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Marleen Stikker

@marleen.oso.social
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The internet is broken … but we can fix it. Waag Futurelab - waag.org - Professor of Practice at Applied University of Amsterdam. Mastodon: marleenstikker@waag.social

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Hugo Roosenschoon @hugoroosenschoon.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Vrijdag bespreek ik dat op het Nederlands Journalistiek Festival met @marloesdekoning.eurosky.social @nrc.nl, Ocky Wiemeijer (@nu.nl, een jaar Bluesky-posts in de eigen app) en Sander van der Waal (@waag.org, oso.social). Plus de eerste inzichten uit de @svdj.bsky.social Incubator. Kom je ook?
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mu @mu.social · 02/10/2026
mu is now available for open testing on Android play.google.com/store/apps/d... We’re already aware of some funky text in a couple of places. Please share your feedback and bugs. Note - this version does not have notifications yet
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mu - Apps on Google Play
Real conversation & proper fun. Built in Europe for the world. No tracking ever.
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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 02/10/2026
“The number of digital lobbyists has risen from 699 to 890 full-time equivalents (FTEs), surpassing the 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). A total of 437 lobbyists now have continuous access to the European Parliament.” corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/r... @corporateeurope.org
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Revealed: Tech industry now spending record €151 million on lobbying the EU | Corporate Europe Observatory
The EU’s digital rulebook is under unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration and a homegrown deregulation wave. A new analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl, based on the...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 28/09/2026
'Not Just Another Tech Company': Unions, Rights Groups Across EU Demand Governments Scrap Palantir
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'Not Just Another Tech Company': Unions, Rights Groups Across EU Demand Governments Scrap Palantir
Labor unions and rights groups in Europe call for governments to cut ties with Palantir, citing threats to democracy and civil liberties.
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 28/09/2026
want to know what cool updates have been happening to fediverse software in the last 3 months? I've got you covered! connectedplaces.online/fediverse-ne...
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Fediverse News – Summer 2026
Fediverse software updates, summer 2026 edition
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
We're so excited to see the arrival of Aster ID as a home for researchers on the open web and to welcome them to the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social family. Very lucky that we've been able to support their tech stack at Eurosky 💖
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Aster ID @aster.id · 30/09/2026
The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.
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Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 29/09/2026
"“objective” methods of institutionalized cost-benefit analysis are riddled with value-laden assumptions, and objectivity rests on absurd ideas of commensurability and the ability to price all preferences." This essay makes a lot of good points that are relevant to energy system modeling.
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Teun Gautier @teungautier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Topidee: we laten Private Equity toe in de advocatuur!! Dat heeft nl briljant gewerkt in de kinderopvang, olie, chemie, woningmarkt, media en dierenartsen. Bron: NOS share.google/GyAfg9wsiZzr...
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Advocatuur wil dat ook niet-advocaten kunnen investeren in kantoren
Tot nu nu mochten ondernemers die geen advocaat zijn, ook geen aandeelhouder zijn in een advocatenkantoor.
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Emy @emykoopman.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Zojuist met schrijvers, journalisten en vertalers onze eisen aangeboden aan Meta (jeweetwel, omdat AI jatwerk is). Of: aan de bewaker, want van Meta zelf wilde natuurlijk niemand naar buiten komen #opstand.ai
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2026
Your old books could have another life—not just on your shelf, but in the library. #ToolsYouCanUse
Event flyer for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," with a colorful abstract line drawing of a library building rendered in interlocking yellow, pink, and blue lines at the top, event details — "Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm - 10pm, Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco" — alongside it, and the title text at the bottom.
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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 29/09/2026
Impressive speech. Taking back public control over water, energy, housing ... www.youtube.com/live/LGYtgw8...
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Andy Burnham gives speech at Labour conference
YouTube video by Sky News
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Tom from Europe @e42.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With Andy Burnham, the UK is coming back. All of us should learn from this man. Empathy and competence jointly will lead to a brighter future. This is the way to fight angst-driven fascist politics. Watch, marvel, and learn: www.thetimes.com/article/4de8...
