Especially right now, I’m feeling lots of things but “lucky” ain’t one…

The Netherlands and Australia want the ICAO Council to order Russia to enter into talks on possible reparations

“enter into talks on possible reparations”. Absolutely brutal, I wouldn’t want to be Russia right now…

These are more realistic. I hear they can form a flock and shit all over you. Scary stuff!

The thing is that social media have an oversized influence that makes a calm discussion of possible solutions very hard to have. When the US recognized the implications of letting a foreign power exert so much control over their people, they tried banning TikTok, or breaking it up so their US operation would be under US control.

Facebook should also be split and its EU operation purchased by a European company, that could then spend more time implementing the other changes you mention (doom-scrolling, data protection) and less time lobbying to get all these pesky EU regulations removed.

And yes, it does feel heartbreaking to count the US as a threat to national security, but China has never threatened to annex Greenland with military force, so what would have been paranoia and extreme anti-americanism last year is now the sensible, level-headed thing to do.

Not just teenagers. Facebook and quite a few others should outright be banned. Not only they are scientifically proven to be a mental health catastrophe and a political threat to democracy, it’s also pretty clear now that both these things are part of their design, not bugs or unintended emerging properties.

Because clearly the US has a trade deficit in movies and entertainment, right?

and the open attempt to subvert our own democracies too.

To be honest it makes a bit more sense to me now… I used to have this nagging thought in my head: “ok, yeah… Russia is funding all the social disinformation campaigns and more, but Facebook alone is worth more than Russia’s GDP and Zuckerberg is powerless to stop them?”

Narrator voice: “they weren’t trying to stop them”

Downloaded streetcomplete, looks fun and useful. Thanks for sharing!

and he would have done it too! If only that Biden stopped interfering and ruining the economy. /s

yes, 3.6% less profits for most of us means “should I pay the electricity bill and starve for a couple of days?”. For Ronald McDonald it probably means “here’s another round of layoffs to streamline operational efficiency or whatever”

“people” buying ads? In 2035? What a delightfully vintage concept!

Fun fact: Nadella has been replaced with an AI agent a couple of months ago and nobody has noticed yet. “Copilot, while I’m away, generate bs on AI adoption and fire a bunch of employees, ok?”

which one ?

I did read the article and indeed the content is about what you say. On the other hand, I don’t know if titling this as “Canada might be the second election Trump wins in six months” is an attempt at sarcasm, click-bait or spin (pretending not to know the number of people who will only ever read the title). It’s sad that I now I jump directly to believing the latter so I do hope that I’m wrong

prompt engineering does require skills. It’s just that, rightly or not, they are now seen by companies as foundational skills for a lot of jobs and worth investing in training for most employees (rather than hiring a team of prompt specialists).

Like if you work in certain roles you need to have good knowledge of spreadsheet software, you don’t go to your company’s “Excel guru”.

Sky news spin: haha, Carney was actually Trump’s win! I can’t make this shit up (but apparently Sky news can…)

I’ve seen the name now and you are right, Sorry, I’ve been superficial

It means they double checked and the driver was definitely white

It didn’t impact that small island inhabited only by penguins, so it’s not technically a “global” recession, ok?

“it drove right through my kitchen wall. And I hadn’t even ordered one!”