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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic confirmed that plans to redevelop the former Yugoslav army headquarters into a luxury hotel have been abandoned after Jared
Hoe kun je het Franse Vreemdelingenlegioen beschouwen?We stipten het Franse Vreemdelingenlegioen kort aan in de aflevering over huurlingen van 2 december als een van de vele arrangementen die niet voldoen aan de standaard-verwachting dat militairen d…
For years I've maintained this ridiculous hoarder's box of wrapping paper scraps 'n' remnants. Dare I attempt to patchwork them together to Frankenwrap my contribution to the department white elephant exchange on Wednesday??
Good news from Brussels, but Montenegro, which tends towards chauvinism, clericalism and intolerance, cannot join the EU byteseu.com/1633239/ #Montenegro
Met – zo te zien – melk in een champagneglas hebben allemaal mannen in grijze pakken dinsdag de fusie tussen FrieslandCampina en de Belgische zuivelzus Milcobel beklonken.
Come disattivare Microsoft Recall e impedire all'intelligenza artificiale di scattare screenshot del desktop.
Microsoft attiva ora #Recall, una funzione AI di #Copilot che rende obsolete le e-mail e la messaggistica privata scattando screenshot ogni pochi secondi. Cosa significa questo aggiornamento di Windows, è davvero "opt-in" e come si può disattivare? Vediamo
Microsoft attiva ora "Recall", una funzione AI di Copilot che rende obsolete le e-mail e la messaggistica privata scattando screenshot ogni pochi secondi.
Paul Waldman and Josh Marshall think that the techbro broligarchs may be in for a rude awakening, after having hitched their wagons to the falling star of a corrupt, failing and flailing Donald Trump.
"What do they want? First, they want what every rich person wants: to pay as little as possible in taxes, which is also what the Republican Party wants for people like them."
"Many of the key figures within the tech industry are also heavily invested in cryptocurrencies, so they were extremely pleased when the Trump administration all but shut down regulatory enforcement of misdeeds in the crypto sector. Under Trump, the last remaining Democrat on the Securities and Exchange Commission told the New York Times that the crypto industry 'can effectively get away with anything.'"
"The almost universal belief in Silicon Valley is that because of the rapid development of AI, we stand on the cusp of one of the most profound transformations in human history. Tech leaders see themselves as heroic visionaries carrying humanity to a glorious future of limitless possibility — and, not coincidentally, limitless wealth for themselves."
"What a tragedy it would be if the government put any kind of constraints on the realization of their dreams. Trump has embraced that perspective with enthusiasm."
But as discernible revulsion against Trump and also AI gathers and as the political wheel threatens to turn — as it always does — the techbros may soon find themselves on the downside of that turn rather than on the upside,
"What we began to see in the late Biden administration & then to an almost mind-boggling degree through 2025 is not just the big tech titans cozying up to Trump & doing so visibly, but making themselves what we might call main characters in the American Political Cinematic Universe. There’s really nothing like it in our history. I know many friends who are into MMA & the UFC."
Today, I want to share some additional thoughts with you on this ranging topic of tech lords and predators, the conquistadors and pirates in our midst.
"That is a very precarious place for major corporate leaders to be. That’s why they are almost never, ever there. But they are. They are all in on AI. And they are all in on Trump. And both of those things right now are very unpopular. And I mean very unpopular. ...
I don’t think the tech boys have much sense that politics shifts both ways, that what happened in the winter of 2024/25 wasn’t permanent."
In an article entitled "The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV," Michael Hirschorn says that "billionaires had a great thing going" after many of them threw their full support behind Trump and his fascist movement in 2024, but people's eyes are beginning to be open, and that good thing may not last forever.
"The ruling in the 2010 Citizens United case, among others, invited the super rich to exert all the influence on policy and politics that their money could buy — and then enjoy all the wealth that influence secured for them in return. Thanks to ever-more-obliging tax policies, the billionaire class grew absurdly rich over the years that followed."
"No amount of auramaxxing can hide the new reality. Just six years ago, 69 percent of respondents to a Cato Institute poll agreed that billionaires 'earned their wealth by creating value for others.' An only slightly smaller majority agreed with the statement 'we are all better off when people get rich.' Today, one poll after another shows that Americans want the rich to be taxed at higher, even much higher rates."
