Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

The US now has two companies - SpaceX and Blue Origin - that can land orbital boosters back on Earth for reuse. Next year that will likely increase to three companies with Rocket Lab. Europe has 0 reusable rockets and hasn't even started developing one.

Move along. No Russian trade to see here…

Bulgaria's exports to Kyrgyzstan. Might be something for @atanaspekanov.bsky.social to look into...

This just keeps happening that when a wealth tax is introduced, 1, the rich don't actually move out and 2, they are hoarding more wealth than people know. Tax the rich.

Shaming is a way for the society police amoral and antisocial behaviour. A society that tolerates everything and shames nothing will not last long as a functioning society.

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: “I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018.

Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)

Rikas: "Hyvinvointia lisätään laskemalla veroja." Köyhä: Tutkimusten mukaan ei... Rikas: "On leikattava julkista sektoria, jotta on varaa yhteiskunnan ylläpitoon." Köyhä: [kirjoitus jätettiin julkaisematta] Rikas: "Leikkaukset ovat ainoa vaihtoehto, ei ole esitetty muita mahdollisuuksia."

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

Why is Elon Musk so dangerous? Because he is an unstable, extremely ambitious man with far too much money and power who overestimates his grasp of societal issues, has unresolved issues affecting his views, and still craves more influence. That mix breeds death and chaos, just like with DOGE

Vaihtoehtoiskustannukset siitä kun terveydenhuoltoa ei hoideta kunnolla ne vasta kauheita ovatkin. Mutta sen ajattelu vaatisi vähän muutakin kuin velkapelottelua.

16. One thing that new Star Wars got right is that the nazis just keep coming back.

'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.

Avoiding escalation was not essential. It only encouraged Russia to escalate more. The entire war could have been avoided had the US or Nato signalled Putin that they were ready to intervene.

So many lives would have been saved if NATO did destroy russian air defenses in belarus and russia, and russian aircraft, right as the invasion started in earnest. Being cowardly didn't avert WW3, it only made it more likely to happen. threadreaderapp.com/thread/14986...

I'm not opposed to people being able to earn a lot of money by working hard and taking risks, but being worth a trillion or more gives someone an absolutely excessive amount of power, far beyond what anyone, especially someone as dangerous as Musk, should ever have

Russia could have been defeated in 2 years even without a direct intervention had we given Ukraine all the aid and training they needed. Instead we delayed and dithered, and continue to withhold aid even to this day. This has only made the final cost of the war much more expensive for everyone.

oh thank god someone solved the hidden posts mystery. Go upwards in this thread to find out how to unhide the perfectly normal replies you've been kept from seeing. bluesky is hiding benign comments like "I agree, that TV show sucks"

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West" Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

You know what? There's actually a tested solution to this! it is brilliantly simple, and it WORKS. I would love to see @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team test this out. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ju...

In DK we pay income tax on social security. And VAT is 25%. But the crux of the matter is that the large middle class, low to high income, sees that that their high taxes get them free health care, free tuition, social services, etc., etc., functioning welfare across the board. That's the deal.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

PSA: Bluesky now filters "rude" posts by default unless you turn it off.

Tag your favourite Western analyst 🤭

No part of the internet is safe for kids. Government-mandated censorship shouldn't be a replacement for parenral supervision and control.

Man plays with fire and is surprised when he burns his fingers. You can’t keep pushing dishonest, grifting far-right populists whose ideology is based only on hate, and then be surprised when this is the outcome. Ben Shapiro is also responsible for this

It says something about the times when reactivating long-range ground-based air defences is seen as needing a stop-gap because the eventual system to be delivered is coming "only" in three years. A while back that would have been seen as a rushed procurement, leaving little time for training.

Strong agree. My rule is that if I wouldn't let someone barge into our table at a bar to yell at us about things, then why should I allow those people yell at us in social media?

Front page ads on Interfax (.ru) today for... - Turkish holiday resort - Dentist in Turkiye - British school in Moscow - German classes online - Flights via Georgia - EU passport scheme via Cyprus - EU passport scheme via Romania - Recruitment for ship crew on tankers (careers as seafarers)

Every few months Jewish conservatives are shocked anew to learn that many of their allies are Nazis.

Yhteiskuntamme varakkaimmat ovat vakuuttaneet hyväuskoiset hölmöt siitä, että heidän kovempi verottamisensa olisi maallemme turmiollista, jotta emme verottaisi niitä varakkaimpien ihmisiä hiukkaakaan enempää. Ja sitten ne hölmöt leikkaavan koulutuksen lapsiltaan ja hoidon iäkkäillä vanhemmiltaan.

The problem in the Euro zone is some countries are broke, but insist they aren't. Look at Ukraine aid. The 3 Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) combined give more aid to Ukraine than Italy, even though its GDP is 15 times as big. The Euro zone debt discussion must change. It's enough with this...

The longer we allow the war to continue, the more it will cost us. The best way to end it sooner is to fund Ukraine’s missiles and drones and help Ukraine scale up production

Niin kauan, kuin junalla matkustaminen on Euroopassa merkittävästi kalliimpaa kuin lentäminen, on turha väittää, suhtautuvansa vakavasti ilmastonmuutokseen Myös kotimainen liikennepolitiikkamme on lopulta kaikkien kannalta täysin järjetöntä ja tuhoisaa

This issue is self-correcting: These people will filter themselves out of the gene pool.

Just one of many examples of how Elon Musk was totally and catastrophically wrong about a thing he had very strong opinions on.

"Many Finnish adults, meanwhile, attend multi-day security courses. These may sound about as exciting as a fire drill, but in fact they are invitation-only networking events for the country’s elite.." MULTI-WEEK! www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

This is not sustainable. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

It would be much cheaper to help Ukraine win than to just help it endure.

As dishonest as it gets, but not surprising coming from Russia. The fact that they started World War II as allies with nazi Germany is a taboo subject they will do anything to hide. No other country mirrors nazi Germany’s ideology and conduct as closely as Russia does today

Yet center-right seems incapable of learning the lesson…

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

Minua kuvaus tapahtumista huolestuttaa entisestään. VM on tehnyt erittäin merkittävästi julkista taloutta heikentävän esityksen, vaikka sen kasvuvaikutuksista ei ole ollut juuri mitään uskottavaa näyttöä. Tästäkään huolimatta VM:n asemaa ei kyseenalaisteta millään tavalla. 6/6