"Notably, the White House did not dispute any of the facts reported by Business Insider. Instead, it equated unflattering reporting with foreign subversion and deployed the weight of the executive branch in an effort to silence it. The message wasn’t just aimed at Business Insider. It was aimed at every newsroom under the Axel Springer umbrella—and, more broadly, at any journalist thinking about covering the Trump family with rigor."

rawstory.com/don-trump-junior-…

#news #journalism #Trump #censorship

White House launches new wave of media attacks after unflattering Don Jr. story: report

A story about Donald Trump Jr. at Business Insider has set off a new and vicious wave of attacks on the press from the White House with one official calling a recent article written about Donald Trump's eldest son "illegal foreign political meddling.

^{Tom Boggioni (Raw Story)}

With Trump’s trip, the gulf states take center stage in the AI boom
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/15/ai-uae-openai-trump-trip/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-WashPost

Trump Touts $200 Billion in UAE Deals in Wrapping Mideast Trip
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/trump-touts-200-billion-in-uae-deals-in-wrapping-mideast-trip?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Profiles @profiles-bloomberg

Blue Jay

#birds #photography #nature #blue

New: ATmosphere Report

- @freeourfeeds.com funds $50k for independent infrastructure with IndieSky, with the relay part of the network now resilient
- @spkeasy.social is an upcoming bluesky-compatible platform
- Better account management directly on your PDS

fediversereport.com/atmosphere…

ATmosphere Report – #116

Resilient relays, a web interface to manage your ATProto account directly on your PDS, and a new upcoming ATProto platform with Speakeasy.

^{fediversereport.com}

"The courtroom didn’t gasp. It didn’t need to. The air pulled back like a recoiling fist."

migrantinsider.com/p/birthrigh…

Birthright on Trial: The View from Section F2

Our dispatch from inside the Supreme Court for this morning's oral arguments.

^{Nicolae Viorel Butler (Migrant Insider)}

Donald Trump: Supreme Court prüft Einschränkung des Geburtsrechts - DER SPIEGEL

spiegel.de/ausland/donald-trum…

> Donald Trump will das Recht auf die US-Staatsbürgerschaft bei der Geburt per Dekret einschränken, zahlreiche Gerichte wehrten sich dagegen. Nun hat das oberste US-Gericht die Trump-Regierung dazu angehört.

Puffin says "I have not stolen your spot, I have reclaimed MY spot"

#CatsOfMastodon
#Cats

Jammu & Kashmir Killings: A Depressing Tale With No End In Sight
alterinter.org/?Jammu-Kashmir-…

"The dastardly killing of 26 innocent men, 24 tourists from India (one Christian and the rest Hindus), 1 from Nepal (also Hindu) and 1 Kashmiri Muslim pony owner who worked in the tourist industry, by a group of terrorists on April 22 near the town of Pahalgam in the Kashmir Valley has been met with universal condemnation. The killings

Gezicht op het Palacio de Generalife in Granada, anonymous, 1851 - c. 1890

albumen print, h 207mm × w 260mm
rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/R…
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random

Trump visits mosque in Abu Dhabi, an apparent first for the president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/15/trump-mosque-abu-dhabi/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-WashPost

"Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the entire tracking-based advertising industry rely on the “Transparency & Consent Framework” (TCF) to obtain “consent” for data processing. This evening the Belgian Court of Appeal ruled that the TCF is illegal. The TCF is live on 80% of the Internet.

[1]Today’s decision arises from enforcement by the Belgian Data Protection Authority, prompted by complainants coordinated by Dr Johnny Ryan, Director of Enforce at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. The group of complainants are: Dr Johnny Ryan of Enforce, Katarzyna Szymielewicz of the Panoptykon Foundation, Dr Jef Ausloos, Dr Pierre Dewitte, Stichting Bits of Freedom, and Ligue des Droits Humains.

Dr Johnny Ryan said "Today's court's decision shows that the consent system used by Google, Amazon, X, Microsoft, deceives hundreds of millions of Europeans. The tech industry has sought to hide its vast data breach behind sham consent popups. Tech companies turned the GDPR into a daily nuisance rather than a shield for people."

This Belgian enforcement arises from a chain of complaints and litigation across Europe initiated by Dr Ryan in 2018 against Real-Time Bidding (RTB)."

iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling…

#EU #Belgium #AdTech #AdTracking #TCF #RTB #RealTimeBidding #DataProtection #GDPR #BigTech #Google #Amazon #Twitter #Microsoft

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.

^{Johnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)}

The Internet Phone Book is out!* And I'm sure is full of friends' "addresses". I will write something about it when it's in my hands but for now I wanted to share my excitement anyway.

