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  • YSK about this Italian tradition of putting corrupt politicians in a cage and dipping them in the water

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  • It's what Silvio Berlusconi's sex parties with underage prostitutes were called.

    He was a media billionaire who used his control of the media to get elected prime minister and evade prosecution for various crimes.

  • YSK about this Italian tradition of putting corrupt politicians in a cage and dipping them in the water

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  • 📠 FAX service suggestions for Europe? (need a replacement for PDF24)

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  • Found ze German.

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    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • You never want to know how the sausage is made.

  • Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds | Google DeepMind

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  • When I saw a model trained on DOOM 1-2 years ago, I didn't think this would be going anywhere. I have to admit, I was wrong. Now, the amazing potential is obvious.

  • Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds | Google DeepMind

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  • Genie, quit livin' on dreams

    Genie, life is not what it seems

    Genie!

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    Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech

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  • Heh. No way. The EU has much more onerous IP laws than the US. That's one reason why the EU can't compete in tech.

    EG search engines like Google process copyrighted content to make it searchable. When they started in the 1990s that would have been plain criminal in Germany. Once the internet turned out to be a big thing, this was legalized.

    We can now see the same thing with AI. It's just not possible to be competitive for European companies. Companies like Huggingface (originally French) or Elevenlabs (Polish) fucked off to the US. Mistral stayed in Europe and is being left behind. The early models with which they made a splash were almost certainly trained illegally, but the AI Act made it clear that Europe would double down on past mistakes.

    Despite the fact that European IP laws hurt our economy and culture, they have only been expanded in the last decades. Despite the fact that the major content owners are American.

  • Bugger!

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  • Oh. So that's the same tom as in atom.

  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • Is this a joke about the EU's desire to curb misinformation? Like, I'm 90% sure that you can't be serious.

  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • Everything you wrote is factually wrong.

  • Bugger!

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  • Oh come on. Going all the way back to PIE doesn't count. Like, both has to do with insides. But enterology does not inherit the suggestion of entry, which would have been funny.

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  • There are also people who can't distinguish between entomology and enterology.

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    Bugger!

  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • Europe has a lot less social resistance to this stuff. You can see it here. Watching the watchmen turns out to be one of the best tools for defending democracy. And still the call is for more censorship. It's insane.

    Did you pick up, like 2 weeks ago, when Italy fined Cloudflare for not censoring hard enough? Italy is literally ruled by a fascist party. They literally present themselves as being in the tradition of Benito Mussolini. No one bats a fucking eye.

    Of course, the censorship is about copyright; protecting the Italian media industry. Maybe people here are too young or unpolitical to remember Italian media billionaire Silvio Berlusconi. In the 1990s, he used his media empire to get himself elected prime minister and escape prosecution for corruption. At one point, he used his office and some lies to get an underage prostitute, he'd been fucking at one of his sex parties, released from police custody. That guy was Italy's longest serving prime minister since WW2. He then was an MEP until 2022.

    Italian intellectuals, identified Trump as a Berlusconi-type populist 10 years ago, when Berlusconi was fading out and Trump rising. Maybe something could be learned from that experienced.

    So it's not like Europeans believe that “It can’t happen here.” It is happening all the time. I think the pro-censorship people are simply so privileged that they can't conceive of the state ever not being on their side. They seem to feel that being harassed or doxed on the net is the worst that could ever happen to them, personally, and they might be right.

  • Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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  • No offense. I just never know how widely understood such facts are. People do not seem to appreciate that open social media requires that the data be stored anywhere.

  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • Right. Merely making the recording may already be criminal; not only sharing it. I didn't want to sound too alarmist. But when we're ad it. Pixelating the faces means processing personal data which may already be illegal.

    What it boils down to is this: If some lawless government goons arrest anyone recording their deeds and seized their phones, no honest, law-abiding judge or police officer would see a problem with that. Anyone live-streaming, just in case, would be guilty of violating fundamental rights in the eyes of all defenders of European values. The government could rely on the technical and organizational infrastructure to enforce GDPR to suppress inconvenient videos without bending the law.

    But no problem. Freedom of information is in the constitution. So you just go to court and insist on your right. Of course, a far right government will have packed the highest courts with its people, and so you lose. Well, everyone has rights. Freedom of information isn't everything. No problem there.

  • Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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  • That's something that may cause some grief in Europe. Moderation in ATproto is opt-in. You don't have to subscribe to a US moderation service or any moderation service. One will probably want someone to filter spam, harassment, or content that one finds objectionable. But moderation according to EU regulations is about removing content that other people don't want you to see. I'm not sure if that's going to be super popular.

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  • how the data is used and stored

    That's a tricky one and will potentially cause a lot of problems to open social media in Europe. Just know that there is no such thing as "looking" at a post, comment, or profile. It gets downloaded to your device and stored for as long as it's needed, or maybe longer.

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    Back Then We Had More Regulations

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    Visualizing Rectified Flows

    alechelbling.com /blog/rectified-flow/
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    Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month

    www.reuters.com /world/asia-pacific/australia-social-media-ban-hits-47-million-teen-accounts-first-month-2026-01-15/
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    Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far

    wikimedia.org.uk /2026/01/wikimedia-uk-and-the-online-safety-act/
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    Oh no! Linus doesn't know AI is useless!

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    Crude!

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    NetChoice Wins Permanent Block of Louisiana Age Verification Law, Protecting Free Speech and Parental Rights - NetChoice

    netchoice.org /netchoice-wins-permanent-block-of-louisiana-age-verification-law-protecting-free-speech-and-parental-rights/
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    TIL Tonka Beans are illegal in the USA

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    A coordinated EU approach to housing

    epthinktank.eu /2025/05/21/a-coordinated-eu-approach-to-housing-2/
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    Just Kidding... Unless?

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    Ancient Lore

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    EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally

    www.techdirt.com /2025/12/04/eus-top-court-just-made-it-literally-impossible-to-run-a-user-generated-content-platform-legally/
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    EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally

    www.techdirt.com /2025/12/04/eus-top-court-just-made-it-literally-impossible-to-run-a-user-generated-content-platform-legally/
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    Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft

    authorsguild.org /news/ag-asks-supreme-court-to-hold-internet-providers-accountable-for-copyright-theft/
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    AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

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    UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

    news.ubc.ca /2025/10/universal-organ-transplant/
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    Anti-Piracy Firm Threatens ICANN with Lawsuit Over .to Domain Piracy * TorrentFreak

    torrentfreak.com /anti-piracy-firm-threatens-icann-with-lawsuit-over-to-domain-piracy/
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    Anti-Piracy Firm Threatens ICANN with Lawsuit Over .to Domain Piracy * TorrentFreak

    torrentfreak.com /anti-piracy-firm-threatens-icann-with-lawsuit-over-to-domain-piracy/