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  1. engadget.com/big-tech/palantir

    In Deutschland nutzen mehrere Landespolizeien aktiv Palantir (Bayern, Hessen, NRW). Weitere Länder prüfen oder planen den Einsatz (z. B. Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg).

    #PlatformPower #TechEthics #DigitalRights

  2. engadget.com/big-tech/palantir

    In Deutschland nutzen mehrere Landespolizeien aktiv Palantir (Bayern, Hessen, NRW). Weitere Länder prüfen oder planen den Einsatz (z. B. Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg).

    #PlatformPower #TechEthics #DigitalRights

  3. #Answers Instead of #Feeds 🧭 Instead of scrolling endlessly, users ask #AIsystems directly, which will deliver #news, #backgroundinformation and even #videos.

    #Content is Becoming #Personalised 🎬 Content is no longer a »one-size-fits-all« approach, but varies according to the individual’s interests.

    New #PlatformPower ⚡️ When #AImedia decides what is generated and distributed, power shifts from platforms and influencers to AI models.

    👉 mediachange.eu
    👉 @ai @media #news

  4. #Answers Instead of #Feeds 🧭 Instead of scrolling endlessly, users ask #AIsystems directly, which will deliver #news, #backgroundinformation and even #videos.

    #Content is Becoming #Personalised 🎬 Content is no longer a »one-size-fits-all« approach, but varies according to the individual’s interests.

    New #PlatformPower ⚡️ When #AImedia decides what is generated and distributed, power shifts from platforms and influencers to AI models.

    👉 mediachange.eu
    👉 @ai @media #news

  5. #Answers Instead of #Feeds 🧭 Instead of scrolling endlessly, users ask #AIsystems directly, which will deliver #news, #backgroundinformation and even #videos.

    #Content is Becoming #Personalised 🎬 Content is no longer a »one-size-fits-all« approach, but varies according to the individual’s interests.

    New #PlatformPower ⚡️ When ‘AI decides what is generated and distributed, power shifts from platforms and influencers to AI models.

    👉 mediachange.eu
    👉 @ai @media #news

  6. #Answers Instead of #Feeds 🧭 Instead of scrolling endlessly, users ask #AIsystems directly, which will deliver #news, #backgroundinformation and even #videos.

    #Content is Becoming #Personalised 🎬 Content is no longer a »one-size-fits-all« approach, but varies according to the individual’s interests.

    New #PlatformPower ⚡️ When #AImedia decides what is generated and distributed, power shifts from platforms and influencers to AI models.

    👉 mediachange.eu
    👉 @ai @media #news

  7. #Answers Instead of #Feeds 🧭 Instead of scrolling endlessly, users ask #AIsystems directly, which will deliver #news, #backgroundinformation and even #videos.

    #Content is Becoming #Personalised 🎬 Content is no longer a »one-size-fits-all« approach, but varies according to the individual’s interests.

    New #PlatformPower ⚡️ When #AImedia decides what is generated and distributed, power shifts from platforms and influencers to AI models.

    👉 mediachange.eu
    👉 @ai @media #news

  8. Borders no longer end at maps.
    They extend into the networks that decide what the world is allowed to see.

    My latest essay explores digital sovereignty, platform authority, and the emerging geography of truth.

    open.substack.com/pub/lawrence

    #DigitalSovereignty #PlatformPower #MediaLiteracy #Geopolitics #InternetGovernance

  9. Sunday Paper: Markdown’s Quiet Power, Systems, AWS’s Reality Check, Apple’s Creator Studio

    Sunday Paper is where I jot down links and ideas that caught my attention this week, with a few personal reactions along the way.

    islandinthenet.com/sunday-pape

  10. Sunday Paper: Markdown’s Quiet Power, Systems, AWS’s Reality Check, Apple’s Creator Studio

    Sunday Paper is where I jot down links and ideas that caught my attention this week, with a few personal reactions along the way.

    islandinthenet.com/sunday-pape

  11. Conversational AI doesn’t show you options. It shows you the answer. When the first recommendation becomes default behavior, influence turns into infrastructure—and commerce quietly reorganizes around it. #AIethics #PlatformPower

    cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/15/

  12. Conversational AI doesn’t show you options. It shows you the answer. When the first recommendation becomes default behavior, influence turns into infrastructure—and commerce quietly reorganizes around it. #AIethics #PlatformPower

    cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/15/

  13. Conversational AI doesn’t show you options. It shows you the answer. When the first recommendation becomes default behavior, influence turns into infrastructure—and commerce quietly reorganizes around it. #AIethics #PlatformPower

    cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/15/

  14. Conversational AI doesn’t show you options. It shows you the answer. When the first recommendation becomes default behavior, influence turns into infrastructure—and commerce quietly reorganizes around it. #AIethics #PlatformPower

    cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/15/

  15. Conversational AI doesn’t show you options. It shows you the answer. When the first recommendation becomes default behavior, influence turns into infrastructure—and commerce quietly reorganizes around it. #AIethics #PlatformPower

    cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/15/

  16. Microsoft's AI adoption report saturated LinkedIn within 72 hours of publication—same statistics, identical imagery, coordinated resharing. The company designed share-ready content with a button pointing directly to LinkedIn, which it owns. When you control the platform, distribution becomes internal coordination rather than external marketing.

