Trump is too inept to be of use to US allies or adversaries while Vance wants to pursue an arrogantly deluded path that turns US allies into more adversaries. 2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.

Why the Irish can spin a a good yarn;-)

How can a party that treats one side with such blatant disrespect be an honest broker? Answer is of course it can’t and it doesn’t care who sees. This is enraging but ultimately it’s going to rebound on the US. Ukraine is a sovereign European country.

Democracy shouldn’t end at the login screen. Mastodon is the only major social network that answers to you. As a nonprofit, we’re building a digital commons where transparency, trust, and your participation shape the future. Help us keep the Fediverse […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Just gave YouTube some feedback "If YouTube continues to offer "synthetic content" with AI generated people speaking with AI generated voices I will stop using it." I'm encountering and having to click away from more and more of it and have had to alert a couple of people who sent me links […]

Generally well informed sources told me, that the International Criminal Court https://www.icc-cpi.int/ was kicked out of #ms365 within seven days (#microsoft does not confirm.) Given the actual development around @hateaid this means that everybody who is in disagreement with the US regime […]

EU citizen dies while being detained by US federal paramilitaries

busted

A fun fact from the latest #CloudFlare 2025 - practically all web today is based on #JavaScript frameworks. That is, to load simple “my company is ACME WIDGETS and here’s my phone” majority of pages will first load 145 MB of advanced JavaScript libraries and […] [Original post on agora.echelon.pl]

A comment about yesterday’s president 🇺🇦 #Zelensky visit in 🇵🇱 #poland#zelensky- the context was _very_ sensitive but fortunately everything worked well. Why was it sensitive? 1. 🇵🇱 Nawrocki is in an awkward position where he must remain loyal to his right-wing electorate, but at the same time […]

This is the way https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/115741085182664506

#poland Institute of Eastern Studies (OSW) published a very interesting report on national security threats introduced by “smart cars”… from the perspective of #China - the report is now published in Polish, the English version usually follows, so I will just translate short excerpts - it’s just […]

Having seen several AI fakes of real people on YouTube lately (Rick Wilson, George Will, Joseph Stiglitz among them) and ads for a completely unconvincing AI powered toy dog this morning's biscuit-taking innovation was an ad for an AI powered toy dog "People can't believe this is a real dog" […]

When taking part in annual #christmas family activities, such as removing all the spyware your mother has collected over the year by watching ‘Update your Windows NOW!!!’ adverts on #facebook, let’s remember to thank the people who make these enjoyable, people-connecting activities possible: > […]

Reposting for those not bridged to BlueSky, and to add alt-text, because this is important! Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social posted this morning: "The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates"

"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?

I almost said that Joe Stiglitz had lost weight since I last saw him (in person). Had a niggling feeling about this. Went back for another look. This is now the 3rd channel I've come across in a week with "synthetic content" including AI generated video content. Immediate unsubscribe even if […]

Starlink themselves report an average of 1 collision avoidance maneuver every 2 minutes between Dec 2024-May 2025. So that's another (terrifying) double check on this calculation. Starlink themselves report an average of 1 collision avoidance maneuver every 2 minutes. So that's another […]

An absolute masterclass from Prof Joe Stiglitz on Canadian reactions to insults, condescension and pressure from Washington https://youtu.be/Zj8EqMyjpsc Many parallels w Ireland's historical experience. The boycott was invented in Ireland. UK tried to crush the newly independent Irish economy […]

British press complains about Poles leaving the UK for #poland, calling this “exodus” and > The great Polish exodus: The arrival of 100,000s of Poles changed the face of Britain, but now they’re returning home in droves for a better life in their low-tax, booming homeland. Could there be a more […]

From Peter Girnus^1] about ##LLM #AI in [#enterprise - note that it’s not about tech, it’s about this particular management layer in every enterprise whose only professional skill is producing bullshit for fun and profit. All following text is 100% Peter’s: Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft […]

Canadian Muscle Memory https://youtube.com/shorts/BYb90pX7vsI 🔥

EU Made Simple video https://youtu.be/lBQt4SiVLXI Good summary of the need for greater coherence. The European Cultural Foundation https://culturalfoundation.eu is something I was unaware of and seems like a good idea. I have long thought the EU should have a counterpart to what was the Voice […]

