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Joris van Hoboken

@jvh.bsky.social
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(he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights. @ivir-uva.bsky.social

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I spoke to the @theintercept.com on how we're entering very dangerous and anti-democratic territory when AI companies, in seeking to deploy their technology in US military, are put in a position to self-report and determine the risks of their very own products.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Aside from footie, Cape Verde also has some of the best music on this planet: may I introduce y'all to Cesaria Evora and Mayra Andrade www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3um...
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Excerpt from documentary Kontinuasom / Mayra Andrade - Dispidida
YouTube video by Mayra Andrade
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Those in power may pretend not to know where the present political trajectories are taking us, but they seem to sense that they’ll have to hide." www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
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A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
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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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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026
Knet-ter-gek die Markuszower. Oproepen tot geweld en het vermoorden van vluchtelingen.
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Karin Spaink @karinspaink.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Vandaag ben ik uit vrije wil gestorven, in het gezelschap van mijn beste vrienden. Het hoe & wat daarvan staat in mijn allerlaatste stukje: www.spaink.net/2026/05/08/e....
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Karin Spaink - Exit Spaink – mijn allerlaatste stukje
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future
“Potentially, what you could do with [AI] is obviously use it to engineer storytelling and change storytelling,” Russo said. “So you have a constantly evolving story, either in a game or in a movie or a TV show. You could walk into your house and save the AI on your streaming platform. ‘Hey, I want a movie starring my photoreal avatar and Marilyn Monroe’s photoreal avatar. I want it to be a rom-com because I’ve had a rough day,’ and it renders a very competent story with dialogue that mimics your voice. It mimics your voice, and suddenly now you have a rom-com starring you that’s 90 minutes long. So you can curate your story specifically to you.”
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michael veale @michae.lv · 29/04/2026
quite interesting (if very partial) interview from the NSA Deputy Director during the Snowden affair. he says the quiet part out loud — that people didn’t understand how the FISA law relates to technology was itself an NSA capability www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/n...
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NSA Chief During Snowden Affair 13 Years Later
Chris Inglis was the head civilian in charge at the NSA when the Snowden leak exploded. He gets candid about mistakes the organization made.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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Petros Terzis @petroster.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
After years of regulating tech that flows through clouds, we ended up in a race to build more of it. In a new 📝 at @reggovjournal.bsky.social w/ @fencesitter8.bsky.social & @jvh.bsky.social, we explain how we got here and ask for some breathing room for lawyers and policymakers.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I wrote up my concerns about the CJEU's Russmedia ruling. This is the first of two posts, it's about the bad results of relying on the GDPR (and displacing laws like the DSA) to define platforms' liability for content. Post two will review arguments that the case is more limited. 1/
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In Russmedia Ruling, the GDPR Displaces Europe's Rules for Online Speech
The ruling shows the serious problems that can arise when European courts rely solely on the GDPR, writes Daphne Keller.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/04/2026
BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
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The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This is a really sharp post on Audre Lorde and her master's tools essay and how it fits with technological critique. And it's an even sharper critique of how Doctorow (apparently) invokes the quote.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It’s always interesting to see which subjects Meta will refuse to do content moderation on because “free speech,” and which content moderation the CEO will volunteer to do in advance to curry favor. In this case it was “naming a DOGE employee”
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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
NRC dacht "fuuuuck gescoopt door Trouw, deze Anthropic-PR-slop hadden wij ook in de krant willen hebben" en publiceert daarom alsnog een gelijksoortig stukje lulkoek: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Opinie | Nederland is niet klaar voor de AI-golf die nú op ons afkomt
Kunstmatige intelligentie: De komst van artificial general intelligence is het ingrijpendste dat onze generatie gaat meemaken, schrijft Michiel Bakker. We moeten nu voorbereidingen treffen.
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I'm often reminded of Arendt's remarks on how the base vulgarity of fascist leaders found fertile soil in Europe in large part because they were merely expressing bourgeois values, only cleansed of hypocrisy and pretense. And unmasking hypocrisy is "such terrible and wonderful fun."
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is what evil states do - torture - mass torture of people in detention. “Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale “that suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent”.”
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Israel systematically torturing Palestinians in custody, says UN expert
Report by Francesca Albanese says 'torture in detention used on unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance'.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 13/03/2026
Shout out to the American Historical Association for these uploads! youtu.be/UDwAOrDi1wk?...
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Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition in ACLS-AHA-MLA Lawsuit About the NEH, Part 6 of 6
YouTube video by American Historical Association
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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is unreliable for the detection of illicit content: it is easy to incriminate someone by sending them false content with a hash value close to illicit content (a false positive) and to avoid detection of illicit content with minimal modifications to an image (a false negative)."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026
This is so true. A bunch of the outlets that featured this kind of writing have disappeared, and many of the still-existing publications that used to pay people to do this kind of writing killed off those sections.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/02/2026
Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google? Answer... No. Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions. Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.
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Republik Magazin @republik.ch · 18/02/2026
Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court. Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The DSA and Platform Regulation conference is timely, excellent, and important Get a glimpse even if you cannot be there in person ⬇️ @ramshajahangir.bsky.social @pjleerssen.bsky.social @jvh.bsky.social @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ivir-uva.bsky.social
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
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Andre Meister @andre.netzpolitik.org · 11/02/2026
Digitale Souveränität: Bundesbehörden haben letztes Jahr 481 Millionen Euro Steuergeld an Microsoft bezahlt. Eine Steigerung um drei Viertel in zwei Jahren. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/040/2...
Abgeordnete Rebecca Lenhard (BÜNDNIS 90/ DIE GRÜNEN)

