Reposted by MindesthaltbarJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux... 463087 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 09/10/2026We have a great model for European tech — shared infrastructure, democratic governance, an actually-free market, free movement of people across the digital landscape, social verification, pluralism and subsidiarity — and it doesn't involve copying American fascists. 1418 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026On the Tech Policy Press podcast, editor Justin Hendrix talks with UNC Chapel Hill researchers Daniel Kreiss and Lorcan Neill about their new paper, "Militant Platform Democracy: A Framework for Democracy-Worthy Platform Policies." "Platforms have to proceed from an analysis of power," Kreiss says.buff.lyWhy Social Media Platforms Should Adopt a 'Militant Democracy' FrameworkDaniel Kreiss and Lorcan Neill on what social media platforms should do when the state itself becomes a threat to democracy. 122 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u… 1736087 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarWhite Guy With Dreads Practicing Remote Reiki @stoffeloni.bsky.social · 08/10/2026hab gerade von den US air force ehren anime schwert zeremonien erfahren und ich befürchte das könnte der rest meines tages gewesen sein 11524 0
Reposted by Mindesthaltbardepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026it blows my mind that these bizarre AI people think “the commons” is just sitting around for them to strip-mine for free 171456206 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401525708 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253912348 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarDOSSIER @dossier.at · 17/09/2026Im April 2025 veröffentlichte DOSSIER eine Recherche über das Netzwerk der österreichischen Covid-Protestbewegung. Die Recherche beschäftigt uns noch heute – denn sie zog ein langwieriges Gerichtsverfahren nach sich. (1/8) www.dossier.at/dossiers/pro...dossier.atDOSSIER · Das NetzwerkVom Protest zur Propaganda: Eine aktuelle Analyse der Bundesstelle für Sektenfragen zeigt, wie radikale Kanäle auch nach der Pandemie mit Gesundheitsmärchen und Russland-Mythen Hunderttausende erreic... 1226 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026You realise this isn't a real social media site? It's a version of the Truman Show, created by AI, so each of us gets a personalised mix of low level appreciation tempered by a constant stream of terrible news to keep us in a state of chronic anxiety which we can only relieve with online shopping. 7556 0
Reposted by Mindesthaltbarmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/08/2026this is only stuff you can do on open models not just open weights, but fully open models with open datasets this stuff is extremely important, and we know next to nothing about it 211019 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarMeta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/08/2026My initial read of the Meta settlement is that it's a preview of what's to come as tech firms become extensive: a settlement paying out a token amount, subject to onerous, nearly impossible conditions, with no meaningful structural change, in exchange for giving up oversight and enforcement. 2138 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026"for all the people “celebrating” this as a win “against” Meta, you’ve been fooled. Meta just cut a deal to put itself in charge of how social media works going forward. this is Meta taking a “please regulate me Daddy” approach to the government, & getting exactly what it really has been asking for" 14611300 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarBob S. @bslufc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026There's nothing remotely funny about the name Bum Farto. Grow up. 111 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarMicah @rincewind.run · 21/08/2026sometimes, when logging onto bluesky and checking the discourse, this is the best approachstatic.klipy.comGrampa Simpson Walks Away from BartAlt: Grampa Simpson comes in and walks right back out again 252020155 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026"Instead of thinking about AI itself, we should be thinking about its effects. It concentrates power;obfuscates accountability;further despoils nature & climate;is a means of the wholesale expropriation of cultures, languages & lands for massive profit;& it will probably make us lonelier & stupider" 311235 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16/07/2026Do you like your social media less toxic? Yeah, we do too. @eurosky.social and Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) just signed an agreement to collaborate on precisely that: eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...eurosky.techEurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - EuroskyEurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure 1726089 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Age verification for social media is just a backdoor way of silencing progressives and members of disempowered groups. Just watch. Anything fascist meatheads don't like will magically become "pornography," even a link to an AMA report on gender affirming care discrimination in red states. 8973325 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026social media platforms that operate to maximize engagement, nazi ideology built on hate and rage, weak regulation and enforcement... democracy is dying before our eyes and big tech is fuel powering it www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...irishtimes.comAI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfDAlternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts 3259135 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarKatja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Große Liebe für @moment.at <3 "MOMENT.at macht einen weiteren Schritt in eine bessere Social-Media-Welt. Wir starten einen eigenen Peertube-Server. Was das ist, wie du mitmachen kannst und wieso es wichtig ist, erklären wir dir hier." www.moment.at/story/was-is...moment.atFür bessere Soziale Medien: MOMENT.at startet mit PeertubeMOMENT.at startet einen eigenen Peertube-Server. Was das ist, wie du mitmachen kannst und wieso es wichtig ist, erklären wir dir hier. 0216 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarThe Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Vienna at night, Fred Lauzensky, 1950 06712 0
