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Public interest technologist & chocolate lover | Privacy, PETs, algorithmic decision making, films, books, more | krisshrishak.de | KrisShrishak@eupolicy.social

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an individual had hacked Australia's Medicare portal, would the PM have a "frank" discussion with the individual and "express concern about this incident"? #cybersecurity #ai www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"What do you do when you are broke, when you are stupid and you are discouraged?" "Welcome to research." youtu.be/656058JxTM0?...
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DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The literature on #AI "alignment" is based on utility maximization in so many papers, but most of the papers fail to even define values. Read our paper with Andrew Smart, Shazeda Ahmed, Jackie Kay, Jimmy Tobin, and @abeba.blacksky.app to know more. arxiv.org/abs/2608.10327
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Toward a Theory of Value in AI Alignment
Can AI systems be aligned to human values? The popularization of large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal foundation models has seen a rise in harms spanning from toxic speech and hallucinations t...
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I maintain a list of chocolate and related food that I enjoyed the most. Always happy to take suggestions, try more and add more to this list. krisshrishak.de/chocolates.h... #BeanToBar #Chocolate
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/08/2026
Water will find its way through cracks in walls and foundations in such a manner that even the most wondrously designed structure may collapse into pile of rubble. Do not attribute agency to the water; rather, denounce the engineers and the builders and the maintainers who failed in their work.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Art and craft, but not possession. Beautiful. “Food carving is much quicker [than wood carving], with a single knife, and you don’t get to keep any of your work.” www.wipo.int/en/web/ip-ad... chu-sin.com/fruit #food #art #WomensArt
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Food Carving Artist Turns Edibles into Eye-ravishing Creations
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There is always a human responsible Principle '"The algorithm did it" is not an acceptable excuse if algorithmic systems make mistakes or have undesired consequences, including from machine-learning processes' Claims www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article... #AI @abeba.blacksky.app
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Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests
It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
One of the best Akira #Kurosawa films, High and Low (1963), about #capitalism #inequality filled with delicious details about #train and current collectors. krisshrishak.de/blog/high-an... #MovieSky #FilmSky #Cinema
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Malinowski did not write this on his substack, in an op-ed in the New York Times, or in a preprint on arxiv." By doing primary fieldwork he "came to an informed critique of his contemporaries’ extreme reliance on strings of text." ideophone.org/malinowski-1... @dingemansemark.bsky.social
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Malinowski (1922) on Large Language Models
It's easy to forget amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, but language is not actually about strings of words,…
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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
People complain arthouse cinema is inaccessible. But say what you will about Bergman or Tarkovsky or Wong Kar-wai, they never told people to do tens of hours of homework. The Seventh Seal is about a knight in a spiritual battle with Death. That's the background. Simple.
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a man in a black cape stands on a rocky beach with the words i am death below him
Alt: Death in The Seventh Seal, a gaunt figure in a black robe and hood announcing "I am Death."
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A little less than a day to apply for this role: www.iccl.ie/digital-data... Have a look at the impact of our work since 2021: www.iccl.ie/tag/artifici... If you have an #AI implementation/enforcement idea that is not run-of-the-mill, you might be a good fit. Apply!
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Enforce is hiring: AI Expert
Work with us at ICCL Enforce. We are hiring an expert in Artificial Intelligence.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Enforce at the @iccl.bsky.social is hiring. Full-time role. Remote in the EU. Apply early. Deadline 5pm Dublin time on 15 April 2026. www.iccl.ie/digital-data... #AI #AIPolicy #EUAIAct #DigitalRights #TechPolicy @abeba.bsky.social @rocher.lc @techpolicypress.bsky.social @leevisaari.bsky.social
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Enforce is hiring: AI Expert
How data about European defence personnel and political leaders flows to foreign states and non-state actors
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026
if you have some expertise in AI, this is one of the most consequential and rewarding positions you can occupy. apply
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Enforce at the @iccl.bsky.social is hiring. Full-time role. Remote in the EU. Apply early. Deadline 5pm Dublin time on 15 April 2026. www.iccl.ie/digital-data... #AI #AIPolicy #EUAIAct #DigitalRights #TechPolicy @abeba.bsky.social @rocher.lc @techpolicypress.bsky.social @leevisaari.bsky.social
