Hungary has chosen Europe.

Europe has always chosen Hungary.

A country reclaims its European path.

The Union grows stronger.

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

Can't claim to understand what regimes we really live under. E.g. China, a world-apart in many ways, was more than happy to copy and build on US's surveillance capitalism "innovations".

Hopefully there is some humanistic DNA left in Europe and elsewhere and it will somehow express itself digitally🙏

The recent historical trend though seems to be that those who move fast and break things have the upper hand on those who fix things (whether fast or slow).

A recipe for negating that fast regression seems still elusive. Would be incredible if it was found, cause indeed the possibilities are insane

Is the Day of the Data Center About to Be Over? Marco Arment's Setup as the Canary in the Coal Mine—or, Rather, as the 50 Mac Mini Server Farm Vastly More Efficient than the NVIDIA-Powered Cloud-Bound Hyperscalers...

"No, I cannot believe the difference between $10,000/year for a MacMini server farm and $26,000,000 to do it with NVIDIA chips in the cloud. I must have made a big mistake somewhere—slipped a decimal or two or three. I cannot see where I did."

#econsky

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"Researchers at Dublin City University created 10 blank smartphones registered as male teenagers, five on TikTok and five on YouTube Shorts, with no history, likes or prior searches. Within 23 minutes, all of them were being served misogynistic content they had never looked for. …

Every one of those points signals political, social, economic failures. A consequence of past actions (and inactions).

From silicon and the internet itself, all the way to "AI", the gift of pliable, potentially incredibly empowering new digital tools is drowning in a cesspool of malgovernance.

Continuing with the development of Open Risk is difficult without support from people who appreciate what it produces: #opensource tools and educational material for better #riskmanagement, transparent and accessible #sustainablefinance

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Continuing with the development of Open Risk is difficult without support from people who appreciate what it produces: #opensource tools and educational material for better #riskmanagement, transparent and accessible #sustainablefinance

If you can, please contribute

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No shade here, but some people constantly stir things up.

When more weapons become available, more weapons will be used, in a self-reinforcing cycle of escalating violence.

The number of conflicts is already highest since WW2. And why would that be? Is the Sun hotter?

Prime suspect: growing internal societal imbalances diverted into external strife.

EFF is Leaving X After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.

This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
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Maturity mismatch aside, are there other tradeoffs that would favor less supersized data centers? There are obviously at least some factors working against ultra scale (otherwise there'd be only one data center :-). Curious what the equation that determines unit size vs density looks like.

My feeling (just having observed and endured online life for several decades 😔), this is not a network topology thing. Happens also in forums etc.

What we need is a physical UI that punches people in the face 👊 the moment we start typing words we would def not hurl casually at others "in real life"

But federation is helping the discovery problem. If you are on an instance that does not federate with instances that discuss topics you might be interested in (lets say, incidentally, "AI" 🤣), you are stuck.

These episodes show marks of viral, self-excited mob behavior. Not obvious this is different in nature from other online platforms, central or decentral. It could be that studying closely why and how they explode can preempt some soul searching.

But self-study not a fediverse strong point either 🤣

like the subtitles on the right example are midway there...

dunno, without decorative serifs and slanting the outcome would be more coherent methinks. Matching the purity of the main window.

The same applies to financing a digital transition that is in line with the democratic, pluralistic, decentral principles that underpin the European project.

Equally important to energy, the governance and shape of digital infrastructures is central to having any semblance of sovereignty.

"US asset managers seem to be increasingly voting against social and environmental resolutions, while European asset managers continue to vote in favour"

Europe will never be able to chart its own energy transition course (the way China does) while capital allocation outsourced to a regressive US

The Cyrillic font could use some work though to match the target aesthetic?

A perfect combination of witty, wise, bitter and funny. There is no emoji for that

Adtech social media (anything Meta, YouTube, TikTok etc) destroyed the old business models of artists, creatives, publishers etc. so now everybody tries to survive by being the "perfect vassal", playing the platforms game as best they can. Just like Web SEO, a total disaster and on top comes "AI" 🤦

The nerds are building a new internet, and I could feel it in the room The AT Protocol is a quiet attempt to rebuild social software the way email was built — open, portable, owned by no one. A meetup in Portland this week made the stakes feel real.

I wrote something about atproto from the perspective of having lived through the early days of the internet.
timtrautmann.com/blog/the-ner...

760 million people still live without electricity.

Scaling renewable energy is how that changes, while keeping warming within 1.5°C.

Clean power can light homes, run hospitals, cut emissions and more.

Here’s why renewables matter for people and planet. tinyurl.com/4k9tejuf

Arjen Lubach roept politici en journalisten op om X te verlaten en over te stappen naar open alternatieven zoals Mastodon en Matrix. Waarom? Omdat gesloten platforms als X haaks staan op democratie en transparantie. os-sci.nl/blog/dutch-blogs-3/react...

If you count everybody who ever worked on "decentral" social, in any shape of form, its probably 0.1% of what Meta is burning every quarter 🤣

So in some sense we are overanalyzing things that are in fact very circumstantial, very historically contingent. But it's interesting nonetheless 🤓

My thinking is that the fediverse (in some generalized sense) is doomed to succeed - despite itself, because the extreme centralization of social media we have lived through is an abnormality, not viable. Yet without diversity of thought, resources etc., it may happen later rather than sooner...

In the fediverse crucifixion is one "wrong" post away 🥶

Fear and suspicion *is* fundamentally justified, given what abuse we have been all subjected to by the techbros. But without a working discussion / education process that will help build a vision the result is stagnation (and it shows).

US carmakers accuse EU of blocking supersized pick-up trucks from roads Brussels is proposing to tighten safety rules that apply to a small number of specialist imports

No tears shed for those abominations, but the lack of Japanese "Kei car" equivalents in Europe "due to regulations" is noted. They would be a good complement to the already popular electric microcars (but for professional use) in our busy city roads.

www.ft.com/content/3eb7...