Paolo Cardullo

Trump's Middle East strategy is more likely to result in regime change in America than in Iran.

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

DEF CON hackers 'fed up with government,' Jake Braun says Interview: Jake Braun thinks hackers need to create a 'Digital arsenal of democracy' to defend us all

Great article in @theregister.com on how the DEF CON 33 Hackers’ Almanack came to fruition and what we are fighting for.

Hackers are fed up with the policymakers’ lack of action.

Read more ⬇️
www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/d...

#CyberCivilDefense #Take9 #HackersAlmanack

This is no longer about banning under-16s from social media.

It’s about control over all information and forcing adults to go through digital ID checks to access the Internet.

Forcing us to submit our identity or biometric data to an array of different providers poses significant privacy risks.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

It ditches Google's data collection layer entirely and has long been the go-to for anyone serious about privacy 👍

Estic segur que en els anys vinents veurem nous moviments d’esquerres radicals 👍

El riesgo digital del choque con EE.UU.: los datos están en manos americanas La dependencia llega al 90%, según las cifras manejadas los últimos años

www.lavanguardia.com/economia/202...

Shared digital infrastructure provides a solution: scalable, integrated platforms generating lasting public value

What a stupid time to have a degree in International Relations.

Sunday bloody Sunday

'The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete' - Slashdot An anonymous reader shares a column: I'm going to take the diplomatic hat off here and say with brutal honesty: basically everybody in the music business hates Spotify except for the people who work t...

We are witnessing the death of the "Mass Audience" and the birth of the "Micro-Community."

entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/02/...

Smartphone market poised for 'sharpest decline on record' in 2026 Two recent reports predict further declines in the smartphone market in 2026, as dwindling memory supplies continue to drive up prices of consumer electronics.

the worsening chip crunch producing structural shifts in the consumer electronics market

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/s...

Good morning.

If you've just woken up, the politics of hope just crushed the politics of fear and hatred (Labour-Reform).

It wasn't even close.

40.6% for the Greens. Reform second on 28.7%, Labour third on 25.4%.

Great move which, in turn, indicates how fck* dangerous such "innovations" are 🙄

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

Interesting how political antipathy against Big (US) Tech is now making Free Open Source Software more mainstream ...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘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...

the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tot això… Els llibres en català que he llegit fins ara Sobre de tot, m'agraden les novel·les històriques amb un fons negre (noir), especialment al voltant del mil·lenni

Tot això... Els llibres en català que he llegit fins ara

The Data-City after Metropolis OA paper Humans have an enduring longing for the data-driven city, where autonomous decision-making algorithms and robots are fed by swaths of real-time data New Open Access paper

100 years after Metropolis what kind of data-driven city shall we expect?
New Open Access paper

I'm so bored with USA! (the clash, 1979?)

tl;dr has been internet speak for “too long; didn’t read” for a long while. ai;dr means “AI; didn’t read” to inform low quality posters that we see their dirty “AI” post but refuse to read it!

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

What looks like higher productivity in the short run can mask silent workload creep and growing cognitive strain as employees juggle multiple AI-enabled workflows

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Sic or, actually, Sick?

The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers As AI job losses rise in the professional sector, many are switching to more traditional trades. But how do they feel about accepting lower pay – and giving up a dream career?

"at least 60% of the article [written by AI] would be completely made up, and I would just end up rewriting most of the article"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The economic cost of Brexit has just been laid bare – and it’s devastating A decade on, the economic cost of Brexit has just been laid bare – and it’s devastating. Here's what the figures say.

Oh dear, oh dear 🤦🏻‍♂️ it seems like Brexit was a mistake 🙄

www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-eco...

La ciutat t'expulsa i Rodalies no pot amb tot - Catalunya Plural Les classes populars paguen el preu d’una ciutat dissenyada per a altres. Rodalies no és només un sistema ferroviari col·lapsat: és el reflex quotidià d’una desigualtat estructural que s’expressa en h...

Poc es parla de la influència de les polítiques urbanes de Barcelona en la situació de Rodalies i la seva saturació

Escric sobre això al @catalunyaplural.bsky.social

La ciutat t’expulsa i Rodalies no pot amb tot catalunyaplural.cat/ca/la-ciutat...

The journey of platform citizenship Platform citizenship represents the ongoing transformation of social and civic relations driven by software and its interconnections -- enabled by the normalisation of software through digital platforms, data transactions and digital devices

The journey of platform citizenship

Platform citizenship represents the ongoing transformation of social and civic relations driven by software and its interconnections -- enabled by the normalisation of software through digital platforms, data transactions and digital devices

Urban geography of Amazon logistics NYC

All is fake, sloppy and terribly real 😠