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Anthropologist of internet industry & clouds | Head of Global Team Digital @article19.bsky.social | @mctd.bsky.social Univ of Cambridge & Univ of Ams critical infra lab | coffee, climbing, mãe, she/they | corinnecath.com/messy-human

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michael veale @michae.lv · 05/05/2026
‘Going to the cloud’: renting servers, or integration of deeply proprietary services? “both options go by the same name, and orgs often slide from the first into the second without realizing the fundamental difference, until it’s too late” @ccs.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Cloud drift: how hyperscaler cloud computing shapes internet governance
When the Foundation for Internet Domain Registration in the Netherlands (SIDN) announced plans to migrate to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2024, it sparked intense political debate about critical in...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/04/2026
Neither?
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People would rather have an Amazon warehouse in their backyard than a data center | TechCrunch
A new poll shows that the debate over data centers is far from settled.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it attacked Oracle's data center in Dubai on Thursday, according to state media. Dubai's media office denied this claim. An Amazon data center was targeted in Bahrain.
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IRGC claims to have attacked Dubai Oracle data center, US fighter jets at Jordan | The Jerusalem Post
Additional attacks on Thursday included attacks on a US diplomatic facility near Baghdad Airport and an Amazon cloud computing center in Bahrain.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My car has depression (check engine light is on).
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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Last minute: the European Commission has confirmed new talks with the US following attacks on EU tech rules. As pressure mounts, Big Tech is gaining even more influence. Civil society is still not in the room
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Agree with @anildash.com here, was just saying earlier how the volume of cheers for Anthropic deciding not to help build Terminator or the Panopticon shows just how low the bar is set for American tech firms. www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...
anildash.com
A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter
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Global Action Plan @globalactionplan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This weekend we’re coordinating days of action with campaigners and local communities across the country, to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres in the UK. Join an action near you: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres
"People are rising up against big tech data centres being built at the expense of people and planet". 

Photo in black and white of 10 people holding a banner that stays 'STOP DIRTY DATA CENRES'.  

