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80 Spanish councils have dog DNA databases, so, if a dog shits in the street, it can be identified and the owner fined
Excellent!
El 'CSI' de las cacas de perro: mšs de 80 ciudades rastrean el ADN de las heces en la calle para multar a sus dueños
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El 'CSI' de las cacas de perro: más de 80 ciudades rastrean el ADN de las heces en la calle para multar a sus dueños
El afán para acabar con los excrementos en la vía pública y la dificultad para sancionar a los incívicos lleva a numerosos consistorios a crear registros genéticos obligatorios para sus perros

Nearly 11,000 North Korean troops stationed in Russia's Kursk Oblast at start of 2026, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/nearly-north-korean-troops-stationed.html

BuzzFeed warns that it lacks the resources to fund its cash obligations over the next year and is exploring options, as it reports a Q4 loss of $26.8M (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/buzzf

Europese afhankelijkheid van VS & Qatar
Terwijl de doldwaze oranje oempa loempa in het Witte Huis steeds vreemdere fratsen uithaalt zitten de EU-lidstaten (waaronder Nederland) in een drievoudige strategische klem bij de VS: ICT, betalingssystemen en energie. De afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse ICT hebben we eerder besproken. Voor een grotere onafhankelijkheid op gebied van betalingssystemen zet de EU in op IDEAL opvolger WERO en de digitale Euro. Dat dat geen…
https://krispijnbeek.nl/2026/03/14/europese-afhankelijkheid-van-vs-qatar/

Et tu, Norge?
Norway temporarily lowers taxes and levies on fuels:
https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/oppfolging-av-stortingets-vedtak-om-reduksjon-i-avgifter-pa-drivstoff/id3155277/

Oppfølging av Stortingets vedtak om reduksjon i avgifter på drivstoff
Regjeringen følger opp stortingsvedtaket om reduserte avgifter på drivstoff.

Absolutely gorgeous essayWorth a read (via @…) by @tg that starts with why RSS clients look like email, but moves into SoMe and how we imported anxiety without cause.
Via @kottke
#design #ui #rss

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Ahh ... 'Het gesprek met minpres' is een interessante: Jetten wil nu niemand wat opleggen, gevolgd door eem wel heel erg nadrukkelijke 'maarrrr' en waarschuwing voor de toekomst, waarbij er alleen heel selectief steun zal zijn.
NLZIET:
https://app.nlziet.nl/play/0QMBuMAankGUzP2243xdIw
NPOstart:
https://npo.nl/start/live/npo1?start=1774028700

"The moral here is that the United States retains a vital interest in seeing the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Much as Trump would like to declare victory and insist that the blockade is other countries’ problem, reality won’t oblige him."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/4-g

My main gripe with “AI coding” is that people present it in highly emotional terms as a fait accompli that will “change everything” instead of it being just another tool (that is one of many) to make software.
Like I saw a SERIOUS post today (not on here) from a tech guy I previously respected that was basically like a 90s infomercial with black and white video of working on a computer (labeled “without AI”) and then over-saturated footage of chilling in the pool or whatever shit (labeled “with AI”).
Not to mention there’s a constant barrage of “enjoy being poor” type bullshit.
This is abusive behavior; it’s emotional manipulation and gaslighting.
It’s cringe, as the kids would say.
I think the underlying LLM technology has use cases that are genuinely useful, for example when making explorative software prototypes, both for backend and frontend stuff.
But it's like a hammer. Useful for nails, useless for anything else.
And you got to ask where the hammer is coming from. Was it made with stolen metal? Forged by exploitative labor? Locked away in a data center so you can only rent the hammer by the hour from some business trying to do a bait and switch?
I'm hoping that the AI landlord industry dies eventually (signs point to this as they won't be able to fulfill the obligations to their investors) and people use locally-run stuff, ethically with open source models (without stolen stuff) and without ridiculous environmental impact in the future.

JD "they really don't teach law at Yale" Vance
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mfpo3gnvyi22

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."