Baldur’s Gate 3: The Final Patch - An Animated Short
Baldur's Gate 3
An ancient evil has returned to Baldur's Gate, intent on devouring it from the inside out. The fate of Faerûn lies in your hands. Alone, you may resist. But together, you can overcome. Gather your party.baldursgate3.game
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Why Pope St. John Paul II So Admired Hungary’s ‘Holy Family’| National Catholic Register
Hungary is renowned the world over for family-friendly social policy — a topic that’s attracting ever more international attention, especially in the United States.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Advertising in Austria – statistics & facts
The Austrian advertising industry made international headlines in early 2025 when an out-of-home company called Gewista (a subsidiary of ) broadcasted highlights and results from the Alpine World Ski Championships 2025 on its 370 digital screens.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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How not to deploy generative AI: the Story of the European Parliament - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
European Parliament buys Claude, a system that can’t accurately tell users who the first president of the European Commission is.Kris Shrishak (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
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"Anthropic claims that the project achieves “high accuracy”. However, the documents from the Parliament reveal otherwise. The Parliament used a list of thirty “test” questions in French. In the Parliament’s “test“, Claude gets the first President of European Commission wrong. It states “Robert Schuman 7” as the first President of the European Parliament. “Robert Schuman 7” is likely the address of a café in Brussels, which Claude may have memorised."
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How not to deploy generative AI: the Story of the European Parliament - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
European Parliament buys Claude, a system that can’t accurately tell users who the first president of the European Commission is.Kris Shrishak (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont, on Monday. A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S., he would pass the test to become a naturalized citizen.
Instead, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and began the process to deport him to the occupied West Bank.
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Scientists Develop Flexible & 3D Printable 'Toothpaste-Like' Battery - 3D Printing
Swedish researchers have developed a malleable battery with a toothpaste-like consistency that can be shaped into various forms.3DPrinting.com
So for the second month in a row inflation has dropped lower than forecast by the Bank of England... in March it was 2.6%.
However, we can expect the BoE to focus on 'continuing inflationary pressures' including (still) rising wages & the Trump 'tariff shock' to once again delay any reduction to interest rates.
They keep *promising* to reduce them but this feels like gaslighting more than rational policy decision(s).
Happy to be proved wrong but don't expect to be!
Starbuck;s shows how intellectual property is used to transfer profits to low/no tax jurisdictions.
Starbucks in the UK made a £35m loss in 2024, but paid £40m in royalties to its parent company. You don't have to be an economist to see what is going on here.... royalties within a corporate group are not about 'ownership' of the brand, they are about where the profit is going to be taken.
The division that holds the Starbuck's IP will be in a low tax country!
#tax
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Starbucks’s UK retail business paid no corporation tax last year
US-owned coffee chain dived to £35m loss after paying £40m in royalty and license fees to parent companySarah Butler (The Guardian)
But the good news is that BOYCOTTS WORK: the main reason for Starbuck's trading loss was a 4% decline in sales overall despite the opening of 100 new British stores during the period.
Let's keep boycotting US big brands !
Return to Guild Wars 1, A community play through event
Return to Guild Wars 1
A Community Playthrough Event for the 20th Anniversary of Guild Wars 1returntogw1.com
Today's #Wristcheck is the #Casio F-91W
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Watches | Kev Quirk
This page is an evolving list of the watches I currently have in my collection.Watches
Swatch "Madrid Me Mata" I arrived in the last moments of the Madrid New Wave ("La Movida Madrileña") but did everything I could to play catch-up. Years later (1993) I picked up this watch in the States to commemorate my time there. Design by Madrid artist Oscar Mariné.
In Trade War With the US, China Holds a Lot More Cards Than Trump May Think − In Fact, It Might Have a Winning hand
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"When Donald Trump pulled back on his plan to impose eye-watering tariffs on trading partners across the world, there was one key exception: China. While the rest of the world would be given a 90-day reprieve on
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on leaked audio obtained by The Grayzone in which the organization's executive director says each member of Congress answers to a local AIPAC staffer, and describes his grooming of key national security officials in the Trump administration.
The leak of the audio exposes the organization's systematic influence in the centers of power, thus enabling the weighing of Tel Aviv's interests in Washington's agenda.
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Baku to host first meeting of Azerbaijan-Slovenia economic cooperation working group
The first meeting of the Working Group on Economic Cooperation between Azerbaijan and Slovenia will take place in Baku. An Azerbaijani-Slovenian business forum is scheduled to be held in Baku on April 17.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
'In 2010 was de vvd de grootste partij van Nederland en werd Mark Rutte voor het eerst premier. Een uitkering werd daarmee steeds vaker neergezet als ‘een gunst’. Wie een goede positie heeft op de maatschappelijke ladder heeft dat aan zichzelf te danken, wie onderaan blijft steken ook. Of zoals Paul de Krom staatssecretaris van Sociale Zaken het verwoordde: ‘Waarom zijn de voedselbank en schuldhulpverlening nodig? Kom je daarin terecht als je goed op je centjes let?’
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‘Waarom mag ik niet lachend op de foto?’
Weinig politici en mediamakers komen in contact met mensen in armoede, waardoor een stereotiep beeld in stand blijft. ‘Het is vernederend.’De Groene Amsterdammer
"I am worried about the unification of the tech industry with an authoritarian regime that creates a future where technology is used to control people, rather than give them autonomy."
Lizzie had a chat with Vogue about technology, AI and the rise of digital twins vogue.com.au/fashion/news/ai-d…
Croatian, Polish presidents rule out sending troops to Ukraine-Xinhua
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic (R) welcomes Polish President Andrzej Duda in Zagreb, Croatia, April 15, 2025.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
New Privacy Guides article 🔐✊
by me:
Encryption Is Not a Crime
The war against encryption isn't new, but the quantity of data about us that needs protection is.
Despite the senseless attacks,
it is vital that we fight back to protect the right to using end-to-end encryption.
Encryption protects us all: privacyguides.org/articles/202…
#PrivacyGuides #Encryption #Privacy #E2EE #RootForE2EE
Encryption Is Not a Crime
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online.www.privacyguides.org
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