2025-12-01 09:10:38
🙋♂️ What the fuck is wrong with you?
❓ Have you ever seen a bandwagon you didn’t want to jump on?
💩 Can you please be less shit? https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
🙋♂️ What the fuck is wrong with you?
❓ Have you ever seen a bandwagon you didn’t want to jump on?
💩 Can you please be less shit? https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
Jumping on the AI hype while it is collapsing is such a perfect summary for a lot of EU tech policy. This not only shows lack of understanding but lack of leadership …
@dawid@social.craftknight.comUS executions surged in 2025 to highest level in 16 years | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/us-death-penalty-executions-2025
White House insists Trump's recent physical shows 'perfectly normal' health (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-mri-results
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p78#a251201p78
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@dawid@social.craftknight.comEric Trump's cryptocurrency firm loses half its value in half an hour (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/eric-trump-american-bitcoin-stock
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p126#a251202p126
The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet DMA thresholds; Apple says the services should not be called "gatekeepers" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115972827093194545
I like how the comments to this are all about how the EU is going after the private messages but they explicitly state that it’s about the “Channels” (Stories) and no…
Mystery meat and maggot-infested produce: the disturbing reality of US prison food | US prisons | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/eating-behind-bars-book-prison-food
@dawid@social.craftknight.comWhy open source is so important? Help the European Commission to build a European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystem…
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115785027833907304
@… Maybe tell…
Trump's night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president's stamina (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trumps-truth-social-post-health
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p122#a251202p122
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115966617599931853
Can you please tell us what exactly you’re doing so that “never again” also applies to Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people?
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115615338012219281
Jajaja la comisión europea se ha tragado el engañabobos este de la reinvención del tren que hace cosa de dos meses estuvo por aquí siendo destrozado con datos e infor…
@dawid@social.craftknight.comTrump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement (Jason Wilson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/hegseth-us-soldiers-iraq-rules-engagement
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p41#a251202p41
@dawid@social.craftknight.comRE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115933922208824012
Is this likely to work?
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115790466560092444
“Complacency is over.”
Thank goodness. So I guess we’ll stop going on about “European values” while ignoring – if not actively aiding and abetting – Israel’s li…
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Jack Smith told House committee he had ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ in cases against Trump | House of Representatives | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/jack-smith-house-testimony
Only weak men fear the light of transparency, like #Trump does:
Republican behind #Epstein files act responds to #Trump ‘lowlife’ taunt https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/27/kentucky-republican-thomas-massie-trump-epstein-files?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
You can give the European Commission feedback on their Open Source strategy.
Sounds like a good idea to participate.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-…
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EC_DIGIT/115564144071125950
Yeah you can save a lot of time by accepting that "it cannot" is the answer. You mustn't draft legislation with an LLM because in that context words do massivel…
Ah, yes, scale and market penetration, the two founding pillars of open source.
(Actually, I’m not even being sarcastic. Don’t confuse free software and open source. Open source is open as in “open for business” and “open for enclosure”. Free software is about free as in “freedom”. Very different things, even if, in both cases, the source is readily available.) @…
Fortunately, there is still some good EV news from Brussels: Germany may proceed as planned with the tender for public fast chargers for lorries along the motorway, including the “Durchleitungsmodell” (passthrough model).
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en…
Apple accuses the European Commission of "political delay tactics", as the EC seems to be preparing to blame Apple for the shutdown of the Setapp app store (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
⛨ Conservative and Christian? US right champions psychedelic drugs
#drugs
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I realized that I had forgotten my laptop in our apartment in Zurich just when the train left the station 😱
I have now arranged with my wife for a secret agent-style handover in Olten. Luckily, the EC to Olten leaves on the opposite side of the platform in Bern.
Man, I double and triple check, but sometimes I should quadruple check :-/
EDIT: well, it’s not the opposite side of the platform, but I made it.
I realized that I had forgotten my laptop in our apartment in Zurich just when the train left the station 😱
I have now arranged with my wife for a secret agent-style handover in Olten. Luckily, the EC to Olten leaves on the opposite side of the platform in Bern.
Man, I double and triple check, but sometimes I should quadruple check :-/
EDIT: well, it’s not the opposite side of the platform, but I made it.
I realized that I had forgotten my laptop in our apartment in Zurich just when the train left the station 😱
I have now arranged with my wife for a secret agent-style handover in Olten. Luckily, the EC to Olten leaves on the opposite side of the platform in Bern.
Man, I double and triple check, but sometimes I should quadruple check :-/
EDIT: well, it’s not the opposite side of the platform, but I made it.
The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/dec/25/titanic-sinclair-c5-brexit-museum-of-failure-coming-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The GUARDIAN: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/25/protests-effective-history-impact
Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p89#a251231p89
@dawid@social.craftknight.comCourt allows White House to end Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/planned-parenthood-medicaid-funding-ends
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p57#a251231p57
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite #Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims:
“It’s a fundamental error to treat these issues as mutually exclusive – climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions. Most of the elite discourse is very bad at estimating or understanding levels of public concern, and this is a good example of this.”
#ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@dawid@social.craftknight.comRE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115905711246518413
Cyprus, probably the most corrupt country in Europe. For a while they were profitably selling EU citizenship to Russian gangsters - this is from just 4 days ago:
Judge me on what I do, says new EHRC chair after transgender groups' criticism (Libby Brooks/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/31/new-ehrc-chair-mary-ann-stephenson-lgbtq-transgender-groups
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p33#a251231p33
@dawid@social.craftknight.comBeyoncé is now the fifth billionaire musician, Forbes reports | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/beyonce-billionaire-forbes
@dawid@social.craftknight.comAt an undetermined point in the future, the Commission intends to establish requirements that align uni- bidirectional charging capabilities with relevant grid codes and communication protocols, as is already required for charging infrastructure.
https://single-market-economy.ec.e…
How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-u-s-ec
Hard to see positive points in this lobby-wish list turned into legislative proposal. Weakening of the 2035 and all intermediate targets, not even ambitious targets for corporate fleets. Clear signal that this Commission isn’t here for the future, it’s to defend the status quo.
https://ec.europa.eu/commis…
RE: #capitalism, ever thought …
@dawid@social.craftknight.comMake no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.
@dawid@social.craftknight.comThe EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
US struck 'big facility' in Venezuela, Trump claimed without offering details (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/trump-venezuela-facility-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p77#a251229p77
@dawid@social.craftknight.comDonald Trump in his own words - the year in racism and misogyny (Melissa Hellmann/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/donald-trump-racism-dei-misogyny-2025-review
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p26#a251229p26
Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals (European Commission)
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_3160
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p34#a251224p34
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@dawid@social.craftknight.comUS voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims (Oliver Milman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p37#a251226p37
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