* store.are.na/products/phoneboo…

This could be anywhere, but it’s not !
[2025].
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Original photo, no AI. Every moment has been lived.
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[Fujifilm digital camera X10]
[Streetphotography].
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#fujifilm #fujifilmx10 #fujijuice #olddigitalcamera #vintagecameras #fujifilm_nordic #shotonfuji #streetphotography #fujifilmnederland #streetizm #streetleaks #photography #digicamlove #travelphotography #wearethestreets #dutchurban #uncoolsimple #photooftheday #streetphoto #streetphotographers #photoderue #fujiframez #fujix #x10 #picoftheday #fujixseries #streets_storytelling #responsephoto #urbanphotography #fotografie #lensculture #photographie

g.co/gemini/share/f03d3f5cded1

un esercizio fatto per gioco...

‎Gemini - Bezos: Guadagni Giornalieri Stimati

Created with Gemini Advanced

^Gemini

"A poor original is better than a good imitation."

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#photography #nature #flower #spring #monochrome #blackandwhite #digicam

The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/kids…

"The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back in the Senate. Sponsors are claiming—again—that the latest version won’t censor online content. It isn’t true. This bill still sets up a censorship regime disguised as a “duty of care,” and it will do what previous versions threatened: suppress lawful, important speech online,

The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.

rambo.codes/posts/2025-05-12-c…

#cybersecurity #hacking #security #technology #hacker #infosec #ethicalhacking

Cracking The Dave & Buster’s Anomaly | Rambo Codes

^rambo.codes

Toot morgen!

#BirdOfMastodon
#Merel
#CommonBlackbird
#Nature
#Photography
#Nikon
#D810
#AltText

Appello di Menesini al Comitato europeo delle Regioni: “Garanzie ed equità per sanitari ed agricoltori”
Due prese di posizione del capogruppo del Pse per sostegni e aiuti per due settori cruciali e che hanno necessità di sostegno

luccaindiretta.it/politica/202…

Appello di Menesini al Comitato europeo delle Regioni: "Garanzie ed equità per sanitari ed agricoltori" - LuccaInDiretta

^{LuccainDiretta}

RT @Rahll
The enshittification continues at breakneck speed.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026

Netflix is trying to grow ad revenue quickly.

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}

"Meta did have more work to do on “child grooming,” as we saw in a June 2019 deck titled, “Inappropriate Interactions with Children on Instagram.” An early page called out that “IG recommended a minor through top suggested to an account engaged in groomer-esque behavior.” Grooming refers generally to the tactics a child predator might use to gain trust with potential victims to sexually abuse them. Subsequent pages gave some broader data: “27% of all follow recommendations to groomers were minors.” There’s a lot we don’t know about this statement: how did Meta track accounts that were “groomers” or “engaged in groomer-esque behavior”? And why were those accounts allowed at all? How did they generate that statistic? And it’s important to caveat as well that perhaps Meta didn’t know that any potential groomers were actual criminals. But by any measure, the headline is troubling.

There was more data than that. 33% of Instagram comments reported to Meta as inappropriate were reported by minors, the deck said of a three-month period. Of the comments reported by minors, more than half were left by an adult. “Overall IG: 7% of all follow recommendations to adults were minors,” the deck concluded.

The presentation also noted that during a “3-month period”—presumably in 2019—2 million minors were recommended by Instagram’s algorithm for groomers to follow. 22% of those recommendations resulted in a follow request from a groomer to a minor. Doing some back of the envelope math, that’s approximately 440,000 minors over just a three-month period who received a follow request from someone Meta labeled as a “groomer.” That number is shocking even before being annualized."

bigtechontrial.com/p/instagram…

#SocialMedia #USA #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #CyberSecurity #WhatsApp #Antitrust #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition

Instagram's Algorithm Recommended Minors to Putative Pedophiles

In Week 4 of FTC v. Meta Platforms antitrust trial, shocking statistics about Meta's failure to address known security risks, plus one more look at WhatsApp.

^{Brendan Benedict (Big Tech on Trial)}

📷 florian.photo/2025-05-15

[…] my recent go-to […]

#dailyphoto #photoblog #monochrome #photography #fotografie #leica #leicaM

2025-05-15

Didn't have much time to take photos today, so my recent go-to it is.

^{florian.photo}

Wie nog mocht twijfelen aan de intenties van Israel.

#gaza #israel

‘Israël is bezig het zorgsysteem in Gaza systematisch te ontmantelen’, zeggen artsen op het Zorgcongres Gaza’ nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/05/15/op-he…

Op het congres over de zorg in Gaza gaat het over verwoeste levens en ziekenhuizen, maar ook over medische ethiek. ‘Onafhankelijke en onpartijdige hulp bestaat nu niet’

Gezondheidszorg Gaza: Het universele recht op zorg staat meer dan ooit onder druk, vinden Nederlandse artsen die een zorgcongres voor Gaza organiseerden. Zeker nu geen paracetamol de grens met Gaza nog binnenkomt.

^{Karlijn Saris (NRC)}