Japan relaxes privacy laws to make AI development easy : Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’
www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/japan_privacy...
Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption

"“A whole #civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the utterances of a man casting about for an act of sufficient magnitude to substitute for the coherent strategy he never bothered to contemplate. The trajectory they trace — from rhetorical escalation to […]

"At #Decidim, we believe that #participatory democratic #infrastructures must be developed in a transparent, open and democratic manner. The principles of transparency, participation, and #openness…must be equally applied to the development of technology.
The exercise of […]

It’d be great if a future Democratic president decided to unilaterally spend $1 billion a week on education, healthcare and housing because that’s apparently something the executive branch can do without anyone’s approval.

Sobre as estratégias do camarada Trump:
"Today, America's #media & #software industries are dying, and Trump is holding a pillow over their faces.
Meanwhile, there's a #globalculturalmarket that's sweeping away American media: from K-pop (and K-zombies) to Heated Rivalry to #Brazilfunk.
Now […]

#RonaldoLemos traz boas luzes para pensar os modelos de linguagem:
"#Habermas notou que o mundo da vida estava sendo colonizado. Seus colonizadores são o dinheiro e o poder, que ele chamava de "#imperativosdeslinguistizados". Eles não precisam da linguagem para atuar; e faz todo sentido. Se uma […]

#RonaldoLemos traz boas luzes para pensar os modelos de linguagem:
"#Habermas notou que o mundo da vida estava sendo colonizado. Seus colonizadores são o dinheiro e o poder, que ele chamava de "#imperativosdeslinguistizados". Eles não precisam da linguagem para atuar; e faz todo sentido. Se uma […]

"…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and […]

"#Habermas noticed that the world of life was being colonized. His colonizers are #money and #power, which he called "delinguistic imperatives". They don't need the language to act. It makes perfect sense. If one person receives R$ 100 million from another, whoever gives the money doesn't need […]

"In this exploration, I have come to understand why one would use #generativemodels to accomplish a specific goal, and how they can be successful in doing so. I don't think condemning people for using them is that helpful to anyone, or to whatever cause you're fighting for so fervently that […]

"…while Facebook is now almost completely irrelevant to the political discourse, that isn’t quite true for Twitter.
But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts that had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It […]

"…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and […]

"…while Facebook is now almost completely irrelevant to the political discourse, that isn’t quite true for Twitter.
But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts that had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It […]

"O presidente da #Colômbia, #GustavoPetro (Colômbia Humana, esquerda), usou as redes sociais no sábado (4.abr.2026) para defender o #Pix e pediu que a modalidade seja adotada em seu país. A declaração se dá depois de os #EstadosUnidos criticarem o sistema de pagamento do #Brasil em um relatório […]

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116357032470708831

Loads of chat and even discourse about so-called AI literacy, but I don't think most realise you need to teach things from quite a few angles and zoomed out.

If people want to just know how the models work, that's not always possible […]

"#Dirceu afirma ainda que a delação do banqueiro Daniel #Vorcaro, se vingar, levará o país a reformas que já se mostram inadiáveis —ou, como diz, a um "freio de arrumação geral".

Ele inclui nisso a necessidade de o #STF (Supremo Tribunal Federal) se autorreformar. "Quando uma pesquisa mostra […]

"Antes, a #IA respondia o que você perguntava…agora, ela sempre propõe novas interações: "quer saber mais sobre esse tema?", "quer que eu adapte para as redes sociais?".

A bajulação te faz querer ficar, enquanto o design de interação garante que você fique.

Já vimos com as […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/116342143604664128

Mackinac is using Bridgy Fed's API to blur the lines between protocols so people can find their people regardless of their platforms.

