Otmar Lendl

Outside a court of law with this accumulation of credible accusations spanning so many years we do not need to defer to the (essential) protections for those on trial. It's effing clear. Donald Trump is a rapist and should long since have been serving a life sentence.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

"I was told," said the princess, "that the point of fairy tales is not to tell children dragons exist, but that they can be killed." "Oh, absolutely!" said the dragon. "You agree?" "These rich, selfish, powerful, cruel beings that need killing, did you think they're literally dragons, princess?"

Excellent summary of the present state of relations between Russian and American oligarchical clans. Please read and share. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Ich habe mit Markus @beckedahl.eurosky.social über Databroker und das Zusammenwachsen von Überwachungsstaat und Überwachungskapitalismus gesprochen. Hört doch mal rein:

𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 (𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗹𝘆) - it's not just America's partners and allies that should be alarmed at how the Trump group is facilitating Russia's objectives globally. At home too, the administration is mimicking Russia in more ways than even many Americans realise. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

this committee report on AI from MIT is well worth your time aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

@johngcole.bsky.social for you.

We always joked that computers do what you tell them to do, and not what you want them to do. This still holds true: just because I can now formulate instructions to the LLM in English, it doesn't guarantee that the system can understand my intention with all implied constraints.

@buechereienwien.bsky.social

That's actually an astute observation. I'm now involved in national and EU cyber policy, and yes, there is no cabal behind the curtains. The reality is often very banal.

Really good article.

In the EU, social media platforms are accountable for their addictive designs. Our investigation of Instagram and Facebook shows Meta has not adequately assessed the risks of features such as infinite scroll, auto-play, push notifications, and recommender systems.

Whatever happens now, the USA's entire World Cup campaign will be forever stained by Trump's interference.

To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

@ec.europa.eu what about the EU taking the lead here?

Here’s @anneapplebaum.bsky.social‘s great speech about and for Europe. She urges Europeans to take their (our!) future into our own hands and defend all our values and achievements, protecting them against those who want to destroy, divide and conquer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=WEnU...

Bemerkenswert was der Verfassungsschutzbericht 2025 über die von der stärksten Parlamentspartei FPÖ hofierten und unterstützten „Alternativmedien“ sagt. www.dsn.gv.at/501/files/vs...

President Trump threatened to obliterate every power station and bridge in a country of 90 million people on Tuesday night in prime time and basically no one is bothering to even ask him how that is not a “war” that would require authorization from Congress under Article I of the Constitution.

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY. Not that you'd know that from the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Okay this is funny: “A French general has said joining President Donald Trump’s war is like buying a discounted ticket for the Titanic after it had already hit the iceberg.” Former commander of the Foreign Legion btw. 😂 www.thedailybeast.com/french-gener...

A story in two farcical acts. Would be nice to have a President who has reached the stage where he has object permanence.

We're already there: lendl.priv.at/blog/2026/02...

I recently gave a long presentation on the topic of lawful access to encrypted data, here are my blogposts based on that talk: * Why is this so hard? www.cert.at/en/blog/2026... * General considerations www.cert.at/en/blog/2026... Feedback is welcome.

Künstliche Intelligenz ist so intelligent wie soziale Medien sozial sind.

Token Anxiety i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always

New Blogpost. Lawful access to encrypted data: why is this so hard to do? www.cert.at/en/blog/2026...

New blogpost: lendl.priv.at/blog/2026/02...

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Wie steht es um die Informationmssicherheit in Österreich und inwieweit hat das etwas mit der #NIS2 Umsetzung durch das #nisg2026 zu tun? darüber habe ich mit @otmar.bsky.social in der #arsboni #Waschkueche gesprochen. Via youtu.be/_bRPWZTfGvc #joinus #wirnennenesarbeit

Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant

It's high time that some country gives Musk the Durov in France treatment.

1/Quick thoughts on Venezuela oil and what it means for world politics. Rather than a simple story of corporate oligarchy, more about Trump putting himself at the center of spoils that can be used to consolidate power i.e neo-royalism. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...

Occasionally as a litigator you run across an opposing party who repeatedly breaches contracts and settlement agreements and legal requirements — just never abides by them. Generally competent lawyers point out that you shouldn’t do business with or enter contracts with that person. /1

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

1/ Elon Musk faces a spiralling worldwide crisis and growing legal jeopardy over child pornography and nonconsensual sexual images being generated through his Grok AI chatbot. Multiple countries and jurisdictions have now announced investigations into X and xAI. ⬇️

(1/X) The most popular thing leaders in either parties could do is throw an oligarch in jail. Srsly, would you blame someone for voting for Trump because Trump threw Zuck in the clink? And they all belong there, not just morally (they deserve far worse than a few years in jail morally), but...

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

It’s interesting how the risk awareness that dependence on US systems - be it in digital services, defence, or payment methods - has been internalised fairly quickly in Europe. National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives

Ich habe eine sehr ernsthafte Frage: Warum postet die Präsidentin der Europäischen Kommission, Ursula von der Leyen, so etwas auf Twitter/X (Oh, the irony!) und die Europäische Kommission - Vertretung in Österreich repostet es auch noch? Quelle: x.com/vonderleyen/...

Der US-Präsident, der Medien auf zig Milliarden klagt, zusperren will, als „Volksfeinde“ denunziert und Journalistinnen als „Schweinchen“ beschimpft, geht mit Sanktionen gegen den „globalen Zensur-industriellen Komplex“ (aka EU) vor. Es ist nur noch irre.