Liegt der Bundesregierung ein vollständiger Überblick darüber vor, wie hoch die jährlichen Kosten der IT-Beschaffung über den Rahmenvertrag des Bundesministeriums des Innern für Microsoft-Lizenzen bei Bund, Ländern und Kommunen sind und wenn ja, wie hat sich dieses Volumen in den letzten fünf Jahren verändert?

Antwort des Parlamentarischen Staatssekretärs
Thomas Jarzombek
vom 6. Februar 2026

Über die Beschaffung von Microsoft-Lizenzen auf Landes- und Kommunalebene liegen der Bundesregierung aufgrund der föderal verteilten Zuständigkeit für Beschaffungen in diesem Bereich keine konkreten Zahlen vor.

Die unmittelbare und mittelbare Bundesverwaltung sowie Zuwendungsempfänger des Bundes beziehen Microsoft-Lizenzen in aller Regel aus einem Handelspartner-Rahmenvertrag, den die Zentralstelle IT‑Beschaffung (ZIB) ausgeschrieben hat. In den Jahren 2023 bis 2025 wurden Microsoft-Produkte mit folgenden Gesamtsummen (netto) daraus abgerufen. Dabei ist hinsichtlich der Vergleichbarkeit mit früheren Anfragen zu berücksichtigen, dass der hier durch die Fragestellung betroffene Kreis der Bezugsberechtigten über die Ressorts und nachgeordneten Behörden des Bundes hinausgeht.

2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 02/02/2026
CEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Republicans in US congress are apparently more interested in publishing and commenting on the EC's DSA fine of X than ensuring the release of the Epstein files.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The same day Alex Pretti was murdered, Apple CEO Tim Cook, pictured here smiling with notorious sex pest and accused rapist Brett Ratner, enjoyed a gala screening of BRIBE: The Movie at the White House. Think Different, kids.
Tim Cook with Brett Ratner at the premiere screening of "Melania"
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"as a tool of authoritarian conflict management, the Board of Peace arguably upholds three basic principles: Might is right, ethnic cleansing is an appropriate tool of conflict resolution, and war is an opportunity for real estate development." read @danaelkurd.bsky.social
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Trump’s Board of Peace Will Help Strong Countries Dominate Weak Ones
In Gaza, it will legitimize Israeli land grabs and ethnic cleansing.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Gestapo leader who oversees kidnappings promises consequences for exercising your First Amendment rights.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
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Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I hope that people do realize that government disinformation is the legally easy case. In a democracy that values freedom of expression, the people responsible in government would have to go.
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The Trump admin's sanctions on researchers and regulators who work on content-moderation, fact-checking, and disinfo are part of an effort to protect the tech ecosystem that has allowed the the far right to flourish. Good piece from @davidakaye.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/the-trump-li...
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The Trump Lie About Europe and Why it Matters | TechPolicy.Press
The Trump administration is promoting disinformation about European law and policy for reasons that go well beyond social media regulation, writes David Kaye.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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