Briefing : Équité, Méritocratie et Égalité des Chances dans le Système d'Admission Scolaire

Résumé Exécutif

Ce document de briefing synthétise les analyses et débats issus du cours SOC 119 concernant la justice sociale, la méritocratie et les mécanismes d'admission dans l'enseignement secondaire public à New York.

L'étude s'articule autour du test SHSAT (Specialized High School Admissions Test), qui sélectionne les élèves pour les huit meilleurs lycées publics de la ville, et examine les aménagements socio-économiques tels que le programme réservant 20 % des places aux élèves issus de milieux défavorisés.

Points clés à retenir :

• Pression et sélectivité du SHSAT : Sur environ 25 000 candidats annuels en classe de 4e (8th grade), seuls 4 000 reçoivent une offre d'admission pour l'un des huit lycées d'élite, attribuée strictement par ordre décroissant de score.

• Ajustement socio-économique (Quota de 20 %) : 800 places sont réservées aux élèves à faible revenu qui échouent juste en dessous du seuil de coupure, à condition qu'ils proviennent de collèges à fort taux de pauvreté et suivent un stage intensif d'été.

La race et le genre y sont strictement exclus.

• Réalité démographique et statistiques : 55 % des candidats au test proviennent de familles à faible revenu.

Environ 1 400 d'entre eux réussissent à intégrer ces lycées d'élite directement par leurs résultats au test, sans avoir besoin du programme d'accès spécial.

• Tensions méritocratiques : L'attribution de places réservées suscite des débats éthiques entre la compensation des désavantages sociaux structurels et le sentiment d'injustice éprouvé par les candidats ayant un score supérieur mais évincés au profit de critères de revenu.

1. Contexte Politique et Système d'Admission à New York

Le Cadre Réglementaire et l'Évaluation

La discussion s'ouvre sur les initiatives gouvernementales visant à retirer l'exonération fiscale aux établissements qui proposent des programmes exclusifs basés sur la race (ciblant principalement les étudiants noirs et hispaniques) ou le genre.

Dans ce contexte, le système public new-yorkais s'appuie sur des critères axés sur les revenus plutôt que sur la race.

La ville de New York compte huit lycées publics d'élite, parmi lesquels Stuyvesant High School est largement considéré comme le premier établissement public.

L'accès à ces établissements repose sur un examen standardisé :

• Nom du test : SHSAT (Specialized High School Admissions Test).

• Format : 114 questions portant sur les mathématiques et l'anglais.

• Durée : 3 heures.- Public concerné : Élevés de 8th grade (équivalent de la classe de 4e/3e).

• Volume de candidats : Environ 25 000 élèves passent le test chaque année.

• Nombre de places disponibles : Environ 4 000 admissions distribuées par an.

• Méthode de sélection standard : Classement strict du plus haut score au plus bas.

Le cutoff s'établit exactement au 3 999e élève.

Note comparative : D'autres établissements publics réputés de la ville, comme le lycée Edward R. Murrow, utilisent des méthodes de sélection alternatives basées sur des auditions artistiques et non sur le SHSAT.

2. Tableaux Comparatifs des Données et Dispositifs

Tableau 1 : Statistiques Clés du Test SHSAT

| Indicateur | Valeur / Donnée | | --- | --- | | Nombre annuel de candidats | ~25 000 élèves | | Offres d'admission émises | ~4 000 élèves | | Nombre de places réservées (Quota de pauvreté) | 20 % (soit 800 sièges) | | Proportion de candidats à faible revenu | 55 % (soit ~13 750 élèves) | | Élèves à faible revenu admis sans programme spécial | ~1 400 élèves |

Tableau 2 : Comparaison des Modalités d'Accès

| Critère | Voie Standard (SHSAT) | Programme d'Accès ("Discovery Program") | | --- | --- | --- | | Critère de sélection principal | Score brut le plus élevé | Score proche du seuil de coupure + Faible revenu | | Origine scolaire | Tous collèges | Collèges à fort taux de pauvreté | | Prise en compte de la race / du genre | Non | Non | | Exigence complémentaire | Aucune | Réussite à un stage intensif d'été de plusieurs semaines |

3. Analyse des Perspectives Étudiantes sur la Méritocratie

Les échanges durant le cours mettent en évidence une diversité de points de vue influencés par les parcours personnels des étudiants :

A. Les modèles internationaux et les besoins spécifiques

• Le modèle turc : Une étudiante originaire de Turquie explique que l'accès au lycée dans son pays d'origine dépend obligatoirement d'un examen national.

