This is the most anti-European thing I've ever read. www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/the-eu-...

A beautiful day at the Parthenon 🏛️

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

The EU trying to simplify tech sounds like a joke 🤣

In a couple of years, if you use a VPN service to protect your privacy in the EU, you'll be treated like a potential pedo.

Why on earth did the British vote for this?

Into the woods.

This will seriously fuel anti-American sentiment and Euroscepticism across the EU. Tough times ahead for Europe! All this time the Commission was deceiving us with its empty threats of retaliation. And Ukraine's next! If you're European, stop buying American products starting today.

"It's to protect kids!" It's surveillance. "They tracked my phone anyway!" And now you attached your legal ID to that.

The EU got this one right.

*sigh*

Fifth Third Bank? Not sure you guys figured out the whole counting thing, which feels kinda important for a bank.

More banks seem to be buying Bitcoin lately.

Moving fast from 1933 to 1934. Some timelines are repeating.

So is cash?

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tf is everyone's problem with AC?

Every person who proposes to write one of these articles should be forced to live a year in Georgia or Mississippi without air conditioning. Spend a month somewhere where the mean July temperature is ~90F instead of ~70F - heat can kill and even when it doesn't, it shatters productivity.

Because so many people use the word "literally" figuratively, it now means both "literally" and "not literally."

A programming fact that still amazes me is that the HTTP header which containers the referring url is called "referer", because the developer spelt "referrer" wrong and the spell checker didn't catch it, so it made it into the official standards and they just never changed it lmao

Pretty soon, coding without Internet is gonna be nearly impossible, and not long after that, no one will need the Internet to code, everyone will have billion-parameter LLMs running locally on their laptop.

I can't believe access to top LLMs is still free.

"There are no ideological reasons behind this," conservative Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said. Truth is, if we start making exceptions in certain cases, it's only a matter of time before it happens to all of us.

You guys, remember Xiaohongshu?

Grok has been spitting out things like this about lots of people for a long time. It had to insult heads of state for anyone to pay attention. Pathetic.

If you watch that video again now, it’s pretty clear he’s hiding something. When Fridman asks about the list, he just says "it’s interesting that it’s not public" and "maybe" it will be someday. Normally, Trump would be all over that, accusing Biden of hiding the list or something...

I want to throw up

Tiktok has sold it’s American-only operations to an American company creating an 🇺🇸-only version. This is to isolate Americans and make it a closed community with no outside information coming in and no inside information getting out. As toxic as American tiktok is, I’m worried for them.

Where do we draw the line on what is social media and what's not? 🤣

That applies to lots of stuff in the tech industry.

Went with Gemini 2.5 Pro in the end. It’s been running great. Just need a few more days to finish up a solid MVC and I’ll throw it on GitHub. Honestly, AI probably wrote 95% of it. I’m just doing some debugging and light touch-ups.

I've written entire fun playable PC games that load faster than the screenshot 'snipping tool' does on a windows 11 laptop. There is no way that the code in that app is running at even 0.0001% of its potential efficiency. Its a disgrace. All I ever want from windows update is a faster UI.

If the America Party takes enough votes from the Republicans that they can no longer win national elections, that’s actually a good thing. It might end up being the most valuable contribution Musk makes to the U.S.

Sad thing is, most people don’t really care about encryption or privacy, so it’s easy for politicians to go after them in the name of fighting CSAM or money laundering or organized crime. Europeans especially don’t seem to mind government surveillance, that’s more of an American concern.

"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."

Update on this vibe coding thing (not that anyone asked or something): Switched to Gemini. Deepseek is really slow and chatgpt messes up too often. I've managed to get a basic dashboard and working add product, category, coupon, variants pages. Also fully working storefront pages for all products...

Unpopular opinion: People say that social media ruined democracy, but they forget how much it has actually helped it. In a lot of places, it’s the only way people can speak out, organize, and show the world what’s really going on. The Arab Spring, BLM, Hong Kong protests, Sudan, the list goes on...

A group of 46 leaders of Europe's largest companies are calling on Brussels to pause the implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Act, in an open letter today.

Am I the only one who thinks records like this are stupid?

Sick of Wordpress. I'm vibe coding my own CMS.

80 summers is all we get (maybe a few more if you're a woman).

If someone shows up with no badge, no name, no ID, no warrant, and their fucking face covered that’s not law enforcement, that’s a goddamn kidnapping. It should be illegal, and the fact that it isn’t already is a terrifying failure of democracy and the law.

I'm at the beach 🏖️

The Internet is one of the greatest American inventions, and many of us in Europe grew up with it, grateful we didn’t end up with something like China’s or some Middle Eastern country's version. But in recent years, the EU has been looking for ways to control it.

UX-wise, Bluesky is way better than X.

Funny how when you google "vh", the top results are all about CSS viewport height. I was totally expecting something way more mainstream.

Dublin researchers followed 85 patients and found that 25% still had Long Covid symptoms 3.5 years after infection. Fatigue and poor sleep were common, and depression remained elevated, though anxiety and PTSD symptoms improved over time. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The European NATO allies were right to agree to raise defense spending to 5%. It’s clear they can’t rely any more on the US. Their big mistake though is they’ll be buying American weapons.

The fact we are making ourselves more dependant on US military assistance, not less, is fundamentally insane. We cannot rely on the US as a security partner, how obvious can that possibly be before the UK security establishment takes it in?