> Even more troubling is the prospect of companies like Meta, Apple or X entering the payments space, turning Europe into a hostage to outside interests.

If history teaches us anything, this post will age about as well as milk in the sun…

Internet, 2025

I wonder if the USA is qualified to be an OECD member at this point.

The best way to subsidize the energy transition www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TvA...

Love this

BINANCE NEARS DEAL TO ESCAPE COMPLIANCE MONITOR IMPOSED BY DOJ everything is for sale

The duality of crypto. "Paypal is horrible. With bitcoin, you won't need Paypal anymore!" "Paypal supports bitcoin. This is good for bitcoin."

Part of the resistance to a wealth tax comes from people who have no idea that this is not only possible, but how most rich people operate. So many people don’t realise that when someone’s a billionaire it doesn’t mean they have £1bn in the bank, in means they have £1bn stuff

I remembered this gem of a scene today www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_DQ...

I'm not in the loop, but is this Satan?

UNBELIEVABLE AUTUMN ARCTIC TROPICAL NIGHTS WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN Never happened anything like this: Records broken by 3C/5C in Norway. Today's NIGHT MINIMUMS above the Arctic Circle 20.4 Reipa 19.0 Stokka 18.7 Evenes 18.9 Leknes 18.2 Setsa and Bodo Another milestone in world history ...

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Anti-Western propagandist and theorist Alexander Dugin from Russia shares a stream of polarizing content regarding the murder of Charlie Kirk, seeking to incite fear and violence. 1/3

Here's another good set of reporting on Bitcoin ATM fraud. We ran one of these today too (link below) prospect.org/economy/2025...

My educated guess is that it's an openAI wrapper and it cost 500k towards some fresh company.

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WINE, but for .apk's.

As often, Reuters minimizes and normalizes Ru aggression. Poland and NATO did war things, the Ru drone just peacefully exists.

A good and simple explanation on what is happening with the Trump administration and 'trade deals'.

It's quite clear that its communication is parsed by some (probably LLM) backend, thus the latency.

They all did.

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

So much this

A good thread. > The Cathedral won. Full stop. ... > The Bazaar feeds the Cathedral, just as the farmers feed Walmart, just as independent websites feed Claude, a food chain and not an aberration. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510...

Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-might-be-secretly-scanning-your-phones-camera-roll-how-to-check-and-turn-it-off/ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062910)

That went to shit as well. 🫠

Summer is slowly letting go....

Zimbabwe vibes

What are the odds of the EU - India free trade agreement now with all the recent happenings?

If you wish to replay Red Faction (2001) I recommend this patch github.com/GooberRF/alp...

Sailfish OS and the Nokia N9: The Peak We Already Reached and Forgot leonie.lgbt/blog/sailfis...

Heh

There needs to be some serious reviews and conversations how europe was 50% of Russian market in 2020 considering everything they have done in the last 10 years. We literally funded them destabilising our continent

It's been a long while since I felt 41°C.

It will probably go beyond this time.

It seems that coinbase is attempting to cross the pond with it's dirty tentacles with this commercial. 🤡 youtu.be/l0bmJlrhRg4?...

This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.

Fascinating insight on email 2FA: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4482...

Indeed it is. www.b-list.org/weblog/2025/...

Jolla is asking for input about the next generation Jolla Phone. It seems this time they are not talking about a developer device but something with more mass-market appeal. forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-j...

📱 You might own your smartphone. But do you control it? At a time when the need for digital independence and European alternatives to the major US tech companies is increasingly present in the political debate, it's striking how little attention we give to our smartphones. 1/10

If nothing, your efforts will be used to train future models.