iccl.ie
Enforce is hiring: AI Expert
How data about European defence personnel and political leaders flows to foreign states and non-state actors
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 31/03/2026
From time to time, I will use an LLM for answer generation, but every time I will verify its results. I also presume that search will always be biased and inadequate, and I act accordingly. Do not surrender your humanity to tools that are architecturally and demonstrably unreliable narrators.
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 26/03/2026
The European Data Protection Board has published a case digest (by myself) on decisions made under the one-stop-shop system which consider legitimate interest as a legal basis. www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...
Report cover with decorative elements.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Response from the President of the @ec.europa.eu It would have been good if the President had provided links or citation to the evidence. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/03/2026
The complicity of universities cannot be understated... The few of us fighting back aren't enough. openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
From the excellent Emily Tucker medium.com/center-on-pr...
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An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"
An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France Dear students, As you know, in …
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Are we going to see similar stories in Ireland as well? www.thestar.com/news/canada/... archive.is/uZ4e5
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Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up — by Immigration’s AI reviewer
Immigration Department decision, which openly said it used Generative AI, cites job duties of applicant that bear no relation to her actual tasks.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@mariamurphy.bsky.social and I have written a short report on protecting the ‘Privacy’ in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) www.iccl.ie/news/new-icc... @iccl.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
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New ICCL report on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) often fall short on their promise of safeguarding privacy without limiting data use
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Last month the @coe.int published a report written by @soizicpenicaud.bsky.social and me for equality bodies and other national human rights structures in Europe. It provides policy guidelines on AI and algorithm-driven discrimination. edoc.coe.int/en/artificia...
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European policy guidelines on AI and algorithm-driven discrimination for equality bodies and other national human rights structures
As artificial intelligence and automated decision-making systems become embedded in public administration and key private sectors, these guidelines empower equality bodies to identify, prevent and add...
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Elis🌻🍉 @stealthyqueer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Finally, dug my own live example (from 12 June 2025) out of the screenshot pile. Unfortunately I didn't capture the question - it would've been something about when exactly was I supposed to cancel my TP status when switching over to a work permit.
screenshot of the doj bot replying to prompt not pictured: "**Temporary Protection and Work Permit** You do not meed to cancel your Temporary Protection if you have received a Work Permit. Temporary Protection in Ireland provides various entitlements, including the right to work. Therefore, you can hold both your Temporary Protection status and your Work Permit simultaneously without needing to cancel or re-register". Message concludes with a link to a "reference" page, but does not make it clear which section of the page is being referenced. The linked page does not support the information the bot provided.
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 17/12/2025
I think it's also important to recognize that LLM "summaries" are not epistemically grounded in the ideas of the source material. When they're correct, it's more because *other* writing (in the training corpus) contains similar language. That makes it especially bad when applied to novel results.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Ireland's Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence published its interim report yesterday. The Committee makes a number of recommendations, which include: 1. "Ireland must not shy away from the EU #AI Act or try to dilute it... www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-cen...
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Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence publishes First Interim Report with 85 recommendations
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
📝 OPEN LETTER 📝 Are you based in NL 🇳🇱 ? Do you also want government to thoughtfully shape our digital future, with care for people and nature? Please share and sign 🖊️ this letter addressed to parties forming the new Dutch government and outgoing administration. 📝 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
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Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future
To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration,

