#AI refuseniks of the world, unite! "I read a really great phrase recently that said something along the lines of 'why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write' and that is such a powerful statement and one that aligns absolutely with my views." h/t @npub1vd0q...kdk8

The people refusing to use AI

Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.

😑 #loveGDPR #Healthline /cc @npub1ezrd...2hxu

Hence the importance for democracy of mandatory #interoperability for dominant platforms #DMA #SNS #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #Google #Youtube #Tiktok From: @npub1sv4y...5wk8

Mastodon

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (@LillyHerself@mastodon.social)

@coolandnormal@aus.social I am completely ostracised in my local community and treated like a "difficult person" in my political party because I re...

“As extreme tariffs become a central pillar of US economic strategy, a clear pattern is emerging: US companies are increasingly caught in regulatory complexity and strategic fallout, while their foreign rivals advance through the gaps created by that very strategy.” #Tesla #BYD #EV #Musk #Trump #tariff #chaos

Client Challenge

‘Connecting the world did not, in fact, convert illiberal societies to liberalism. After #Trump became president in 2016, many worried that the Internet instead made previously liberal societies more illiberal, drenching publics with #disinformation... sketchy arguments and weak empirical evidence [were used] to accuse #Facebook and other social media services of having allowed Russian propagandists to manipulate Americans’ 💯

Foreign Affairs

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

How Silicon Valley got entangled in geopolitics—and lost.

I’d say rather the #GDPR (if properly enforced) can save the EU from generative AI 😂 Long may it continue! From: @npub145g7...mrpm

social.coop

Imbolc (@eob@social.coop)

Here's thoughtful analysis on the issues of applying GDPR to generative AI Including "the GDPR is not a suicide pact" (a nod to American legal dis...

🤨 #AI “and cuts to red tape will free up hundreds of thousands of hours wasted by police and prosecutors on their legal duty to disclose evidence to the defence.” https://www.thetimes.com/article/8ac03457-d02f-4e56-a7cd-090f523295fe?shareToken=92c260a7d035d42c670b7903a3cd9ddc

FINALLY deactivated my ex-Twitter account. Feeling good! 😎

Best #interoperability news so far of 2025! Over to you, Apple, to build this quickly into #iMessage (Google is ~there with Android) — and also to push all telcos to enable #RCS

Newsroom

RCS Encryption: A Leap Towards Secure and Interoperable Messaging

Tom Van Pelt, Technical Director, GSMA In my last post, ‘RCS Now in iOS: a New Chapter for Mobile Messaging‘, I celebrated the integrat...