    #AI #TechPolicy #PlatformPower

    implicator.ai/microsoft-floode

  17. Microsoft's AI adoption report saturated LinkedIn within 72 hours of publication—same statistics, identical imagery, coordinated resharing. The company designed share-ready content with a button pointing directly to LinkedIn, which it owns. When you control the platform, distribution becomes internal coordination rather than external marketing.

    #AI #TechPolicy #PlatformPower

    implicator.ai/microsoft-floode

  18. We keep arguing about “AI” as if it has a stable definition.

    It doesn’t—and it won’t—because “intelligence” is a moving target, and every definition depends on where someone’s work (or fear, or incentives) intersects with the tech.

    That’s why debates keep collapsing into talking past each other: we’re not using the same word.

    #AI #TechPolicy #MediaLiteracy #DigitalCulture #PlatformPower

  19. We keep arguing about “AI” as if it has a stable definition.

    It doesn’t—and it won’t—because “intelligence” is a moving target, and every definition depends on where someone’s work (or fear, or incentives) intersects with the tech.

    That’s why debates keep collapsing into talking past each other: we’re not using the same word.

    #AI #TechPolicy #MediaLiteracy #DigitalCulture #PlatformPower

  20. We keep arguing about “AI” as if it has a stable definition.

    It doesn’t—and it won’t—because “intelligence” is a moving target, and every definition depends on where someone’s work (or fear, or incentives) intersects with the tech.

    That’s why debates keep collapsing into talking past each other: we’re not using the same word.

    #AI #TechPolicy #MediaLiteracy #DigitalCulture #PlatformPower

  21. We keep arguing about “AI” as if it has a stable definition.

    It doesn’t—and it won’t—because “intelligence” is a moving target, and every definition depends on where someone’s work (or fear, or incentives) intersects with the tech.

    That’s why debates keep collapsing into talking past each other: we’re not using the same word.

    #AI #TechPolicy #MediaLiteracy #DigitalCulture #PlatformPower

  22. We keep arguing about “AI” as if it has a stable definition.

    It doesn’t—and it won’t—because “intelligence” is a moving target, and every definition depends on where someone’s work (or fear, or incentives) intersects with the tech.

    That’s why debates keep collapsing into talking past each other: we’re not using the same word.

    #AI #TechPolicy #MediaLiteracy #DigitalCulture #PlatformPower

  23. One Steam Ban Just Put an Entire Indie Studio on Life Support

    This is the dark side of platform centralization: a single opaque decision can erase years of work and the livelihood of an entire team. In the AI era, where moderation policies will get even weirder, devs need:

    - clearer rules
    - appeal processes with real humans,
    - and distribution strategies that don’t rely on a single gatekeeper.

    buff.ly/Aox79Jb
    #IndieDev #Steam #PlatformPower

  24. Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 while the regulators open scissors to cut the empire. Intelligence in the feed, dominance in the code.
    🔍👁 #SurveillanceTech #AIAgents #PlatformPower
    apnews.com/article/e45758d1198

  25. Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 while the regulators open scissors to cut the empire. Intelligence in the feed, dominance in the code.
    🔍👁 #SurveillanceTech #AIAgents #PlatformPower
    apnews.com/article/e45758d1198

  26. Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

    This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:

    https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563

    He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.

    *I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.

    #facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms

  27. Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

    This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:

    https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563

    He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power.

    *I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.

    #facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms

  28. Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

    This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:

    https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563

    He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.

    *I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.

    #facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms

  29. Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

    This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:

    https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563

    He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.

    *I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.

    #facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms

  30. Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

    This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:

    https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563

    He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.

    *I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.

    #facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms

  31. This diagram, taken directly from the U.S. v. Google judgment, illustrates a fundamental dynamic of digital market power:

    Data Aggregation → Market Dominance

    This self-reinforcing loop is the core issue with Big Tech platforms: scale isn’t just an advantage — it becomes a moat. And without regulatory intervention, it shuts the door on competition.

    #Google #Antitrust #PlatformPower #DataAggregation #BigTech #DigitalMonopoly #DataEconomy #NetworkEffects #Regulation

  32. This diagram, taken directly from the U.S. v. Google judgment, illustrates a fundamental dynamic of digital market power:

    Data Aggregation → Market Dominance

    This self-reinforcing loop is the core issue with Big Tech platforms: scale isn’t just an advantage — it becomes a moat. And without regulatory intervention, it shuts the door on competition.

    #Google #Antitrust #PlatformPower #DataAggregation #BigTech #DigitalMonopoly #DataEconomy #NetworkEffects #Regulation