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Another excellent thread from @… I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706
pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu
 
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"Le Monde – En France, une transition climatique laissée pour compte"
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/10/27/en-france-une-transition-climatique-laissee-pour-compte_6649812_3232.html

En France, une transition climatique laissée pour compte
Avec une planification écologique à l’arrêt depuis 2023, le personnel politique accrédite l’idée qu’il est incapable de penser le long terme, même sur des enjeux aussi importants que ceux du changement climatique et de l’effondrement de la biodiversité.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
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Any controversy about saturated fat comes from research showing that reducing saturated fat intake can actually be harmful if you replace it with the wrong thing
(processed carbs, sugars.)
But researchers agree that replacing saturated fats with plant based fats, like olive oil, is good for health.
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Hannah Harris Green (@whatsitlike.me)
“People don’t eat nutrients. They eat foods. When you ask someone what they had to eat, they don’t tell you: ‘I had fat, or I had carbohydrates, or I had protein.’” — Dr. Cheryl Anderson, an American Heart Association board member.

Somehow I don’t see this going so well. I understand the desire to charge to fund local content… but it will be interesting to see if the global streaming platforms agree to this.. or just decide to leave Australia. 🤔
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

OpenAI-Microsoft deal: Microsoft gets a 27% stake, access to its AI models until 2032, including AGI-level models, and OpenAI will buy $250B of Azure services (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

I agree with @… , and I think this is at root of much of the managerial mania for LLMs.
Having their terrible ideas go unchecked by underlings with expertise is basically crack cocaine for bad org leadership.
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Trump’s Gaza peace plan leaves door ajar for Palestinian state
Some elements of the U.S. proposal are comically specific.
“Once all the hostages have been released,” it reads,
“Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1,700 Gazans who were detained after October 7. …
For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.”

The proposal says that “upon acceptance of this agreement,
full aid…

Trump’s Gaza peace plan leaves door ajar for Palestinian state
Trump’s 21-point peace plan includes Hamas disarmament, an international security force and a “Trump development plan” to rebuild the shattered enclave. But Israel might balk at some proposals.

Sources: data integration company Fivetran is in talks to acquire data management company dbt Labs in a deal valuing the combined entity at between $5B and $10B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-startup-fi…

Data Startup Fivetran In Talks to Buy Dbt Labs in Multibillion Dollar Deal
Fivetran, a startup used by companies to manage and prepare data for analytics and artificial intelligence, is in talks to buy data management companydbt Labs, according to people with direct knowledge of the deal. The deal would combine two data companies that are facing competition from ...

Indian IT services provider Coforge agrees to acquire Encora, which offers AI tools for product, cloud, and data engineering, at an enterprise value of $2.35B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-coforge-acquire-us-based…