Pour intégrer l'établissement le plus prestigieux (le lycée Galatasaray), il est nécessaire d'obtenir un score situé dans une fourchette très haute (entre 480 et 500 points sur un maximum de 500).

• L'impact du TDAH (Trouble du Déficit de l'Attention) : Une participante qualifie ce système de test unique de « cauchemardesque ».

Souffrant d'un TDAH non médicamenteux durant son secondaire, elle soulève l'incapacité des tests standardisés à refléter le potentiel des élèves ayant des difficultés de concentration ou de gestion des devoirs.

B. Défense de la sélection par le mérite académique

• L'argument d'excellence : Un étudiant (« Dom ») issu du secteur privé (école catholique pour garçons) soutient la légitimité du système : les meilleurs lycées maintiennent leur statut d'élite précisément parce qu'ils sélectionnent les élèves les plus performants académiquement.

Il établit un parallèle avec l'enseignement supérieur, comparant l'école de commerce de Penn State à la Wharton School de l'Université de Pennsylvanie (UPenn), cette dernière offrant un accès direct à des réseaux plus fortunés et puissants.

4. Le Programme "Discovery" (20 %) et les Enjeux de Mobilité Sociale

Les Modalités du Programme

Pour compenser les inégalités d'origine, 20 % des places (800 sièges) sont soustraites du classement général brut et réservées aux élèves répondant aux critères suivants :

• Avoir un score au SHSAT situé immédiatement en dessous du seuil de coupure.

• Provenir d'un collège dit « à fort taux de pauvreté ».

• Valider un programme d'été intensif de plusieurs semaines.

Le cours souligne les contraintes liées aux collèges défavorisés : environnement moins stimulant de la part des pairs, problèmes comportementaux accrus, rotation plus élevée des enseignants et difficultés de transport dans les quartiers pauvres.

Les Controverses autour de la Répartition des Places

La mise en place de ce quota suscite des tensions sociologiques :

• Sentiment d'éviction : Un candidat issu de la classe moyenne ou aisée ayant obtenu un score supérieur au seuil de coupure initial peut se voir dépassé et refusé si 800 places sont réattribuées à des élèves moins bien notés mais économiquement désavantagés.

• Perception du travail et des aides financières : L'étudiant « Dom » exprime un sentiment d'injustice face à l'impossibilité pour sa famille d'obtenir des aides académiques ou financières en raison de ses revenus, alors que certains élèves issus de milieux défavorisés bénéficient d'accès privilégiés sans nécessairement fournir le même niveau d'effort ou de résultats académiques.

• Acceptabilité sociale des quotas : Un consensus émergent parmi les étudiants indique que réserver des places à des familles pauvres suscite moins d'opposition publique que si un quota similaire était attribué à des familles aisées.

5. Perspectives Sociologiques sur la Mobilité Sociale

Le cours rappelle les principes fondamentaux de la sociologie concernant l'escalier de la mobilité sociale :

• L'avantage cumulatif : Grandir dans une famille aisée garantit un accès à des mentors, un réseau relationnel et une sécurité financière.

Même à effort égal avec un individu issu d'un milieu défavorisé, la personne née au sommet de l'escalier conserve son avance.

• La réalité des statistiques de mobilité : Bien qu'il soit possible de passer de la pauvreté à la richesse, la majorité des individus ne progressent que d'un seul échelon social au cours de leur vie.

• Performances autonomes des élèves pauvres : Les données du SHSAT révèlent que sur les 55 % de candidats pauvres, environ 1 400 élèves réussissent chaque année à intégrer les meilleurs lycées publics par leurs propres moyens au test, démontrant que la réussite par la voie classique reste possible sans le programme de rattrapage.

