Now Spain piles on with a digital sovereignty twist: Sanchez wants to criminalise manipulating algorithms and amplifying hate speech. Executives like Musk would be made legally liable for platform infractions. Sanchez also wants an Australia-style social-media ban for under-16s.

My article on today's extraordinary European broadside against X - France, the UK and Spain all piled on within hours of each other, and mere hours after Musk made X's regulatory liabilities SpaceX's problem www.govinfosecurity.com/police-raid-...

China's energy policy is a Rorschach test

"Well EXCCUUUSSEEEE ME!!" 🪶

I think fixing stuff rather than burying human and cow shit is a better climate solution.

💯

The aircon isn't working, and my office is a sauna. I might faint soon.

Those charts!

not everyone who emailed Epstein is a pedo, but rich, vain and stupid people need elite circles where you can get insider trading tips and say you fired your housekeeper for making eye contact, and with that comes more severe moral degradation you'd be aware of if you weren't halfway there yourself

There is a reasonable case to be made that it is less the end of the global order than the the end of Europe and the US being the ones who can decide what the rules are and are not. And we're not dealing with it very well.

*maintains eye contact with February while slowly pushing January off the table*

when the tech bros take over your tl

Of all the things we havd to thank ketamine mishaps for, this is perhaps the greatest. Sail on, Séamas, it's been a hell of a journey.

Yeah, and we all know how amazing that story is working out for humans. Must read 🤯 "A social network for AI agents is essentially a writing prompt that invites the models to complete a familiar story, albeit recursively with some unpredictable results." arstechnica.com/information-...

On the Tibetan plateau, China has installed a 16-17 GW mega solar plant that is turning an alpine desert into a “micro-oasis”: more moisture, more grass, and soils with more carbon under 64 km² of panels www.ecoticias.com/en/on-the-ti...

So hot today that just now a sunbird was hovering a little over my best feline hunter's head without noticing him, and he barely stirred 😹

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

So. Much. This! Can't formulate meaningful sentences, can't form meaningful human relationships. Not hard to see why they're losing their minds over chatbots.

𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗢𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 hermanlategan.substack.com/p/8e7

We have a perfect Rectangular February coming up, first time we’ve had one since 2015 Maybe this is what finally closes the loop and fixes the world

When threatened, the global elite can spit venom as far as three meters

This little girl was VERY worried this morning and I mean A++ on the giant anime eyes kiddo. But she's had a little supplement (she was too scared to eat much breakfast) and a snuggle and life isn't too bad.

This is a LOT of spuds

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

😹 (I don't feel even remotely bad for her, but it does feel like we're all projecting our impotent rage at everything maga related onto this one movie and it's fun)

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

Everyone from the BBC to the New York Times is reporting on this. I really miss the days when, for most people, the "South" in South Africa was just a vague direction indicator, and questions like "My neighbor's cousin lives in Kenya, do you know him?" were common. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Grok, did you test the O-ring seal before launch? Yes! Absolutely—the O-ring is a key component in ensuring a safe & epic ride on any SpaceX™️rocket. Enjoy your trip! 👍

Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate fell to 4.1% in its local currency in January — the first time the figure has fallen to single digits since 1997!

www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.

And once again, I find myself thinking: people need hobbies.

💜💜💜

Good morning from this cat from Luxembourg, she curses your descendants to the seventh generation.

OMG 😭

First time this year that I've seen the city bowl under its morning blanket. Hopefully that's a sign that winter will come as early as summer did 🤞

‘Over the last 40 days spot silver has more than doubled and today is up more than 10%. Going back to 1970, there have only been six prior days that fulfill those criteria: one day in February 1974, and five in January-February of 1980.’ blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories...

Broken through R16 - I genuinely didn't think we would see this again in a hurry!

My heart is very warm indeed 😁

Very proud of my big li'll country 🥰

first the internet got me to side with Michael O'Leary in his spat with Musk, now this. end times.

More than 100 people have been killed in floods so far this year in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. In Mozambique, huge swathes of land are still underwater, the country's main north-south highway is shut and almost 400,000 people have been displaced.

wheeeeeeeeeeeee! everything is memestock. nothing matters. FOMO til i die. 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀

Or it's in anticipation of a massive werewolf attack

[stares directly into the camera]

BETRUG! Ihr habt die Pünktchen doch mit Absicht so winzig gemacht 🤬

Everything is funny about this, including the comments to the post :)

Reminds me of Adlai Stevenson’s reply when told that every thinking person supported him: “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need a majority."

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! The first of a two-part conversation in which David talks to Helen Thompson about how to understand the extraordinary and unlikely power of the United States, from its origins to its current incarnation. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com