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Six key moments from Andy Burnham’s conference speech
The prime minister’s Labour conference speech focused on social care, electoral reform and moving closer to the EU
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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 29/09/2026
Mijn eerste post / my first post met mijn Oso.social account ! We zijn (bijna) open :-) /
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oso.social — we zijn [bijna] open
Open, sociale media. Jouw data wordt niet verhandeld, geen misleidende algoritmes
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Laurens Dassen @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 Stop digitale onteigening door AI-sleepwet🚨 Een draad over een voorstel van het Ierse EU-voorzitterschap om persoonsgegevens van Europeanen onbeperkt vrij te geven aan elk bedrijf dat met AI werkt. En voorstellen over hoe het wél moet. 🧵1/14
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everything looks better in print! (Plus, it’s not every day that the Financial Times calls your book “excellent”! 😳)
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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 29/09/2026
“Deep beneath the world's oceans lurks a threat with the potential to cause major disruption and conflict: a network of cables through which almost all global internet traffic runs. Increasingly under siege by tech giants fuelling an AI bubble and state actors.” Great book by @katjabego.bsky.social
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 27/09/2026
Opinion | AI bosses are nothing but "fossil fuel cultists injecting methane gas directly into the heart of their machine god", writes Ketan Joshi. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Doomsday AI cultists aren't just good marketers — they're capturing governments
As soon as you realise the AI industry is packed with adherents to a cult of climate and fossil fuel dismissiveness, everything clicks into place.
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Ilyaz Nasrullah @ilyazn.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
BAM! Nummer 2 bij Boekhandel Donner. En nummer 1 onder non-fictie. Vergeef me, maar ik ga morgen even naar de winkel om mijn ego te strelen door mezelf bij die top 10 te fotograferen.
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 28/09/2026
❌ WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. Read the open letter here: www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Text reads: 120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to SCRAP Palantir contracts. Palantir provides support to warmongers, drains our public wealth, deepens our dependence on tech billionaires. WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR.
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Robert Rosendal @robertrosendal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Drinkwaterbedrijven moeten met steeds meer geld en moeite PFAS uit het water filteren, terwijl de industrie diezelfde stoffen gewoon met vergunning in het oppervlaktewater mag lozen. De rekening komt bij de burger terecht, niet bij de vervuiler." 'Zuiver water' (NPO-Start): npo.nl/start/afspel...
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Zuiver water | NPO Start
Door vervuiling uit landbouw, industrie en het riool holt de kwaliteit van het Nederlandse oppervlaktewater achteruit. Hele ecosystemen dreigen kopje onder te gaan en het zuiveren van ons drinkwater k...
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Marco Derksen @marcoderksen.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Statistiek kan onrecht zichtbaar maken, maar ook bijdragen aan rechterlijke dwalingen. Cijfers zijn niet vanzelf neutraal: onderzoeksvragen, data, modellen en interpretaties bevatten menselijke keuzes. Interessant artikel van Karel Berkhout in NRC: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Waag Futurelab @waag.org · 25/09/2026
Overstappen van big tech is alleen niet altijd makkelijk. Daarom gaan we tijdens Waag Open op donderdag 1 oktober op speurtocht naar alternatieven. Vind de clues, ontdek nieuwe apps en probeer ze meteen uit.
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Waag Open: Op jacht naar publieke tech
Voor velen van ons zijn apps zoals Instagram, WhatsApp en Google onderdeel van het dagelijks leven. Wist je dat er ook alternatieven zijn die jouw data en aandacht niet als verdienmodel gebruiken? Maar waar vind je ze, welke passen bij jou en waar begin je? Overstappen van big tech is alleen niet altijd makkelijk. Daarom gaan we tijdens Waag Open op donderdag 1 oktober op speurtocht naar alternatieven. Vind de clues, ontdek nieuwe apps en probeer ze meteen uit. Ondertussen ontdek je ook de verschillende hoeken van de eeuwenoude Waag. Wie de meeste apps vindt en heeft gedownload, wint een prijs. Ook voor degene die de meeste nieuwe connecties legt via de apps, staat er een mooie prijs klaar! Na afloop heb je nieuwe apps ontdekt en weet je niet alleen welke alternatieven bij jou passen, maar ook waarom. Daarnaast krijg je ook een routekaart mee voor je volgende stappen richting publieke tech: technologie waarin privacy, openheid en zeggenschap centraal staan. Neem je smartphone mee en doe mee aan de speurtocht!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Villamedia @villamedia.nl · 22/09/2026
Hoe De Marker zijn online publiek naar Paradiso krijgt
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Hoe De Marker zijn online publiek naar Paradiso krijgt
Het jongerenplatform De Marker (BNNVARA) staat deze week in Paradiso. Het is de derde keer dat ze hun publiek van online naar offline halen. De Marker-journalist Veerle Ketelaers (28) en Wieneke van Vucht (51), eindredacteur Jongeren en Journalistiek,…
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De Marker @demarker.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Opinie: Juan vindt dat mensen meer moeten zeggen als het gaat om lhbtiqa+ers.
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Alliance4Europe @alliance4europe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our latest investigation into suspicious accounts interfering in Sweden's election discourse made headlines with @euronews.com this week. More than 8,500 suspicious accounts identified ahead of last weekend's vote. Read the full coverage 👇
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Jaap Friso @jaapfriso.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Deze poster van Wakker Dier mag van de NS niet op de stations hangen. Dus laten we hem vooral veel aandacht geven.
