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🇪🇺 European Citizen's Initiative against ID age verification online
Just yesterday, Stop Killing the Internet, from the people at @StopKillingGames, launched an ECI against ID age verification! This is great but it needs 1 million signatures !
So, if you are a citizen of #eu , please sign it! If you don't, or even if you do, still share it around so more people know about it and can sign it!
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home
Reaching the signature threshold will not mean that ID age verification will immediately become illegal, but the subject will be brought to the @EUCommission and they'll have to do SOMETHING about it. This is already a huge step in the right direction!
Please boost and share this post to spread the word! Thank you!
Dear Mastodonians
I am very pleased to announce the release of my latest film "Final countdown".
Over the past months I have been thoroughly researching the Ukraine war, to bring you a well founded analysis and answer the key question: Is Putin losing the war?
I have good news… so watch it for free on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo9BhupEXsI
or watch it ad-free and support me on Patreon ($):
https://www.patreon.com/Randahl/posts/new-episode-168327295
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@ciaranmak/117226686584988567
🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK (in #CA, the #EU and elsewhere) !!!
I can't live without coffee, but can I live with poisoned coffee 🤔
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09-toxic-coffee-petition-EN?akid=s9181639..21QXPc
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
🟢 Powering on AI factories.
Today, we are launching a rolling call for AI factories, which will help secure our position at the forefront of artificial intelligence.
These factories, created around the European High-Performance Computing supercomputers, will bring together computing power, data, and European talent.
The EU AI Act has pioneered safe and trustworthy #AI. Next is making Europe a global leader in this transformative technology.
ℹ️ Here’s how: https://europa.eu/!qy7HRp
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
This week, Katy reports from France, where protests that began with students in September have grown into a wider revolt over the government and the cost of living. Where do they go from here?
Plus: would a bigger EU be a better EU? We ask enlargement expert Tinatin Akhvlediani.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/where-do-frances-protesters-go-from-here
A U.S.-based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from Russia has worked on EU-backed projects and sold its services to European law enforcement agencies, according to documents seen by POLITICO.
We welcome the Council's adoption of the 17th package of sanctions against Russia.
It increases the cost for Russia to continue its war:
🛑 Russia’s access to battlefield technology is further restricted
🚢 Unprecedented number of shadow fleet vessels
📋 Expanded number of individual and entity listings
We'll intensify pressure, hold war enablers accountable, and strengthen efforts to stop sanction evasion.
With Ukraine, unflinchingly.
ℹ️ More: https://europa.eu/!PxWdNM
🗣 #EU CITIZENS SIGN THE DAMN #PETITION TO BAR CONVERSION THERAPY (aka #LGBTQI brainwashing torture) SO I DONT HAVE TO KEEP BOOSTING THIS DAMN PETITION
https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/114501692323303297
🇪🇺⚖️ Today is a good day for European citizens, tax justice, and fair competition.
In its final judgment, @Curia has confirmed our 2016 decision that Ireland granted illegal aid to Apple, requiring the release of up to 13 billion euros in unpaid taxes.
The court has also upheld our decision against Google for abusing its dominant position by favouring its own comparison shopping service and the resulting €2.4 billion fine.
ℹ️ https://europa.eu/!Dy3ndR
#EU
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
How do Europeans actually feel about Europe?
A major new study interviewed nearly 6,000 people across the continent using AI. Listen to this week's great interview with the report's author, Paweł Zerka, to find out why that might have yielded more interesting answers.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/why-are-europeans-so-bad-at-imagining-the-future
NEW EPISODE: Can Europe save the world from the AI apocalypse?
Can European AI like Mistral really compete with US and Chinese giants? Can the EU's AI Act protect our jobs and keep runaway models in check? And what does "winning" the AI race even mean?
We put these questions to Polish AI researcher Aleksandra Przegalińska.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/can-europe-save-the-world-from-the-ai-apocalypse
In France, you’re arrested for demanding better schools; in Spain, for demanding decent housing; in India, for demanding that people be allowed to vote (130 million removed from official lists); and in Greece, for wanting to practice free journalism.
It's gone beyond concepts such as 'democratic deficit'.
#politics #Greece #India #France #eu #europe #democracy
Look at the gas prices after felon Trump joined Israels war on Iran.
Trump's attack and summary closing of the Strait of Hormuz shelved 15 million barrels of oil that were needed to produce diesel, creating the shortage we are seeing today.
