The news that #X has suspended the #EU's advertising account on the platform after it issued a 120m EUR fine against X for breaking the #DSA is beyond hilarious. And it might even be kind of good in the sense that politicians in Europe maybe finally realise how shitty it is to depend on such a lunatic for its public communications.

X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine – POLITICO

#DigitalServicesAct #DigitalRights #DigitalSovereignty #RuleOfLaw

I'm usually no #fiction reader, you'll only see me a read one #novel every few years. But @npub18ak6...untn's #scifi novel #Bikepunk - Les croniques du flash was a great read: A beautiful homage to the #bicycle and low-tech more generally, embedded in a post-apocalyptic storyline that is deeply human, surprisingly feminist and non-ableist, and just a real treat for your imagination. I kind of left it with the feeling that the world the author has created deserves a tome 2 😊

"The Dutch government has quietly removed #Google #tracking tools from job listings for its intelligence services over concerns that the data would expose aspirant spies to U.S. #surveillance," according to POLITICO. "The intervention would put an end to Google’s processing of the data of job seekers interested in applying to #spy service jobs, after members of parliament in The Hague raised security concerns." 💥

Love how a resident fighting the construction of a large ugly office tower in my #Brussels neighbourhood casually shows off his @npub12lnx...vs03 #Linux laptop on local TV and loads files from the city's @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 instance. ❤️ #FOSS #FreeSoftware #DigitalSovereignty #Delta #Auderghem #TourTriomphe

Excellent call by [@offene_netzwerke](

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Offene Netzwerke (@offene_netzwerke@eupolicy.social)

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) for better public funding for the #Fediverse: 1. #FediverseFund for user-centred development, €30 million annually 2. Anchoring the +1 principle in the work of the governments & public institutions 3. Recognition of non-profit status in the field of decentralised #DigitalInfrastructure 4. Establishment of decentralised, interoperable & cross-sectoral pan-European media platforms with involvement of civil society 📄.pdf

"#SiliconValley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires." "Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, #AI, #finance, #drones, #satellites—an integrated system we call the #AuthoritarianStack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules."

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

#Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalSelfdetermination

Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #Mamdani's win in NYC: "Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal." “Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his newsletter, The Planet. “Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”

the Guardian

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a ...

#China has installed more #solar panels in the past 6 months than #Germany did in the past 25 years. (via @npub1m2j8...yzxt)

(S+) China schafft in sechs Monaten doppelt so viel Solarkraft wie Deutschland in 25 Jahren

Die Volksrepublik bricht beim Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien diverse Rekorde. Eine gute Nachricht für das Weltklima. Und eine schlechte Nachrich...

#renewables #energytransition #greentransition

#FollowTheMoney requested access to an unredacted version of #X’s first #DigitalServicesAct risk report from the @European Commission – a request that the EU executive denied. After the request, the Commission updated its internal rules to generally presume such reports to be confidential. The European #Ombudsman found this to be “unreasonable” and that it amounted to maladministration.

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Watchdog slams EU executive for hiding user risks on Elon Musk’s X

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I just heard another renown professor argue #Mastodon is too hard, even they failed. Choosing a server is simply too difficult. And I'm wondering: how the heck does everybody have an email address? #decentralisation #federation