imagine being too much of a hardcore Nazi for Rupert fucking Murdoch

Paintball. Seems like harmless fun, right? Not in fucking November in England, where the other team was made up of cheaters and sore losers. One asswipe shot me three times in the back at a distance of about 2-3 meters. I had bruises the size of pancakes afterwards.

This! It might be the needle that burst the bubble. If you can run the GPT-120B model locally, on less than 10k CHF worth of hardware - then why on earth would we need the US$ 100k GPU/NPU hardware? And if we can do it locally, with data sovereignty, why OpenAI at all?

🚨🚨Major and welcome news: @ec.europa.eu opened a fresh investigation today into Elon #Musk’s #X following an explosion of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes created by the artificial intelligence chatbot #Grok. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-n...

Rutte has an unenviable task of trying to hold NATO together when USA don't want to be in it any longer and the rest of NATO are questioning the value of NATO now that the USA regime is provably hostile and unreliable Take his statements in that light and it makes more sense.

If X is found to be non-compliant with the DSA, even after fines and time to rectify the non-compliance; then for heavens sake just block them from EU completely. We don't need that influence operation active in Europe.

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

This is an interesting thread! Math is funky. An infinitely long curve, but encompassing a finite area. 🤯

Anytime after January 21st 2025 would have been good. It was high time and urgent even six months ago. Better late than never.

omni.se/a/8pBBmG Bessent: "We can't allow Canada to set a precedent." USA regime seems to have had the penny drop that if Canada get the deal with China, others might follow suit - and for every country, USA's influence in the world shrinks. Also.. the ARROGANCE.

Ignore the FT article here, read the thread instead. Set aside ten minutes for it. Eliot does a very good job of explaining why a lot of democracies are in a pickle right now. It put into words the feeling I've had for years that something is fundamentally broken in society.

General advice. Don't burn out. It's too much going on everywhere and it's quite possibly by design (flood the zone) to overwhelm and create apathy. Take a break. You-time. Learn either Qi Gong or Box Breathing. Spend a few minutes every day doing it. Learn to empty your mind. Take care of You.

omni.se/a/pBpLkE Mining expert and economist Magnus Ericsson say Greenland is no new Klondike. Extreme costs, difficult logistics and political uncertainty means that even with exceptional finds, turning a profit isn't a given. Hence investors are *very* reluctant to bankroll attempts.

If you are angry, stay angry. They want us to think this is normal and how life will be. I’ll be dammed if I ever let that happen.

*sigh* This is why one does not hire amateurs for this kind of position. This is such a basic mistake (tweeting the photo) that in a normal situation, it's P45 time. Alas, the regime he serve doesn't care.

Whoever edited this picture have a wicked sense of humour. I should probably spend some cycles reading Der Spiegel from time to time, this seems like an interesting article. And I really should refresh my German skills. It's been 38 years.

youtu.be/CVAzMv3044o Kenneth & The Knutters Man av Dynamit If you've never heard of them, I don't blame you. I got into them forty years ago something, when a mate played an LP of them. I borrowed the LP and played it at home, Dad was instantly hooked. Good memories.

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The EU member states are, so slowly and reluctantly, starting to realise. It will happen, eventually. A whole year of what has happened here in January and they'll be motivated enough. It's been a good 80 years, but all good things come to an end. We'd work with you again, at some point.

Watch this, and learn. There were times when USA troops were not allowed off base night time in Afghanistan, but they watched the SAS go almost every night. And they'd hear about what they'd done a few days later. You insult the SAS at your peril.

omni.se/a/q6Rpoz Last year, exercise Joint Viking, northern Norway. Finnish reservists vs USA "arctic expert" troops. The exercise coordinator had to tell the Finns "stop humiliating the USA troops, they're demoralised and embarrassed".

When a friend turn into a foe, you are at times out of good options. Of the available options, you pick the least bad one. France and De Gaulle understod this, and they made sure they were beholden to none, to hold their own destiny. Belatedly, the rest of Europe understands.

omni.se/a/7p5np8 Viggo Mortensen, Aragorn in Lord of the Rings among roles he's played, wrote a debate article calling for Europe to close the bases USA have in Europe and to sever financial ties to USA. With how Humpty Dumpty have behaved in the last year, a leak suggesting we're thinking it...

Who's the guy doing the facepalm? Considering all the sycophants Trump surrounds himself with, a guy that facepalms looks like a weak link that can be exploited.

Well worth reading this thread from Prof Jacob to get a feel for how top EU diplomats and politicians feel after the last couple weeks. It isn't easy to disentangle from the USA, considering how embedded they've been since WW2. But it will happen now. Likely at pace as well.

