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“Europe is full of technical talent, including the people who built much of the technology powering the major American cloud providers....

“Europe is full of technical talent, including the people who built much of the technology powering the major American cloud providers. The only issue? Much of that European talent is employed by American companies or working on open-source projects as a hobby in their attic.

The question is: how do we combine talent and funding to create a better European cloud?”
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/

If you’re not watching The Pitt, you’re not watching TV. Great characters, seamless plotting, and effortlessly bingeable. “Patient...

If you’re not watching The Pitt, you’re not watching TV. Great characters, seamless plotting, and effortlessly bingeable. “Patient tested positive for rats” is just the first of many priceless one liners. Watch.

No sooner than photography was invented, painters gave up completely on photorealism. The same is happening with image...

No sooner than photography was invented, painters gave up completely on photorealism. The same is happening with image generators.
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114177122374646163

Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, oh boy oh boy… </animal>

Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, oh boy oh boy… </animal>

“the manosphere [is] entirely in-hoc to advertising from gambling companies, and speculative investments like ForEx trading, dropshipping,...

“the manosphere [is] entirely in-hoc to advertising from gambling companies, and speculative investments like ForEx trading, dropshipping, and crypto which perform the same function: promising quick cash in the form of ‘hustle’ to impressionable young men. When their victims inevitably crash out from this casino economy, these grifters are on hand to tell them to keep going, while laundering any shame and anger about their failures into…racism and misogyny”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41592826.html

Damn, that’s a bleak opinion piece:“When a giant as big as the U.S. falls, it falls on something. Putin is something. Xi is something....

Damn, that’s a bleak opinion piece:

“When a giant as big as the U.S. falls, it falls on something. Putin is something. Xi is something. The 8 billion basically innocent humans on earth are all something.

We are reckless, we are selfish, we are destructive. And we know where you live.

Sure, we may damage ourselves as Russia, China and others work to destabilize us, we may be destroyed completely. But we’ll take a lot of you with us”
https://medium.com/the-geopolitical-economist/miscalculating-america-2f9960482006

Thank you "bkrnetic" for helping my bring my old macbook pro back from the dead. This forum reply is a great source of references....

Thank you "bkrnetic" for helping my bring my old macbook pro back from the dead. This forum reply is a great source of references. The DFU instructions seem to change very slightly with every macbook model... 😵

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/internet-recovery-loop-from-hell.2382068/post-33373635

@ivory where did “mentions” go?

@ivory where did “mentions” go?

“A new page is being turned in British-European relations. It is blank. There is no writing on it. And there is nothing in all the world...

“A new page is being turned in British-European relations. It is blank. There is no writing on it. And there is nothing in all the world more exciting and full of possibility than a blank piece of paper with no writing on it.”
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-a-new-europe

Your regular reminder that no matter how slick MacOS looks on the surface, if you dig down it’s a bucket of bolts underneath. And half of...

Your regular reminder that no matter how slick MacOS looks on the surface, if you dig down it’s a bucket of bolts underneath. And half of those bolts are pentalobe…

The requirement that everything must have exactly one picture that can be used to illustrate it has led to a glut of meaningless stock...

The requirement that everything must have exactly one picture that can be used to illustrate it has led to a glut of meaningless stock imagery that is both infantilising and reductive.

Today’s prime example: an unidentifiable person sitting on the floor with their face buried between their knees, to convey a generic “abuse victim”.

Every so often I am reminded that our lives depend on software operating correctly, and it terrifies...

Every so often I am reminded that our lives depend on software operating correctly, and it terrifies me.
https://social.tomlarrow.com/@tom/statuses/01JNH6XTF0QVM8VYP9Y0A6ESB0

‘The political press may not understand what’s happening (or may be too afraid to say it out loud), but those of us who’ve spent...

‘The political press may not understand what’s happening (or may be too afraid to say it out loud), but those of us who’ve spent decades studying how technology and power interact? We see it and we can’t look away.
So, here’s the bottom line: when WaPo’s opinion pages are being gutted and tech CEOs are seeking pre-approval from authoritarians, the line between “tech coverage” and “saving democracy” has basically disappeared. It’s all the same thing.’
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

TrumpTrump will threaten to sanction the EU if it touches the frozen Russian assets. Just...

Trump

Trump will threaten to sanction the EU if it touches the frozen Russian assets. Just wait.
https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/114103745340696062

UspolIt’s as if the US government looked at Liz Truss and thought: that’s not a knife.

Uspol

It’s as if the US government looked at Liz Truss and thought: that’s not a knife.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be...

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death-neil-postman-trump-orwell-huxley

Does anyone out there still believe that Trump would honor an Article Five declaration? No, me neither.

Does anyone out there still believe that Trump would honor an Article Five declaration? No, me neither.

“Ukraine fights for all of Europe. That has always been true and it's never more true than it is now. Now Europe must support it, as...

“Ukraine fights for all of Europe. That has always been true and it's never more true than it is now. Now Europe must support it, as it supports us.”
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/europe-can-defend-ukraine-without

TrumpTrump has just ensured the eternal enmity of every Ukrainian. He’s a mob boss who’s only goal is shaking down everyone around him...

Trump

Trump has just ensured the eternal enmity of every Ukrainian. He’s a mob boss who’s only goal is shaking down everyone around him for as much as he can pocket. A parasite, a traitor and quite possibly the most dangerous man on the face of the earth.

I’m convinced the planet Mercury is a myth invented by the ancient Greeks to fool the Romans. Never seen the bastard thing in half a...

I’m convinced the planet Mercury is a myth invented by the ancient Greeks to fool the Romans. Never seen the bastard thing in half a century of looking at the sky.