#Russia daily news: > A new draft package of laws was brought to State Duma to strengthen anti-corruption activities, declared Piskarev. > The package includes removal of the annual wealth declarations of the state officials. That reminds me how shocked […] [Original post on agora.echelon.pl]

Kudos to the editors of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤 (pub'd by #SpringerNature), who just resigned to launch a new #openaccess (#diamondoa) journal with @openlibhums on the same topics. https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf Here's the new OLH journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 […]

Oh look the Brexit monkey

Sam Altman (head of OpenAI): > I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT. Reading top US enterpreneur’s statements like this I’m not really sure if it’s really European civilisation that is “collapsing”… 🤔

In a UK intellectual environment that struggles to engage with forms of elite radicalisation it is worth noting how far Right wing think tanks like Policy Exchange are now operating in the same ideological space as increasingly groyperised MAGA Republicans

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115691564369915601 By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … […]

I ditched Perplexity because of theft of intellectual property. Arguably they're all it. Currently I pay for Claude. The morality here, or rather, not here https://andyjones.com/posts/horses.html is troubling. I'd like to think it's not us that has two decades but billionaires rather less. #AI

In response to #trump and Putin's constant jibes, Zelensky declared his readiness to hold elections under martial law. Zelenskyy has only one condition: the US and Europe must somehow ensure the security of the elections. And that is very good, because this declaration only exposes how […]

I've never been passionate about sports though I have sometimes enjoyed the delerious pleasure of others - in a bar in Kenya with German scientific colleagues when Germany went 7 goals up against Brazil eg. They couldn't believe it. Until today I had never seen this […]

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Kristian_Kiehling/115687870890260575 👇👇👇🎯

#Trump’s Voter Purge Machine “Over the last six months, [the Trump DOJ] has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states in an effort to create the federal govt’s first-ever national database of registered voters, accompanied by their private information: party affiliation […]

From @jackmjenkins UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

RE: https://newsie.social/@royaards/115683095949587959 Dutch candour

Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown. Key features: ➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth) ➡️ Offline mode ➡️ Built-in VPN protection ➡️ Zero […]

via Hackernews. It really is comical the lengths to which companies will go to avoid being contacted by their customers. What the fuck is a ‘fuck off contact page?’ "A “fuck off contact page” is what a company throws together when they actually don’t want anyone to contact them at all. They […]

Better than the Olympics

The news that #x has suspended the #eu's advertising account on the platform after it issued a 120m EUR fine against X for breaking the #DSA is beyond hilarious. And it might even be kind of good in the sense that politicians in Europe maybe finally realise how shitty it is to depend on such a […]

Resale values of Teslas are in the depths for all kinds of reasons, but the central one -- apart from the taint of Musk -- is that the cars are ridiculously crappy and unreliable as they age. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/old-teslas-falling-apart Just one more reason to avoid this […]

Europe should take the fight to America, just by reporting accurately what is going on there and broadcasting it to the World. Do the opposite of what the BBC is doing.... #eupol #journalism #usa #uspol #uspolitics #bbc

There is so much censorship in the EU that 7 of the 8 countries with the most freedom of the press are EU member states. #eupol

The CEO of The Onion set the publication's goal for 2026 to have more subscribers than The Washington Post. At the rate the latter is going, that won't take long. "For reasons we don't like or understand, our work has become increasingly important." "Look, we're an independent company, we […]

Marco “The days of censoring Americans online are over” Rubio seems confused about the extent of American judicial authority or the identity of people living in Europe, or both. https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-promise-more-big-tech-decision-coming-month-henna-virkkunen The […]

We have this cycle over and over of people panicking over the assumption that Trump can reshape the global order when the more likely trigger for global crisis is Trump generating disorder in America that collapses the US. Europe needs to prepare for a post-American world.

The Roosevelt Institute has released its report on the U.S. media crisis. Its key conclusion: "The crisis facing American journalism is the predictable outcome of decades of corporate libertarian media policy that prioritized commercial logics over democracy." Here's the full analysis […]