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Don Marti @dmarti.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

@marianods @openrightsgroup The ICO had a bunch of privacy concerns with Google's in-browser adtech system, "Privacy Sandbox", but somehow ended oversight when CMA did, as soon as Google shifted their work to a different text at the same organization. I don't know enough UK politics to […]

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

1. Today, brave brave John Edwards ran away. To thank the UK Information Commissioner for all the fish, here are FIVE EPIC FAILURES he's made during his tenure. Or, to paraphrase his own words, the five best attempts at humor that were inappropriate. Thread below 🧵 […]

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

“Understand this: rage against AI is white fucking hot, entirely justified, bipartisan, often indiscriminate, and inextricably woven into soaring disgust at the authoritarian-coddling extraction class.” […]

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

1. The UK Information Commissioner stepped aside from his role this February. Under John Edwards' tenure, the ICO performed so badly that nobody noticed his absence until late April. This is why @openrightsgroup are launching a campaign to reform it. 🧵 […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Pretty accurate progression so far. #Charliekirk

A tweet from Molly White satirically lists several entities as being "trans," including a shooter, bullets, and a roommate.

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95

Some Windows 95 and MSDOS software boxes around a Macintosh SE computer

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

‘nearly two-thirds of the world’s servers are estimated to run on open-source #Linux. That has still left a big market for #Windows, but it has greatly limited the overall size of the commercial software pie, while also preventing operating systems from being used as a chokepoint’ […]

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

Waiting for the first calls for #VPN restrictions. First on UK providers not enforcing age checks, then requiring ISPs to block non-compliant foreign providers... '“This is what happens when people who haven’t got a clue about technology pass legislation,” Anthony Rose, a UK-based tech […]

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Lorry @lorry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

ChatGPT bots, talking to each other about how to improve their B2B sales on LinkedIn, is not the future I expected. #AI #ChatGPT #LinkedIn #SciFi #Science #Fiction #Dystopia #B2B

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Mina @mina.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

I love it! Seen in a post by @bruces Added alt-text

A photo of the Fellowship of the Ring from the Peter Jackson "Lord of the Rings" film.

Every person is labelled:

Boromir: Quasi-Royalty
Legolas: Literal-Royalty
Gandalf: Literal Angel
Aragorn: Literal Royalty
Gimli: High-ranking Aritocrat
Merry: Quasi-Royalty
Pippin: High-ranking Aristocrat
Frodo: Low-Ranking Aristocrat
Sam: Works for a living

Caption:

Really, the most surprising part is that it takes three whole months before Sam has to start physically carrying people

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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 @larsmb.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

We're used to computers being good at math, reasonably hard facts, and looking up information in vast databases. #LLMs suck at exactly all of the former, and do none of it as part of their answer generation process¹. The general public is not prepared. I see even very smart people struggle […]

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

Nice, thank you @robin for these remarks: "If you create authoritarian #infrastructure, you will get an authoritarian society," and "Tech #monopolies were not made by innovation and they won't be broken by #innovation."

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output

The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

Sorry, how could I forget the useful idiots in the UK government and security services who have so enmeshed the two countries' intelligence and surveillance apparatuses that -- as one friend who worked at #GCHQ on secondment told me -- you can "barely tell where one ends and the other begins"

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

As we see the authoritarian chaos unfolding in the USA, I am wondering if all those people who have been campaigning for decades to undermine the EU's strict constitutional laws on data protection -- in the service of enabling virtually unrestrained transfers of Europeans' personal data to King […]

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

Today in other news, the most secure energy source ever will be leaking radioactive water until 2050. But fear not! Thanks to AI and nuclear-powered datacentres we will have 10 times more nuclear reactors and radioactive leaking and AI will... check notes] help us solve the climate crisis [ […]

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

1) Today, the Data (Use and Access) Bill is back to the House of Lords for another round of ping-pong. This is not the important news for today, though [thread below]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/05/2025

The technology doesn't work. It *feels* like it works, so they keep doing science to see whether it does or it doesn't. But when you look at it with science instead of vibes, it just doesn't. fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-…

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Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'

Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

> „The only moral thing Palestinian civilians can do apparently is to die. The only legal thing the rest of us can do is to watch them die. And be silent. If not, we risk our scholarships, grants, lecture fees and livelihoods.” — Arundhati Roy, 15th of December 2023 in _The Hindu_

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

So we're back with a live commenting of the Data Use and Access Bill, aka the infamous UK data protection reform, live on parliament tv now! www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/3…

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

I just wanted to tell Peter Kyle that there's a fortune teller in Nags Head market that can give him better advice. I don't know their rate, but I bet it's cheaper than ChatGPT as well. www.newscientist.com/article/247206…

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

Should we try turning the Labour government off and on again, and see if they stop being so effing useless?

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2025

I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing on one man. Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed. It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an […]

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2025

Good morning everyone. Today the Data Access and Use Bill will be discussed in second reading in the House of Commons. This is (always) the infamous UK data protection reform, i.e. an initiative to deregulate the GDPR in the UK

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025

The hypocrisy.

An infographic saying “Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their Al models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBS of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.”

Below that is an image of Aaron Swartz.

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Christian Schwägerl @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

After stealing copyrighted works for #LLM #AI training from journalists, writers and everybody else who produces text for years in what amounts to probably the biggest thefts of such works in history, #OpenAI now complains that #DeepSeek might have used its “intellectual property”.

Financial Times: OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2025

«This is perhaps the hole that AI fills for the Labour government; having long abandoned any substantive belief in the transformative power of socialism» «Decomputing argues that, wherever AI is proposed as "the answer", there is a gap for the self-organisation of people who already know […]

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2025

"That immediately makes people who aren't in that central Whitehall office think that this is something which is not going to be empowering and not going to be helping them." I will reveal you something right here right now: the UK Govt AI assistant will not be empowering and will not help […]

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025

#Search engine = You go to the market and at the entrance a person shows you the way to the various shops. #AI / #LLM-based search = You go to the market and at the entrance a person sells you all the items they stole before from the various shops. #capitalism #genAI #bigtech #copyright

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2025

Beautiful stuff: "It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument... I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music." […]

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2025

Once upon a time, colonizers exploited the rich resources of the Americas by trading valuable gold with mirrors, alcol and other garbage. In today's news, the UK is re-enacting history, but this time they're the ones buying garbage www.bbc.com/news/live/crm7zwp18n9t

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Keir Starmer pledges to make UK a 'great AI superpower' as he outlines plan for growth

The prime minister acknowledges concerns about the emerging technology, but says "the battle for the jobs of tomorrow is happening today".

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