“Yet in the final analysis, what is being sold to the reader is not a set of principles or policies, but rather a series of self-help precepts.” @docteur_en_rien on fire in his critique of Latourian environmentalism 🔥 newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Linguistic nitpick; LLMs don’t ’express views’ because they can neither conceptualise nor act with agency. LLMs are logic engines that produce plausible word patterns based on statistical probabilities and directed parameters. The rest is all apophenia and anthropomorphism.

People across Europe have been plagued by fake “consent” popups every day on almost every website and app since the GDPR was introduced almost six years ago. IAB Europe has sought to evade its responsibility for this charade. But the European Court of Justice has set it straight.

This decision will not only end the biggest spam operation in history. It will deal a mortal wound to the online tracking-based advertising industry. Thanks to my fellow complainants Jef Ausloos (@[email protected]) @PiDewitte Katarzyna Bits of Freedom Ligue des droits humains

*Evolution of click farm fraud.* 1st generation click farm fraud, fully manual labour.

this is art

Look. I don’t know if there are vulnerabilities in Signal. There are unknown vulnerabilities in every piece of software. But if you’re suggesting that Signal Foundation knows about serious vulnerabilities and isn’t addressing them, then I highly doubt it.

This ad perfectly encapsulates the insight that people think technology is killing everything we ever found joy in. And then presents that as a good thing. I haven't seen such a visceral backlash to a spot in a long time.

Dit: volkskrant.nl/a-b7c3e3c5 #habermas

New from 404 Media: the ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X, and many more tech companies exposed real peoples' driver licenses. As we move towards an internet forcing us to verify our identities, shows these companies will absolutely be targeted 404media.co/id-verificatio…

I get the reflex here + acknowledge that there are real issues that need to be solved. But age verification software doesn't work + any mandate creates a v troubling surveillance regime where every person, young or old, would need to be 'verified' across all 'online' activity.

JUDGE MEHTA FINDS GOOGLE VIOLATED SECTION 2 OF THE SHERMAN ACT MY MAINTAINING ITS MONOPOLY OVER GENERAL SEARCH

Finally

Jiraporn Laocharoenwong illustrates how anxiety can mobilise a community through infrastructure in Mae La refugee camp in Thailand. roadsides.net/laocharoenwong…

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Chat content scanning by governments: Thread from published, globally-recognized expert on computer security (including NSA backdoors) and professor of cryptography at John Hopkins, on why this stuff doesn't friggen work and simply cannot. And that backers... already know this.

🚨 BREAKING: Chat Control BLOCKED in EU! 🎉 Germany just refused to back the EU's mass surveillance "Chat Control" regulation after public pressure! This blocks the required majority in the EU Council and derails next week's planned vote. NICE JOB EVERYONE! 💪