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EU verzichtet auf anlasslose Überwachung von Messengern: Die EU-Kommission wollte Messengerdienste überwachen, um Darstellungen von sexuellem Missbrauch zu bekämpfen. Doch diese anlasslose »Chatkontrolle« wird nicht kommen. Dänemark als Ratspräsidentschaft hat die Pläne gestrichen.
EU verzichtet auf anlasslose Überwachung von Messengern
Die EU-Kommission wollte Messengerdienste überwachen, um Darstellungen von sexuellem Missbrauch zu bekämpfen. Doch diese anlasslose »Chatkontrolle« wird nicht kommen. Dänemark als Ratspräsidentschaft hat die Pläne gestrichen.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Can't believe the billionaires looked at the internet and was like "you know what this place needs? more noise to drown out the signal"

and then got everyone they knew to put all their dollars on the signal-drowning machine.
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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oldfriend99.bsky.social
The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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n-th-n.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge (Reagan appointee) just held that DOJ, DOS, & DHS has engaged in a coordinated assault on pro-Palestine speech. He found the plan was to harshly punish some of those speaking out to deter others. He also conceded that the gov't won't respect this ruling.
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.
Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017: Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year. I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.* The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel. The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end. But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s. I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are. I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.
September 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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taz.de
Die unlautere Geschlechtsänderung eines Neonazis wird zur Vorlage für Änderungen der Erfassung in Behörden. Eine Grünenpolitikerin beklagt Diskriminierung.
Änderung beim Selbstbestimmungsgesetz: Gefahr eines „Sonderregisters“ für Queere
Die unlautere Geschlechtsänderung eines Neonazis wird zur Vorlage für Änderungen der Erfassung in Behörden. Eine Grünenpolitikerin beklagt Diskriminierung.
taz.de
August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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spiegel.de
Frankreich wird Palästina im September vor der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen als Staat anerkennen. Dies hat Präsident Emmanuel Macron angekündigt.
Emmanuel Macron: Frankreich wird Palästina als Staat anerkennen
Frankreich wird Palästina im September vor der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen als Staat anerkennen. Dies hat Präsident Emmanuel Macron angekündigt.
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July 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Either politicians become YouTubers or YouTubers become politicians. That is your choice.
June 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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sierkovitz.bsky.social
VE day was more cheerful for some than others. Poland spent the next 44 years as a satelite of the Soviet Union, mainly because of geography. My nan went back to school in 1945 just to be expelled for participating in illegal scouting (lucky her, some of her friends were executed for that). 1/3
May 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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npr.org
Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.
Wesleyan University president says Trump's antisemitism fight doesn't protect Jews
Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.
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April 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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lisamaier.bsky.social
"The threat of #German citizens being stripped of their citizenship for political opinions – for example, for expressing views about the war in #Gaza – risks creating a chilling effect to quash views unpopular with the government."

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German Proposal to Strip Citizenship Endangers Human Rights
A leaked paper reveals that Germany’s conservative political parties want to add a clause to Germany’s Nationality Law to allow the country to revoke German nationality from dual nationals if they are...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
That’s Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.
March 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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stephananpalagan.bsky.social
In diesem Land werden eher die „Omas gegen Rechts“ verboten als die AfD.
February 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM