Amateur, should have duct taped it to a canvas and sell it for a couple million.

Dead and buried?

Talking about “non-woke” AI. How’s Grok doing? Still hating him like all his other children?

A system of oppression can only be a system of oppression and nothing else. It can oppress some less than others, but it can’t ever free anyone.

Read the article, they are complaining that he’s naming an half normal surgeon general instead of a complete quack.

That’s the bar of proof for a court, because a court can suspend some of your human rights if you are proven guilty (like freedom of movement by sending you to prison, or even take your life in some countries). It’s not a reasonable standard for day to day interactions or personal relationships.

It doesn’t need to be random, it can be contextual. For example, if you are reading a videogame review then an ad for a new GPU or a gaming keyboard are probably relevant to you. Or if you reading a travel guide to Rome, then having ads for restaurants and less know museums can be more relevant than something that followed you across the internet.

3. Ignore the scary warning VS Code shows you when you press the button.

I once campaigned to have a law that says the Portuguese institutions have to use open standards to store information. The law is in the books for 13 years (and now I feel old), and very little changed because the organisations that were supposed to enforce it don’t give a fuck.

Best our politicians can do is to give our money to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to store all our data in the US.

If you don’t like it you can let them know through any of Meta’s social networks or X.

You mean the one that’s limited to east Germany and it’s not actually a success because the other parties will work together to keep them out of the government?

That would only be a remote risk if Germany was FPTP pseudo-democracy like the UK and former colonies.

Have you seen the opinion polls? The next government is either going to be CDU+SPD or CDU+Greens. The AfD will not go into the government because everyone rightfully refuses to deal with them.

Not really. The tariffs part is “build this in Europe or pay tariffs”. The IP part is “we’ll help you pay for new factories in Europe in exchange for access to your IP”.

There’s nothing stopping Chinese companies from building the factories using only their own money.

Brussels is planning to force Chinese companies to transfer intellectual property to European businesses in return for EU subsidies as part of a tougher trade regime for clean technologies.

This read less like forcing and more like an offer to buy it.

I see you never had to jump through the hoops to get Gmail to not silently drop all your emails.

Euronews is still owned by a Portuguese fascist with ties to Orban. Their reporters have done a good job at keeping it fair, but that makes the editorial director much more dangerous for the current standards.

The easiest way is to co-opt NATO by ignoring and replacing the US as much as possible. Recreating all the NATO structures and deals with the UK and Canada is something that could be done in a fair weather environment, with a war on our doorstep that’s not realistic.

AfD is far behind the CDU at a national level, and if the center left vote was united they would also be comfortably behind that hypothetical coalition. The problem is that with current opinion polls the government would probably need to be an equally unstable coalition between CDU, SPD, and Greens.

I don’t know if replacing Orban with someone that supported him until early this year is going to change much. Remember that even Lukashenko successfully pretended to be an anti-corruption champion while in the opposition before making Belarus is personal fief.

Tell you have no idea how civil protection and emergency response works in Spain without telling me you have no idea how civil protection and emergency response works in Spain.

Emergency response is the responsibility of the autonomous communities not of the national government which only makes resources available to the regional governments. Valencians were abandoned by their own politicians.