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7. “Sorry, it will never happen” − Well yeah, if you don’t even try then it won’t.
People think they sound smart when they post these long splainy treatises in my mentions about nothing will get better. It seems like they think it makes them sound smart.
Sorry, honey. Cynicism does not make you worldly or wise. Cynicism makes you gullible.

EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ca6f3062-f286-4a13-b81d-6e2a35c91fdc

While the Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal is back on track, we get a rare report about a #Falcon9 not working as planned - and the rocket being grounded for now. "During today’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites, the second stage experienced an off-nominal condition during preparation for the deorbit burn," reports https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2018485314508198331: "The vehicle then performed as designed to successfully passivate the stage. The first two MVac burns were nominal and safely deployed all 25 satellites to their intended orbit. Teams are reviewing data to determine root cause and corrective actions before returning to flight".

Festspiel-Wirbel - Intendant Hinterhäuser bekommt die „gelbe Karte“ #News #Nachrichten

ICE: Finally, here comes warmer weather, soon it will be above freezing and all this crud will melt and we can drive at freeway speeds on every tiny side street like we keep trying to
MSP: *snrk*
ICE: what
MSP: nothing
ICE: WHAT
MSP: nothing
MSP: …
MSP: …*(potholes)*…
ICE: What? Why are you whispering? What did you just say???
MSP: Nothing!
ICE: <glares>
MSP: “Assholes.” We called you assholes
ICE: …OK then
MSP: hehe *snrk*

While any of the specifics of these predictions from @… might or might not turn out to be on the mark, the general •spirit• of them sure seems accurate to me.
Not a war. A coup.
https://mastodon.social/@Phosphenes/115832592326945620

Treating the US like a rogue state would be a seismic shift in international relations — a shift that slow-moving world will resist. But the US •is• a rogue state at this point, and other nations need to start treating it as such. Like…yesterday.

A request from somebody in the USA: if you live in another country, please start pressuring your government to institute sanctions against the US.
Diplomatic sanctions, economic sanctions, whatever is possible.
I do not expect this to happen quickly. Start laying the political groundwork now so that it can happen at all, ever, while it still matters.

2. “The US has too much power, nobody can possibly stand up to them” − I don’t know, dude, maybe ask to copy Canada’s notes? I am not asking for magic here; I’m just asking people to try.
3. “But standing up to a fascist US is too expensive for us” − Believe me, whatever it costs us all now (inside •and• outside the US), it will cost even more later.

I’m not saying the answer will always be “no,” but people are wildly, wildly overselling the number of situations in which the answer will be “yes.”
Sometimes the answer is “no” because incorrectness is a deal-breaker — and that scenario’s been getting a lot of attention (fake legal briefs, vibe-coding faceplants, etc).
Sometimes, however, the answer is “no” because making something •typical• isn’t really helpful. Where humanity needs to come to the foreground, homogeneity is positively unhelpful. Here’s a fascinating example:
https://hci.social/@bwaber/115647856415818492