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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026
They talk through social media bans, age verification, and what we can do to make online spaces safer for everyone. Listen to this conversation here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
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The Kids Are Online: Are Social Media Bans the Answer? w/ Cori Crider and Pamela Wisniewski
Almost everyone studying kids’ safety online agrees that a blanket social media ban won't work. So what would?
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 25/09/2026
A great conversation on a complex issue with @alixdunn.com - I hope I was honest about the tradeoffs re protecting kids. It’s time to build bridges and get off Big Tech’s land, even as we make defaults safe for everyone. But my community should recognise that current moves meet real public anger.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 25/09/2026
SHOTS FIRED: Clive Lewis MP says what needed saying about Palantir’s naked bid to buy access to HMG thru Tom Watson. “Now, the former scourge of mass surveillance finds a surveillance company “the most interesting … on the planet”. It’s quite a journey” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 23/09/2026
So what was the latest wave of 'will AI kill us all' coverage really about? I went on @aljazeera.com to discuss the recent wave of AI doomsday press. TL;DR: the companies warning us lobbied hard this year to block AI safety laws. Link here jumps to the lobby discn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw3F...
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What’s really motivating these AI apocalypse stories? | The Listening Post
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 23/09/2026
If you're at the Barcelona AI Summit today, come say hi - I'll be talking about water, social assent, and data centre conditionalities on this panel! #AISB26 #AISummitBarcelona aisummitbarcelona.com/schedule#4c5...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 16/09/2026
Does this line work on literally anyone? I don't even think MAGA think their $7 diesel is the fault of wokism...
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 16/09/2026
I genuinely like these reporters and I appreciate ongoing safety reporting, BUT when the responsible humans lower guardrails in a way that makes this possible, we should call the OpenAI bosses the rogues, not the models they let loose.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 16/09/2026
For those of you annoyed at the 'pace the frontier' popping up in the SOTEU speech (as I am) - this is a very good podcast, well worth one's time
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 14/09/2026
Ok this is cute, y’all, we still have one week to vote on the new design of the Euro! Who knew, a fun European consultation. (I enjoy birds; the personalities did better for me here.) Loved both vertical designs. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...
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Survey | surveys.ecb.europa.eu
I’ve just had my say on our future banknotes. Have your say too!
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 30/08/2026
@coricrider.com that analysis you had when The Anarchy came out has now been written up!
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 20/08/2026
Jenny Holzer is my favourite bot and you should follow her. What’s yours?
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 09/08/2026
Happy summer from Alt Penedes, where @countbinface.bsky.social's challenge to Farage has reached global celebrity - here in La Vanguardia in Catalan ❤️‍🔥
A sunny village square in alt penedes, Catalonia A photograph of an article from La vanguardia about count binface
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 07/08/2026
Fantastically interesting piece about the vast range of people lining up - for reasons beyond energy bills - against data centres in the US. Well worth your time. If we want Europe to move off big tech towards our own compute (as FOTI do), we should insist on sovereign AND sustainable cloud, now.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 07/08/2026
New Mexico judge tops up Meta's penalty in the social media addiction case: www.ft.com/content/fa86...
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Meta told to pay nearly $1bn penalty over social media harm to children
New Mexico judge orders tech group to pay extra fine in lawsuit brought by state attorney-general in 2023
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Happy 92nd Birthday to Wendell Berry. 💚
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 05/08/2026
Also because my TL looks like I hate fun and don’t know what summer is, look at the incredible flesh of these flat peaches!!
A photograph of some very pink sliced flat peaches in a white bowl.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 05/08/2026
Honestly.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 05/08/2026
🙌 Great to see Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (German conservatives) add its voice to the growing chorus for a) smart, safe social b) building bridges to next-gen social (yes, thru interoperability). With a big announcement expected from VDL at SOTEU, this is a strong signal www.kas.de/en/analysen-...
