RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117495606576800262

We can’t fight these fires one by one (of course we must right now). The long term solution:

Strip the @EUCommission of its legislative power and give it to the EU Parliament where it belongs. No idea how you’d even start that process, though. If this overlaps your area of expertise, please feel free to pipe up or to take the initiative (with no illusions that this will happen overnight).

(The EU Parliament is currently a toy parliament. The only parliament in the world that cannot legislate.)

CC @noybeu

#democracy #humanRights #EU

Hey, @EUCommission, fuck you too.

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On Wednesday, EU Member States approved a change to the GDPR that would put the profit-making interests of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX over European's fundamental right to data protection. According to the approved text, processing personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens “in the context” of AI. Schrems: “Under the agreed text, the profits of AI companies would typically trump European’s fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans.”

https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies

#privacy #humanRights #EU #BigTech #corporatocracy #fascism

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@sarahdalgulls/117495206139777978

First they blurred out a pro-trans t-shirt…

Poppies, though… They’ll never blur out the poppies, will they?

Welcome to the BBC: the respectable face of fascism.

Those who ignore the plight of the Palestinians today are destined to be the Palestinians of tomorrow.

If you don’t think you’ll be next, you’re living in a privilege-fuelled fantasy world. Your inaction is showing them exactly what they can get away with when they finally turn their attention on you.

Conferences sponsored by Big Tech are not your friends, no matter what they call themselves.

https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con/

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

Wait, a conference whose main sponsor is genocide-complicit surveillance capitalist Google who abandoned its own DEI hiring policies to appease Trump* rejected a devroom on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in FOSS…

I wonder why?

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rw3e5je5po

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM27 #BigTech #Google #fascism #surveillance #capitalism

RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@ellieraejaye/117375856506127206

Fascism is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

Narrator: he had no desire to join the cool kids club.

“Onionification.”

There you go, can I join the cool kids club now?

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117413272070980330

The Onion to Reality Pipeline is now basically just a washer.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117415912292895275

The EU isn’t spineless; it’s complicit. Understand the difference.

Of all the cuntish things you can do as a web developer (and believe me, there are too many to count), putting your fucking cookie notice under what appears to be an “Accessibility Settings” popup has to take the cake.

#deceptiveDesign #web

The coloniser doesn’t get to determine the bounds of acceptable resistance of the colonised.

Enforcing artificial scarcity when we finally have the technological capability to become post-scarcity is what’s leading us into a future of true scarcity.

And if you think artificial scarcity is bad; wait till you experience true scarcity. It’s not going to be fun. You think the petrol wars are bad? Wait till the water wars.

All easily avoidable. But we’d clearly rather have billionaires than a sustainable future.

Tech bros are like “I built this!”

Dude, you didn’t build diddly.

The labour your capital captured built it; you just took credit and made sure the resulting work was kept out of the commons. The only thing you did was enclose human potential to benefit the few instead of the many.

This is what capitalists do: they reduce human potential into a resource to be farmed within a zero-sum game, thus stealing from all the possible other futures of humanity.

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news/117359675422362403

Building a couple of new data centres should sort this right out. Maybe three just to be sure.

Web developers being cunts, exhibit number 3,928,452.

#deceptiveDesign

Oh, and PS, if civilisation collapses, it stays collapsed.

There’s no retracing our steps to get back to where we were. We’ve already expanded the resources that would be necessary for us to do that.

Oh for fuck’s sake, people!

Capitalism is an extinction threat. Corporations are an extinction threat. Militarism and religious lunacy are existential threats. Tech in the hands of, created for the purposes of, and being employed for the benefit of these institutions is an existential threat.

No, the fancy autocomplete built on stolen labour isn’t going to bring about the end of the human race. But while your attention is being misdirected there, all those other things just might. Both directly and via proxy through habitat loss. And quite possibly with the help of aforementioned fancy autocomplete.

(Don’t worry, extinction is unlikely. We’re only talking about billions dead, possibly the end of civilisation, and a very different, much harder, and much less comfortable existence for almost everyone. So, yeah, not that bad, right?) https://noc.social/@GeraldKutney/117350818254836765

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/117347646675359243

“Microsoft allegedly knew what it was doing when it was importing the internet willy-nilly.”

Come on, really? Which one of us hasn’t downloaded the whole Internet by accident every now and then?

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/27/big-ais-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money/5299007

#microsoft #AI