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  • I don’t like it, as I don’t like this technology and I don’t like the people behind it. On my personal website I have banned all AI scrapers I can identify in robots.txt, but I don’t think they care much.

    I can’t be bothered adding a copyright signature in social media, but as far as I’m concerned everything I ever publish is CC BY-NC. AI does not give credit and it is commercial, so that’s a problem. And I don’t think the fact that something is online gives everyone the automatic right to do whatever the fuck they want with it.







  • Yeah. The article seems to almost be written as a propaganda piece, yet all I see is red flags.

    “Her mission letter prioritises bolstering European competitiveness. It significantly varies from her predecessor’s bad-mouthing of tech billionaires.”

    Launching a war against tech billionaires is exactly what the EU should be doing. If one genuinely loves tech, and not just the tools of oppression it can provide, one has no choice but to also hate tech billionaires. They are cancer on the planet, they are cancer on society, and they are cancer on technological developments.





  • True - I guess I just need to be able to safely trust their journalistic integrity, it doesn’t need to be completely independent in a strict sense.

    I should absolutely start reading DW, thanks for the reminder! Though their coverage of the Amsterdam unrest does not seem immediately encouraging. I guess it is German after all. At least the Guardian did a decent job on that.


  • Does anyone have any recommendations where to find good independent journalism covering Europe, considering the increasing problems of both Politico and Euronews?

    I’ve started listening to @europeanspodcast@mastodon.social, which is fantastic, but it would be nice to complement it with a newspaper of sorts.




  • They’re not stupid, but they’re not particularly clever either. They’re just mediocre people pumped up by our adveseries to believe they can be something important and special.

    Of course, Geert Wilders believes he’s brilliant. Just like Trump. They are never going to accept to themselves that their reason for being there is that their grandiose thoughts about themselves are only matched by their mediocracy, which is the exact set of traits that makes them so easy to take advantage of.

    I agree it’s dangerous to dismiss them as stupid, but it would be a mistake to assume they’re particularly clever. They’re just dangerously mediocre.