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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Ty! Happy to take feedback / critique / reviewer number 2 feedback

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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

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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...

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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

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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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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

So if this is true maybe someone wants to pass on the memo to the media? (And yes I realize the hardcore IR people will say; we can’t say this part out loud as long as we’re so dependent. But this is what the slow slide into F-ism looks like, good people staying mute) bsky.app/profile/mijr...

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Wellicht zaak voor een sterke antropoloog-journalist om hier iets over te schrijven 🤓 mocht je op zoek zijn naar US-funded NGO perspectieven 👋🏻

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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

So yes, seeing @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & Keir Stamer say they felt reassured by Rudio's speech is, as the official PoliSci term goes, "redonculess-banana-cookoo-delulu" But clearly there was nothing to see here, keep calm and carry on Europe all will be well.

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a blurred image of a refrigerator with the words the office stan on it .

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Genocide, enslavement, extraction? Erased. Just 'civilization-spreading'. He later rejects alliances that "atone for the purported sins of past generations", dismissing colonial violence as imaginary guilt rather than historical fact

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

4. Whitewashing colonialism: Rubio celebrates Columbus's "adventure into the great unknown to discover a new world" that "brought Christianity to the Americas." Five centuries of Western, "expansion", "missionaries, pilgrims, soldiers, explorers", building "vast empires" becomes heroic achievement

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This line of thinking is explicit cultural supremacism: Western culture isn't equal to others, it's superior.. (again why does this ring so familiar? hmmmm)

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

3. Cultural supremacy Rubio lists only white male European achievement (Mozart, Beethoven, Dante, Michelangelo) as civilization's gifts, rejecting the idea that "our way of life is just one among many" as false politeness..(which yes, as an anthropologist, was 1 of many aw-rong-ful things i noted)

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This is textbook "great replacement" rhetoric, demographic change as existential threat a far right nationalist staple: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_R...

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

2. Migration as replacement: Rubio claims mass migration "threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people" and is "an urgent threat to...the survival of our civilization itself."

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

He warns against "forces of civilizational erasure" threatening America and Europe. This presents "Western civilization" as superior, eternal, racially coherent.. Imagine a German politician doing this, and tell me what you see?! I guarantee its not (Applause.)

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

1. Civilizational essentialism: Rubio calls the West "the greatest civilization in human history," "unique and distinctive and irreplaceable," bound by shared ancestry (where have we heard this before? hmmm... oh wait!)

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I listed esp obvious parts below, in no particular order of awfulness. Rubio's speech clearly spells out with whom in Europe the #Trump administration is seeking to make allies did the Europeans not notice or not care? I am not sure which one is worse #munichsecurityconference

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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

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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

There is a lot happening in the closing speeches, this stands out: Merz & Macron want to turn EU pensions into AI speculation fuel. 2008 taught us what happens when finance gambles on our futures, I experienced first hand graduating then. Our retirement isn't tech's piggy bank. EU or otherwise

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a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says `` im a little worried '' while standing next to another man .

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

ha! he has a name and a story, its Aloys aka the cloud striker :p and he was born on the 19th of July, during the big Microsoft outage

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Some good news coming out alongside the summit, American cloud giants will be investigated under the digital markets act #dma AND this is going to take ages, so what do we do now--to tackle the infrastructure power they hold now? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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EU Considers Cracking Down on Big Tech's Cloud Power

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study t...

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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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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

That title is 🔥🔥 can’t believe we had another outage, while we were talking! Such fun and excited to keep the conversation going

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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...

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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

Just on Monday, we witnessed the effects of this problem with the AWS cloud, and now we're running into the same issue with Microsoft. This Microsoft outage has shown us that cloud monopolies pose a direct threat to democratic participation itself.

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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

When people cannot access the information and transport they need to participate in elections because a single tech company's infrastructure fails, we've crossed a dangerous threshold.

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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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