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Emrys Schoemaker

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digital, social & political transformation; head of digital & frontier tech @ UNU-CPR; fellow @ LSE & Graduate Institute, Geneva; RT ≠ endorsement emrysschoemaker.com

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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop
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Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop
DAWO combines a Linux-based client with open source tools for cloud, communications, and collaborative work
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think the later waves of AI misalignment/security disclosures are breaking differently because of what the agents were up to: Not hacking, which seems misaligned with OpenAI's interests, but aggressive scraping, which is how the company was built and operates nymag.com/intelligence...
Last week, researchers revealed another cluster of attempted Al hacks that took place earlier this year, affecting university and government websites. These, too, had been carried out by OpenAI agents. This time, though, the facts of the story were more straightforwardly damning for OpenAI. Agents hadn't conspired to escape their sandboxes to access the open internet but had been sent there to retrieve data from external websites, including Australian health databases and the University of New Mexico's digital library. Then, late Friday, it was revealed that the company's agents had made similar approaches to websites for the U.S. Education Department,
Commerce Department, and SEC, without OpenAI's knowledge. Like the others, these agents were behaving in misaligned ways, attempting to circumvent bot protections and break into websites when they couldn't find the information they were looking for, or, in the words of one analyst, "using sites in unintended ways and sometimes violating explicit usage policies." In a broader sense, though, their behavior was uncomfortably well aligned with OpenAI, a company built on vast quantities of data acquired in aggressive and sometimes unauthorized ways. These agents, just like the company that created them, had been caught scraping. (Over the weekend, Axios reported that Al firms were looking into potentially thousands of similar incidents.)
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Multilateralism is not idealism, it is a necessity
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Multilateralism is not idealism, it is a necessity
We need to strengthen our system of co-operation, not replace it
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Saudi Arabia quits China-led cross-border currency platform
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Saudi Arabia quits China-led cross-border currency platform
Kingdom’s central bank withdrew from programme which is part of Beijing’s effort to develop an alternative system to the dollar
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Quantus Robotus @quantum-news.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CIGI picks six scholars to study quantum security and policy Read more: quantumzeitgeist.com/quantum-securi…
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CIGI Picks Six Scholars To Study Quantum Security And Policy
CIGI picks six scholars to study quantum security and policy, addressing critical questions at the intersection of technology and national interests.
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Michael Green @shepleygreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The AI conversation we are not having: trust, control & social progress With @emrys.eurosky.social youtu.be/UKOHfTfYpZw?...
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The AI conversation we are not having: Trust, control & social progress
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
Love this:
zuckoff.app
ZuckOff | Camera glasses detector
ZuckOff listens for the Bluetooth advertisements camera glasses emit and tells you when a lens is in the room. Everything stays on your phone.
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Nvidia in talks to invest in Anthropic’s mega IPO, sources say
Anthropic is in talks to ​bring Nvidia as an anchor investor into what could be the largest IPO in history, two people familiar with the ‌matter told Reuters.
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Michael Green @shepleygreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
See the full discussion with @emrys.eurosky.social here: youtu.be/UKOHfTfYpZw?...
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The AI conversation we are not having: Trust, control & social progress
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
Actually let me rephrase: Getting to pay ~1% of their yearly revenue *And Then getting To Use The Invasive Data They've Collected From The Predatory Architectures They've Implemented* to set the terms and paradigm for every other social media company that follows after them is Pretty Fucking Bad.
techdirt.com
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta's platforms. The headlines are all covering the basics: the years-long case these states filed against Meta ends, and Meta pays somewhere...
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
techcrunch.com
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India | TechCrunch
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When the government abandoned its top-down regulation and handed control back to local herding groups, giving them long-term contracts to manage their own pasture, the result was staggering www.scidev.net/global/opini...
scidev.net
El Niño exposes need to back pastoralist climate action
As El Niño grips. scaling rangeland data tools is critical to protect pastoralist livelihoods and food security, writes Guyo Roba.
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
“The transition reflects a broader trend in which governments, including Ethiopia and Rwanda, are integrating refugee registration into national digital ID systems, shifting responsibility for ID management from int’l agencies to sovereign institutions while expanding access to public services.”
biometricupdate.com
Iraq takes over refugee identity registration from UNHCR | Biometric Update
For refugees the card provides recognized legal identity, reduces risks of arrest or detention, and opens access to healthcare, education and other services.
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
not a metaphor
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Michael Green @shepleygreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The AI conversation we are not having: Trust, control & social progress. With @emrys.eurosky.social youtu.be/UKOHfTfYpZw?...
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The AI conversation we are not having: Trust, control & social progress
YouTube video by Social Progress Imperative
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
The little-known French company trying to unseat Palantir in Europe
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The little-known French company trying to unseat Palantir in Europe
ChapsVision is in talks with governments across the region and competing for major German defence and police contracts
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pope to Catholic Legislators: “Sadly, we are presented with a subtle form of domination when algorithms decide who is seen, who remains invisible, when digital platforms shape public discourse without accountability, and when the dignity of workers is subordinated to the optimization of systems.”
