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Digital rights and responsibilities. Human errors and creativities.
Learning.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Merz: "Ukraine has been defending its freedom for more than 4 years."

(AfD members laughing)

Merz: "That’s telling sign, ladies and gentlemen. They laugh about it, they laugh about fate of millions of people in Ukraine and they travel to Moscow for their champagne receptions."

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Une des meilleures vidéos que j'ai vu sur internet 🥹🤩🤩🤩🥰

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Here’s my plan:

Russian soldiers go home. They leave Ukraine , Georgia and Moldova.

Russia honors the many international treaties they have signed to recognize the sovereignty of their neighbors.

Russia stops making long-range missiles and caps its army at 500,000.

For the first time in 2 decades, Russia holds free and fair elections.

Ukraine agrees to respect the territorial integrity of the Russian empire and will not push for independence of Russian republics.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Please join me in welcoming the new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.

Abuser.

Alcoholic.

Sexual predator.

The man Trump and the GOP just put in charge of keeping you safe.

[Nicolas Krassas @Dinosn]

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet https://t.co/TMqFbTozqw

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Belarus authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko absurdly claims not to hold any political prisoners. In fact, he is detaining "about 1,300 of them." They are easily identified, because they are the ones subjected to the harshest prison conditions. https://t.co/fQ16YhakFU

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Scholz is really a disaster for Germany, Europe & Ukraine that had better disappear as soon as possible.
He is evidently unable to understand foreign policy, but also unable not to manifest his ignorance and cause maximum damage.

[Chris Anderson @TEDchris]

With a certain amount of trepidation, I'm posting this open letter to @elonmusk, someone I have admired, but who, right now, is causing me concern. I know I'm not alone in thinking these thoughts. Please like or repost if you're willing... And Elon, if you're listening, please know this is offered in a constructive spirit.

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Dear Elon,

A thought hit me this morning.

On top of all your achievements in technology and entrepreneurship, you have become this century's single most influential writer.  You have more than 200 million followers on a powerful platform that you yourself control. And the words that you write flow well beyond just those followers into almost every user of X and far beyond courtesy of extensive media coverage.   This makes Rupert Murdoch at his prime seem inconsequential.

It must feel exhilarating. You made a huge gamble buying Twitter and it seems to have paid off spectacularly to the point that you can use it to massively impact the world, including changing governments.  You believe that X can largely replace most mainstream media. It is the new platform for citizen journalism, and you are citizen number 1.  You don’t need the hassle of editors and fact-checkers. Every single thing you post garners millions of likes and reposts. In a heartbeat you can change the global conversation.  No one in history has had this much power.

So there’s a lot at stake here, and, as it happens, journalism is something I care deeply about. I began my career as a journalist because I believed that good journalism was essential for the healthy functioning of democracy. Today I am worried — quite deeply worried, actually — that in your triumphant seizing of the global conversation, some of the core tenets of journalism are being forgotten. Without them, I think your efforts to make X the respected home of citizen journalism will fail.

There are numerous journalistic principles that matter — Grok can summarize them quite nicely. But there’s one in particular that’s been troubling me. It’s the fairness doctrine. The one that says that before you publish savagely critical claims about an individual, or an institution, you reach out to them for their side of the story. After all, just possibly, you may have missed a key fact or two that would change how people assess what has happened. Just possibly your sources were motivated to cause damage to that individual. Just possibly there’s an alternative explanation of what happened.

So, for example, when you tell hundreds of millions of people that someone should be hanged or jailed for outrageous crimes against humanity, just possibly you should first sound out what those who know those people really well would say about them. Some of your recent posts could literally get someone killed. Do you really want to risk that? How is it possible that you can do this at the very same time that you’re calling on people to make X more positive, more beautiful?  You say you want to maximize un-regretted user-seconds on X.  By far the simplest way you could do this, Elon, is simply to thoughtfully edit what you yourself post.

I get that from your eyes the issues you are championing are unbelievably important and worthy of extreme efforts. But the way you are presenting them is not citizen journalism. It's playground bullying. It’s crass and it’s cruel, and it’s therefore not nearly as effective as it could be.  You’re hearing the cheers of your most loyal followers, but missing the fact you’re making yourself a laughing stock among many who you really want on your side. Long-term that’s going to damage X, your other businesses, and indeed your long-term dreams for humanity.  No one wants to follow a playground bully to Mars.