Tons of unique features, and @johnwhiteside did most of this without even needing our help! In fact […]

#anne_applebaum's conclusion is precise: #Trump doesn't connect what he does on one day to what happens weeks later. Allied leaders have drawn their conclusions. #Therupture, as #MarkCarney called it, isn't coming. It already happened […]

Over the last month or so, I wanted to learn more about the AT Protocol. I built this data explorer to learn more. Over the holidays, I finally got it into a spot where I feel comfortable sharing it.

atexplore.social

Largest Dutch pension fund cuts ties with controversial tech firm Palantir ABP, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund, has withdrawn from the controversial AI company Palantir, the Financieele Dagblad reported. Palantir is known to provide services to the American immigration service, ICE, and the Israeli army.Six months ago, ABP still held €825 million in investments in Palantir. The pension fund for civil servants in the Netherlands has sold those shares, according to FD.

Largest Dutch pension fund cuts ties with controversial tech firm Palantir | NL Times nltimes.nl/2026/04/02/largest-dutch...

Building Bridgy, Not Walls A breakdown of improvements in multi-protocol services, including Bridgy Fed and Bounce, and where those services are going in 2026. Some things include: 1. Direct integrations with platforms + clien...

At #AtmosphereConf today, I'll be talking about our work at @anew.social building Bridgy, breaking down walls, and centering people, not platforms.

Hope to see you at Great Hall South @ 4pm 🌐

@mackinac.social is using Bridgy Fed's API to blur the lines between protocols so people can find their people regardless of their platforms.

Tons of unique features, and @whiteside.io did most of this without even needing our help! In fact, we got some new ideas from this ourselves 🤔

"What is the holdfast in this #ecosystem, right now? Is it the protocol itself? Is it #Bluesky, the company that built the protocol and runs its dominant application? Is it the #community of independent developers building tools on top of it? Is it the #socialbonds between all the people in the […]

This is a talk I gave at last weekend's Atmosphere conference about the power of the open social web and how feeds are the new web sites: https://ionosphere.tv/talks/81Xovjr

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@openfuture/116334604542398780

"The brief makes the case that the forthcoming #Cloud and #AI Development Act and the Digital Leadership window of the European Competitiveness Fund offer concrete opportunities to embed #publicdatastorage within the EU’s #digitalpolicy […]

Dissolving the social “AI” exists to disenfranchise labor. That’s what it’s for. Regardless of how good these stochastic systems are or the flaws they have just being able to point at the non-unionized robot whenever the employees ask for raises or anything really is incredibly valuable for business. The existence of “AI” and the supporting narrative mean that […]

"The experience of workslop directly erodes social connection, erodes trust in one another and in the end erodes solidarity. Because why would you stand with a person who does?"

(Original title: Dissolving the social)

https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/

RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/116334160971449579

This is an excellent question and highlights a weakness in nextcloud. Migration tools to help you migrate in, and between nextcloud instances are next to non existent. You'd think given the push for digital sovereignty, nextcloud would be […]

Donald Trump apelou esta quinta-feira aos seus apoiantes para que boicotem os concertos de Bruce Springsteen, que o Presidente descreveu o cantor como “medíocre e enfadonho”, para além de o ter apelidado de “ameixa seca”. “Bruce Springsteen, esse cantor medíocre e enfadonho, que parece uma ameixa seca e que visivelmente sofreu as consequências de um cirurgião plástico incompetente, sofre há muito tempo de uma síndrome de aversão a Trump horrível e incurável”, escreveu o presidente norte-americano numa mensagem publicada na sua plataforma Truth Social. “OS PARTIDÁRIOS DE TRUMP DEVEM BOICOTAR OS SEUS CONCERTOS EXTRAORDINARIAMENTE CAROS, QUE SÃO UMA PORCARIA“, prosseguiu.

"#Trump is on #TruthSocial at 7:58 AM calling a rock legend [Bruce Springsteen] a dried-up prune.

America is fighting a war it cannot exit in Iran. Markets are in freefall. Allies are making alternative plans.
And the man with the nuclear codes is writing concert reviews."

#25thamendment

"…a damning new study could put #AI companies on the defensive. In it, #Stanford and #Yale researchers found compelling evidence that #AImodels are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3 […]