• Hypothèses démographiques des étudiants : Interrogés sur le profil démographique dominant dans ces écoles d'élite, les élèves ont émis diverses hypothèses (Afro-Américains, Blancs, Hispaniques), avant qu'une étudiante ne souligne la forte représentation des élèves issus de l'immigration de première génération, attribuant cette réussite à leur dynamique familiale et leur éthique de travail.

US put an Italian activist webhoster on the terrorism list this week. This led to immediate cut-off of their paypal account and local bank account (bc of the bank's secondary exposure to international VISA payments). Their domain is a .org. Flag for me too actually, in that sense. Have plenty .eu domains, perhaps move/mirror?

Gordon Brown phrases the diff geopolitical approaches by USA and China as how state and tech power dimension is shaped (state over tech, tech over state). What would EU's third path be called in that regard?

[[Tricia Hersey c]] 1974 Chicago, USA author of [[Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey]] 2022 (vgl [[Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit]] 2020.) en 2024 We Will Rest. Mentioned again last week at unconference of [[Willy Tadema p]]

company:

• Identical Architecture: An iFixit teardown reveals that the $499 Trump Mobile T1 phone is structurally almost identical to the 2024 HTC U24 Pro, a mid-range Taiwanese-branded smartphone manufactured in China.
• Interchangeable Parts: The component layout, chip placement, and screw patterns match so closely that iFixit successfully swapped the main motherboard from an HTC U24 Pro into the T1 chassis, and the phone booted and functioned perfectly.
• Shared Specifications: Both devices share a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor, 12GB of RAM, and 512GB of internal storage, though the T1 uses a Micron memory chip instead of the HTC's SK Hynix chip.
• Functional Differences: The only significant hardware variance is the battery. The T1 utilizes a larger 5,000mAh battery (manufactured in the Philippines) compared to the HTC's 4,600mAh cell, but the T1's charging speed is capped at 30W, which is half of the HTC's 60W fast-charging capability.
• Cosmetic Tweaks: Aesthetic changes on the T1 include a gold-painted exterior, an American flag graphic on the back, a slightly repositioned camera flash, and a speaker grille featuring seven circular holes instead of six pill-shaped ones.
• Manufacturing and Assembly: Despite early marketing claims of being an American-made device, the phone is designed and manufactured in China. The "Assembled in the USA" label likely refers to final assembly in Florida from around 10 pre-fabricated imported modules.
• Repairability and Value: While the T1 offers decent component value for its $499 price point, it received a low provisional repairability score of 3 out of 10 from iFixit due to a total lack of public service manuals, official spare parts, and guaranteed long-term software support.

noyb will do another lawsuit. Good! Will take time though as per usual.

yes, key point: the USSC decision that the Pres can intervene in previously independent oversight boards means the EU US privacy framework is dead, bc it assumes such independent oversight outside of US regime influence.

The National Security Archive combines investigative journalism and research focused on gov secrecy, and getting material declassified and published. Founded 1985

Bush Putin phone call transcripts 2001-2008, published by 'National Security Archive' after FOIA lawsuit in 2024.

this is not enough though in terms of digital sovereignty. It is also needed that cloud infrastructure does not fall within a USA legal entity. The presence of US jurisdiction is not tied to geographic location

US may have ai-flattered their way into Iran war.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260401113607/https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/

On the role of AI in US' regime Iran war planning.

The US 'DSA is censorship' bs is not holding up even within the US admin itself, the regime ploughs on though.

Résumé de la Vidéo

Cette vidéo aborde le sujet délicat de l'éducation sexuelle dans les écoles américaines, soulignant les controverses et les incohérences dans l'enseignement. Elle met en lumière les défis auxquels les élèves et les enseignants sont confrontés, notamment l'absence de directives claires et la variabilité des programmes d'éducation sexuelle d'un État à l'autre, voire d'une école à l'autre. La vidéo critique également les approches axées sur l'abstinence et les messages stigmatisants adressés aux jeunes, tout en soulignant l'importance d'une éducation sexuelle complète et précise pour préparer les jeunes à la vie adulte.

