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De eventuele sluiting van abdij Maria Toevlucht in Zundert bedreigt het voortbestaan van ’s lands tweede brouwer van trappistenbier, een drank „waarvoor je gaat zitten om nippend van te genieten”. Reden: het gebrek aan jonge monniken om het klooster draaiende te houden. nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/05/16/vergr…

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Ireland’s silent slowdown – The Irish Times byteseu.com/1022164/ #DonaldTrump #Ireland #ItSunday #Pharma #USTariffs


President Donald Trump is trying to fast track new deep sea mining efforts, but half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked mineral-rich nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.
#StopDeepSeaMining #ProtectTheOceans

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No survivors in Finland crash of two helicopters that took off from Tallinn | News byteseu.com/1022162/ #Estonia #Finland #helicopters #TallinnAirport



"History and psychology both suggest that, in politics as in art, generative AI will succeed in fulfilling the highest aspiration of its creators: to make the virtual feel more authentic than the real."

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Lithuanian Armed Forces conduct first firings with SPIKE LR2 anti-tank missiles byteseu.com/1022158/ #Lithuania

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Das Bild zeigt eine detaillierte Bronzestatue, die einen alligatorähnlichen Krokodil mit einem auffälligen, großen Auge und einem aufgerissenen Maul darstellt. Die Skulptur ist in warmen, orangen-rote Tönen gehalten, die die Textur der Haut und die Konturen des Krokodils hervorheben. Im Hintergrund ist eine weitere Bronzestatue zu sehen, die einen menschlichen Figurenkörper mit einem Kopf zeigt, der möglicherweise eine traditionelle Kopfbedeckung trägt. Die Umgebung ist urban, mit Gebäuden im Hintergrund, die auf eine städtische Umgebung hinweisen. Der Himmel ist mit Wolken bedeckt, was dem Bild eine dramatische Atmosphäre verleiht. Die Statuen sind Teil einer öffentlichen Skulpturgruppe, die wahrscheinlich in einem öffentlichen Raum oder einem Park platziert ist.

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Tusk government anxious ahead of Poland’s presidential vote – DW – 05/17/2025 byteseu.com/1022156/ #Poland



Czech parliamentary election 2025: What expats need to know byteseu.com/1022154/ #CzechRepublic #Czechia


Slovakia vs Latvia Preview & Prediction | 2025 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship | Group Stage byteseu.com/1022153/ #Slovakia

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The image shows a person's hand holding a white ballot paper, preparing to drop it into a transparent ballot box. The box is filled with numerous other ballots, indicating a voting process. The setting appears to be indoors, with a tiled floor and a patterned mat with the numbers "7" and "8" visible. In the background, several people are standing, suggesting a public or organized event. The person's arm is clad in a dark jacket sleeve, and the focus is on the act of voting, with the ballot box and the ballots being the central elements of the image.

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"AI’s thirst for energy is ballooning into a monster. It's not just about the electricity bills. Environmental fallout is serious, stretching to guzzling precious water resources, creating mountains of e-waste, and, yes, adding to those greenhouse gas emissions we’re all trying to cut. As AI models get ever more complex and weave themselves into yet more parts of our lives, a massive question mark hangs in the air: can we power this revolution without costing the Earth?"

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NOT MY VISION:

Sutskever: “I think that it’s fairly likely that it will not take too long of a time for the entire surface of the Earth to become covered with data centers and power stations. There would be a tsunami of computing . . . almost like a natural phenomenon. AGI—and thus the data centers needed to support them—would be too useful to not exist.”

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@UlrichJunker The process of data centering the world is well underway. It's a great devouring on top of other great devourings.



IDK in Schwerin zum internationalen Tag der Kriegsdienstverweigerung 2025
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Someone over on BlueSky doing a simple #romantasy survey...

(You don't need a BlueSky account to see the post, or link through to the survey but you do need a gmail account to fill it in.)

bsky.app/profile/amydelaforce.…

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