Euroblindness

Hahaha fuck yeah 🤘

This is facially a mental illness

"On second thought, let's not go to the UK...'tis a silly place."

Few things "I told you so" harder for a lifelong atheist than Trump. The loudest religious folks were always incomprehensible hypocrites but they were better at not outing themselves before Trump

This is what "low taxes" are designed to accomplish

Foreign workers in Israel are bloody scabs

Republicans are the party of wealth extraction, racial/cultural grievance, and nothing else.

What if I told you that permanence is itself only a perception

The court established that at the time the French surveillance was authorised, there existed no suspicion whatsoever against the accused — let alone the urgent, sufficiently individualised suspicion required under Swiss law for covert surveillance measures. www.joint-defense-team.com/post/basel-c...

Might ultimately learn more about creeping plutofascism through the deconstruction of it than its construction

I am once again asking humans to try to be normal when interacting with software

Transit should be free everywhere

Fascism is affirmative action for stupid people.

Draw dicks on his face

Great example of the fact that bluster works - until it doesn't

Incredible. Beyond all possible satire.

EDPB writes to the Commission to ask whether they are reconsidering Israel's data protection adequacy agreements following Israeli law requiring EEA humanitarian orgs in Palestine to provide a lot of personal data on their staff, including their spouses/kids www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...

"Automania 2000," 1963, an Oscar-nominated animated short that satirizes America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. A scientist builds absurd cars to satisfy "the public's ever-increasing demands for novelty & status consciousness, with predictable environmental consequences."

I do feel bad for all the legitimately good tech people out there catching strays over this, but let’s make sure we’re keeping our eyes on the “genuine threat of technofascism” ball

People like this are my enemy. Sci-fi EvilCorp wannabe trashbag douchelords

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Almost universally being pushed by people whose core competencies are neither the underlying tech nor the primary purported use cases, but rather professional bullshitters (CEOs, founders, VCs, tech journalists, politicians, etc.)

One thing I think the global antifascist types need to settle on is that "voting hard" is a necessary but not sufficient condition for regime change away from fascists. There has to be a plausible threat of a rope or firing squad and the means to carry it through (with democratic forbearance).

Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.

BUY MASKS AND GRAPHICS CARDS

This is true not just of US Dems but of pro-democracy politicians and CSOs in so many places. We're facing a coordinated, deliberate, highly resourced fascist assault. The only rule is that we've got to *fuck them up* so hard they stop for the next three generations.

Your irregular reminder that our problem going forward is too little immigration, not too much.

My sincere belief is that Draghi broke EU policymakers' brains and they have literally no idea how to Regulation non-bureaucratically, so they flail at shit like child safety half-measures with shit secondary effects (privacy dilution, reduced access to information)

South Korea's president says it's disappointing Israel does not 'even once reflect on criticisms from around the world' https://aje.news/5f32f6

Can't pardon from a rope.

why not both tbh

US v. Iran was basically an Instagram instant karma reel where one asshole punched another and then immediately shit his own pants

Honestly if anything gets me to stop using Bluesky it will be the sheer number of people engaging in smug sarcasm as if that addresses any real issue in the world. Deep Gen X unseriousness vibes from broke-ass millennials

My dead serious opinion is that agreeing with Trump's "destroy civilization" comment should be a capital offense of law. Unredeemable savagery.

The interesting question isn't why he's mean. The interesting question is why a rich country of >350m people elected him to run their country, twice. Lots of bad people run countries, but most people are rational and kind. Democracies embracing evil suggests that democracy is an incomplete project.

"Backsliding former democracy continues to threaten, commit repeated violations of international humanitarian law and extensive violence against civilian population due to its frustration with the inability to fully assassinate its adversary's leadership structure."

Hegseth 37' (o.g.), 72' (o.g.), 72' (o.g.)

I don't workpost much but I do enjoy that a chunk of my daily job tasks involve doing my part to (digitally safely) bring that 2023 line to market

Does this make cloud infra the ramparts

The United States legal system is archaic and needs a dramatic set of updates. It is not fit for purpose in a modern democracy.

Shit I block people who are rude to *other* people. People who engage in bad faith. People who dogpile.

My job is expertise - in principle, I write the optimal training data, and I stay employed by defining the nuance in the algorithms. AI has ~no place in creating expertise, but can totally be used effectively in implementing it into practice/processes (with proper oversight).

Old Genociders 🤝 New Genociders

Or a coup de grace

Macron doing Macron things

Honestly going to be fun watching the US descend into authoritarianism while being a society that is insanely committed to unfiltered and unmitigated free speech

At some point we need to have a serious conversation about whether peace in the Middle East is even possible with Israel as it is, and what fixing that can even look like.

My sorry not sorry view is that the EU should hyperfixate on Ukraine-Russia, work to provide logistics-only support to non-aggressor partners in the region, and otherwise stay the fuck out of this mini WWIII. Anything that entangles Europe in this mess makes everything worse for everyone.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.