“Years of garnering bad will from the public has left social media companies searching for a persuasive argument around why they are not liable for societal harms, and the trial in California at least initially shows they have yet to find it.”
As an avid film watcher/cinema goer I found this piece on the inability of today’s FILM STUDENTS to watch an entire film very depressing. Yet another casualty of social media’s war on our attention spans, and a worrying harbinger for the future of serious cinema.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This photo.
We're all going to be using our devices for longer than we planned so my advice to you: settings > battery > charging > set limit to 80% [on iOS or macOS]. Making sure your computer or phone never goes above 80% will *quadruple* its life compared to charging it to 100% every evening.
Almost two-thirds of Europeans polled believe that replacing American tech services with European alternatives is a good idea, but those surveyed are divided if that shift is realistic, according to YouGov research shared with Tech Policy Press. Contributing editor Mark Scott details key findings.
Imagine threatening to invade and annex NATO allies, then getting pissy when they won't help you in a mad war you started against someone else, which has nothing to do with NATO anyway
Heckuva job Rutte
Picking up newspaper to see VW will likely transition its Osnabrück factory from making cars to making missiles for Israel's Iron Dome, putting down newspaper.
These are the new Philip Morris guys except they’re also assisting in the destruction of democracies all over the world.
Even if you don’t ruin your life becoming addicted to their product, their actions will still make your life/community/society worse.
“The Twitter madness is feeding back into the newspapers because these columnists are terminally online. They are obsessed with things that most people outside of Twitter don’t really care about and it’s a doom loop, isn’t it? And then it sets the agenda for what everybody else is talking about.”
The new Venezuelan defence minister ran Maduro's secret police, torturing and killing people, and was sanctioned by the EU, US and UK.
Good to see the liberation of the Venezuelan people is going so well.
www.ft.com/content/c526...
finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services.
after all the threats from the US and concern about how it will use tech dependence against europe, that plan is on ice.
Le Pen arriving in Budapest, Trump endorsing Orbán, Vance on his way, Netanyahu also calling for a pro-Orbán vote.
I have never seen the European and wider (ironically) global far-right publicly uniting to swing behind a candidate in a national election in Europe so far:
I see ICE are really enhancing the airport experience already, this is going great
Starting my US mission this morning on CNBC, with two issues at the centre of the global conversation: Big Tech and energy.
Innovation drives progress, but it also requires responsibility.
Open markets, fair conditions and shared prosperity must remain the guiding principles.
The Trump administration commissioned an internal study on alleged "censorship" by EU regulators.
The study found "no evidence that Member States of the European Union are overreaching the DSA to censor and criminalize online content".
Whoops.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The devil will be in the detail, but good to see Mistral acknowledging the need for AI developers to pay copyright holders for their content. Shows the role that a competitive market plays in challenging the extractive business models of incumbents.
www.ft.com/content/d63d...
Four years into a war launched by a 70 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power, an 76 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power convinced a 79 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power that they needed to bomb Iran to take out an 86 year old man wo...
Posters from early in the Ukraine war (spring 2022) - let's take the sentiment to heart this time around.
Ruchir Sharma: “Trump is layering a haphazard shooting war on top of an ill-conceived tariff war and largely getting away with it, in part because other nations have become too dependent on America — militarily, technologically and, above all, financially.”
as.ft.com/r/62b977a6-5...
And before anyone accuses me of holding Israel to unfairly high standards: if there’s anyone on here who didn’t think it was a war crime when Russia did it to Ukraine, be interesting to hear from you.
We’ve lost all concept of this, but government services are not supposed to be profit making enterprises. government services are not publicly traded corporations. They are, and I can’t stress this enough, government services
According to this survey carried out across all 27 EU member states, nearly two-thirds of Europeans see U.S. restrictions on tech as a "real and concrete risk". Suggests that efforts to build viable European alternatives would have real backing from the wider public.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK.
Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A play on the dog sitting in fire saying "This is fine" meme. The dog is in a patagonia vest of the sort worn by finance-bros, and it is saying, "I can say slurs now."
Checking in on the finance bros.
The vaccines worked
While it's great for Ukraine that Musk has decided (for now) to sever Russia's Starlink access, the fact remains that that no private individual should have the power – through their control of critical infrastructure – to unilaterally shape the course of wars.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