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International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🗺️ Navigeren door het Nederland van 1832? Dat kan met hisgis.nl, waarbij het oudste kadaster van Nederland wordt gedigitaliseerd: zo'n 3 miljoen percelen, met informatie over wie waar woonde, welke grond iemand bezat en waarvoor die werd gebruikt. Lees meer: iisg.amsterdam/nl/blog/hisg...
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neuroparis.bsky.social @neuroparis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Priests and nuns march to Vatican to demand end to 'genocide' in Gaza apnews.com/article/ital...
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Priests and nuns march to Vatican to demand end to 'genocide' in Gaza
Some 150 Catholic priests and friars, a bishop and nuns from around the world have marched to the Vatican to call for an end to what they called the “genocide” in Gaza.
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 29/07/2026
Joining the beta is easy. Download for iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/ST8N2Qda Download for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... If you run into any issues, you can follow the instructions here for help: docs.blacksky.community/info-about-b...
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Blacksky - Apps on Google Play
Discover communities, trending conversations, and social media built for you.
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Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“The world is standing on the edge of the abyss." The state of the planet is now an acute emergency. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 21/09/2026
Meta: “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform (topics that are central to Woolf’s work) are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. “ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’
Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out, Meta tells theatre
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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 21/09/2026
I'm hosting "Open Socials Social Club"!
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Open Socials Social Club
During DDW 2026, Waag is organising a very social party – both online and offline. We’re launching oso.social, a platform that gives everyone access to open social media. Everyone’s welcome; you don’t need to buy a ticket, just create an account on the open social web. The time has come to leave big tech’s social media behind. The time has come to leave big tech’s social media behind. We’ve had enough of toxic content, addictive algorithms, AI slop, and fake news. Online connection should serve us—not the profits of shareholders. That is why Waag is working toward a societal breakthrough: for Dutch society, in close collaboration with Europe, to embrace the open social web. Together with various sectors, we are building open social platforms where we, as a society, set the rules ourselves. At the Open Socials Social Club, we’ll be networking to our hearts’ content, casting our lines far and wide, bringing people together and making connections. With performances by Striptopia, Zobayda, Pelanoir, Gioray, Alles Exploding and more! Dutch Design Week Dutch Design Week (DDW) is annual event showcasing the best of Dutch design. DDW organises and facilitates exhibitions, lectures, award ceremonies, networking events, debates and festivities spread across a hundred locations throughout the city of Eindhoven. Dutch Design Week 2026 will take place from 187 to 25 October.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
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Computational complexity for hype immunity
Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20/09/2026
Big Tech companies are rapidly expanding their use of guarantees to back debt for AI data centres and chips, issuing up to $300bn in commitments in less than a year while recording little of that exposure on their balance sheets. Read more: ft.trib.al/wCv2DQr
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Bijan63 @bijan63.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Constant liegen heeft niet als doel de mensen een leugen te laten geloven, maar te garanderen dat niemand nog ergens in gelooft” ~ Hannah Arendt
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@Marcel @elsschot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#ForumvoorDemocratie ontkent pro-Russisch te zijn, maar in de Engelstalige podcast vd partij wordt geregeld Kremlin-propaganda verspreid en wensen sprekers dat Rusland 't Westen en Oekraïne verslaat. FvD-interimfractievz Ralph Dekker sympathiseert met Rusland. Hij vindt Oekraïne geen entiteit. #VK
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Sybrand Frietema @frietema.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Wij ondersteunen Kamervragen @barbarakathmann.bsky.social: wat het Strafhof overkomt, speelt evengoed bij maatschappelijke organisaties, hun hosting, domeinnamen en betalingsverkeer.” Uiteindelijk speelt deze dreiging bij iedereen, privé of zakelijk. De 5 voorgestelde maatregelen zijn hard nodig.
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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 18/09/2026
Brief aan de Tweede Kamer: bescherm Europese organisaties tegen buitenlandse sanctiedruk. publicspaces.net/2026/09/17/b...
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Brief aan de Tweede Kamer: bescherm Europese organisaties tegen buitenlandse sanctiedruk – PublicSpaces.net
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16/09/2026
🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 I'm delighted to announce that @eurosky.social and our brilliant friends from @gandersocial.ca are partnering up! Ahead of Canada's associate EU membership announced by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu this morning, we'll be weaving our social internets closer.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16/09/2026
This is as egregious as it's hilarious. Can we *please* get DMA horizontal interoperability for social media @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu, the European social internet is more than ready, we just need an open market to compete in.
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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