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Question: Tell me what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Here are the answers from two popular open-source Chinese AI models.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 3d ago

"Most tech analysts are aware that Chinese models have Chinese Communist Party controls built into them, but the problem is often understood too narrowly. Many assume that these models simply refuse to answer politically sensitive questions..." www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-ai-mod...

The fact that a major US bank closed 385 accounts tied to the US President for suspected money laundering really ought to be on the front page of every newspaper in America, and lead story on every news bulletin.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns

The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...

npr.org

The effects on adults are worse: we need to regulate the platforms, not the users. And we have the law in place, we just don’t dare use it.

"It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%." Spookily enough, this complacency side effect is precisely one of the things we warned about with this and the Online Safety Act in the UK.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

theconversation.com

Someone told me to stop complaining. This is the view from our house last night towards several villages on fire. Never stop complaining! This is not normal.

But I didn’t want Cadburys to taste like shite, that’s been imposed on me. Mondolez made $2.4 billion last year they could have swallowed some of the higher cocoa costs, but didn’t, and more importantly, now costs are lower, they won’t reinstate the quality will they?

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

People who deny climate change should be jailed. We have had fires here in the Var for ten days now. 35 houses lost in our village alone. Denial is the worst possible response.

Ulysses 31 is finally getting a BluRay release sometime this year. Meanwhile, there was a fan-led restoration project a few years ago that looks bloody gorgeous.

Ulysses 31 Complete Restored Series

Ulysses 31 (宇宙伝説ユリシーズ31, Uchū Densetsu Yurishīzu Sātīwan, lit. Space Legend Ulysses 31) (French: Ulysse 31) is an anime series (1981) that updates the Greek mythology of Odysseus (known as Ulixes or U...

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bleary (feat. Akon)@bleary.off-the-records.com · last wk.

Seeing Nolan’s Odyssey has inspired me to return to the original text* (*I’m watching Ulysses 31 on YouTube)

Nowhere else in the world has produced this much solar electricity for California.

CVJ@enuffsaysv.bsky.social · 4d ago

California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record - Los Angeles Times