I miss the old Elon. You can be funny, interesting, insightful and inspiring. You've fought incredibly hard for what you've built. And you may feel you're entitled to do whatever the hell you want with it. But I also know that you understand the danger of holding too tightly to the ring of power, how it can distort someone's judgement and turn them ugly.

I’m hoping you can loosen that ring just a little. For the love of humanity that you profess, I really urge you to embrace the fairness doctrine and showcase a better face of X.

Thanks for listening.

Chris

[Christian Landgren 🦋 @Landgren]

Tänk er ett berg av projektledare, testfönsteransvariga, coacher, förändringskonsulter, testledare, planerare- som alla hanterar projektet men ingen gör själva jobbet. Inte konstigt att det här är dyrt och dåligt.

[Christian Landgren 🦋 @Landgren]

Kostnaden att underhålla denna gigantiska koloss av skräpkod är hela 134 miljoner kronor bara i år. Det är mer än vad staden lägger på läromedel (!). Men vad består dessa pengar av? Jag har begärt ut fakturor. Läs vidare…

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

You allow Russia to invade one country, you invite Russia to invade the next country.

You allow Russia to shoot down one passenger plane, you invite Russia to shoot down the next passenger plane.

You allow Russia to cut one undersea cable, you invite Russia to cut more undersea cables.

Summarized: if you don’t make Russia regret one thing and by staying ignorant effectively even reward that malicious behavior, you just postpone for a bigger disaster. No negotiations are going to remedy this situation. This is objective experience backed by facts.

[Mårten Schultz @martenschultz]

Jag har ännu inte sett dokumentären om Styckmordet (med stort S) men ska göra det i helgerna. En ganska okänd sak som inte är så känd är att de båda läkarna nog är ganska ensamma om att bli utsatta för inte bara ett, utan flera, justitiemord. Häng med.

[Ryan Hurst @rmhrisk]

Government-run CAs in the WebPKI ecosystem often represent a conflict between trust and security. My latest post explores this contradiction, diving into examples of predictable failures and systemic issues that persist. What does this mean for the future of certificate trust? https://t.co/zqlt1Uteto.

[Henrik Alexandersson @HAX]

Hemliga polisen skall alltså fatta beslut om en aldrig tidigare skådad inhämtning av data i syfte att kunna kartlägga alla svenskar, deras kommunikationer och platsdata upp till två år bakåt i tiden. Vilket sedan skall bekräftas av en hemlig domstol. Orwell hade blivit imponerad.
https://t.co/NLi5diz4WR

[Cymru am Byth #FBPE @Penyrheolgerrig]

@Gerashchenko_en The people of Aleppo have to keep in mind that they should not rely on the United States to support them in their fight for freedom.

The Americans will desert them after a while Just like Korea, Vietnam, Georgia, Afghanistan and Ukraine.

[Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Mikiashvili_M]

ALL EYES ON TBILISI!!! 🇬🇪🇪🇺

[Nikka Systems Sverige @nikkasystemsSE]

Veckans podd försöker reda ut vad som händer om Google tvingas att både sluta finansiera Mozilla och att sälja sin populära webbläsare Chrome. https://t.co/NyDlSvq5sr

#BliSäker #Google #Chrome #Mozilla #Firefox

[Samira Bayramova 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 @SamBayramova]

The future of Georgia is in Europe ✊
Big Protest in Tbilisi
Georgia now 🇬🇪🇪🇺
#EU #Georgia #protest #president
📸Ezz Gaber

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

President ⁦@Zourabichvili_S⁩ 🇬🇪 said “the Georgian Dream’s decision to abort the EU accession process has finalized the ‘constitutional coup’ after the rigged October 26 parliamentary elections.” https://t.co/NlQWvFUDls

[Karl Emil Nikka @KarlEmilNikka]

Bra inslag i SVT om den ökade övervakningen, men det påstådda motsatsförhållandet mellan säkerhet och personlig integritet är missledande. På grund av det nämnda förändrade världsläget blir underminering av IT-säkerheten tvärtom farligare än någonsin. https://t.co/DYiQJlzEfd