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@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2024-12-09 16:00:04

«Can Europe build itself a rival to Google?
#Ecosia and #Qwant are teaming up to create a European search index, aiming to break the dominance of #Google and reduce

Can Europe build itself a rival to Google?
Ecosia and Qwant are teaming up to create a European search index, aiming to break the dominance of Google and reduce Europe's reliance on US tech giants. Can they succeed in challenging the status quo?

@KraftTea@mastodon.social
2024-12-17 23:25:32

To paraphrase John Gilmore,
*"Europe interprets Trump as damage and routes around him".*

@KraftTea@mastodon.social
2024-12-17 23:40:23

Drawing attention to this thread of comments of mine from a few days ago, as it goes deeper into apparent efforts from European nations to Trump-proof Ukraine, which is actually VERY important for European security.
It's nice seeing news articles pointing out Ukrainian funding & Russian appeasement isn't something Trump gets to dictate, but rather, a situation where Europe is trying to diplomatically push back against Trump to defend their legitimate security interests.

Mark Kraft (@KraftTea@mastodon.social)
@notsoloud@expressional.social @anderspuck@krigskunst.social I tend to view the actions of both Biden and NATO over the past several months as ones that were designed to, for lack of a better term, make Ukraine more Trump-proof. Much of it at this point was simply funding and loans, but never underestimate the power of both, when it comes to industrializing the fight against Russia. Even relatively innocuous things, like factories for creating small, powerful, toy-like engines, take on new leve…