Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe
Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.
Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
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The Wuhan lab is STILL doing unsafe research that could trigger a pandemic AND getting prestigious pubs as incentive.π«
To fix this for the future, we have to admit we were deliberately misled on the possibility of a lab leak in the past. Horrid but true.
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The global AI arms race is onβcan Europe keep up, or is it still looking for the start button? ππ€ www.france24.com/en/technolog...
11.02.2025 19:12 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
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Examples:
Simple domain:
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Specific page:
www.whitehouse.gov/administration β www.whitehouse.govwayback.com/administration
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11.02.2025 14:58 β π 494 π 260 π¬ 11 π 10
Opinion | DeepSeek and the Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For
This is not a Sputnik moment. Itβs way past that.
"Instead of a futile effort to keep this genie bottled up, the government and the industry should be preparing our society for the sweeping changes that are soon to come." by @zey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
05.02.2025 17:06 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 2
Voiβs eight-year vehicle lifespan proves to be a big contributing factor to the operator's first profitable year.
Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/vois-...
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/shared-scooter-startup-voi-reports-its-first-profitable-year-as-it-explores-an-ipo/
Today at Voi Technology we report our first profitable year ! Massive achievement for the micromobility industry t.co/wkv1wpizxf
29.01.2025 08:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'Γ¨ sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
21.01.2025 18:14 β π 29350 π 9718 π¬ 315 π 730
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention
www.404media.co/decentralize...
21.01.2025 17:35 β π 944 π 259 π¬ 14 π 22
Zuckerberg says theyβre unleashing free speech and βmasculine energyβ, but Meta is REMOVING THEME COLORS for personalizing PRIVATE messenger chats.
Such free speech.
Praising the politician who had just said he should be imprisoned for life?
So brave.
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Russia, China and Iran all demonstrated a growing ability to create and disseminate AI-generated media and digital content during the 2024 campaign.
Beyond the US, over 130 deepfakes have been identified in elections worldwide since September 2023.
www.iss.europa.eu/pu...
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Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes says Washington Post blocked her cartoon β first time, she says in her career β on tech moguls donating to Trump inauguration so she resigned from the job she had since 2008.
Thinnest of skins, I guess.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
04.01.2025 04:28 β π 201 π 54 π¬ 6 π 2
New from me on what the rage and glee on public display after the killing of a healthcare CEO portends.
I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives.
They would be advised to read up on history.
ππ
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
06.12.2024 18:55 β π 585 π 201 π¬ 50 π 43
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
04.12.2024 14:13 β π 8937 π 3761 π¬ 271 π 301
TikTok CEO summoned to European Parliament over role in shock Romania election
The role of Chinese-owned TikTok is under scrutiny following the shock victory of a far-right candidate in Romaniaβs election.
Pffff
Typical mainstream politician reaction. βIt was TikTokβs fault! Letβs haul their CEO in front of the EP!β
Can we please *think* what specific problem we want to address here instead?
www.politico.eu/article/elec...
27.11.2024 07:23 β π 28 π 7 π¬ 4 π 0
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trumpβs unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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17.11.2024 10:18 β π 21431 π 10314 π¬ 1179 π 1233
1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.β¬οΈ
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Opinion | How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Could Destroy One of Civilizationβs Best Achievements
Letβs not make child mortality great again.
Why the people who hope RFK Jr will bring some amount of needed reform to the nationβs health and food are wrong.
He will likely bring a wrecking ball to the good parts, but doesnβt have the chops or the evidence mindset to go after, say, unhealthy food.
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