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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

At the opening panel of the Rebuilding Europe’s Sovereignty conference in Brussels. Shout if you are here and want to meet for a coffee.

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

@EUCommission opens proceedings to assist #Google in complying with interoperability and online search data sharing obligations under the Digital Markets Act (#DMA). Excellent news which will hopefully assist @ecosia and @Qwant and their European Search Perspective (#eusp), amongst others […]

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

At least he admits our information is "factual"! A reminder: David Sacks is influencing AI and crypto policy while holding investment stakes in companies that will benefit from those policies. Factual. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

How is it going, suckers? You absolute patsies, you victims of the Wasting My Time Industrial Complex, reading your precious little "books"! Today I *absorbed* 100 crime novels in a single minute by telling AI to summarize who the killer is in a pie chart. Checkmate, you pathetic wordcels!

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

European integration over the next few years will involve a lot of "I told you so" from Paris

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Toch wel fijn dat ook de landsadvocaat het nu bevestigt. Het maakt geen reet uit dat je een afspraak hebt met Microsoft dat je spullen op een datacenter in de EU komen te staan. De lange arm van de Amerikaanse wet komt tot in de polder […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

$o Advies landsadvocaat « Als Solvinity zou worden overgenomen door Kyndryl komt Solvinity binnen het bereik te vallen van Amerikaanse wetgeving z0als de CLOUD Act en de FISA en Executive Order 12333. In algemene zin kan gezegd worden dat deze drie wettelijke instrumenten het mogelijk maken dat autoriteiten in de Verenigde Staten onder de in deze wetgeving genoemde voorwaarden toegang kunnen krijgen tot de gegevens waarover een Amerikaanse onderneming beschikt, 66k wanneer de gegevens zich bevinden onder een Europese dochtervennootschap en op servers buiten de Verenigde Staten; « Dat betekent dat als Solvinity wordt overgenomen door een onderneming met een Amerikaanse moedermaatschappij, het gevolg daarvan kan zijn dat autoriteiten in de Verenigde Staten in voorkomend geval gegevens kunnen opvorderen die door Solvinity in opdracht van haar overheidsklanten worden verwerkt. « De voorgenomen transactie brengt daarom nieuwe risico’s met zich mee voor de verwerking van persoonsgegevens door Solvinity; « Teneinde het risico op ongewenste toegang tot de gegevens van Nederlandse overheidsklanten van Solvinity te verkleinen, kan van Solvinity en Kyndryl worden gevergd dat er aanvullende technische en organisatorische getroffen. » + De onderhandelingen met Solvinity plus Kyndryl en de overheidsklanten plus landsadvocaat lof gs by \$

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 21/01/2026

MEP @alexandrageese.bsky.social giving presser now at EP with victims of recent 🇺🇸sanctions against lawmakers & NGOs for implementing EU tech laws "This is a surgical political instrument to silence opponents," she says. "What 🇺🇸 is hitting here is not some random NGO, it's the DSA enforcement chain"

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New phishing scam pretending to be from an official Mastodon account. Mastodon does not send out verification requests like this. So don't click the link if you receive a message like this, just report it as spam.

A direct message in Mastodon from "@web_helper". The message says "Dear Mastodon user,

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

📍Zurich airport, on the flight path to Davos conference Everyone Hates Elon: If you can fly a private jet to a bullsh*t conference in Switzerland you can pay more tax mate

Aerial photo of a huge protest banner laid out on a farm field near Zurich Airport, directly under the flight path to the Davos conference. The white banner reads “HEY DAVOS BILLIONAIRES: SHUT UP AND PAY YOUR TAX” in bold black letters, with large laughing portraits of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg printed along the bottom. Several small figures stand around the edges holding it down, while a road with a passing car runs alongside the field. The banner is signed “Everyone Hates Elon.”

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KING CONSULT | Kommunikation @kingconsult.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

54 Members of the 🇪🇺 #European Parliament from #EPP #SD #Renew #GreensEFA and #TheLeft are calling on the @EUCommission to take urgent action and build European #SocialMedia platforms following the recent #Grok scandal. Read the full text on @alexandrageese's website […]

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Marc Abrahams @marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

The headline is so good that it almost doesn’t matter whether this is entirely true, partly true, or entirely imaginary: "Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest" HT @overholt ] [ […]

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Would be rather nice if a few more senior British politicians were willing to back Canada with the vehemence shown by Gabriel Attal

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"The alliance that has been mobilized to defend one of its members only once in its entire history, and that member was the US after 9/11, is the biggest threat to the US."