Points Forts: 1. Controverses autour de l'éducation sexuelle [00:00:17][^1^][1] * Réactions des parents aux contenus jugés trop explicites * Importance de l'éducation sexuelle à l'école * Difficultés à obtenir des informations sur les programmes 2. Variabilité de l'éducation sexuelle [00:03:49][^2^][2] * Absence de normes nationales ou d'exigences de précision médicale * Disparités entre les États et les districts scolaires * Manque de transparence des districts scolaires 3. Critique des programmes axés sur l'abstinence [00:06:45][^3^][3] * Augmentation du financement fédéral pour l'éducation à l'abstinence * Messages stigmatisants et informations erronées * Impact négatif sur les jeunes, en particulier les survivants d'agressions sexuelles 4. Importance d'une éducation sexuelle complète [00:14:36][^4^][4] * Confusion des étudiants sur le consentement * Nécessité d'inclure l'éducation au consentement enthousiaste et informé * Appel à une meilleure préparation des jeunes pour la vie adulte

Report saying drones shut down a US continental AFB several times over. Not seen elsewhere.

EC demands US sticks by trade agreement despite supreme court ruling. EP has called to halt ratification

European Parliament may halt work on ratification Turnberry agreement after US supreme court declared Trump's tariffs illegal.

US sub crew member evacuated by Danish helicopter near Greenland, and taken to hospital in Greenland.

The shady bunch that forms Trump's bribes for peace

bc helium wasn't available, due to the 1929 US helium act. Then the major source of helium, the US forbade export. Otherwise that would have been used.

Palantir is suing a Swiss media start-up for their FOIA based investigative journalism, and showing that Palantir tried for 7 yrs to engage CH as client, and that the Swiss Army evaluated the software as not fit for purpose, in part bc it would mean Swiss data would leak the US gov. Palantir is seen as too close to the US admin (bc of Thiel mostly I suppose), and the company's reputation is taking a dent amongst potential European clients

USA is leaving OGP under the Trump regime. The USA was a cofounder in 2011 and together w Brazil held a launching conference w civil society in July that year. I missed the OGP launch in Washington bc I thought the formal invitation by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton I received was spam. [[Hoe ik Hillary Clinton spamfilterde en de oprichting van OGP miste]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20260203103605/https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/business/companies-worldwide-distance-ice-backlash

Headline somewhat misleading, mostly covers that CapGemini is selling their US branch that works for ICE where bonuses directly correlate with immigrants located and detained. They're not ditching doing business with ICE, they're selling it to the next bidder who by def has no qualms doing business with ICE. And it remains to be seen how fast this sale will happen if at all. A few other examples that are smaller, like office leases. IBM-style behaviour still the norm imo. Vgl [[Comment le groupe français Capgemini aide la police fédérale américaine ICE à localiser les migrants]]

End of 2025 Capgemini entered into a new contract w ICE wrt skip-tracing. 365M USD, but Capgemini earns more when they locate more foreigners. --> this is worse than 'being IBM' bc now they have a direct financial stake in locating additional people.

Capgemini's US branch obv has many contracts w branches of the US admin. DHS has been a client for 15yrs. ICE has contracted a hotline to report crime by 'foreigners' to Capgemini eg

https://web.archive.org/web/20260128104215/https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/usa/police-de-l-immigration-americaine/comment-le-groupe-francais-capgemini-aide-la-police-federale-americaine-ice-a-localiser-les-migrants_7766420.html#xtor=CS2-765- Capgemini, the French consultancy is working for ICE to locate foreigners in the USA.

Canadian socmed Hootsuite not inclined to cancel US ICE contract.

Dutch ABP (a 500 billion pensionfund) dropped a third of their US treasury bills, 10 billion of 29 billion (March '25) to now 19 billion (Sept '25). The money was reinvested in Dutch and German bonds.

'are we the baddies then?'

