On invitation of a member of the European Parliament I'm sitting in the room to discuss the @nprofile1q...'s attempt to dismantle people's #GDPR / #privacy rights.

2 participants from civil society
1 academic
20 industry lobbyists

Of course corpos all want to weaken #consent and make sure people don't understand how their #PersonalData is being processed.

#lobbying #democracy #EUpolicy

Gotta love how the @nprofile1q... press conference video stream about the #DigitalSovereignty package is hosted by #AWS.

Also: everyone who wants to access any EU law online needs to run #Amazon's #JavaScript on their device. 🤷

Meanwhile in #Germany the conservative government has:

* Removed the legal right of #migrants to access public defence. Most will now go into #migration detention without a lawyer.

* Empowered itself to unilaterally define "secure return countries" aka places from where people lose their right to #asylum and can be deported back to without their case being heard. Parliamentary oversight has been removed.

I feel ashamed of being German.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/abschiebehaeftlinge-verlieren-anspruch-auf-pflichtanwalt-104.html

#democracy #HumanRights

"A #browser that browses for you is like paying a #robot to go out for dinner with your friends and give you a summary of the evening when it gets home" is one of the best comparisons of #AI use I've read so far.

How fast the #EU went from

"We need to be independent from #Trump and #BigTech"

to

Europe must "reclaim its place in the global race for geoeconomic power."

https://www.ft.com/content/c05e152d-36e5-4446-a706-5f5fa5d98315

#DigitalSovereignty

Today: cross-continental #train travel with @nprofile1q... colleagues from #Brussels to #Warsaw via #Aachen and #Berlin.

Don't you dare touching any trains today @nprofile1q... 🤪

#CrossBorderRail #MastoTrains

You know your product is bad if you need to send lobbyists to the #Pope.

#AI #Vatican #BigTech #lobbying

It looks like the French government mobile app that allows people to vote remotely requires the proprietary #Google #SafetyNet.

(At least it throws an error on a @nprofile1q... phone.) 😢

#DigitalSovereignty #France #KeepAndroidOpen

Writing is more than a matter of merely outputting words. It’s a matter of discovering what your values are and convincing yourself that they’re worth fighting for.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/24/ai-tools-thinking-human-hard-coding-writing-technology

#AI #AIslop #thinking

Hey @nprofile1q..., what has happened to the excellent #Elemental 14" budget laptop you offered in the past. Has the #AI hype killed it or are there chances it will come back? 😬

#LinuxLaptop #Slimbook