Aidan O'Brien
@aidanobrien.bsky.social
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Talks about: internet governance, counter-violent extremism, and counter-disinformation but (mostly) movies He/Him
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aidanobrien.bsky.social
Yes, because the term “HAMburger” isn’t misleading at all.
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hmcevansoneya.bsky.social
Voters: "The EU Parliament doesn't really seem to do anything, seems kinda useless"

EU Parliament: "Oh yeah? Could a useless parliament do this?!" *pants fall down, trips over, falls into orchestra pit and gets stuck head first in a tuba*
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tjmcintyre.com
And the German rejection of chatcontrol is official.
privacymatters.bsky.social
Germany. Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection opposes the EU #ChatControl proposal for the indiscriminate scanning of all private messaging to combat CSAM.

“Private communication should never be under general suspicion.”

www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...
Zitat
Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen.“
www.bmjv.de
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Painfully dull move, and additionally baffling considering just how well set processes meat companies are to capitalise on veggie alternatives. Like Keogh's black veggie pudding 🤤 and jeesus wept I couldn't believe what veggies accepted for sausages before Denny's and Clon stepped in with theirs.
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aidanobrien.bsky.social
“Bai, This is a Wendys”
Corkonians, (a simple breed of folk), in a (relatively long) queue to eat at the “Grand Opening” (you can tell because there are balloons) of the first Wendys in Ireland. They are proud. Sure let them have it, where’s the harm…
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."
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therobmilton.com
- put down the damn AI.
aidanobrien.bsky.social
“Bai, This is a Wendys”
Corkonians, (a simple breed of folk), in a (relatively long) queue to eat at the “Grand Opening” (you can tell because there are balloons) of the first Wendys in Ireland. They are proud. Sure let them have it, where’s the harm…
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techpolicypress.bsky.social
The Trump administration appears to be engaged in a dramatic project to replace the United States’ traditional European alliances, with tech policy and culture wars over social media a key to the effort, Tech Policy Press contributing editor @dwj88.bsky.social writes.
Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image | TechPolicy.Press
Tech policy is a key part of the Trump administration's dramatic project to replace the US's traditional European alliances, Dean Jackson writes.
www.techpolicy.press