Meanwhile, France and Spain are literally on fire because of climate change. 🔥

During my time at OCCRP three journalists that worked with the organization got brutally murdered: Pavel Sheremet, Daphne Caruana Galizia, and Ján Kuciak (along with his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová).

Elon Musk, a man with a gigantic platform and unlimited resources, is now publicly calling for a journalist to be murdered, because she was doing her job.

Like Pavel, like Daphne, like Ján (and Martina).

Mark this moment. Don't anyone tell you later they are surprised.

"Computer program maker is shocked a computer program made by them is able to actually do the thing the computer program was made to do" is such a "state of IT industry in 2020s" vibe.

I mean, I'm shocked too that a computer program maker in 2026 was able to accidentally create a computer program that works!

After all, available data seems to point to the IT industry having utterly forgotten how to perform such a feat…

Mozilla also used to run a fedi instance, they killed it about 2 years ago:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/

Way to go leading the open web. 🤡

Tech in 2026: constantly striving to keep getting better at being absolute shit.

Liz Truss saw the bad press lettuce is getting in the US these days and thought: this time I have a chance to beat it!

#ukpol #lettuce

Dziś w #OkoPress znów muszę pisać o Kontroli Czatów:
https://oko.press/chat-control-powraca-zza-grobu

> Przewodnicząca PE Roberta Metsola wykorzystała procedurę stworzoną na potrzeby reagowania na sytuacje nadzwyczajne, by przepchnąć Kontrolę Czatów 1.0. Mimo że większość eurodeputowanych była przeciw.

> Pomysł Komisji Europejskiej jest absurdalny. Polega przecież na tym, by wyszukiwaniem materiałów przedstawiających krzywdzone dzieci zajmowały się firmy technologiczne, które same na krzywdzie dzieci zarabiają.

Shit getting real in the US of A.

Also, what a lot of "I have nothing to hide" people miss is that stuff-that-needs-to-be-hidden depends on social and political climate at any given moment and changes with time.

Being pregnant while crossing the US border used to be a non-issue, nothing-to-hide type thing. Now US fascist lawmakers are pushing for pregnancy tests at the border.

This is just a very fresh example, there are endless others.

Once our data is out, we have no control over it. Will it be dangerous in 5-10 years? 👀

Important call:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-call-proposals-shape-safer-and-more-inclusive-social-media-platforms

> This €1.48 million pilot project will involve young people from different countries and backgrounds in the conceptualisation and development of new European social media platforms, focusing on user safety, mental health, privacy and ease of use.

> The core ambition of the project is the roll-out of at least one protocol-based service that is actively centred around the needs of young user audiences and is in line with European values (…)

#Fediverse

Hot take: I hate the fact that when using Mastodon web UI adding a personal note to a profile is now behind two additional clicks.

The whole point of it for me was always that it was minimal effort to add context to some profile.

No clue why this needed to be "improved" like that.