iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 8h

Trump government leaves Group of States against Corruption of @coe.int Part of US government plans to undermine international institutions and law (which have benefitted US and its corporations massively) In this case, needed to prevent critical view of Trump's corruption and corporate capture

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 21h

Hello everyone please don't use this model that's almost as good as ours at 1/10th the cost and without all the guardrails that won't even let you fix an auth bug

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 29/09/2026

Facial recognition strikes again.

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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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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jonathan Haidt is arguably the most impactful social scientist in recent years with his calls for teen social media bans. Maybe because he inhabits that 3rd space where the distinction between pseudo and rigorous research is unclear to non-experts and therefore easily exploited.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 28/09/2026

Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert.

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Important breakthrough in Europe's icebreaker Big Tech class action opens the path for class actions to hold Big Tech accountable using the GDPR. ICCL v Microsoft class action update... Full decision in link --> enforce.ie/digital-data...

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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce

Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 25/09/2026

Hands up please if you *haven't* been hacked by an OpenAI agent.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 25/09/2026

It does not look good if lawyers pay for research to support their case and then rely on that research in court without disclosing that they paid for it.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

jesus fucking christ

Ottawa has warned the Quebec government against the possibility of US interference in the current election campaign, which is aimed at favouring the election of a sovereignist government.

At the beginning of September, a senior official in the Fréchette government received a call from a counterpart in the Mark Carney government, we have learned.

He was offered the option of going to a "neutral location, where there were no cameras", and was forbidden from bringing his cell phone.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 25/09/2026

So folks, do we think Meta is 'monitoring the behaviour of individuals in the EU' who text or email Muse users? There are some serious GDPR issues to think about, regardless of whether Muse itself is offered in the EU.

Article 3 GDPR, giving some side-eye on whether Meta is monitoring behaviour of individuals in the EU because of the Muse instructions to create files on individuals.

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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Washington has formally intervened in Musk's legal challenge to the EU fine on X. What was a regulatory enforcement case is now a transatlantic dispute over whether Brussels has the right to police American platforms at all.

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US backs Musk's court challenge to EU fine against X

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 24/09/2026

Muse has just dumped its entire filesystem, and the instructions include "keep a page for every person in the user's life" with "the nature of the user's relationship with this person: how close they are, what it is built on, how they act with each other, and what it seems to need right now."

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 4 images muse's "self improvement" prompt's second point after basic memory maintenance is an instruction to, every hour, maintain a page per person that you know, and a group page for ever...

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One thing about being a business law professor with a PhD in political theory during These Times (tm) is that once you realize that Silicon Valley has become a vanguardist (fascist) political project, you see its fingerprints *everywhere.* From dual class shareholding to repealing 14a-8, from

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Alice-Mary Higgins @aliceeire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yesterday I demanded answers from the Minister about the Irish Government position on shocking proposals to give AI companies access to our personal data which are being negotiated right now on Ireland's watch. The public across EU want rights protected & more regulation of AI and big tech not less!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Kids used to do that in book reviews on Barnes and Noble. Authors were like "why am I getting all these 3 star reviews that say "redtail plz go back"?

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 24/09/2026

This is a wonderful little story about children’s creativity in getting around Internet bans.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

here’s the original, to save you scrolling: bsky.app/profile/roel...

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory

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Kay Jebelli @kayjebelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The EU KIDS Act would age-gate "Social Media+": social networks, video platforms, games, AI chatbots and app stores. Every rule in it hinges on one thing: knowing how old users are. That's the part that bites.👇

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Ailo @airavn.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s been 8 years since we published our report on how Google tricks people into extensive location tracking, and simultaneously filed complaints against Google. Today the decision from the Irish Data Protection Commission arrived: a €400 million euros fine. www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/d...

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Google Fined €403 Million Following Consumer Council Report

Google has been fined €403 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission after the Norwegian Consumer Council exposed how the company manipulated users into accepting extensive tracking.

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Mdh @mdh2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“A likely majority of EU member states are now saying that the interests of Elon Musk, Marc Zuckerberg, Google or Open AI, in making enormous profits, should take precedence over European’s fundamental right to data protection.“

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 20/09/2026

This one is particularly cinematic.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 20/09/2026

The ambient music and dawn light is giving a Bladerunner 2047 vibe.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Election time in the U.S.. That’s what it means.

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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 19/09/2026

Not saying that such attacks would have been unthinkable before, but the Russian war in Ukraine has normalized attacks of this kind & we are seeing more & more cyberattacks with real world physical implications since 2022 as a result. Confluence of increased interconnectedness & breaking of taboos.

One of the vessels was the VL
Prosperity, a 1,093-foot Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker headed to Galveston, Texas. Iranian state media identified the ship shortly after the incident and claimed hackers had gained access to its propulsion, navigation and cargo systems, knocking out communications for 30 hours.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THIS. Christian Democracy’s mission statement is, basically, protect society and stability to make sure fascism doesn’t happen again. The first and permanent opponent of the centre right is not the centre left but the far right. And any EPP party that forgets that needs to remember it rapid.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 19/09/2026

Russia now at the “building the Mittelwerk” stage of the war.

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Germany and Sweden are reinforcing Gotland in light of deteriorating security situation. Aerial, naval and other units are active with live weapons. It is explicitly described as not an exercise and aimed at securing logistics. "Primary focus is Russia" www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

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Tyska förband förstärker Gotland i Nato-operation

Tyska förband rullar i dag in på Gotland i en förstärkningsoperation tillsammans med svenska Försvarsmakten. Operationen är ett test av Natos planer för hur ön ska försvaras. – Det här är ingen vanlig...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As discussions continue over the “household exemption” in the Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses case, the Federal Court of Germany is examining before the CJE the exemption’s scope. www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/P...

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"One man told of hacking into the phone of a 12-year old girl to learn when her father arrived home, and then ordering a bombing in which she was killed."

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Poland has submitted a non-paper on the cookie provisions. Germany plans to pursue a “low-risk controller” approach, while the Irish Presidency’s revised compromise would allow the training and operation of any AI without safeguards or a robust legal basis. The AnticiGroup will meet on September 25.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 17/09/2026

For any UCD law graduates who remember studying in Roebuck Castle.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 17/09/2026

The Court of Justice of the European Union’s judgment on driving-app data demolishes the EU’s intermediary liability safe harbor without explaining why, writes Michael FitzGerald, and Europe should presume the CJEU means what it says & grapple with the institutional culture the judgment exemplifies.

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Zombie Formalism in Luxembourg

A CJEU ruling on driving-app data and online pornography quietly guts the EU's Section 230 equivalent—and the court owes Europe an explanation it hasn't given.

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The CJEU’s decision is expected to significantly affect a wide range of ecosystems. Consent to the use of personal data for direct marketing by a company’s “partners” is valid only if their identity is known, according to the AG’s Opinion of today. infocuria.curia.europa.eu/tabs/jurispr...

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 17/09/2026

This is absolutely insane. The speed with which everyone in politics and media in Europe has accepted that pervasive state oversight of the internet is not only acceptable but so clearly necessary it should be beyond debate makes my head spin

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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Revolut handed over customer data — addresses, phone numbers, transaction histories — to hackers impersonating Italian law enforcement via a compromised government email system. Nearly 700 accounts.

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