#Greece: Victory! 📢 “The new legislative framework protecting Greek journalists against SLAPPs constitutes a significant step forward for press freedom, investigative journalism and the public's right to information" 👏 @JUADN1 www.ifj.org/media-centre...

Greece: Major victory for press freedom as anti-SLAPP legislation is passed / IFJ

The Greek Parliament adopted on 31 July 2026 a bill introducing formal legal safeguards against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPS). The International and European Federations of ...

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If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

It is the single worst deliberate change I have ever seen made to a product, and might be what stops me using Microsoft Office after…25+ years? Imbecilic product decision, but just one among *many*.

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.

$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."

Of course Farage's 'policy' doesn’t work. It isn't intended to work. It's meant to cause a splash in the unthinking press (and GMB) and thereby get Doris at Number 33 Lambert Road, Peterborough to go 'Ooh at last someone is trying to do something about these awful boat crossings.' That's it.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Former navy officer criticises Reform plan to use military to stop small boats

MONEY CREATES TASTE

Malta: As Matthew Caruana Galizia gives his testimony in the trial of Yorgen Fenech over the murder of #DaphneCaruanaGalizia, the EFJ expresses its solidarity with Daphne's family and colleagues in Malta #JusticeForDaphne

Live: Fenech trial hears Daphne's son testify about Electrogas

Follow murder trial proceedings with our minute-by-minute updates from the courtroom

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Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

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Freelance Aug26: Amnesty International denounces ‘AI’ breaches of human rights www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2608ai-am...

Amnesty International denounces ‘AI’ breaches of human rights | The Freelance

First, stop stealing, AI says to ‘AI’ companies

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Freelance Aug26: ʻNo means no’: Freelances push back on ʻAI’ - the long read on our Parliament meeting www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2608ai.html

ʻNo means no’: freelances push back on ʻAI’ | The Freelance

Our meeting in the House of Commons 8 June

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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.

Germany to ban Meta’s Pervert Glasses? ​Hamburg’s Data Protection Office warns that recording people in public with smart glasses violates privacy laws. The tiny LED indicator light isn't prominent enough to prevent secret filming in public spaces. 1/2 www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragter: Verbot von Meta Glasses möglich

Der Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragte Fuchs warnt vor Meta Smart Glasses: Die Brillen, die kaum von normalen Brillen zu unterscheiden sind, ermöglichen heimliches Filmen. Ein Verbot sei nicht ausgeschl...

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I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'll be on BBC News television TODAY ~3:40pm ET (8:40pm London local time) to discuss--what else---the climate change-fueled weather extremes we're seeing around the world this summer. Please join me: www.bbc.com/live

Freelance Aug26: Why did Klaus Thymann end up jailed in Uganda? - July meeting report www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2608klaus...

Why did Klaus Thymann end up jailed in Uganda? | The Freelance

‘Being in prison for decades is not something I can live with’

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Anyway, not for the first time, I'm reflecting on how insane it sounds to write, "the long-term purpose of these [Frontier AI] tools is not simply drafting better emails or reducing the time needed for a software developer to complete a task, but the creation of a different social order."

Acrobat has offered to turn a PDF of an airport parking ticket into a podcast. Can’t imagine it would be a great listen.

“justice, like health, is a good which is enjoyed without being felt, which inspires no enthusiasm, and the value of which is felt only after it has been lost.” Rousseau Considerations on the Government of Poland

Today's environmental politics is tomorrow's cost of living. Why is this so hard? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

“While many of Whisper’s transcriptions were highly accurate, we find that roughly 1% of audio transcriptions contained entire hallucinated phrases or sentences which did not exist in any form in the underlying audio.” 1/2

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sending a round of applause to the authors of this paper for this completely genius title facctconference.org/static/paper...

everything about this story makes me want to go live in a forest

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

Google's statement that it includes a watermark that can identify them as AI-generated is completely braindead as to how disinformation works. You think people spending literally three seconds to derail a discussion give a shit about that? This is so easy to abuse www.404media.co/google-earth...

Broadcasters are likely to report the reversal of the large inflow (but the social media reach of the reversal will be much smaller) www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

More than 48,000 migrants return to Morocco after thousands cross border into Spain

Spain said on Friday it had largely reversed a surge of migrants into its North African enclave of Ceuta, with 48,000 of the people who crossed from Morocco by land and sea already returning voluntari...

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NEW: after our coverage of this company's little scheme to use printed books to train AI, it calls it a "test of the market" and walked the entire thing back: www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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AI escaping doesn't mean it's an unstoppable supergenius, have none of you owned a spaniel

If you agree, sign this joint petition calling on BBC management and the UK government to #BackTheBBC and its workers ⬇️ www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ba...

Back Workers. Back Our BBC.

Nearly everyone - 94% of adults in the UK - uses the BBC every month. The BBC has an incredible range of TV, audio and digital services - from Planet Earth to the Proms, from BBC Bitesize and The Worl...

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