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Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account (Bjarke Smith-Meyer/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/x-axes-european-commiss…

X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”

This kind of circular causality is exactly the reason why I don't have even a burner account on X. As a social website, it went belly up more times than his owner's talk of colonizing anything in space.
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine – POLITICO
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X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”

X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/x-axes-european-commissions-ad-account-after-e120m-eu-fine/
If you wondered why EU Commission was still sponsoring Twitter...
Musk seems to be a bad loser..
(But we knew that already...)
(Via @… & @… )

Source: the London Stock Exchange cancels hundreds of FT corporate subscriptions in response to the paper's retreat from London markets coverage in recent years (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)
https://www.cityam.com/lseg-axes-financial-times-subscription…

LSEG axes Financial Times subscriptions amid FTSE coverage retreat
The frequency of the Financial Times' coverage of large cap FTSE businesses has fallen by as much as 70 per cent.

En raison d’une alerte orange Neige/Verglas de Météo France, le trafic des bus de remplacement de la soirée/nuit du 06 au 07 janvier est annulé sur les axes Versailles-Rive-Droite/Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche.
Nous vous invitons dans la mesure du possible a reporter votre voyage, ou a emprunter les derniers trains.
Les derniers trains Š circuler normalement :
- Au départ de Paris Saint-Lazare vers Versailles Rive Droite : 22h26
- Au départ de Versailles Rive Droite vers Paris S…

Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-025-00385-4 The vOICe
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal co…

En raison d’une alerte Orange Neige/Verglas de Météo France, le trafic des bus de remplacement de la soirée/nuit du 05 au 06 janvier pourrait être perturbé voire annulé sur les axes Versailles-Rive-Droite / Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche. Nous vous invitons dans la mesure du possible a reporter votre voyage, ou a emprunter les derniers trains.
Les derniers trains Š circuler normalement :
- Au départ de Paris Saint-Lazare vers Versailles Rive Droite : 22h26
- Au départ de Versailles Ri…

gyroscope, n.:
A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also
free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpindicular to
each other and the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the
two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of
torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the
entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on
the angular momentum to any torque that would change the directio…

Every now and then I find something that does not work in LibreWolf so I need to use Firefox... this time it's this gamepad tester.
There's probably some permission I need to set in LibreWolf but I haven't found it yet.
https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad

Machining folks: I'm looking for a high RPM spindle, of the sort used for PCB drills and such. Brushless motor, capable of going out to tens of kRPM or even 100 kRPM, with 1/8" shank chuck and super low runout.
Plan is to try to retrofit it onto my Sherline 5400 - I like the axes on it, but the spindle is too slow and wobbly for my liking.
Anybody know where to find one?

Law enforcement fumes as Trump admin axes funding to combat child exploitation: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/department-of-justice-2675021834/

Je découvre les études sur la synchronisation intercérébrale menées notamment par @introspection
cf https://psychiatrie.umontreal.ca/recherche/letude-de-la-synchronisation-intercerebrale-renouvelle-le-regard-sur-nos…

« L’étude de la synchronisation intercérébrale renouvelle le regard sur nos cerveaux » - Département de psychiatrie et d’addictologie - Université de Montréal
Nouvelles pistes de recherche en psychiatrie, axes de développement pour l’intelligence artificielle, meilleure compréhension du développement cognitif… Les voies qu’ouvre l’observation des différentes formes de synchronisation intercérébrale sont nombreuses. Explications […]

Sky Sports shuts down its new female-focused TikTok channel Halo after three days, following online backlash for "sexist" posts, saying it "didn't get it right" (Emma Rossiter/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrz8g7evyxo

Sky Sports axes 'sexist' TikTok channel Halo after three days
The female-focused TikTok channel was dubbed "patronising" and "sexist" by social media users.

Downing Street makes changes to press access, cutting an afternoon briefing and promising more press conferences, which will be open to social media influencers (Emilio Casalicchio/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-do…

Keir Starmer’s Downing Street axes afternoon media briefings
The move has already sparked an uproar from Westminster’s journalists.