CEO of https://paice.io/ (what's with the colonial tld, using it in DK?) Lars Christensen: 'the problem isn't Trump, the problem is the US'

What a headline and photo "Trump's Board of Peace poised to be the Maffia version of the United Nations"

Says the USA is reneging on 80yrs of the shared fiction. Which means it has collapsed. Calls it rupture, not transition. Ouch

comparison of international rules-based order w the Havel's green grocer as a known fiction that yielded results (ofc the global south knew this early, but for us it worked)

100M USD on a total of 26 billion USD (22 billion Euro). So small exposure too

They're not a big holder, 100 M USD. Makes it a weak signal, canary style

Danish pension fund dumps their US treasury bonds. Based on the bad shape of US finances, adding 'Greenland did not make the decision harder'

80% of cloud spending by business goes to US companies. The annual volume is 265 billion Euro.

265 billion Euro is about 2 million jobs.

not there yet, but urgent action needed

there is resistance, but it can and will get worse

The Japanese American internment in concentration camps was halted within the 3-5 yr window. And still remained a potential step

a camp system evolves

concentration camps are not the end point of a developing police state but an enabler and catalyst

Congress has provided funding that can make the ICE camp system larger than the already very large prison system in the USA

ICE actions are more like slave patrols

while comparisons are not always useful, you can treat it as a body of knowledge.

Changing course is not just stopping developments or 'training the Dachau guards better', but abolishing ICE.

Author says we are at the edge of entrenching a camp system in the USA, and this year is a limited window to change course.

The camp regime may well already be here (some symptoms say, yes like, keeping people in the dark where the arrested are taken, imo, Alligator Alcatraz where lawyers aren't welcome for visits etc)

The 'Biden break' between Trump 1 and 2 can be seen as a mere pause, meaning the USA is now at the end of the 3-5 yr period, not its start.

US external intervention in Chile under Pinochet halted the development of a broader camp system in the 1970s

3-5 yrs is a phase where leadership normalises arbitrary detention and punishment. At the end of that time making the system permanent and bigger is a phase shift where there will be some sort of internal or external (geo-)political struggle.

pre-existing aspects wrt incarceration set the starting conditions

The def of a concentration camp is mass detention of civilians without due process based on some perceived difference.

indeed. often treated as synonyms.

parallels with Germany in 1939 to show it was a process there too

66.000 people imprisoned in immigration detention end of 2025.

(btw, in 2025 there were less people deported than in the peak Obama year, IIRC reading someplace else, without the need for detention or camps: so the numbers do not force the process of detention in camps)

7 people died in immigration detention 2025.

the article aims to describe the process, how the way you discuss it matters, and how to undo it

the USA is already on the path to such a system.

concentration camps don't pop up, it's a process.

The mission of ICE is what's wrong, the actions an outgrowth of it. 'the correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards' ouch.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260120131132/https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss Andrea Pitzer on the process and dangers of budding concentration camps systems in the USA

DigitalOcean, US cloud company

NL MinEZ stelde voor rugdekking eisen aan de Chinese invloed en mate waarin die via de org structuur beperkt kon worden.

De Chinese banden dreigen te vallen onder Amerikaanse sancties mbt halfgeleiders.

This letter, one can't even begin to unpack. What it says about the mind of Trump, his current mental health, or about what it means to have a toddler setting US foreign policy based on personal resentments

Minnesota man crowdsource dashcams and gets them distributed to capture the actions of ICE on video

National newspaper now using 'regime' to describe the cabinet level behaviour

The aspects of trumpism, lawlessness, thinking in terms of enemies, lies, Orwellian spinning, violence, are the pillars of domestic and foreign policy.

Editorial opinion in Dutch national newspaper "The naive belief everything will turn out fine in the USA must end"

The US military 'just' lost their anticircumvention exemption.

btw, this doesn't happen just w US products, see trains in Poland. So there may be internal counterforces to this in the EU.

Warning of Chinese intrusion but not seeing the US one etc

US exported anticircumvention in their trade deals and won it to avoid tariffs. Doesn't say how that worked for the EU

"post-American internet"

[[Cory Doctorow p]] oped in Guardian, on US tech policy and enshittification. Points out that the US basically reneged on a deal (no tariffs if you allow our tech, but now we have the tariffs) so we can renege our part of it (circumvention laws). This aimed at UK audience, points out that that circumvention is inside a EU reg (art 6 of Copyright and Information Society Directive 2001) so it would be relatively easy after brexit to ditch the thing

Note 2001/29 has been amended by Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market 2019/790, but I don't think in this aspect.

