Daniel Sereduick

My valid opinion is that he is an idiot with an invalid opinion

This man is an idiot

This is corpse desecration

Yeah, the recent US use of sanctions is batshit insane. Par for the Trump 2 presidency.

I think they're doing the best they can with a terrible hand and tying their own hands is the best legal path to try to construct something close to sovereign. It's a lot more substance than theatre, but enough for EU policymakers stung by tariffs, or a wildly incoherent SCOTUS? TBD.

It's important to note that the US constitution provides little in the way of positive rights / private safeguards. 14th amendment does things but most of it is government-limiting rather than rights-ensuring. Roberts SCOTUS killed off privacy as an implied right and rejects cases on privacy harms

Trendline is that EU/member states will impose sovereignty requirements, whether in procurement, sensitive sectors, or associated with certifications (or all of those). The AWS blog is well-lawyered but US is simply one of the most rights-hostile countries on the planet from an EU norms perspective

100% just make sure there are clear real world visible impacts, principles-based esoterica just feeds the narrative that government doesn't do good things with the money. It's done more obviously here in France/Paris than in US cities and it defuses a lot of bitchery. And loudly take credit!

This isn't Twitter

A Master's degree doesn't make you a good fit for scooping ice cream. Being overqualified is a real thing and unskilled roles are not there for skilled people to pay their bills for a few months until they get their for-realsies job.

Education gives you access to fewer, but better, jobs.

US media deservedly attributing literally anything positive to EU regulation challenge

Anything involving collective action = no, we'll let the poor/infirm/disadvantaged die, because we're selfish and lazy assholes

Every time I see stories like this I think back to every piece of legal advice I've given to not use AI for automated decision making..."told you so".

Hire good lawyers, y'all - we know where the rakes are, and better yet, where they will be in the future

training data

two men in military uniforms salute in front of a man with the words thank you for your service below them ALT: two men in military uniforms salute in front of a man with the words thank you for your service below them

Mr. Bee,

Nah it's just Trump and his plutofascist friends, not "EU made a law"

Qualia = the personal instantiation of experiencing a sensation. Red is red but how can we tell what each person experiences when they experience red?

Mostly bullshit IMO, a bit like "is the sun a god", but maybe there are some interesting differentiation hypotheticals I guess

For me it was the Very Large Array's museum, not because of any weird content but because it was a museum that didn't condescend, it was very technical and actual-science-y

My French teacher recently recommended it

I have a t-shirt from it but didn't go in 🤷‍♂️ I call it my "whale dick shirt"

And everything is self-defense, so the laws of war are fake news. QED.

Which is which

I hope to hell someone has nominated Palestinian journalists (the ones still alive) for the Nobel Peace Prize

If it replaces RU gas with US gas, that's a small net positive on the fascism-o-meter.

We don't need to happily eat the shit sandwich, though.

Better than the usual garbage from Germany at least

Exactly. Half of the US financial service industries are outsourced there. These MAGA imbeciles don't even perceive much less understand trade in services

The ability is there. The willingness is not - cozy Brussels elite leaders are cowards, and the ranks of academic bureaucrats don't know how to win real world fights.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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I'm going to get "Article 21 GDPR" tattooed on my knuckles