Marleen Stikker
@marleenstikker.eurosky.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
Elon Musk is expected to spend $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help GOP candidates in November, according to people briefed on the plans.
Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending to Help Republicans
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
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Excited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed
AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation – MIT Media Lab
Join us for our online seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program! This event features Rishi…
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Op een lange zomerreis langs en over de grenzen van het oude Habsburgse Rijk zijn deze 3 boeken een prachtige reflectie op het verleden en heden van Europa. #MartynRady @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social en @timothysnyder.bsky.social
Really great convo with Lina Khan and @doctorow.pluralistic.net about law and economy www.youtube.com/live/7Ak5LZl...
Law and Economy Student Network: A Conversation with Lina Khan and Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Center for Law and the Economy
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Die Trump-Regierung kündigt Angriff auf NGOs und Stiftungen als „linksextreme Terroristen” an. Hört euch an, wie die US Regierung kritische Stimmen im Vorfeld der Zwischenwahlen im November zum Schweigen bringt. Die Bundesregierung unterstützt diesen faschistischen Angriff mit einem Workshop.
Manufacturers are locking you out of your own devices. EFF's legal and policy team joins Adam Savage and iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens on July 23rd to explain how—and how the Right to Repair movement is fighting back. eff.org/livestream-r2r
Read our newly published paper on AI 'The case for Public AI: making it happen with cultural heritage.' 400+ professionals, one shared position - cultural heritage should shape AI, not just feed it. 👉 bit.ly/4xLdyU3 #PublicAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CulturalHeritage #DataSpace
Making Public AI reality: How cultural heritage can lead the way
After months of collaborative development and iteration with the data space community and the Europeana Initiative, we are excited to share the newly published paper, ‘The case for Public AI: making i...
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“The discussion is picking up fast. Everyone seems to be complaining about them. There’s an acute water shortage in The Netherlands right now. When I open BlueSky, everyone is talking about water being increasingly wasted on cooling data centres. And for what? To generate more AI shit.”
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago> [A] Microsoft data centre in the Dutch town of Middenmeer is responsible for 1% of all electricity use in [NL .] AI [...] has been used as an excuse for mass layoffs among tech workers, crushes creativity and cognition, and fills people’s lives with meaningless slop. — @techwerkers.bsky.social
Last year, I wrote about Politico's $50 million Thiel problem. Perhaps its explains why that outlet has been so oblivious/nonchalant about tech fascism. www.thenerdreich.com/politico-pet...
Politico's $50M Peter Thiel Problem
Is Axel Springer CEO's son the 'German JD Vance'?
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Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...
In eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026 - WELT
Unternehmer und Investor Peter Thiel ist der diesjährige Preisträger des Axel Springer Awards. Die Auszeichnung soll auch ein Zeichen für Meinungsfreiheit und offene Debatten sein.
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It's Streamplace's second birthday! Decided to share an essay I've been sitting on for some time, explaining my thinking on Streamplace's place in the world as a product and company. The question: is Streamplace for end users or developers? And the answer: very both.
How Streamplace Works: User-first and developer-first at the same time
Because pretty soon those won't be separate groups of people
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Bijna twee miljoen Nederlanders hebben zonder het te weten financiële banden met de politieke agenda van Donald Trump. Hun premies voor verzekeraars Reaal en Zwitserleven worden belegd door een Amerikaanse investeerder waarvan de top miljoenen doneerde aan conservatieve organisaties.
Nederlands pensioengeld spekt Trumps MAGA-beweging
Bijna twee miljoen Nederlanders steunen, zonder dat ze zich daarvan bewust zijn, met hun verzekeringspremies de politieke agenda van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump. De aandeelhouders van verzek...
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Goed stuk. Over schuivende vensters van Overton:
Nina Zeelen@ninazeelen.bsky.social · 3w agoAlies Pegtel: "Beslissingen worden genomen in een klein kernteam, waarin Verwaayen en Rutte domineren. Zij besloten dat Yesilgöz de nieuwe leider moest worden. Rutte bemoeit zich nog steeds met de VVD-koers. Hij belt permanent met Yesilgöz. Ook tijdens de formatie van de kabinetten-Schoof & Jetten."
“We bieden aparte leertrajecten aan voor jongens en voor meisjes (…) En een grote kaart van Nederlands-Indië bij de ingang. Kortom, alles in onze school staat in het teken van de Oude Europese Wereld die wij willen behouden voorzover zij nog bestaat, maar vooral willen terugbrengen.” Wees waakzaam!
If it’s easy to sign up with one click, it should be just as easy to cancel with one click. That’s why New York City is becoming the first city in the nation to implement a Click-to-Cancel Rule.
It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community. This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.
In the EU, social media platforms are accountable for their addictive designs. Our investigation of Instagram and Facebook shows Meta has not adequately assessed the risks of features such as infinite scroll, auto-play, push notifications, and recommender systems.
Vijf onderbouwde argumenten tegen kernenergie. kernenergie-nee-bedankt.nl
Kernenergie? Nee bedankt.
Vijf redenen waarom kernenergie geen antwoord is op de klimaatcrisis.
kernenergie-nee-bedankt.nl
New article provides a detailed analysis of the TESCREAL acronym--specifically written for skeptics. Please read and share widely. You simply cannot make sense of what's happening in Silicon Valley, including the ASI race, without some understanding of the TESCREAL worldview!
Skeptical of the TESCREAL Acronym? Read This.
Artificial superintelligence, the Silicon Valley worldview, and the narcissism of small differences. (6,100 words)
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🚨📢 A bombshell investigation exposes leaked documents from secret russian-Chinese military forums. The leak completely shatters Beijing’s claims of neutrality, revealing a highly structured, multi-track program to build strategic weapons together. 🧵 1/6 theins.press/en/inv/294635
Shooting Starlink: The “no limits” partnership between Russia and China is taking aim at Elon Musk
Secret documents from a series of clandestine Russian-Chinese military forums reveal a joint plan to defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink and a weapons development…
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Digitale euro weer een stap dichterbij, Europees Parlement akkoord
Digitale euro weer een stap dichterbij, Europees Parlement akkoord
De Europese Centrale Bank werkt aan de digitale munt, die de afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse en commerciële bedrijven moet verminderen.
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
It’s only bragging wishcasting if it comes from Santa Clara Valley—otherwise, it’s just sparkling lies. @matthewus.bsky.social joined me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss the AI bubble and how we can avoid bailing out billionaires. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Given Ireland’s questionable track record regarding the protection of EU digital rights and the EU’s fiscal base, we the undersigned call on Ireland to recuse itself from any role in these two areas during the Irish presidency of the European Union. framaforms.org/call-on-irel...
Call on Ireland to recuse itself from digital and fiscal files during its presidency of the European Union | Framaforms.org
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📄 New: @ngicommons.bsky.social #webinar report on: Europe's Tech Sovereignty Package is now available. Download the report and discover key policy wins and next steps 👇: commons.ngi.eu/2026/07/03/e... #NGICommons #DigitalCommons #TechSovereignty @catemartel.bsky.social @openfuture.bsky.social
Ja hallo! Ik ben in de Rechtbank Rotterdam bij het proces over de verboden overname van #Solvinity. De zaal is OVERVOL! Journalisten van NOS, Trouw, NRC, Volkskrant, NU.nl en meer.
⚠️Following @citizenlab.ca's revelations that Stelios Kouloglou was surveilled with NSO Group's #Pegasus, a coalition of leading civil society organisations has published a joint statement calling on the 🇪🇺EU institutions to regulate #spyware technologies & strengthen protections against their abuse.
