Do you think social media platforms should be held more accountable?
Parade du Grotesque 💀
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mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 from tw/x: 'genuinely is wild seeing every single left wing political theory being proven absolutely right over the space of a few days.'
https://x.com/__mike91/status/2019697380036313532
#Capitalism #ConspiracyTheories #Left #Socialism #Anarchism #USpol #EUpol #Europe #JD20260207
mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 from tw/x: 'genuinely is wild seeing every single left wing political theory being proven absolutely right over the space of a few days.'
https://x.com/__mike91/status/2019697380036313532
#Capitalism #ConspiracyTheories #Left #Socialism #Anarchism #USpol #EUpol #Europe #JD20260207
There's a growing realisation that the Ukraine invasion has not only re-shaped the Russian economy, but the 'war economy' has so distorted the rest of Russia's political economy that a major collapse now looks likely; Could Russia collapse into a(nother) major internal crisis in the near future?
If so, the urgent Q.s must be:
what would such a collapse look like?
How would the Russian population react and;
what would be the impact on both regional & global politics?
@ChrisMayLA6 Was thinking the other day that if Putin wasn’t such a pillock, #Russia and #Europe would do quite well together economically and socially. Might even help overcome Russian paranoia.
We've preliminary found that TikTok is in breach of the DSA for its addictive design.
There are important indicators of compulsive use of the app that TikTok has disregarded in its risk assessment.
Key features of the addictive design:
🔹Infinite scroll
🔹Autoplay
🔹Push notifications
🔹Highly personalised recommender system
We consider that TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service.
TikTok can now exercise its right to examine and reply to the finding.
"Kids between 12 and 15 spend 4 to 5 hours daily on Tiktok."
140 million users in the European Union alone.
Tiktok sure is an abomination but one must ask as well why parents and grandparents are so busy that they can't properly engage with their own kids. The cost of living crisis made of Tiktok a convenient child minder. Same with Youtube, on that regard.
Cory Doctorow
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Small dose of hope from @pluralistic this morning:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/05/contingency/#this-too-shall-pass
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikeolson/116018577225689442
“Things change” : On the demise of #DirtyEnergy in #Europe , etc. ( by the essential @pluralistic )…
Small dose of hope from @pluralistic this morning:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/05/contingency/#this-too-shall-pass
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikeolson/116018577225689442
“Things change” : On the demise of #DirtyEnergy in #Europe , etc. ( by the essential @pluralistic )…
Paul Cantrell
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Elyse M Grasso
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Bondi previously said the epstein files were being hidden because it is child pornography CSAM.
Today President #Epstein defense attorney admits that the DoJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” all the "CSAM child pornography was excluded" from yesterday’s Epstein files release.
AND ALL OF THE RAPISTS are WALKING FREE.
#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #usa #eu #Europe #EuropeanUnion #uk #France #Deutschland #Germany #Italy #Spain #uk #baltics #news