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• 28 February 2026

  With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok

  Netflix has retreated from its protracted bidding war with Larry Ellison for control of Warner Brothers, giving the Trump ally likely control of Warner, CNN, an…

  techdirt.com

  

  https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/with-netflix-retreat-trump-ally-larry-ellison-will-soon-own-warner-brothers-hbo-cnn-cbs-paramount-discovery-and-part-of-tiktok/

  Media consolidation that will empower the regime even more. Putin’s/Orban playbook in the open

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• 27 February 2026

  Manton Reece - Catching up on Paul Frazee’s post compar...

  manton.org

  

  https://www.manton.org/2026/02/27/catching-up-on-paul-frazees.html Permalink
• 27 February 2026

  Towards a Sovereign Mobile Stack — Modal Collective

  Let’s build a real alternative to iOS and Android.

  modal.cx

  

  https://modal.cx/blog/sovereign-mobile-stack/ Permalink
• 27 February 2026

  Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Let Fly The Claudes Of War, With Casey Newton

  Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Appl…

  techdirt.com

  

  https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/26/ctrl-alt-speech-let-fly-the-claudes-of-war-with-casey-newton/ Permalink
• 27 February 2026

  64% d'ados utilisent l'IA : la génération qui défie les cadres scolaires

  Une enquête Pew révèle comment les adolescents américains s'approprient massivement l'IA pour leurs devoirs, malgré les interdictions scolaires, redessinant l'é…

  da.van.ac

  

  https://da.van.ac/64-dados-utilisent-lia-la-generation-qui-defie-les-cadres-scolaires/ Permalink
• 27 February 2026

  Europe : vers une frontière invisible qui vous suit partout

  L'UE développe des technologies biométriques qui transforment chaque mouvement en contrôle frontalier automatisé. Promesse : fluidité. Réalité : surveillance de…

  da.van.ac

  

  https://da.van.ac/europe-vers-une-frontiere-invisible-qui-vous-suit-partout/ Permalink
• 26 February 2026

  Centres de données orbitaux : la souveraineté numérique s'envole

  Sept entreprises américaines et chinoises veulent construire des centres de données dans l'espace. Pour les pays du Sud, cela signifierait perdre tout contrôle…

  da.van.ac

  

  https://da.van.ac/centres-de-donnees-orbitaux-la-souverainete-numerique-senvole/

  on est bien en mode Don’t Look Up là ça va être bien le “monde de demain”

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• 26 February 2026

  How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account. “The ...

  How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account. “The answer to why powerful people in some other parts of the world face consequences, while in America t

  kottke.org

  https://kottke.org/26/02/0048454-how-america-chose-not-to

  Well said…

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• 26 February 2026

  Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Codebreaker

  The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked thousands of codes and ciphers duri

  kottke.org

  

  https://kottke.org/26/02/elizebeth-smith-friedman-the-codebreaker

  Amazing life accomplishment…

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• 26 February 2026

  Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

  We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centrali…

  techdirt.com

  

  https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/ Permalink
• 26 February 2026 Fedi ActivityPub

  FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop 2026/03/02

  fediforum.org

  

  https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/submissions/

  Interesting read… #fediverse

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• 25 February 2026

  Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors

  I’ve long written about how the U.S. establishment press no longer genuinely serves the public interest. Years of consolidation at the hands of (usually) rich,…

  techdirt.com

  

  https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hyper-coverage-of-aocs-um-non-scandal-highlights-how-the-u-s-press-is-eager-to-be-gamed-by-bad-actors/ Permalink
• 25 February 2026

  Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon

  One of the Social Web Foundation's initiatives for improving ActivityPub will soon be a reality for the network.

  wedistribute.org

  

  https://wedistribute.org/2026/02/fediverse-e2ee-coming/ Permalink
• 25 February 2026

  We Can't Have Nice Things (Unless We Fight for Them): Google is Planning on Locking Down Android

  I had planned on following up my most recent post on Feeding the Fire - Psychology, Engagement, and Algorithmic Media with a discussion of Network Effects. H...

  technically-good.ca

  

  https://technically-good.ca/blog/2026-02-we-cant-have-nice-things/ Permalink
• 25 February 2026

  Eleventy Rebuild

  I folded my Kirby and Astro sites into a new Eleventy build.

  mattstein.com

  

  https://mattstein.com/thoughts/eleventy-rebuild

  Really cool Eleventy design & Fonts

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• 24 February 2026

  How Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary Could Impact The Fate Of VPNs In The EU

  “The Diary of a Young Girl” is a Dutch language diary written by the young Jewish writer Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during…

  techdirt.com

  

  https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/how-copyright-litigation-over-anne-franks-diary-could-impact-the-fate-of-vpns-in-the-eu/ Permalink
• 23 February 2026

  Who Knew? Mindless And Corrupt Deregulation Apparently Kills People

  You might recall that a central pillar of the Trump administration during the last election season was that a second Trump term would “take aim at big tech,” pr…

  techdirt.com

  

  https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/who-knew-mindless-and-corrupt-deregulation-apparently-kills-people/

  Shocking

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• 23 February 2026

  Amplification médiatique : dix ans après, même piège, mêmes dégâts

  Malgré les leçons de 2016, les médias tombent encore dans le piège de l'amplification en donnant une tribune aux figures toxiques, leur offrant exactement l'inf…

  da.van.ac

  

  https://da.van.ac/amplification-mediatique-dix-ans-apres-meme-piege-memes-degats/ Permalink
• 23 February 2026

  Quand les paris financent l'information : la dérive mercantile de Substack

  Polymarket et Substack s'allient pour intégrer les marchés de prédiction dans le journalisme. Une coalition d'intérêts qui transforme l'information en produit d…

  da.van.ac

  

  https://da.van.ac/quand-les-paris-financent-linformation-la-derive-mercantile-de-substack/

  “l’information devient un actif financier dont la valeur se mesure aux flux de paris qu’elle génère, non à sa véracité ou utilité sociale.”

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• Still Minneapolis at War, under the invasion of the US federal government paramilitary gangs

  22 February 2026 politics

  Rhoneisms

  patrickrhone.net

  https://www.patrickrhone.net/17073-2/ Permalink