Indeed, any US involvement is a disqualification bc of the Cloud Act

It creates a risk that cannot ever be contractually mitigated. No US entity can contractually arrange for itself to not comply with US law.

yes, finally a clear formulation what the issue is.

Norwood Russell Hanson 1924-1967

Patterns of Discovery 1958

US is seizing the sanctioned tanker Bella 1 that reflagged as Russian midjourney to evade US coastguard.

Where US healthcare fails, the amount of ChatGPT consultations grows. If anything expontentially is in play, it may well be exponentially worsening health outcomes for US population.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260106135449/https://www.dnsbelgium.be/en/news/dns-belgium-leaves-aws

DNS Belgium runs on AWS currently. Decided to leave AWS. Out of geopolitical concern.

Diff other countries also halted their collab with the US. Canada and UK have limited their intelligence sharing. EU MS will not share info that may be used for extrajudicial killings in international waters by the US navy.

The Dutch government stopped naval collaboration with the USA in the Caribic wrt drug smuggling (three islands of the Dutch Kingdom are just off the coast of Venezuela). Ducht navy will only work on stopping drugs smuggling within national waters

AI dereg to keep NATO alive. Vgl AI omnibus

strategic autonomy is eroded across the stack, and across several sectors. See EU efforts wrt rare earth, the prev race on African continent etc.

when we perceive a wave, it has deep roots, true for all tech. It emerges from an ecosystem (something the US billionaires don't accept as true about themselves). n:: vgl alle tech heeft diepe wortels

SV techies plan monthly trips to China, as indicator for how China is doing and how US tech sees it

China is increasing power generation (renewables and nuclear) to a volume that supports compute and data centers. The US in comparison is not growing in generation. Interesting stats on generation here

global talent wrt AI is largely Chinese, even if many of them currently reside in the USA

compares AI dev and attempts to keep it for oneself to the dev of atomic bombs and containment

China's efforts are close to the US results, and bc of open source and/or open weight models, finding a diff path to customers.

author thinks there's no US decisive strategic advantage really vis-a-vis China.

decisive strategic advantage comes from [[Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom]] 2014 (bought it 2017). AGI race portrayed here as a race to such an advantage for the USA.

well, they indeed can't and won't in general bc of the underlying premises. [[Why False Dilemmas Must Be Killed to Program Self-driving Cars 20151026213310]]/

Dan Wang's 2025 letter (via [[Matt Mullenweg p]]) His 7 2024 letters are the book [[Breakneck by Dan Wang]] I came across earlier.

Oh, wow - even I thought there was plentiful oil and gas in the US shale. This is suggesting other wise?

Jacob Lawrence 1917-2000, currently oeuvre overview in Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort

the support for far-right, dismantling of EU is a measure of the threat Europe poses to zero-sum interests of US admin, also on individual level.

in zero sum thinking getting appeased is winning so push harder. (Vgl my experiences in former Soviet Union localities, much the same thing)

US admin perception of Europe

USA escalation , attacks Venezuela (after a wave of killing people at sea by US Navy) and claims to have captured Maduro for prosecution. More zero sum irrationality? Is this still about the nationalisation of US petrochemical installations in Venezuela in 2007, some still under World Bank arbitration?

16:20 "we have traded resiliency for comfort, as a nation over the last hundred years. So when it kicks off, the assessment is, we're not the ones starting the war, because all the supercomputers, when they crunch the data about what happens if the United States fights China, we lose. America loses. That's a problem. So much so that they've stopped crunching the data. So much so, that, and this is something that very, very few people, I'm aware of no one else talking about this publicly... capitulation. What does that mean? It means that currently there is a 50% chance, coin toss, coin toss chance, heads or tails buddy, that American "leadership" folds, and we don't fight a war at all. We just let the bad guys in."

plausible. this resonates with Michael Yon.

many chinese have already entered the US via the darien gap in panama. these chinese are sleeper agents/soldiers waiting for the signal to attack.