Global action plan logo.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 20/02/2026
Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"After the rapid growth of data centers triggered pushback from politicians, utilities and local residents over the pressures they place on the grid, tech companies are now building their own fleet of private power plants, mostly fueled by natural gas."
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Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.
Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
World of journalism is still overwhelmingly white/ without migration background. They just don't feel it, when Rubio essentially tells us in Europe: you deport all the brown people and we can be friends again.
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Rubio's #Munich speech was met with a 'sigh of relief' in Europe: grateful for reassurance of partnership. THIS IS BAFFLING when you examine the white Christian nationalist undertones of his speech See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO:  Thank you very much.  We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world.  When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
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AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📰 New preprint! By @ferraribraun.bsky.social and @ccs.bsky.social, highlighting the hidden influences of European news media's reliance on the cloud infrastructures of Big Tech. For news work, autonomy is decreasing, while vulnerabilities are increasing. Read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Across Europe, news media companies increasingly depend on cloud services run by a handful of powerful tech actors. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google provide the digital infrastructure that underpins the functioning of newsrooms" By @ccs.bsky.social for @article19.bsky.social
article19.org
Europe: Time to address cloud infrastructure monopolies - ARTICLE 19
Big tech offer digital infrastructure that underpins the functioning of newsrooms: data storage, content and management tools, audience analytics, AI.
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨 PAPER OUT 🚨 The first paper of my PhD just got published as a pre-print. Co-authored with @ccs.bsky.social, it looks at the ways in which cloud infrastructures are changing the business operations of European news media companies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Clouded Judgments: Problematizing Cloud Infrastructures for News Media Companies
Over the past decade, most European news media companies have adopted hyperscaler cloud infrastructures-digital infrastructure services offered by Amazon, Micro
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Another day, another outage — instead of rehashing why our reliance on a handful of big tech companies for our access to literately EvErYThINg is bad — I’m going to point you to the last three times I had to do that over the past 4 weeks, which led to a great convo with @dexdigi.bsky.social
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 19/11/2025
🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros! As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
@article19.bsky.social is in Berlin for two digital sovereignty summit events: We're speaking at the main summit & participating in the cloud roundtable organized by KAS - @FOTI -@openmarkets.bsky.social Are you also here too for sovereignty summit? Come say hallo- gutentag!
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ARTICLE 19 @article19.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
TODAY: ARTICLE 19’s Corinne Cath speaks about our shared digital future at the European Digital Sovereignty Summit. Digital commons initiatives can only deliver if Europe breaks Big Tech’s stranglehold – and civil society will play a vital role. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
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Commission to launch Digital Commons EDIC to support sovereign European digital infrastructure and technology
On 29 October, the European Commission adopted a decision establishing the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC), a new instrument enabling Member States to jointly deve...
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ARTICLE 19 @article19.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🕷️Creepy AI crawlers are haunting the internet🕷️ This Halloween, Tanu I and @ccs.bsky.social ocial explain how AI crawlers are ruining the internet for all of us. Read this season’s real horror story in @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/creepy-ai-cr...
techpolicy.press
Creepy AI Crawlers Are Turning the Internet into a Haunted House | TechPolicy.Press
The question is no longer whether AI crawlers are disrupting the internet, but what we can do about it, write Tanu I and Corinne Cath.
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
n the Netherlands, its election day. Because of the #Microsoft outage, however, parts of the train system are down, leaving thousands of citizens unable to plan their travel, buy tickets, or determine whether they could return to their hometowns in time for polls to close.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/10/2025
Happy Internet Archive Day! Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built! If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library! 🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h... #Wayback1T
A "Big Free Library" shaped like the Internet Archive's logo, featuring two rows of books. The book prominently featured is "This is for Everyone" by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It takes up the entire top row and the middle section of the bottom row.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 21/10/2025
Playing off the egos of tech giants, Sam Altman’s dealmaking blitz has tied Silicon Valley’s massive fortunes to his own startup.
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How Sam Altman Tied Tech’s Biggest Players to OpenAI
The CEO’s dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley’s giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Canada is waking up to the risks of relying on US tech giants for digital infrastructure, writes Canadian SHIELD Institute researcher and Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project fellow Emily Osborne. As Canada pursues a sovereign cloud, clarity and control—not marketing—should guide the path to independence.
techpolicy.press
What Does a “Sovereign Cloud” Really Mean? | TechPolicy.Press
Emily Osborne discusses approaches to building a "sovereign cloud" for Canada.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
techpolicy.press
Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Could not doom-scroll earlier today? Yeah, me neither bc of our dangerous reliance on hyperscaler clouds #AWS us-east-1 outage took down #Signal and chunks of the internet. The culprit was too many critical operations crammed into a single AWS data center cluster in Northern Virginia.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2025
‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right
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‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right
After Charlie Kirk’s killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turn
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns?
The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times.
Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept.
There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Another devastating day for journalists in Gaza, and human rights world wide, as we stand by and do too little too late www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
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What to Know About the Journalists Killed in Gaza
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/08/2025
"AI’s biggest climate consequences will come from how it is used. It could increase emissions by boosting fossil-fuel extraction" Incredible coming from a Microsoft employee - a company that sells its machine learning to fossil fuel companies to boost extraction stand.earth/insights/mic...
Microsoft’s Application of AI to Accelerate Oil & Gas Expansion
December 5, 2024
As the AI race heats up, so does its environmental toll. Microsoft's AI expansion is directly accelerating the rise of the the company's emissions.
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Nothing to see here, just the Dutch cabinet falling again.. nos.nl/l/2579552 And still no measures on the genocide in Gaza
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Na Veldkamp stappen ook alle andere NSC-bewindslieden uit kabinet
Het conflict draait om extra maatregelen tegen Israël. NSC wil die wel, VVD en BBB niet.
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Tech bros drooling over Rome is wild. The empire was a war machine built on slavery + patriarchy. If that’s your inspo, you’re not dreaming of innovation—you’re dreaming of domination electricliterature.com/why-are-tech...
electricliterature.com
Why Are Tech Billionaires so Obsessed with the Roman Empire? - Electric Literature
From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, too many wannabe Caesars are thriving on domination
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Here's my weekly must-reads list, a frontline dispatch from a D.C. organizer, and my final thoughts for the week. One thing I took away from my exchange with Shannon Clark, a mutual aid organizer in D.C., is that "having great networks already in place" has been crucial. Let's all take note.
organizingmythoughts.org
Must-Reads and What D.C. Organizers Need You to Know
"D.C. was able to respond to defend our neighbors quickly," says D.C. organizer Shannon Clark.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/08/2025
Want to fight for digital rights in your local school or community, but not sure how? Our Electronic Frontier Alliance toolkits can help you get started. efa.eff.org/
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About EFA
The Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) is a grassroots network made up of independent community organizations. Allies across the United States work to support digital rights and empower their local communities. The EFA brings these like-minded organizations together to build mutual support and to help each other improve. All members retain...
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 13/08/2025
professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:
“I was gonna fight for liberation but we didn’t get the grant :(“ pin
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The Godfather (2025, semiconductor edition): “I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse… 20% of your revenue” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/t...
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Godfather GIF
ALT: Godfather GIF
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Israel : Stop targeting #journalists and protect vital reporting in #Gaza www.article19.org/resources/is...
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Israel : Stop targeting journalists and protect vital reporting in Gaza - ARTICLE 19
Israel's attack on a tent in Gaza, which led to the death of five journalists, was a deliberate attack on critical reporting.
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Paul Konstant @progpk.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This might seem geeky and a bit obscure, but I've been thinking about how necessary this discussion is for quite some time. I'm glad to see it taking shape, and hope that it arrives at a reasonable approach-like perhaps the EU's Very Large Platform distinctions?
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Article 19's Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira ask, will satellite connectivity be governed through frameworks that ensure diverse participation and fair access, or by the priorities and capabilities of a few dominant private actors? Current international negotiations could determine the answer:
techpolicy.press
Global Fight Over Who Governs Communications Satellites Heats Up | TechPolicy.Press
Global connectivity cannot be left to political actors with incentives to keep their societies digitally isolated, write Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira.
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
There is a shift happening in tech, from social media consumer facing to “hard tech” and civil society is miles behind on some of this We need to understand B2B tech, defense tech, and hard tech (GPUs) and unstuck our selves from questions of social media — or we’ll be even more on the backfoot
nytimes.com
Silicon Valley Is in Its ‘Hard Tech’ Era
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/07/2025
New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam.
wrd.cm
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Is Haunting My Browser
New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam.
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Annie💙&Joe💛 @annieandjoe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Woman in long dress is looking out the window.
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Can genAI start-ups really challenge #BigTech's dominance? 🧐 🔎 We analysed 12 start-ups' value chains and what we found is clear: They're highly dependent on Big Tech companies, particularly Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia. Read our full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-real-win...
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 03/07/2025
New poll shows huge majorities of Europeans--74% of Von Der Leyen's own CDU--want a tough stance on Big Tech. This is no time to roll over. Tech is vital infrastructure, and it can be ours again--with a three-part play: Break, build, enforce. w/ @robin.berjon.com: www.politico.eu/article/digi...
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Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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