US State Dept politicized human rights reports making them useless globally and aligning with China's perspective on human rights basically. Entire categories of reporting eliminated (seemingly as it would also contrast with domestic policies in the USA), and odd results such as listing Germany as worse than El Salvador. Mostly bc of things like treating any moderation of hate speech as censorship and limiting of freedom of speech, equating freedom of speech w freedom of consequences and responsibility. A peculiar US hang-up that happens to align with what makes bigtech platforms profitable. Another example of USA soft power not just being eroded but removed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250417081724/https://licenseware.io/from-microsoft-to-open-source-how-one-german-state-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-public-sector-it/

Schleswig-Holstein transitioned away from MS Office stuff to FOSS. Vgl [[Data Sovereignty is the Translation of Digital Ethics into Practice 20210819161920]]

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List of DNS resolvers other than Google -[ ] explore and pick a new default DNS resolver that is EU based. #webbeheer #15mins

'the cloud' i.e. 'ransomware of America'

[[Cory Doctorow]] explaining the issue with Amazon in terms of racketeering and market dominance. Am in process of writing a post on moving my reading out of Amazon [[Amazon aankopen vermijden]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20250108192441/https://www.theframelab.org/understanding-the-maga-tech-authoritarian-alliance/

'Strict Father Morality' (George Lakoff) as model to understand the MAGA Bigtech bromance. "a coherent, intersectional, organized system of supremacies.", and reactionary / authoritarian

Meredith Whittaker on the origin of AI wave and consquences. Need to read this. #toread Current AI as 1980s insights now feasible on top of the massive data of bigtech silos. And Clinton admin wrt privacy and advertising in 1990s as the fautllines that enabled #socmed platform silos.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231129113513/https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/

Via Roland Tanglao http://rolandtanglao.com/2023/11/26/p1-emily-f-gorcenski-making-god-millenarianism-manifest-destiny-aitechno-futurism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20231125130613/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/25/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-the-unbearable-hubris-of-musk-and-the-billionaire-tech-bros

Douglas Rushkoff. Note remark on more horizontal ownership by tech billionaires. I'm not sure that is different. It likely was that way in the gilded age too. None of those others are dominant in their field as Rushkoff says was the limit of earlier billionaires.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231006143954/https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/social-media-platform-numbers-how-many-people-are-using-what-today/

Some numbers on the silos. Any EU/US exodus unnoticable in the bigger scheme of things. Commented on creating vs recreating networks for interaction

https://web.archive.org/web/20230328130227/https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2023/03/27/the-push-to-ai-is-meant-to-devalue-the-open-web-so-we-will-move-to-web3-for-compensation/

blogged https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2023/03/22930/