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Michael Puntschuh

@gloptimist

tech, governance, human rights | Executive Director @efn.no | Co-Founder Beyond AI Collective | 🖖 | 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇳🇴🇩🇪🇨🇿 | he/him

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Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

05.03.2026 20:45 👍 2141 🔁 813 💬 36 📌 26
From The Telegraph 

Merz: Iran should not be protected by international law
German chancellor positions himself as
Trump's closest European ally in condemning Tehran.

From The Telegraph Merz: Iran should not be protected by international law German chancellor positions himself as Trump's closest European ally in condemning Tehran.

Not judging Germany by its history, but its current failure. How on god’s green earth did they put this man in the top position?!

06.03.2026 01:59 👍 563 🔁 173 💬 85 📌 43
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Skole i København har brukt åpen kildekode i årevis Slik ser elevenes hverdag ut.

Rimelig maskinvare og aldri lisensproblemer, ifølge skolen som droppet amerikansk big tech for flere år siden.

06.03.2026 06:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I understand the appeal of genAI - I'd love a tool that helped me translate the thoughts in my head to words on paper. But that's not what LLMs do (and no other "AI" is close to accomplishing). Long-form autocomplete algorithms generated from web data cannot produce "scholarship."

05.03.2026 18:30 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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So berichtet die NYT über den Merz-Besuch.

03.03.2026 20:21 👍 275 🔁 88 💬 16 📌 25

Vi mener det trengs en større og helhetlig tilnærming. Aldersgrenser løser ikke hovedproblemet i den digitale hverdagen. Ansvaret må plasseres hos selskapene og reguleringen av markedet må følge prinsipper om produktansvar – det er markedet som må reguleres, ikke barn og foreldre.

02.03.2026 16:20 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I have said many times "I wish I had Google Earth with time coordinates" but this is not it. The whole point is to see streets as they were, which we *could* get close to with what we know (and labour). If I want costume dept brown, unlikely carriages and vibes, that is why bad television exists.

02.03.2026 13:38 👍 122 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 1

Ya ya ya, det var ya veldig kult!

#mgp #mgp2026

28.02.2026 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🍚🍚🍚 #mgp #mgp2026

28.02.2026 19:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Into The Wild! 🎆🚀 #MGP #MGP2026

28.02.2026 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Refses for å glemme menneske­rettigheter I fjor diskuterte Oljefondet menneskerettigheter i under 3 prosent av sine møter med selskaper. Oljefondet driver business as usual, mener Amnesty.

Underveldende.
Det er min dom over @oljefondet.bsky.social sitt arbeid med ansvarlig forvaltning i 2025. Året var ekstraordinært på så mange måter, men de driver business as usual.

klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

27.02.2026 13:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We signed. We urged. We meant it.

Now have a little laugh – because if we don't laugh, we cry.✌️

29 organisations. One message to the EU: stop handing Big Tech the keys to our rights.

👉 epicenter.works/content/join...

27.02.2026 12:23 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Big tech is responding to incentives that form a spiral of fire making all of our technology shitty. @pluralistic@mamot.fr at the launch event of the #Enshittification report of the Norwegian Consumer Council #forbrukerradet

27.02.2026 11:10 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Digitale produkter og tjenester blir dårligere – men utviklingen kan snus – Forbrukerrådet En ny rapport fra Forbrukerrådet viser hvordan "enshittification" påvirker både forbrukere og samfunnet. Det finnes heldigvis løsninger.

Sammen med 23 organisasjoner og 33 eksperter sier vi: Nok! Norge må jobbe for å rebalansere makten mellom store tekselskaper og forbrukere. Les åpent brev fra Forbrukerrådet her: www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/d...

27.02.2026 10:44 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

Today we are publishing our new report, Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

27.02.2026 06:04 👍 74 🔁 52 💬 4 📌 13

„Deutschland gehört zu den Ländern, die sich hier gegen den Vorschlag der Ratspräsidentschaft und hinter die Deregulierungspläne der Kommission stellen könnten. (…) regte Deutschland unter anderem weitreichende Einschränkungen von Betroffenenrechte an.“

25.02.2026 05:36 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

I will never not be angry at the way tech bros have told us that the danger is apocalyptic superintelligence when it was always obvious that the reason to worry is that we would put dumb AI in really stupid places.

26.02.2026 21:25 👍 216 🔁 63 💬 10 📌 3

What is a graphic worth when you just pull the numbers out of a hat?

24.02.2026 18:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Digital Omnibus Report V3: Analysis of Select GDPR and ePrivacy Proposals by the Commission Version 3 of our report includes specific recommendations for the EU legislator on each of the most important articles, including on whether to reject or maintain proposed changes

📃🚌 We have just published the third version of our report on the #DigitalOmnibus, which now also includes comments on the joint statement issued by the #EDPB and the #EDPS on 11 February 2026.

Read the report here 👉 noyb.eu/en/digital-o...

24.02.2026 14:28 👍 15 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1

Not sure whether all those delayed implementation processes would be faster with the UK in

24.02.2026 14:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Soon it's just going to be us Norwegians with little Liechtenstein who will be left all alone at the EFTA-EEA party

23.02.2026 18:06 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

21.02.2026 22:57 👍 6087 🔁 3893 💬 71 📌 270
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

“Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. She says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone”

21.02.2026 11:08 👍 666 🔁 262 💬 11 📌 20

"Excellency" is actually very common in international diplomacy. Speeches at the UN regularly start like that. But the rest is groveling

21.02.2026 08:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Palantir saksøker nettavis i Sveits etter kritisk gransking Det amerikanske programvareselskapet går rettens vei mot magasinet Republik etter avsløringer om selskapets virksomhet.

Det amerikanske programvareselskapet går rettens vei mot magasinet Republik etter avsløringer om selskapets virksomhet.

20.02.2026 17:21 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Original post on tldr.nettime.org

Not gonna get into it right now (gotta go to bed) but labeling criticism of LLM based "AI" as "purity culture" and that one can just legitmize using any and all tech if one just somehow creates "free and open" versions of it is not a good take. Really not. Refusing to use LLMs on ethical grounds […]

19.02.2026 23:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Seminar og lansering av rapport om "enshittification" Forbrukerrådet inviterer til lansering av ny rapport om utviklingen kalt "enshittification".

Opptatt av digitalpolitikk og hvordan det digitale påvirker individer og samfunn? Og hvordan kan vi få det bedre?

Da bør du delta her neste uke, digitalt eller fysisk, når sjølvaste Cory Doctorow deltar, med forbrukerminister mm @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/d...

19.02.2026 19:40 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Basically: The "L" in luddite stands for "loving people".

19.02.2026 16:30 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Er dette et selskap vi vil ha i Norge?

19.02.2026 11:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0