19:44 "There's a 50% likelihood of capitulation, right now, that the leadership that's already bought and paid for by China, and APAC, and others... They're already doing it."

exit scam on a national level.

yup. key phrase, much of the AI bubble is the presumption of US monopoly. Watching other, sometimes less visible efforts is important wrt autonomy, sovereignty

A single glance at their 5 most recent 'statements' headlines shows you what 'progress' means for Chamber of Progress. Deregulation, and anti-antitrust.

If you state that your funding partners don't impact your mission or decisions, and then list them as source of legitimacy, you express the opposite. Transparency is a good thing, but this serves mostly to show where they're coming from imo.

Virginia based US bigtech lobby "Chamber of Progress" 'be afraid, very afraid' piece on European digital market and digital sovereignty.

It calls itself 'center-left', as if that exists in the USA.

The Feb 2025 security conf in M another turning point where US admin turns on EU digital regs as threat to democracy. US admin coopted by bigtech becomes more clear

'digital curtain' a term used for splinternet by us bigtech to try and prevent EU be more assertive in their own digital market.

Quotes van [[Defend Democracy o]] event w DK EU presidency cohosting. All convey an aspect of where work is needed. On each I see one could define [[Handelen 20040327155224]] as [[SC landscape van EU Dataspace]] interventions and broader.

the last one pertains to the AI / GDPR omnibus, not the data one, I think.

Long existing German NGOs get their bank accounts closed down by German banks based on Trump admin irrational sanctions wrt 'antifa'. bc there's an 'automatic' propagation of such things into the EU. However that is based on a shared notion of what to sanction, which no longer applies. Meaning the outcome is unexplainable in European context. If one end of a negotiated relationship goes off the deep end, you need to realign your processes, which didn't happen here. Can't treat the US as rational actor currently.

This article is an example from USA State Dept Legal Office about what [[Matt Gurney We will never fucking trust you again]] mentions wrt loyalists coming and likely staying for a long time, eroding the institution and its credibility

USians will have hard time coming to terms with this. Vgl Bush years where tourists claimed to be Canadian. The ugly American in the Whitehouse etc. With Bush the Lesser there was a return to normal (bc institutions were kept in place), with Trump that road is cut off.

Whatever happens in the USA in the coming 3 yrs: "We will never trust you again". This has very deep reaching impacts.

8 decades of softpower squandered, rationality gone and institutionalised governance dismantled. In short the US cannot even be assumed to act within its own self-interest

Undo many decisions will be impossible

author calls bs on back-to-normal hopes. Many officials are leaving and get replaced by younger ones who buy into the new US policy and will shape it for decades.

Pre-Trump officials in the US think there's a road back to where the US was before

mobster governance. Klept

in response US senator did not disagree

question by Canadian senator to US senator at Halifax security forum. Premise: USA walked away from democracy and allies

Canary statement

Example of how EO12333 'can' be used: take all bigtech data as 'incidental' data around a legal foreign intelligence target.

US intelligence see EO12333 as the primary ground for their data collection activities, such as collecting any unencrypted data that flows through bigtech data centers

EO12333 in part 2.3 permits the ability for collection / retention and sharing of any data obtained during lawful intelligence / international law enforcement

and any other data that may indicate violate a law

Executive Order 12333, 1981 (Reagan's 1st year). Extends US Intelligence powers.

Drie paden voor opzeggen ihkv Solvinity obv IT voorwaarden bij wijziging zeggenschap obv AVG als naleving en verwerkersovereenkomst onmogelijk wordt (bijv door buitenlandse inmenging) obv Alg Rijksvoorwaarden mbt ontbinding (afkopen ws?)

En hoe zit het met third country regels bij EU wetgeving en aanbesteding? Die lijken me hier ook relevant

wispr flow is California, USA based, and VC funded, ao by individuals from OpenAI, Dropbox, Coinbase

US admin sanctioned people involved in shaping the DSA. The wilfull misreading of DMA, DSA, AIR, GDPR in the US and bigtech is a clear confirmation of its need for the European market.