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
Fantastic resource:
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
npr.org
Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Courts are finally starting to treat feeds and chatbots as products and to address harmful design, writes Courtney Radsch, director of the Center for Media & Digital Governance at Open Markets Institute—a turn with consequences for Meta, TikTok, and the AI companies now facing wrongful-death suits.
techpolicy.press
Courts Find Platforms Addictive and Dangerous by Design
What comes next has to be structural, not just reactive, writes Courtney C. Radsch.
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Queen Mary University of London @qmul.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Air pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o
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Reuters @reuters.com · 19/08/2026
China urges respect for digital sovereignty in AI race reut.rs/4xaoUR1
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China urges respect for digital sovereignty in AI race
China on Wednesday urged respect for each country's ​digital sovereignty, after a report ‌the U.S. would ask countries to choose sides in the artificial ​intelligence race with Beijing.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Data centers are a huge political issue everywhere, but maybe nowhere more than Florida: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Could the GOP lose Florida over data centers?
“Party labels are less important when it comes to our homes and way of life.”
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
"Asked what kind of impact AI will have on their lives, 45 percent of respondents said it will have a negative affect on their careers, while an additional 40 percent opined that the US government should regulate AI" futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
8 people, among them municipal staff & ombudsmen, mapped what a Dutch municipality’s welfare eligibility algorithm actually does and found hazards missing from its public register, including no route to contest a wrong decision ai4dev.ai/posts/a-rule...
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A rule written for one market became a property of the tool everyone else uses · AI4Dev
Brussels wrote AI transparency rules for its own market. The mark now travels with the tool everywhere, and the people it reaches had no part in either decision. The objection is jurisdictional, not t...
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👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com · 17/08/2026
"this will be a war of all against all that could end humanity. dont worry, the invisible hand of the market will lead to natural equilibrium. but fyi we're selling the weapons" -new Zuck essay
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026
The thing is (as Leek points out) the idea that synthetic personas are a good way to understand the preferences of a real population is not a harmless delusion: it's a product that's being actively sold to governments, campaigning politicians and marketers. 62/
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Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And as ever, it's mostly those who already have skills/expertise that are seeing the benefits, not newbies. Very little evidence of a skill barrier reduction so far, lots of evidence of a productivity multiplier for the experts.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can reliably convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that *can't* do your job: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 73/
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The LAPD declined to renew its Flock contract after an internal audit found 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — a 32.3% false-positive rate. www.gadgetreview.com/one-in-three...
gadgetreview.com
One in Three Alerts Wrong: High Error Rates and Data Concerns Force Cities to Drop Flock
Flock Safety license plate cameras are being dropped by 82+ municipalities across 28 states over false alerts, privacy risks, and immigration data fears.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Governments from the EU to Malaysia and India can pursue very different policies—all branded "AI sovereignty." Haakon Huynh argues the concept is so fuzzy it can justify almost anything, and governments are spending without defining it.
techpolicy.press
Which 'AI Sovereignty' Are You Buying?
Left undefined, “AI sovereignty” will merely cost enough to strain a budget while meaning little enough to justify almost anything, writes Haakon Huynh.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Industrial policy sometimes has "Governments picking winners." But it just as often has "Losers picking Governments" US AI companies losing to open-source Chinese AI companies are likely to go to US govt to create themselves a 'moat'
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling "Unsafe". Salem rich trials. 🔥🔥🔥
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
In PassBlue: “According to a source, Skau acknowledged that the relationship was problematic but said it would be hard for the WFP to get out of it.”
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‘Never Speak About It’: Leaked Audit Reveals the UN’s Palantir Problem - PassBlue
‘Never Speak About It’: Leaked Audit Reveals the UN’s Palantir Problem - PassBlue
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Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net · 07/08/2026
"The rapid adoption of AI has fueled a wave of legal disputes over the unauthorized use of people’s likenesses. The city-level Guangzhou Internet Court has heard approximately 700 AI-related face theft cases over the past three years."
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/08/2026
'I’d be a lot more confident about the future if it wasn’t in the hands of people who seem to think Brave New World is a parenting manual.' Read Robert Shrimsley's latest column: ft.trib.al/1ycEjCV
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
Fantastic piece on the science fiction that foretold our time:
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Why and how the Austrian Military moved from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08...
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Why and how the Austrian Military moved to LibreOffice (Part 1) - TDF Community Blog
Many government departments around the world are moving away from vendor lock-in by tech giants, and switching to free and open source software like LibreOffice. This helps with privacy, security, and...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
USA Today has made a deal with Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior <so no anonymous engagement. No thanks. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/amer...
niemanlab.org
America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman...
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
nature.com
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities. www.pcmag.com/news/a-hacke...?
pcmag.com
A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID
The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities.
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
restofworld.org
In China, people are renting out their faces to AI
New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The dream of #mesh networking apps gaining popular traction has been decades in the making (I was researching it 15 years ago: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). If Jack effing Dorsey is the one who finally cracked the code, that would be a bizarre irony.
restofworld.org
The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns
Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 05/08/2026
Recently unsealed court documents reveal how Anthropic secretly bought, destroyed and scanned books to train its AI chatbot, Claude.
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Project Panama: How Anthropic shredded books to train its AI chatbot
Recently unsealed court documents reveal how Anthropic secretly bought, destroyed and scanned books to train its AI chatbot, Claude.
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Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026
MeToo
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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 05/08/2026
It's hard to read this and not think that this is Meta not wanting to be left out of the super-dangerous / super-powerful AI club.
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