It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy. ...
According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax."
"A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
I propose that someone ask the billionaires who own and manage New York Times what they think about this impending shift in the fortunes of the super-rich who have thrown their weight behind Donald Trump and fascism.
Ok. Crap from the NYT about how a new French Revolution is coming and we'll be guillotining the rich in a year or two. I guess; I'm not reading it b/c I've had enough of the NYT.
But: Post-war German political leaders who had supported the Nazis didn't really see repercussions (oh, sure the minority at the top, maybe, but the next layer down? Not much.), and, just to make sure I'm not focusing on (white) Europe too much, neither did the leadership of Pol Pot's Cambodia.
Paul Wolfowitz, who helped the Vulcans take us into Iraq on the basis of a lie, just went to work for the World Bank or some such. No consequences.
We humans will just bumble on, not visiting consequences on those responsible for today's awfulness. I *WISH* that would be different, but I'm pretty tired of predictions that it will be.
«The historian Robert Darnton described an uncannily similar moment in “The Revolutionary Temper: Paris 1748-1789,” his brilliant 2023 account of the decades leading up to the French Revolution.»
@tarheel Though I've long been disgusted by the New York Times and have never been a subscriber, I myself continue to read valuable commentary there, especially when non-affiliated commentators I follow with great interest recommend and link to articles there. I myself think this is a valuable article and that's why I've excerpted it.
Hoffentlich gehen den Leuten die Augen auf ... in USA ebenso wie in Deutschland. In Deutschland bremst die Regierung gerade den Ausbau Erneuerbarer Energien aus - und ist ebenso dabei, den sozialen Zusammenhalt innerhalb des Volkes zu zerstören.
Hopefully, people will open their eyes - in the US as well as in Germany. In Germany, the government is currently throwing obstacles in the way of renewable energies expansion, and also has begun to destroy social solidarity among people.
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Canada has secured a new air transport agreement with the Republic of Albania, said Steven MacKinnon, Minister of Transport, in a press release Monday (Dec.
Longest and most intact section of Hasmonean city wall uncovered in Jerusalem
Archaeologists in Jerusalem completed the exposure of a remarkably well-preserved segment of a city wall dating to the late 2nd century BCE, in the Hasmonean-Maccabean period. Unearthed within the Kishle complex at the Tower of David, adjacent to the historic citadel...
"Notre travail de diffusion d’idées et de pratiques anarchistes passe autant par l’écrit que par l’oral et nous donnons plusieurs présentations. Invitez-nous - si votre proposition matche avec notre emploi du temps et notre présence géographique du moment on viendra avec plaisir."
Das Bild zeigt einen dunklen Bildschirm mit Wiedergabebildschirm und Steuerelementen. Oben rechts befindet sich ein Wi-Fi-Symbol und ein Batteriestatus von 79 %. In der Mitte des Bildschirms befindet sich ein Albumcover mit einem Gemälde von Personengruppen in dunklen Gewändern. Unter dem Albumcover befinden sich die Worte "Lay A Wreath Upon The World", darunter "Paradise Lost + Ascension". Darunter befindet sich ein Playback-Balken, der sich von 01:02 bis 03:49 erstreckt, zusammen mit Steuerelementen wie Play, Pause, Vorwärts und Rückwärts. Die Unterseite des Bildschirms zeigt "KCK NZS" mit einem Dropdown-Menü.
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Since @jaromil discovered #LongfellowZK in late 2024, he's become passionate about establishing and maintaining a European distribution for this system and facilitating contributions to it. Additionally, he aims to develop a circuit programming language that makes the technology accessible, auditable, and reusable within the EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI).
Read all about the meaning of this in his latest entry to the Think & Do tank!
Samsung sucre les SSD SATA ? Pas si vite ! De multiples rumeurs font état d'un abandon de la production de SSD SATA par Samsung. Et, cela n'a rien d'anormal.. minimachines.net/?p=138106 #business #samsung #ssd
Vanaf 2 februari kunnen familieleden en onderzoekers de archieven over collaborateurs en verdachten uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog ook in elf regionale archieven digitaal doorzoeken.
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