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ORG turns 20 this year! 🎈 🎉 🎂
To celebrate two decades of fighting for digital rights, join us for a special event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation Maria Farrell.
Register now to hear about Cory's writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms and how to fight Big Tech ✊
It's not one to miss!
🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/
#ORG20 #digitalrights #bigtech #corydoctorow #enshittification #privacy #capitalism #surveillance
Le nostre attività online dipendono in gran parte da servizi americani, ma siamo sicuri di voler lasciare tutti i nostri dati in mano alle #bigtech USA?
Le alternative europee esistono e spesso sono di buona qualità, ma sono poco conosciute. Vi aiuto a scoprirle! 🇪🇺
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👉 Links, die ich nur empfehlen kann:
https://switching.software/
https://grapheneos.org/
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/
https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/
https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
https://www.optoutproject.net/
https://www.reclaimcontrol.tech/
https://bigtechmussweg.de/
https://digitalcourage.de/
https://netzpolitik.org/
https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/ratgeber/
https://www.freie-messenger.de/
https://www.messenger-matrix.de/
A friend asked for a site to share her covers (she loves singing as a hobby) but don't want to feed the #BigTech: maybe funkwhale is the right platform?
#fediverse #fedihelp #music
Guy next to me at the cafe I’m working out of this morning gets a call:
“… no we don’t live there anymore… no… no, we don’t live there anymore… are you serious?! [my ears perk up] Is this AI?… It is?!”
Spoke to him afterwards. Apparently “some energy company.” And it was an LLM on the other side. He said it sounded so real (a woman who gave him her name and sounded perfectly normal) until he asked it if it was AI when it responded “yes” and then restarted the script.
*smdh*
Last night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.
This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.
Plus much more!
Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube 📺
https://www.youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io
#ORG20 #digitalrights #corydoctorow #AI #copyright #dataprotection #bigtech
,,Hakendran,, trackt #Gerichtsverfahren gegen #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok 👨⚖️👨⚖️
Here's to the crazy ones. The digital revolutionaries. The #fediverse builders. The ones who see social media differently.
They're not fond of #BigTech. And they have no respect for the #SurveillanceEconomy.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people crazy enough to think they can change social media, are the ones who do.
The Big Tech Lobby Playbook
How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally
https://www.somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook/
Big Tech giants have developed a powerful playbook to shape laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.
Our Big Tech Lobby Playbook series explores their tools and strategies through 6 case studies from Australia, Brazil, India, the EU, Kenya and the US.
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#BigTech #SocialMedia #Lobby #Meta #X #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok #LeaveX #SaveSocial
🔗 https://mastodon.social/@craiggrannell/114930229981088755#SaaSS #SoftwareLivre #cloud #autonomia #soberaniaDigital #privacidade
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #LinkedIn #social #media #SocialMedia #data #security #safety #InfoSec #internet #web
Epstein-Big-Tech-Trump eugenics are already operating
"Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation" ~Epstein-funded Joscha Bach
Big Tech has long discussed which of us are worth saving. The richer, the worthier.
These fascist ideas are now Trump *policy*.
Millions of people are already dying every year from govt inaction on climate:
#USPol #EUPol #EpsteinFiles #Eugenics #ClimatePurge #news #racism #Trump #BigTech .
“Can a chatbot be a co-author? AI helps crack a long-stalled gluon amplitude proof”
We don't ask if spreadsheets or other programs can be co-authors.
We are allowing AI™ vendors to twist our language for their marketing campaign to get us to accept their software as people.
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-chatbot-author-ai-stalled-gluon.html
✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀
« In this age of #technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to #BigTech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine »
🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/
Basically, a love letter to #FOSS and the #Fediverse… with room for improvement (especially on the hardware front)
#selfhosting #GoToSocial #Mastodon #NextCloud #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Signal #YunoHost #DeGoogle #LeaveSubstack #resist #resistance #broligarchy
Left: NVIDIA DLSS 5.
Right: preview of DLSS 6. 🤡
#NVIDIA #DLSS #DLSS5 #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI
"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc
#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon
📝 New post 🚀
"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"
mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb
[ + Serpro e sua nuvem "soberana" ] 
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6951694?episode=51753787815Episódio fundamental do #podcast de @samadeu a ser compartilhado sobretudo com quem ainda não estiver ciente desses conceitos.
▶️ Áudio — 26min, MP3 26MB
Sinopse:
Gabriel de Moraes e Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira analisam os novos acordos entre #OpenAI e #Anthropic com o United States Department of Defense, discutindo o avanço da inteligência artificial no setor militar. No debate, eles também comentam a declaração do presidente do Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados (#Serpro) sobre soberania digital e infraestrutura tecnológica no #Brasil. Quais são os riscos da militarização da IA? O que isso significa para a soberania tecnológica? [...]🌐 https://tecnopolitica.blog.br/#podcast
Para assinar o podcast em qualquer agregador (como #AntennaPod): https://anchor.fm/s/f8204060/podcast/rss#ética #NoAI #LLM #soberaniaDigital #Serpro #nuvem #BigTech #Google #AWS #Microsoft #Oracle #Palantir #CloudAct #governo #tecnopolítica #softwarePrivativo #tecnologia #computação #administraçãoPública #UFABC
Die #EuropeanTechMap von Dante Emilio Grassi zeigt EU-Alternativen zu US #BigTech, sortiert nach Kategorien, Ländern, Branchen. Fokus liegt auf Souveränität und Datenschutz. 🗺️
In SH sieht's noch eher dünn aus, dabei gibt's noch einige Unternehmen in der Community mit Fokus auf #OpenSource, KI-Sicherheit und Green IT, die fehlen.
Also hopp hopp, SH verdient mehr Pins, macht euch sichtbar.📍
✍🏼 https://europeantechmap.eu/map?lat=46.5385&lng=-7.6926&zoom=4
The fact that GDID, a digital fingerprint that permanently imprints on your device, exists on all activated versions of Windows 11 should be a national and international privacy crisis.
Any business, institution, or home that uses Microslop's operating system is leaving itself absolutely open to a ruthless company that knows where you are and what you're doing at all times. That's ultra scary.
There has never been a better time to switch to Linux and its many great distros, including privacy-focused ones.
#GDID #Windows #Microslop #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #BigTech #BigCorpo #OnlinePrivacy #Linux #Distros
https://linuxlap.com/linux-tips/best-linux-distros-for-privacy/
The UK isn’t a vassal state of America.
Yet Trump wants to punish us over a digital services tax.
This can be resolved by ditching US Big Tech from our digital infrastructure.
We should invest in open source to promote economic growth through greater innovation and a more competitive tech sector.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/trump-tariff-uk-digital-services-tax-warning
#digitalsovereignty #trump #digitalservices #tech #bigtech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol #tarrif
"We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"
#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy
#AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon
Folks to me a decade ago: Aral, what’s all this tinfoil-hat stuff about Silicon Valley? You’re being alarmist! What’s the worst that could happen? Etc., etc.
Meanwhile, a Silicon Valley billionaire:
> Some people are like “oh, but isn’t it terrible to celebrate the power of weapons?” and I say, you know what, societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. I think that it’s reasonable for philosophers to degrade those people and whine about how they’re sick in the head. But society needs them. Even if I’m sick in the head. We need people who are willing to fight for our country—and I’m not doing that directly, my life’s not on the line. But you need people like me who are sick in that way and don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence
#SiliconValley #deathCult #BigTech #capitalism #fascism #PalmerLuckey