🇱🇻’s FM @baibabraze.bsky.social: Latvia will never recognise the occupied territories of Ukraine 🇺🇦 as Russian. Whatever the ceasefire achieves, whatever is agreed, there will be no recognition of the occupation as legal.

As Google search became more shit, I switched to DuckDuckGo to improve my search experience. Over time DDG also became less and less useful. I experimented in November with @kagi.com and am since on a family plan. If you are dependent on good search results, just invest in a subscription.

Robinhood CEO: "[..] think of prediction markets as the next generation of the news". What a fucking dystopian view to let the whimsical markets dicatate what the news will be. All the while, they will be skimming off the top. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq3v...

Only Europe can save Ukraine from Putin and Trump—but will it? Whether using frozen Russian assets, ramping up defence production or deepening the relationship with the EU, it is up to us to secure Ukraine’s future—and our own, writes Timothy Garton Ash. https://bit.ly/4q5lKtV

Statistics Netherlands (CBS): In 2024, data centres consumed 5,100 GWh of electricity, which is 4.6 percent of the Netherlands' total electricity consumption. This corresponds to the annual electricity consumption of nearly 2 million households. www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2...

After the recent near-collision, yet another near-collision occurred in the airspace of Curaçao between a civil airplane and an unidentified US military refueling airplane. The military airplane, most likely a KC-46, flew without transponder or TCAS. nos.nl/artikel/2594...

A US military refueling plane, flying without transponder, almost caused a collision with a JetBlue commercial flight taking off from Curaçao on its way to JFK airport. The airspace near Venezuela is currently filled with unidentified airplanes. nos.nl/artikel/2594...

So sick and tired of (hardware/software) engineers that "don't want stuff to be political" when gross behaviour is pointed out to them.

Monster shipping company's MSC Baltic is still aground in Newfoundland. Yup, still there. Shouldn't take too much longer for the company to dump it's responsibility onto taxpayers and run away. The ship is breaking up as we speak.

Front page of the day by a country mile! Der Spiegel nails it🎯

“Russia is in a state of war with the West… from the Russian perspective, it is the same war,” Sam Greene https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/neutrality-offers-no-shield-as-hybrid-threats-reach-ireland/

We have an update from our Distribution team regarding the restock for our online store for all regions. nullsignal.games/blog/new-pri... #Netrunner

The gods are silent. Rivellon bleeds. New powers stir. Built by the team who brought you Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios unchains its ambitions to bring you an RPG with greater breadth & depth than ever before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxzy...

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

German investigators have uncovered a link between the mass flyovers of unidentified drones&vessels connected to Russia BILD,WELT,Axel Springer Acad.obtained classified reports from security agencies showing that since the beginning of the yr, 1,072incidents involving 1,955drones have been recorded

The drones flew over Bundeswehr facilities, NATO training grounds, and critical infrastructure. welt.de/politik/articl…

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

According to this report, a longer internal version of the NSS exists in which the US proposes creating a “Core 5” (C5) made up of the US, China, Russia, India and Japan. It would meet regularly, as the G7 does, for summits. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

Denmark sees US as potential security concern edition.cnn.com/2025/12/10/e...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed UK ministers "will look into the particular case" of supposed union busting at Rockstar www.gamesindustry.biz/uk-prime-min...

The YouTube app on PlayStation 5 has so many weird moments where it just stops working. And I'll just keep pressing "submit error" whenever it happens. Hoping it will get fixed at some point.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

So I receive, out of the blue, an email from Atlassian that states "You're invited to collaborate in Jira". The entirety of the email says nothing about what organisation or project is inviting me. Not even in the headers. What a fail of massive proportions.

Brazil’s lower house approved a bill that could sharply reduce former president Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year jail sentence for an alleged coup plot, potentially cutting his prison term to just over two years if the Senate also backs the measure. Eita porra Brasil! www.france24.com/en/americas/...

AI and Games #82 is now live! @tommy.aiandgames.com chats with the team at @frictionalgames.bsky.social about the design of the monstrous antagonist AI in 2023 horror title 'Amnesia: The Bunker'. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqVK... Read: www.aiandgames.com/p/how-the-be...

Voorzitter Europese Raad: VS moet zich niet bemoeien met Europese politiek

Europe must defend Europe.

So after the awful AI-generated ad from Coca Cola, McDonald's thought they could take it further. And then I saw the horrific nightmares of some betting company. Fuck me, but this stuff looks shite. We truly have reached apocalyptic wastelands level of creative endeavour.

Happy Independence Day, #Finland! Lithuania is very fortunate to have you as a close NATO, EU & NB8 ally. 🇫🇮 is one of the most important guardians of the Eastern Flank. Together, we will keep building an ironclad Alliance as well as continue offering unwavering support to 🇺🇦

Dutch news picked up on the new US Security Strategy: "[..] is a frontal assault on Europe" nos.nl/artikel/2593...

Valve told Ars that, while the hardware itself actually supports HDMI 2.1, the company is struggling to offer full support for that standard due to Linux drivers that are “still a work-in-progress on the software side.”

The document does not condemn Russia‘s invasion. But the majority of Europeans wants peace. And this does not get translated into European politics due to the „subversion“ of democratic processes. Can I see that Vance speech again?

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete

Norwegian state broadcaster NRK is exposing some FSB influence operations in Norway today, with identification of one of the participants. www.nrk.no/nordland/xl/...

As we approach the final negotiations of this regulation, we urge lawmakers in the EU to work on a final text that fully protects users’ right to private communication and avoids intrusive age verification mandates. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...

Research points to world-war I era chemical weapon camite used last year by Georgian riot police to disperse protests, in violation of human rights legislation. Unlike modern tear gas, camite has effects lasting for weeks. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Valve/Steam should do the exact opposite and stick with the AI disclosures. Tim Sweeney is really showing again why I dislike the man's ideas. Nice strawman argument though.

The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology. bit.ly/3Kq348R

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans. ⬇️

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Dutch tv program places new signs about the Black soldiers just outside, but visible from, the Margraten cemetery.

So hardware acceleration for browsers has been showing artefacts with AMD drivers since 25.4.1. Someone from AMD stated on Reddit a few days ago that they hope to ship a fix in the update following 25.11.1. I could reproduce this on Firefox as well as Steam (Chromium).

Obsidian Importer now lets you generate Markdown files from a CSV. It converts thousands records in seconds and automatically generates a Base that you can use to explore and edit the data.

Obsidian 1.10 is now available! The mobile app now launches A LOT faster. We've also made many improvements to Bases with new list views, map views, groups, summaries, and APIs to create your own views.

With an ongoing outbreak lasting longer than 12 months and over 5,000 cases, Canada has officially lost its measles-free status. If the US doesn't end their outbreak by January, they will follow. This is a preventable disease. Vaccinate your kids!!!! www.bbc.com/news/article...