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Safe Social: Social Media That Protects Kids and Strengthens Sovereignty
Proposal for the creation of a new interoperable European “Safe Social” market: For a social media ban for under-16s – linked to an EU-wide system of certified exemptions
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Lists on Bluesky are the best thing about it. Want a human-curated feed that is real time and not algorithmically moderated? They are the RSS of the social age. Here are a few of mine, hopefully self-explanatory (thread) bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Data centers have become one of the U.S.'s most potent political flashpoints, uniting coalitions on the left and right like few issues do. We sent @mollytaft.com on a journey into the data center resistance. The Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders made appearances along the way:
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How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 04/08/2026
Cool summer reading list from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, feat. a take on surging anti-Valley sentiment: "Put simply, there is too much money, some of it too untraceable, giving a small group of unelected people too much power over the people. That’s data politics." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here.
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 03/08/2026
FT back at it on the stats on Palantir helping the NHS being faulty! “It’s shocking the NHS published claims about Palantir’s positive impact on patients even after its own staff raised concerns about the methodology being used." - Ben Coleman MP. www.ft.com/content/bc58...
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NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
Changes to two most widely cited claims come as scrutiny grows over US tech company’s contract
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 03/08/2026
ICYMI - great read in the FT feat. @dncampbell.bsky.social and @foxglovelegal.bsky.social's work on data centres. The big question: how can we shape this market so new compute doesn't suck up so much of the power and water we need to live? With the homes we must build? www.ft.com/content/67db...
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Data centres vs housing: how London became a central battleground
The city has become the largest hub for AI power centres across Europe, competing with homes for energy, space and water. Its priorities are being called into question
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 27/07/2026
AI isn't just a race for the most capable model anymore. As open-weight models improve, organizations are thinking more about flexibility, transparency, resilience, and avoiding vendor lock-in—not just benchmark scores. Read more from The Economist: www.economist.com/business/202...
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America’s AI labs are under threat from cheap Chinese rivals
Demand for open-weight models is soaring
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 12/07/2026
OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Although chatbots have advanced dramatically in their research and reasoning capacities, they are still fundamentally text-prediction machines. They generate answers one “token”—or chunk of text—at a time, based on what has come before. Each successive word choice factors in both the statistical likelihood of that word coming next in a sequence, based on patterns in the original training data, and the likelihood that it will lead to a highly rated response overall. In other words, the models are always seeking a balance between the clever word choice and the obvious one.

When a chatbot uses negative parallelism, according to this theory, it’s essentially hedging between the two. Once it has started a sentence whose function is to characterize something, the path of least resistance is to say first what the thing isn’t (X), and only then what the thing is (Y). Put another way: For a sentence that begins with “This is,” following it with “not just” is both more likely and safer than the many options for how to directly characterize its subject. And after “This is not just,” the rest of the sentence gets easier too. The next word can be X—the boring, obvious descriptor that gets negated—which in turn sets up the final choice of Y, the somewhat punchier descriptor.
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Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The estimable @coricrider.com joined me on this week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech to talk better social media bans, the promise of Eurosky and TikTok expands to AI moderation. You won’t regret listening! www.patreon.com/CtrlAltSpeec...
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Making the Best of a Ban Situation | Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Making the Best of a Ban Situation by Ctrl-Alt-Speech on Patreon. Join Ctrl-Alt-Speech's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 02/07/2026
🇪🇸 Viva España 🇪🇸 Roll on digital sovereignty www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...
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Moncloa veta a la multinacional estadounidense Palantir en contratos y empresas públicas
El Ejecutivo traslada a empresas públicas la necesidad de evitar acuerdos con la firma tecnológica estadounidense por motivos de soberanía y seguridad, en línea con los movimientos adoptados recientem...
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 01/07/2026
I gave birth in an NHS hospital during this period and am angry about the midwifery care we received to this day. Anyone who claims there was no cultural drive in this period against pain relief, against 'medicalised' birth, is gaslighting.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 19/06/2026
Welcome Dan!! 🇪🇺
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What happened in Makerfield? Some new constituency polling between @persuasionuk.bsky.social & Convergent (most accurate pollster in the race!), covering among other things: - Burnham assembling a coalition Lab needs nationally - 'Get Starmer out' + 'public ownership' at the centre of it. 🧵👇
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 19/06/2026
Once again: the fact that tech monopolies don't want Europe to stand on its own two feet shows us exactly why we must make more urgent moves to do so.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Defending a monopoly at all cost.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 19/06/2026
ICYMI, great piece by the excellent @jitorreblanca.eurosky.social at @ecfr.eu. We agree that opening up social media to competing services - and building a bridge out via interoperability - is how we take back control of our public square from Musk and co. ecfr.eu/article/musk...
