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De EU schiet wel echt heen en weer tussen goede bescherming van de burgers en dan weer spioneren
EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Online Data Retention
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-revives-plan-for-year-long-data-retention

Pressure grows on No 10 as Burnham backs Tory call for social media ban for children | Social media | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/11/kemi-badenoch-says-tories-would-ban-under-16s-from-addictive…

Macron böjer sig för de franska bönderna och lovar nu att Frankrike ska rösta mot EU:s frihandelsavtal med Mercosur. https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/live/2026/

EN DIRECT, colère des agriculteurs : la France votera « contre » le traité de libre-échange avec le Mercosur, annonce Emmanuel Macron
Le chef de l’Etat a invoqué un « rejet politique unanime » pour se positionner contre ce texte, défendu par l’UE mais décrié par les agriculteurs qui ont manifesté ce jeudi. Le ministre de l’intérieur a fait état de 67 actions dans 39 départements, mobilisant 2 200 manifestants et 625 tracteurs.

Haunting Revisions: The Female Gothic Across Time and Media
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The thing that Renee Good now knows, that Tortuguita knows, that Heather Heyer knows, that I only know because I glimpsed for a second, is that when you die fighting oppression you live forever in that memory of resistance. When we carve their names into a monument, along with all the other names of the murdered and disappeared, that will stand, perhaps, across from the statue of Willem in the park where the Northwest Detention Center once stood, they will always be reminders of what it looks like to sacrifice everything in order to be on the right side of history.
The names of those who resist live as ghosts, summoned by name to haunt future oppressors, summoned by name to awaken our own conscience to the call. Martyrs, whispered like the White Rose or yelled as a threat like John Brown, cannot die so long as any of us with a bit of spine carries even an ounce of humanity.
It is possible to die knowing you did the right thing, and I have felt it. There is an acceptance that is impossible to imagine without being there, without feeling it for yourself. You have nothing to fear in resisting, even if it ends you. But you will never forget the shame of doing nothing if you fail to.

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Two updates (so far) to old posts:
1. Todd Libby mentions `lang` impact on Braille displays: https://adrianroselli.com/2015/01/on-use-of-lang-attribute.html#Update10
2. Added Narrator’s Braille viewer to my Braille viewers post, with video (attached,…

I packed for #POTA before heading out to do the weekly grocery shopping, even though it was only 40°F / 4.5°C with low clouds. I decided it was too cold to sit in the helinox chair without insulation, so I drove past US-3867 and went to US-2755 Umstead State Park instead, where I could sit at a picnic table. I took a floor mat out of my car to sit on. As it was, it was cold enough that I co…

AMC is now Open Access!
As of January 1, 2026, all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
#AMC

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #13!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-13/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome This week feels like work and wonder at once. Night comes early in the north and the Geminids begin to stitch bright threads across the cold sky. Far south, heat lifts and cicadas test their summer chorus. In that split screen of seasons, our stories settle on two steady