We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together.

This letter has two objectives:

a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values.

b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/10/2025
Two, the conflicts of interest for modern connectionism practitioners and supporters need to start to be disclosed and dismantled: "halt the “anything goes” antiscientific dictum of industry funding; and become aware of what follows from our reasoning" For more see: doi.org/10.1037/rev0... 11/n
Finally, connectionism, and cognitive science generally, can rid
ourselves of the hidden conflicts of interest inherent in taking
industry funding to build and use such models (Forbes & Guest,
2025; Gerdes, 2022; Liesenfeld & Dingemanse, 2024; Liesenfeld
et al., 2023). This is possible by requesting that we and our fellow
practitioners disclose such conflicts during and at the point
of publication. Relatedly, we need to acknowledge that such
relationships to industry effectively bend our metatheoretical
positions towards un-, or minimally a-, scientific reasoning that we
are under obligation to keep in check if not at bay (also see Andrews
et al., 2024; Bender et al., 2021; Birhane & Guest, 2021; Forbes &
Guest, 2025; Gerdes, 2022; Guest, 2024; Spanton & Guest, 2022).
Ultimately, it is up to us, theoreticians and modelers alike, to decide
on the fate of our own fields and on the basis on which we create,
understand, and reason about and over our models. Connectionism
can be perhaps be redeemed, but it requires us to: sacrifice
superficial understanding of what role models play and what they
constitute; halt the “anything goes” antiscientific dictum of industry
funding; and become aware of what follows from our reasoning
when we engage mechanistic and/or functional explanations; and if
done carelessly, we risk being incoherent or self-undermining.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory seems to be connectionists’ speciality, however the only difference may be that, this
time round the stakes are higher both for science specifically and
society at large.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Very disappointing that ACM using AI summaries that are highly likely to lead readers astray. We can expect more research papers misrepresenting other papers. We can thank AI summaries for that.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
From the excellent @fotoole.bsky.social "Now, as then, the world’s largest superpower has fused its interests with those of pusher cartels – for the opium lords of 1839, think the tech bros of 2025."
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/11/2025
"The Minister states that “the chatbot was tested extensively...checking responses to “55 questions out of which 53 were deemed successful" Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Our investigation into Irish Department of Justice use of chatbots. The department hides behind disclaimers while deploying misleading chatbots. @iccl.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social www.iccl.ie/news/irish-d...
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Department of Justice chatbots mislead people seeking information
Irish Department of Justice internalises the AI hype and takes no responsibility for misleading chatbots.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/11/2025
what a great honour to receive the 25th Irish Tatler Women of the Year Award in the category of Innovation. the optimist in me thinks this marks a turn for recognition of the importance of critical work and accountability in AI www.businesspost.ie/life-luxury/...
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I fully endorse this. Political leaders are falling prey to AI hype, and seem to lack any kind of help from reputable sources who could counter the false claims of tech CEOs. Where are their science advisers???
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We need our policymakers everywhere to be attuned to the needs of the people, not the whims of CEOs -- and especially not CEOs in the grip of TESCREAList fantasies. Thank you @abeba.bsky.social and @krisshrishak.bsky.social for speaking up www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
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AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Although focused on the EU, the warnings offered here are no less true for AI policy in the US, or anywhere else for that matter. In my lifetime I've never seen grandiose hype of what *might* happen with a technology drive what we are doing in the here and now. Not good!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/11/2025
"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social ✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence,” and instead uphold their duty to serve citizens rather than cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
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AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course. Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs. www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
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AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
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EL PAÍS Ciencia y Tecnología @elpaiscyt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
¿Burbuja en la IA? El clan tecnológico invierte en sí mismo de forma circular y abre la espita de los despidos masivos elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
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¿Burbuja en la IA? El clan tecnológico invierte en sí mismo de forma circular y abre la espita de los despidos masivos
Las grandes empresas de inteligencia artificial se financian en un círculo cerrado que genera recelos ante un posible estallido tras la creación de un oligopolio
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Just in time for the meeting my school is having I’ve just learned is definitely about us incorporating AI into our workflow somehow
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Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is one of the main reasons we live in times of tyranny and a misinterpreted social anarchy, with those in power behaving above the law. Society has driven to consider the avoidance of social norms as ultimate freedom, abandoning all sense of duty, 1/2
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"These generative AI systems give sometimes correct and sometimes wrong information. The errors are not bugs, but by design. They "predict" next words based on probabilities. Facts are not their forte." (Sigh)
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/11/2025
Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...
a slop generated baby hippo swimming in water In 2021, every active Meta user cost around one kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent, or CO2e—a way of measuring greenhouse gases—in terms of direct and unadjusted power grid emissions. By 2024, that had risen to 1.8 kilograms of CO2e. Similarly, every $1 million of revenue caused about 26 tonnes of CO2e in 2021. That’s now 36 tonnes. Meta did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

Meta’s push to force-feed advertising slop into every single corner of the massive digital space it controls could not have worse timing. The country it’s headquartered in is pouring cash into resuscitating coal and accelerating gas. The United States just saw the first two half-year periods with an increase in coal generation for at least half a decade (probably longer), as the Trump administration sets about pouring millions into keeping coal on life support.meta's emissions rising fast
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“A recent response from the European Commission to our access to documents request not only revealed that the President of the Commission was repeating the words of tech CEOs, but it also accidentally divulged the Commission’s use of generative AI in public documents.” 🤦‍♂️
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The European Commission uses ChatGPT outputs in public documents. @iccl.bsky.social has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman as this use likely violates Commission's own guidelines and its obligation under EU treaties www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
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European Commission breaches own AI guidelines by using ChatGPT in public documents
ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative AI in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under...
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I will be at #GIJC25 next week. Looking forward to meeting investigative journalists and others working on important issues. Suggestions on people I could meet? @andre.netzpolitik.org @balkanizator.bsky.social @giacomoza.bsky.social
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My lecture today was about the AI act in which I also discussed the recent attempt by EC of weakening GDPR and AI act in the form of the digital omnibus package stimulated by the #AI Hype (see also open letter @krisshrishak.bsky.social) These are undemocratic developments that should worry everyone.
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Apostolis Fotiadis @balkanizator.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Btw 2020 and 2021 Europol landed enormous volumes of data as a part of three mega-hack operations that dismantled encrypted communication systems. This would become the starting point of the agency's AI ambitions. New investigation out with @giacomoza.bsky.social and @stavinoha.bsky.social
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Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme | Computer Weekly
The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for pe...
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