Article seems too narrow in looking at the dynamics. Tech platforms are not the context, single market and market rules and access are, including outside digital. Meaning every other party dealing with platforms has a very different set of considerations when choosing platforms of any size. Loss of market access is not about the tech, but about whether there are others willing to do business with you.

yes, likely in the short term. Thing is: once people globally see the outcome of those diff modes, which will they prefer? Vgl GDPR

yes, it means the USA cannot be treated as an equal or rational counterpart. n:: EU moving to adversarial interoperability in a sense? n:: Brusselscountereffect?

in contradiction to the entrenching above. Of these adtech is the key thing, and algorithms aimed for engagement (ie rage)

Not following. By def the strictest stuff applies to the largest platforms, so no moat. n:: The compliance burden is progressive, like taxes are /should be.

Yes, such paragraphs need to be up front.

yes, sort of. 'distribution layer of democracy' interesting phrase. amplification, throttling, monetisation (Freudian misspelling there?), discoverability all important. But the key thing: the platforms in question are not platforms in the strict sense, they actively shape the information there. So liability protections for platforms should not apply. Or gov also can set the boundaries of such shaping.

There are many other fines levied (all without making any dents in the behaviour fined though), the 120ME one for Twitter was the first under DSA illegal content rules (which don't specify what illegal content, but mechanisms for moderation against them)

Sanctioned are Thierry Breton (EC in the previous period), and people from the Global Disinformation Index, and HateAid. Such orgs have a role in research into the inner workings of platforms.

[[Art on My Mind by bell hooks]] visual politics, 1995.

Tricia Hersey US poet/artist/activist. Rest as a social justice and racial issue. Came across her book [[Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey]], 2022

Das US-Anerikanische Hardland-Institut, lobbyiert inzwischen durch Vermittlung der FPÖ auch bei der EU in Brüssel you Benedikt Naudov-Slaski zeigt in einem Artikel im Falter auf, dass das Institut selbst bei der Darstellung der eigenen angeblichen Erfolge unseres Arbeiter. Herzlandvertreter behaupten, kommen ein EU-Klimagesetz gestoppt zu haben. Und nennen dafür ein Datum, kann man an dem tatsächlich nur eine ungarische Ministerin gegen die EU-Renaturierungsverordnung argumentiert hat, kann man die dann aber schließlich angenommen worden. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000254766/wie-us-klimawandelleugner-fake-news-ueber-die-eu-verbreiten-und-die-fpoe-ihnen-dabei-hilft

Meshtastic LLC is registered in Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA. That information is not contained in the meshtastic website.

The head office address given is that of a registration agent though: New Mexico Registered Agent by High Desert Corporate Filings LLC

Meshtastic trademark owned/controlled by Meshtastic LLC. US based I presume (given that examples I saw on the site take USA as default location).

https://web.archive.org/web/20251204120021/https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/resources/human-rights/2025-october/lost-art-organizing-civic-groups/

via [[Chris Corrigan]]

civic organisation as a skillset is disappearing in the US but is a key building block of functioning democracies. Vgl #netag

[[The Digital Republic by Jamie Susskind]], already jotted down the title [[Daglog 29-10-2024]] at Dussmann's in Berlin, 2023 book. [[Elja Daae]] recommends it in this list. - [ ] check for review / summary [[The Digital Republic by Jamie Susskind]] #digitalpolicy #reading

George Gilder indeed calls for wafer scale compute. Article mentions the issues of one flaw meaning having to toss the wafer (as opposed to 1 chip cut from the wafer). Also says that bc of that wafer solutions are for highly specialised set-ups only (bc it's costly to end up with one flawless wafer).

US people under 40 show doubling of self reported cognitive issues over 2013-2023. No conclusion as to cause. Paper in Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults: Trends From the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2023 in Zotero

for - stats - small businesses - USA - 3 million - 10 trillion in assets - 11 million baby boomers retiring by 2035 - US - worker-owned cooperatives - potential