Which is why people that use their solutions are exposed to grave risk. And that alone should make business leaders pause and think. What if Google change the T&C - what does your shareholders have to say about that when your dividend suddenly falls through the floor?

I doubt there will be a "deal" over Greenland. Denmark won't forget what Trump has done and threatened with. Signing any deal in the wake of that would be to signal that the threats worked - and might make those who stood with Denmark reconsider next time it happens. Because it'll happen again.

This is one hell of a speech. Carney has the vision to which EU would do well to listen and consider. The strong won't stay strong forever. So if we build like Carney proposes - the currently strong will eventually have to cave and join, on the same terms as everyone else. I like it.

For clarity. We (Europeans) do not hate Usaians. We may have strong opinions on the USA *regime*, but we are generally able to distinguish between the population of a country, and its regime.

If Musk picks a fight with O'Leary, he has his work cut out for him. O'Leary isn't afraid of Musk and he won't pull his punches. Disclaimer: I don't like O'Leary either because of how he treats the airplane staff and the shady salestactics of RyanAir.

"Speak" is being very, very, VERY, generous towards Trump. It's much more likely he'll meander, make random noises, lose the thread, harp on endlessly about something completely irrelevant and then whine - again - how Norway is unfair not giving him the peace price as he's ended 37 wars.

🚨🚨 @ec.europa.eu President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu warned Washington to keep its hands off Greenland and said Europe’s response to U.S. President Donald #Trump’s threats would be “unflinching.” 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

🚨🚨In light of recent events, it is worth to recap that the #tradebazooka, aka as the #Anti-Coercion instrument now is more serious on the table as the EU is considering its response to #Trump's insane Greenland plans. 🧵 policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...

🚨🚨"Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the Republicans as the last barrier to stop #Trump the madman.

Expect this to start happening more and more. Once the notion that USA is "bad debt" starts rolling, it snowballs. This may even have been the thinking for a while, but none wanted to be the first to openly say it. Trump's noise about Greenland provided the impetus for Denmark to not hold back.

youtu.be/SDpZ7w9uNuc This bit from the Newsroom never fails to make me just watch and listen. It is pure awesome. And that "Enough?" right at the end - it just hammers the point home.

A *very* valid point Brask makes. "Erratic" and "mad" are two adjectives apt for the situation at hand. I'd probably opt for "bat-shit insane" personally, but Brask is trying to be diplomatic and I don't have to be.

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

Denmark's military intelligence service has recommended that the country's authorities refrain from using Bluetooth devices due to risk of US espionage. Other European intelligence services have directed similar memos.

Unironically, they should fully fund ICC/ICJ and have a global arrest warrant drawn up over everyone in the tinpot regime, along with all the enablers.

I am in agreement that ACI seems to be made for exactly this. However, if we can achieve the same outcome and still have the bazooka unfired - it may give the idiots pause for thought. EU should nullify the agreement from last year, sell some US debt and kick X out of EU. And if Trump whines...

omni.se/a/WvO1Xk Bessent: "it would be very unwise of Europe to retaliate". As refined as the rear of a donkey, breath smelling of manure, the jester really do suggest to turn the other cheek. Guess what imbecile, that's not up to you. Keep talking though, Nuremburg II awaits.

omni.se/a/BxlXgl Sweden's Foreign Relations council is calling all political parties to a meeting. That only happens when something big is discussed, which needs a broad majority (they're usually looking for >75-80% to be behind the decision). -- This one will be interesting.

omni.se/a/8p68J2 Study: the bill for Trump's tariffs is almost entirely paid for by... regular usaians. Only 4% of it is shouldered by foreign actors shipping things to USA. -- Surprise, surprise. Not. This is what we've all been saying all along. Lies or no lies from President Dofus.

Wut?! Who gives a rat's ass if a delivery driver sings while driving? If it helps them get the job done and it doesn't break any laws, let them.

Thought. The €93Bn retaliatory tariffs will likely have limited, or no effect. It sends a message, sure, but it won't solve the problem. It'll make Trump irate and we'll have 150% tariffs applied across the board against EU and UK.

What was it again... "Universal healthcare is such a hard problem to solve, that out of 32 industrialised countries, only 31 have implemented it."

omni.se/a/431816 Bad train accident in Spain. Two high speed train collided when one of them unexpectedly switched tracks and rammed the side of the other. At least 21 dead. Priority is helping the injured, deathtoll will be revised.

The EU vowed a "firm" response to new tariffs imposed on member states by U.S. President Donald Trump, as the White House stepped up its campaign to take control of Greenland.

A good thread that nails it on the head. Trump might expect a flat deferential response. What he likely will get is something completely different, and he won't like it one bit.