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a man in a suit and tie is sitting on an airplane and says sure-sure-sure .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting on an airplane and says sure-sure-sure .

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

3/2 Another option is to hurt Trump by strengthening China, which he is obsessing with. For instance, the EU (in particular the Netherlands, where ASML is based) could again permit the export of advanced machinery (e.g. for the production of chips) on which there are currently export […]

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

2/2 This includes economic measures, e.g. retaliation with tariffs on US goods and the imposition of restrictions on US service providers in Europe: since US pensions depend on the performance of Wall Street, this will immediately hurt Trump's support. But it can also comprise other measures […]

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

"Europe risks more in escalation about Greenland than US", the Flemish daily De Standaard headlined today. Naturally. That is why Trump decided to start talking about Greenland. Idem when it comes to tariffs on goods: the EU has more to lose than the US […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 19/01/2026

"Europe’s governments, so accustomed to the idea that they are in a weaker position relative to the US, were unable to anticipate that the Americans would perceive their actions as a threat and react with such ferocity and panic."

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We don’t know our own strength

A lesson from Greenland

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 19/01/2026

Being outside the EU objectively puts the UK at a *disadvantage* in these negotiations. The EU can threaten to use the anti-coercion instrument to inflict huge costs onto the US with the loss of its biggest trading partner. What does the UK alone have to threaten with? Rescinding a royal visit?

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

It's going to be fun when the MAGA base, already enjoying more expensive medical insurance, realises that Denmark is the US's main source of insulin, Ozempic and Wegovy, and the mad king has just increased the price by 10%.

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaV… Imagine how powerful it would be if von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas made their statements first on a EUROPEAN open, free, non-algorithmically distorted social media network. 🇪🇺✌️ And then later with a 60 minute delay on […]

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Thiago Ferrer Morini @tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

Con dos tercios de los votos escrutados: Seguro 30,1% Ventura 26,2% Marques Mendes 14% Cotrim de Figueiredo 12,9% Gouveia e Melo 12% Ninguno de los demás candidatos (incluyendo Bloque de Izquierda y PCP) supera el 2% #elecciones🗳️ #Portugal🇵🇹

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Trump has been doing a lot to weaken the US and facilitate China's rise in his second term, but he did in term 1 too. First thing Trump did in office was cancel the TPP, promising "better" 1-on-1 deals and getting none. Effectively flipped a smart China containment strategy into US containment.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Why does DW keep platforming the sun of the dictator that created this mess? #iran #shah Iran's exiled crown prince asks Europe's help to end regime The eldest son of the last shah, Reza Pahlavi, has said Iran's regime is on its "last legs" and called on countries to take action in support of […]

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Here is a gentle reminder from the American president to all European citizens and businesses to diversify away from US services/trading partners. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/…

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

"Trump threatens tariff on 'countries that don't go along with Greenland'" Oh, and in the same talk, Trump said that he slapped tariffs on pharmaceutical imports from the EU as part of his efforts to lower drug prices in the US. What's next? Is he going to invade Greenland to lower drug prices […]

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Congratulations, Wikipedia: 25 years for the most reliable and complete source of information ever created!

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

Great to see that @hennavirkkunen, the @EUCommission Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy joined Mastodon: Welcome!

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

Hey @bruzz, de pop-ups in jullie app zijn behoorlijk vervelend. Vorige week constante vragen om in te schrijven op de nieuwsbrief; deze week om in te schrijven op WhatsApp updates. Deze keer is er zelfs geen kruisje om de pop-up te sluiten. Stop hiermee!

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

The EU single market is disintegrating, according to data seen by the FT on trade between the member states. The single market is the EU’s greatest succes: preserving and strengthening it is essential for the welfare of its citizens and the very existence of the EU. @EUCommission : reduce those […]

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 10/01/2026

I finally deleted my account on X today. If you haven't already, this is a reminder :) It feels good!

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Jan Blockx @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

"North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives […]

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

America needed NATO after 9/11, and NATO was there. It answered the call and paid a price in blood, money and political capital. NATO allies stood side by side with Americans. And no NATO country has ever threatened the US the way Trump is now threatening Greenland with annexation.

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