The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its "pay or consent" model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but "the case is not closed" (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/39b9d90c-0629-4dfc-8a2b-c52f1f503f38…
The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its "pay or consent" model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but "the case is not closed" (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/39b9d90c-0629-4dfc-8a2b-c52f1f503f38…
“This is not 'spicy'. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.“
"The European Commission has announced it is looking into cases of sexually suggestive and explicit images of young girls generated by Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into social media platform X, following the introduction of a paid feature known as “Spicy Mode” last summer."
What's especially interesting, and dangerous to capitalism, is that there are a lot of opportunities that come out of this.
Corporations are destroying everything. We actually don't need them. We can build mutual aid networks, guerilla gardening, library socialism... When we stop with consumerism, we can find the joy in actually living, creating, being a creative human rather than simply a consumer. With a bit of momentum we can bend the system to our will. With enough momentum we can shatter it completely and free ourselves from this trap.
Things can go a lot of different ways. I'm excited to see how things go.
Edit:
I'm specifically excited about this...
https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/about-mutual-aid
This is cool. This is really fucking cool.
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🟢 Was ist eigentlich #Greenwashing? Eine neue Übersichtsstudie hat 646 Definitionen ausgewertet.
Greenwashing bedeutet, dass Unternehmen sich „grüner“ darstellen, als sie wirklich sind – oft durch vage, irrelevante oder selektive Infos.
Das „Need for Balance“-Modell beschreibt auch das Gegenteil –
Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset to test the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical manner (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/sony_ai_vision_model_benchmark/…