Truly a magical game.

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

My issue with social media bans isn't so much about banning this for kids but about two things: (1) identifying kids online, which exposes them to more targeting risk, and (2) these algorithms are just as bad for adults who themselves have no capacity to discern truth from propaganda

What a time to be a Luddite accelerationist

My only WB/Netflix opinion is that Netflix is almost certainly less-bad than every alternative.

Again, I don't know why this is so clear to American expats and not European leaders, but the US is ready to eat the EU's lunch - and dinner - and we're paying them for the privilege by buying all our tech from them.

Yes, Europe is strong. Europe needs to start fucking acting like it, instead of behaving like a bunch of sad professors afraid of tripping over the carpet

The rule of thumb I have on this is that if it looks like consent (ie. voluntary, intentional act in furtherance of the primary goal of the data subject), but doesn't otherwise meet the conditions of GDPR consent, it's very likely a legitimate interest that also usually passes a balancing test.

Maybe Israel can start adhering to the first phase

Please stop amplifying Nazi slop from the Nazi social media site here on Bluesky. I deleted my Twitter account for a reason. Thanks.

Is Germany (or the EU for that matter) even asserting their interests? Europeans seem unable to decide whether to run away from Trump or to suck him off

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

lmao they straight up Ayn Rand this shit

Finally a FATCA case goes to CJEU

Boycott

Bingo. And no more conditionality on complicated things like coalitions, consensus, human rights, or anything else America hates

This seems mostly correct but guessing a rather expansive definition of slowcore...

My personal experience is that people are visibly, viscerally *much more* horrified when they learn the full history - the British mandate, establishment of Israel, the Nakba, border closure and embargos, bulldozing homes, bombing families, prisoner torture, assassinations all over the world.

The IAPP are utter imbeciles at handling personal data in my personal experience as well. Given their major donors and geographic focus, it fits.

I swear to christ it's like every country in Europe is laser-focused on trying to win the second-tier league of national football

BYD (China) +207% They're everywhere in Paris. Seem to be replacing Teslas for Uber drivers.

Stephen Miller's culture is incompatible with "western" values and so he should be deported to wherever he came from, which is presumably hell, or maybe a latrine

The deployment of the national guard is designed to ensure that the United States never becomes a civilized society

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

CNIL (french DPA) insights on French attitudes toward data use and ad consent : - 65% willing to sell their data (among, 6% would sell for < 1€ and 14% for > 200 euros per month) - 35% wouldn’t sell their data even at any price www.cnil.fr/en/monetisat...

Mass Effect 1-3 as a trilogy of trilogies with an obscene budget, like Lord of Lord of the Rings. For TV, the Expanse seasons 7-500

Fuck yeah

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski exposes the Labour Party and who is really destroying our country. Thank You Zack! #GreenParty

Is that historical responsibility "promotion of genocides"? If anything, this suggests that Germany learned the wrong lessons from its own history, which is a bit terrifying tbh

The United States is an adversary and a threat to Europe and should be treated accordingly. NATO is dead (or should at very least be treated as if it is).

The craziest part of the Witcher season 4 is how they have made Geralt a secondary character, basically a set prop

This is what evil looks like.

This is generative NI

This is corpse desecration using digital marionette strings

Just got around to the digital omnibus stuff. The GDPR revisions are kinda poo tbh. Left wondering if the Commission wrote this themselves or just had an AI company's lobbyist write it for them lol The single entry point for incidents is super welcome, though. Been pushing hard for this.

The old political spectrum: Left/right/center The actual current political spectrum: Progression/regression/stagnation

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This 💯💯💯 Do our European leaders ever stop to think about the deep humiliation of constantly allowing the US to dictate our policies here in Europe? Or they are incapable of shame?

If true, this is absolutely not someone suited to lead digital sovereignty in the EU, especially at this critical moment.

As always, the political right - in some ways, especially the center-right - hate people, democracy, freedoms.

"For almost 900 of those years, communism never succeeded because it had never been tried."

Happy GoodFuckHimsmas to all who celebrate

How it started / how it's going:

This would hurt me but it would hurt the people I want to hurt a whole lot more

The utter inhumanity of the "maybe these people parts are the correct person's parts" says everything about the savagery of this genocide and the evil that motivated it

The International Criminal Court will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv. www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

This isn't a warrant canary, this is a pre-planned criminal conspiracy to violate court orders. The lawyers who approved these contracts should be disbarred and prosecuted for violating the court orders personally.

IMO Nvidia is the Levi Strauss & Co. of AI. Don't buy gold miners, buy the people selling jeans and shovels.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

"As you were/are aware" is the legal professional's "bitch, please"