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Musk’s war on European democracy: How to open up X and fight back – European Council on Foreign Relations
The EU should apply two remedies to address political interference via X
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FOTI @fotitech.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026
The UK announced its legislative path today, Canada did so last week and the G7 Summit also has child online safety on the agenda. But is there a smarter #SocialMediaBan? Indeed, we at FOTI believe there is #ASmarterBan. Read our proposal for a smarter ban now: futureinstitute.tech//assets/doc/...
Cover of the Policy Brief: A smarter ban. A blueprint for safe, fair, innovative European social media. By FOTI, June 2026.
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Ken Veerman @kenveerman.eurosky.social · 13/06/2026
Am I the only one who is surprised that this only happened now? Degoogled my entire business in Jan 2025 because I half-expected this to happen with Google/Microsoft products.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 13/06/2026
This I expect will turn out to be a big deal in the tech sovereignty devates www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/t...
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U.S. Bars Foreigners From Using Anthropic’s Most Advanced A.I. Models
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 11/06/2026
Muve to the beat. Muve the conversation. Muve mountains. Today @eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new microblogging app to experiment with the future of social! 🪩💖
Purple banner with the 'mu' logo in the middle in white with a black drop shadow
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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Spain achieved ~78% carbon free electricity in May with solar power taking the top spot with 33.4%. Nuclear: ~17% Wind: ~15% Gas: ~14% Hydro: ~13% Other: ~5% www.expansion.com/empresas/ene...
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La fotovoltaica bate un récord histórico un año después del apagón
El pasado 29 de mayo fue el día con mayor generación solar fotovoltaica en la historia en España, con un total de 269 gigavatios hora (GWh), que aportaron el 33,4% de la...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 27/05/2026
This isn't about posturing: the man with whom @president.europarl.europa.eu is shaking hands there runs a company that *knowingly* makes 10% of its revenue — $16bn/year — from ads for scams. This primarily harms the most vulnerable (youth and elderly). www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 27/05/2026
but pray tell - which surveillance Ray-Bans did she buy, Instagram 🫠
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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Good news: The Dutch Government - after a months-long saga - is *finally* blocking the US take-over of Solvinity, the company that manages the Netherlands' highly sensitive online identity management system (which basically underpins most government services). nos.nl/artikel/2615...
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Staatssecretaris verbiedt Amerikaanse overname Solvinity, bedrijf achter DigiD
Dat is volgens Aerdts (Economische Zaken) "ter bescherming van het publieke belang".
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 26/05/2026
Expect to see a lot more of this kind of sovereignty-preserving market intervention.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 26/05/2026
Interesting
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Reading the Papal Encyclical again, it strikes me that not only is there no mention of the theft of creative work behind AI - there is no acknowledgement that pre-training data includes people’s creative work at all. This is an unfortunate omission. 🧵 1/6
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 26/05/2026
Good morning to everybody else vibing with a papal encyclical over their coffee 🤘 www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 25/05/2026
Enshittification, ho! Another Google merger that shouldn’t’ve been allowed. When we revisit the EU guidelines, all these acquisitions should weigh on us. First principle should always be: keep markets open.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 21/05/2026
Here is an English version of it.
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“Digital sovereignty is built in stages, and if the institutions do not take action, the public will not either” - Nicolas Hénin
In an opinion piece for Le Monde, new technology specialists Nicolas Hénin and Robin Berjon reflect on the buzz generated by the X account run by the French Foreign Ministry, French Response. They cal...
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 20/05/2026
V smart on tech sovereignty and info ops from @nicolashenin.net and FOTI fellow @robin.berjon.com. The point: you can’t beat autocrats just by swimming against the algorithmic tide on their channels. Democracies should power challengers - and vote with their feet www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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« La souveraineté numérique se construit par étapes, et si les institutions ne bougent pas, le public ne bougera pas »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », les spécialistes des nouvelles technologies Nicolas Hénin et Robin Berjon reviennent sur l’engouement suscité par le compte X piloté par le Quai d’Orsay, French...
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 20/05/2026
Eurosky: it’s like Eurovision, but for your social 🪩🕺💃 DOUZE POINTS, equipe ♥️
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