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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

🇪🇺YOU ARE AMAZING: ❤️ Your protest stopped #chatcontrol! I hear Germany isn't caving in; so there's no majority in the EU Council. Digital privacy is safe for now! Let's celebrate this huge success TOGETHER! 🎉
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A map of Europe titled "Help Stop #ChatControl!" shows countries colored according to their government's stance on ChatControl in 2025. The legend explains: Green stands for "Against", Blue for "Undecided", and Red for "In Favor".

The following countries are in favor (red): Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.

The following countries are against it (green): Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

The following countries are undecided (blue): Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Romania.

At the bottom is the call to action: "Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu".

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 1d

@edavies it doesn't make it any less bad IMHO, the Commission could theoretically say any platform is a threat, i don't know how much they would be required to prove it though. I guess it could be challenged in court

Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 1d

@crlamke It was written for policymakers so it had to be! Thanks!

Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 1d

@edavies I don't disagree, but our strategy within the institutions was not to rely on the fundamental rights' argument.

The legal services of both the Council of the EU and Parliament concluded the law would be illegal if it involved mass surveillance.

2. ChatControl wouldn't automatically […]

Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 1d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

"#AI #slop is killing our channel"

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 1d

Who could possibly have foreseen that having random web apps collect copious personal information in order to check for user age could create a golden trove for hackers?

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/discord-data-breach-proof-of-age-id-leaked

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 1d

The whitepaper highlights the technical challenges of detection, how easily it can be bypassed, and the potential to create enormous numbers of false positives, which will actually impede the work of law enforcement in finding and detaining abusers.

Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 1d

Side point on #chatcontrol: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.

As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper […]

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

update: "video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire on her"
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d

banning people like antivaxxers and fascists has never been about “censoring the opposition” or “stifling healthy debate.” at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, that’s what they want you to think. it’s always been about limiting the reach of mass disinformation campaigns that seek […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 3d

@tginsider Russia came to the country, bombed, destroyed and occupied it, the forcefully deported the inhabitants.

Even if your statistics weren't a flaming pile of bullshit, the reason is that Russia deported them there at gunpoint.

Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 5d

"The Internet is starting to Break - Here's Why" #enshitification

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVYG1mu8Lg8

Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 6d

" the most important electoral issue is following through on the promise to reward pensioners for their lifetimes of work"

Yes, by throwing future generations under the bus. That's always how populists work. It'll be heartbreaking if the Czech Republic elects a Russian stooge […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 6d

We have some concrete figures on the RATP bid that won the contract for local trains around Caen against the SNCF: 50% increase in train-km for no increase in cost […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 7d

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/conservative-losers-elon-musk-stephen-miller/?fbclid=PAY2xjawNJ4BNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp5oqTzxAZtC5VZTXdbxKcRaTjmoXffG42pogrQDiKO2aH9qLPIoYn7OYCAM0_aem_PLrniXc3gJ5hEQL-Xw7IzQ

A picture of Elon musk, with the article title "we're being ruled over by the worlds biggest losers"

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 8d

The @EUCommission would like to hear your views on the governance and sustainability of critical open source software. The survey closes October 5th.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FOSSEPS_Governance_and_Sustainability_Survey

#OpenSource #governance #sustainability

Study of the European Commission: Survey on the Governance and Sustainability of Critical Open Source Software

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Europe doesn't have a good solution yet about how to condition the payment of public funds to industry (like startups) to ethical behaviour (like building #opensource, #privacy-preserving, or decentralised tech), says @alexandrageese.

#privacycamp25

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 8d

The extent to which the #trump administration has dismantled vital democratic safeguards is terrifying.

If there is ever another free and fair election in the United States, the democrats will have to take unprecedented, radical action to reinstate them, including doing some things they […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 8d

@jon You make a good point. Perhaps acquiring more gauge switching trains would be useful. I hear Renfe has plans, although I'm not sure how realistic those plans are?

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Jon Worth @jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

As I am making a presentation to European Commission officials tomorrow, and the Commission *loves* the idea of re-gauging railways, I thought it was high time to write up why it's mostly a bad idea

Explained in depth here! 👇 […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 8d

@jon I think I agree for the most part with your perspective. I think the approach of adding standard gauge where relevant is a good one.

My only security concern is that Russia has entire military divisions focussed on repairing railways. You'd have to blow up large segments of track to be […]