Reposted by Mindesthaltbarsamvie @samvie.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026Save the date: I will be speaking at @dighum.wien on the 26th of June in #Vienna Katja Mayer is moderating our #dighum26 panel on "Sustaining #Digital #Commons. The future of #open #knowledge #stewardship" together with @mellifluousbox.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Claudia Garád & Felix Stalder. 1112 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarG. Perskreepers @enragedcore.bsky.social · 01/06/2026guys, look outside 021 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarDr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 30/05/2026This is a pretty decent summary of my work over the past 1.5 years. 👇 6217 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Weeks after neo-Nazis mowed down people at a mosque, Greg Bovino is hanging out with a Martin Sellner, a white supremacist linked to the mass murderer in New Zealand who inspired the bloody attack in San Diego. www.trtworld.com/article/1271...trtworld.comTRT World - Austria finds 'more ties' between Christchurch attacker and IdentitariansAustrian media reports say Christchurch terrorist had more interactions with Identitarian leader Martin Sellner than previously known, including alleged plans to have a 'coffee or beer'. 9452178 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/ 7377219 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026In its current form, what is called AI – again, not reducible machine learning technologies – is a product of platform capitalism, and its large-scale implementation is used to solidify dominant and increasingly monopolistic power and property relations. Of course, this has to be rejected 5/ 239286 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The aim of slop is less to indoctrinate than to naturalize a world fully mediated and governed by digital platforms, a world that knows no outside of the endless feedback loops of platform capitalism 4/ 112727 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarDATUM @datum.at · 04/05/2026Europa produziert immer mehr Plastikmüll und lagert das Problem aus. Seit 2018 ist die Türkei der Hauptabnehmer dieses Exportmülls. Illegale Deponien gefährden seitdem Böden, Wasser und Menschen in einem der wichtigsten Agrarzentren des Landes. @anikahaider.bsky.social war vor Ort ›datum.atDas Geschäft mit dem Müll – DATUMEuropa produziert immer mehr Plastikmüll und lagert das Problem aus. Ein Großteil landet in der Türkei, wo illegale Deponien Böden, Wasser und Menschen gefährden. 0113 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarRandom Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Auris Investments OÜ; Lembitu tn 1, 50406 Tartu, Estonia www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&q… 0132 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarPetter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers 392982945 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Is Pope Leo reading Baudrillard 24813 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarTanja Hojahn (rosarote WiMi era) 🦦 @sturmkaktus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Les grad Theorie für die #Dissertation darin wirds um die Genese Digitaler Spielkulturen, deren soziale Räume, Wissenssysteme & socio-technical imaginaries gehen, aber vieles, wie dieses Buch, sind für Aktuelles un KI sehr relevant, z.bsp. Die Frage wann und inwiefern Tech Inhärent politisch ist 1114 0
Reposted by Mindesthaltbar💭 arushi @offline.arushibandi.com · 18/04/2026i feel this so hard. a realization i had about my career is that i'm basically trying to build towards a world where people build and use technology on their own terms, rather than get used by it. user data ownership is a starting point, but it extends far beyond that. 1345 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarAnuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 14/04/20262024: "The endgame is not Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads. The endgame is finding communities on the web and following them all on the best platform for you." Aging pretty well, honestly. Probably going to age even better as time goes on. 331347 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Though OpenAI’s new policy doc is being taken seriously by some in the media, it's ultimately a "policymercial": a document that tells us far more about how the company wants people to think about OpenAI than what it wants us to do about OpenAI. My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social --techpolicy.pressOpenAI’s New ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age’ is a PolicymercialOpenAI has ultimately co-opted the idealism of public infrastructure while actively undermining concrete steps toward it, writes Eryk Salvaggio. 13011 0
Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The moment of silence he won't get when it happens 021 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarMario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 05/04/2026wir sind einfach der duemmste, unfaehigste kontinent. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...derstandard.atTrump erkämpft sich Mitspracherecht bei Digitalgesetzen der EUEin neues Gremium der US-Regierung soll dafür eingesetzt werden. Europa erhält dafür Zollerleichterungen, heißt es 1632992 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/04/2026Basically you have to understand that you’re here as a sort of parasite on someone else’s grift where they make vcs pay for their hobby. You’re black mold in the wall of an adult daycare. Embrace it but know it is transient. 71321167 0
Reposted by MindesthaltbarAcerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026 02438851 0
Reposted by Mindesthaltbar👻Spooky Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 02/04/2026It's time to seize the means of prediction 14013 0