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Marleen Stikker

@marleen.oso.social

The internet is broken … but we can fix it. Waag Futurelab - waag.org - Professor of Practice at Applied University of Amsterdam. Mastodon: marleenstikker@waag.social

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Marleen Stikker@marleen.oso.social · 4d ago

“The number of digital lobbyists has risen from 699 to 890 full-time equivalents (FTEs), surpassing the 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). A total of 437 lobbyists now have continuous access to the European Parliament.” corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/r... @corporateeurope.org

Revealed: Tech industry now spending record €151 million on lobbying the EU | Corporate Europe Observatory

The EU’s digital rulebook is under unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration and a homegrown deregulation wave. A new analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl, based on the...

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Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · 6d ago

We're so excited to see the arrival of Aster ID as a home for researchers on the open web and to welcome them to the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social family. Very lucky that we've been able to support their tech stack at Eurosky 💖

Aster ID@aster.id · 6d ago

The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 7d ago

"“objective” methods of institutionalized cost-benefit analysis are riddled with value-laden assumptions, and objectivity rests on absurd ideas of commensurability and the ability to price all preferences." This essay makes a lot of good points that are relevant to energy system modeling.

Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · last wk.

The illusion and politics of objectivity in cost-benefit analysis, a decision-making institution so ingrained that Americans can’t imagine life without it.

Laurens Dassen@laurensdassen.voltnederland.org · last wk.

🚨 Stop digitale onteigening door AI-sleepwet🚨 Een draad over een voorstel van het Ierse EU-voorzitterschap om persoonsgegevens van Europeanen onbeperkt vrij te geven aan elk bedrijf dat met AI werkt. En voorstellen over hoe het wél moet. 🧵1/14

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Tyler King@tyleraking.com · last wk.

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host. When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either. After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information. He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway. Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · last wk.

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Dr Katie Twomey@k2mey.eurosky.social · last wk.

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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Robert Rosendal@robertrosendal.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Drinkwaterbedrijven moeten met steeds meer geld en moeite PFAS uit het water filteren, terwijl de industrie diezelfde stoffen gewoon met vergunning in het oppervlaktewater mag lozen. De rekening komt bij de burger terecht, niet bij de vervuiler." 'Zuiver water' (NPO-Start): npo.nl/start/afspel...

Zuiver water | NPO Start

Door vervuiling uit landbouw, industrie en het riool holt de kwaliteit van het Nederlandse oppervlaktewater achteruit. Hele ecosystemen dreigen kopje onder te gaan en het zuiveren van ons drinkwater k...

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Waag Futurelab @waag.org · 2w ago

Overstappen van big tech is alleen niet altijd makkelijk. Daarom gaan we tijdens Waag Open op donderdag 1 oktober op speurtocht naar alternatieven. Vind de clues, ontdek nieuwe apps en probeer ze meteen uit.

Waag Open: Op jacht naar publieke tech

Voor velen van ons zijn apps zoals Instagram, WhatsApp en Google onderdeel van het dagelijks leven. Wist je dat er ook alternatieven zijn die jouw data en aandacht niet als verdienmodel gebruiken? Maar waar vind je ze, welke passen bij jou en waar begin je? Overstappen van big tech is alleen niet altijd makkelijk. Daarom gaan we tijdens Waag Open op donderdag 1 oktober op speurtocht naar alternatieven. Vind de clues, ontdek nieuwe apps en probeer ze meteen uit. Ondertussen ontdek je ook de verschillende hoeken van de eeuwenoude Waag. Wie de meeste apps vindt en heeft gedownload, wint een prijs. Ook voor degene die de meeste nieuwe connecties legt via de apps, staat er een mooie prijs klaar! Na afloop heb je nieuwe apps ontdekt en weet je niet alleen welke alternatieven bij jou passen, maar ook waarom. Daarnaast krijg je ook een routekaart mee voor je volgende stappen richting publieke tech: technologie waarin privacy, openheid en zeggenschap centraal staan. Neem je smartphone mee en doe mee aan de speurtocht!

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Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2w ago

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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