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Florian Scholz

@florianscholz.com

Director & Documentation D(a)emon @openwebdocs.org Cares about technical writing, the web platform, open source & open collectives, as well as post-punk and wave music. he/him. Bremen, Germany. https://florianscholz.com

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Rainer Mühlhoff@rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Letzte Woche war ich zu Gast bei NANO Talk (3sat/ZDF): Thema: „Neuer Kolonialismus“, Ressourcen- und Datenausbeutung durch KI, Tech-Macht & warum es bei Grönland um mehr geht als Geopolitik. Einig waren wir uns: Europa darf bei #KI nicht dem Deregulierungstrend folgen. 👉 www.3sat.de/wissen/nano-...

Neuer Kolonialismus - Hat das Kolonialzeitalter nie aufgehört zu existieren? | NANO Talk

Die neuen Kolonialmächte sind nicht mehr nur Staaten, sondern auch Firmen wie Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Huawei und DeepSeek.

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Rainer Mühlhoff@rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Exciting news: an expanded English translation of my bestseller "AI and the New Fascism" is coming out with Pluto Press later this year. Grateful to Pluto Press for making this happen. More on the book: rainermuehlhoff.de/en/KI-und-de... @plutopress.bsky.social

New Book “AI and the New Fascism” (Reclam Verlag)

Available now (in German language). Order from the publisher for 8,00 EUR (print) Ebook available on all known plarforms.

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Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly.bsky.social · 7mo ago

As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.

Dane will return at Gen Con booth 2904!@monkeyminion.com · 7mo ago

I just found out that our stuff is being sold on Amazon - WITHOUT our consent or any ability to opt out bc Amazon is just scraping artist’s websites and putting our shit in their search results. Again, without our permission.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal@signal.org · 10mo ago

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Patrick Brosset@patrickbrosset.com · last yr.

Does your organization rely on MDN for reference docs? Do you often check browser compat on MDN or caniuse.com? Do you use tools like browser DevTools or VSCode in your work? If so, you rely directly on the work that Open Web Docs does and should consider sponsoring. To convince your boss.

Patrick - How to convince your boss to sponsor Open Web Docs

A blog post by Patrick Brosset: How to convince your boss to sponsor Open Web Docs

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Wes Bos@wesbos.com · last yr.

> our implementation was not developed by Mozilla employees, but was contributed entirely by a single volunteer, André Bargull. Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making. André out here just beating out billion dollar corps

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Wes Bos@wesbos.com · last yr.

ITS HAPPENING Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations

tante@tante.cc · last yr.

I wondered if "AI" systems are "tools" and realized that structurally they are not. They are makeshifts. https://tante.cc/2025/04/27/are-ai-system-really-tools/

Are "AI" system really tools?

I was on a panel on “AI” yesterday (was in German so I don’t link it i this post, specifics don’t matter too much) and a phrase came up that stuck with me on my way home (riding a bike is just the best thing for thinking). That phrase was AI systems are just tools […]

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Schweino Zerch@chiefbulkofficer.bsky.social · last yr.

"For generative AI this purpose is quite clear: It’s about putting pressure on human labour. […] The actual problem generative AI is trying to solve is having to pay people for their work."

tante@tante.cc · last yr.

Some reflections on what "AI" is for, why genAI - while being toxic for our minds and creatives - is a bit of a distraction and how discriminative AI is actually making Marc Andreessen's dreams come true. Oh and Fascism. https://tante.cc/2025/04/24/forcing-the-world-into-machines/

Servo@servo.org · last yr.

After the community feedback Servo TSC would like to share that we have decided to not modify the AI policy and keep it as is. Future discussions on this topic (if any) will happen on public channels. More details: github.com/servo/servo/...

AI Policy Update Proposal · servo servo · Discussion #36379

Servo’s Technical Steering Committee is looking for feedback regarding our policy for contributions made with generative AI. The current policy, adopted in June 2024, is documented in the Servo boo...

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Laurens@laurenshof.online · last yr.

After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week. I take a closer look at geographic-based moderation works on Bluesky and atproto, how it can be sidestepped, and much more fediversereport.com/bluesky-cens...

Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation

This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on t...

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Michael Seemann@mspr0.de · last yr.

ich bin schon länger dazu übergegangen, die vielen datacenter, die die ki-bros in die welt bauen, als waffen zu sehen. ihre anschlussnutzung nach dem crash werden mit großer sicherheit überwachungs- und militär-ki bereitstellen. also alles, was ein zunehmend autoritärer staat halt so braucht.

tante@tante.cc · last yr.

The response to the predicted crash of the AI sector often is that "every crash leaves something useful behind" and that this time it will be models. I don't think that is the case. AI models age like milk and the infrastructures left behind won't be ones that are helpful for democratic societies.

netzpolitik.org@netzpolitik.org · last yr.

Cloud-Dienste und Plattformen kommen aus den USA, Mikrochips aus Taiwan, Seltene Erden aus China. Die Digitalisierung hat zu massiven Abhängigkeiten geführt, von denen Europa sich spätestens seit Donald Trumps Amtsantritt lösen will. Welche Konzepte gibt es dafür? netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...

Digitale Souveränität und EuroStack: Wie kann Europa digital unabhängiger werden?

Cloud-Dienste und Plattformen kommen aus den USA, Mikrochips aus Taiwan, Seltene Erden aus China. Die Digitalisierung hat zu massiven Abhängigkeiten geführt, von denen Europa sich spätestens seit Dona...

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Florian Scholz@florianscholz.com · last yr.

"We therefore suggest that one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to push for any organizations that you might be involved with to participate in the standards development process" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-cap...

The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards

In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.

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Florian Scholz@florianscholz.com · last yr.

"We have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%.This increase is not coming from human readers,but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models" diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/h...

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…

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