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Pendant qu'on y est, expulsons Bolloré au passage. www.liberation.fr/internationa...
La France ordonne une mesure d’expulsion à l’encontre de Xenia Fedorova, propagandiste russe et égérie de la bollosphèreL’ancienne patronne de RT France vit et travaille dans l’Hexagone depuis dix ans. Son avocat s’est vu remettre un arrêté ministériel d’expulsion ce mercredi 29 juillet.www.liberation.frA small fine is a start, but saving the web and our information environment requires more ambitious approaches. We have the means, with the DMA as it exists, to be far more strategic in shaping a livable technological future. One such strategy, that also helps a lot for AI, is ftw.fund.
Funding The Web: A Wise ChoiceThe Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!ftw.fundTeresa Ribera👉🏼 Self-preferencing in Google Search: People should see the best results, not Google’s favorite results. 👉🏼 Restrictions on steering in Google Play: Citizens deserve to know all options and developers should be free to talk to their customers. 2/2 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Political party wins by doing what political parties did before they became sinecures for the failchildren of some elite or other.
Omar WasowWhy has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...
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Ed Newton-RexHuge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4
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At the airport with a delayed flight and dreadful connectivity, so I wrote the two sentences that this ancient blog draft needed to ship. Enjoy (responsibly)! berjon.com/baba/
Rum BabaRum babas have a reputation for being hard to bake, and indeed if you look around you can find some really intricate recipes. But, having tried a few, frankly, I've never found the extra complexity to...berjon.comHistorically, fascism has been most enthusiastically brought to power by corporatism. Google is no exception.
The InterceptMuch of this record is now permanently deleted, erasing detailed testimony of people ingested by the U.S. deportation machine. interc.pt/3TJjOw0
I gave pigeons.computer a spin and I have to say: those n0 kids have nailed it _again_. There really aren't many teams that can so consistently deliver.
PigeonsSSH to any machine without an IP address, behind a NAT or firewall, with no port forwarding or VPN setup. Carrier pigeons always find their way home.pigeons.computer