We need a sci-fi-action series where the central protagonist is the European Data Protection Board and episodes consist of two-hour legal proceedings on the minutiae of digital regulation. =)
And the solution is _politics_ (which people like to universally hate) and redesigning socioeconomic systems. Actually regulate & impose democratic will on private commercial power & you get better products besides a healthier information ecosystem for all.
Ironically, LLMs fall directly afoul of good (software) engineering practices, which prize clear causality, reliability & standardization.
As we speak: the biggest move of πΊπΈmilitary assets we've seen in years in preparation for war with Iran
This right here is why the US will never voluntarily pull out of Europe. Without these European bases, the Americans can't launch their military adventures in the Middle East.
The AI-boosting left seem to mostly emanate from the intellectual sphere around Adam Tooze, who has done and continues to do good work, but his fascination with China and βworld-historical changeβ really blinds him here.
What a patently misleading question. Maybe the Toozebros should be more critical towards their idolized academicβs boyish fascination with everything that could be seen as a Chinese success.
From Ukraine to human rights to climate to the survival of the EU itself, the need to reduce critical dependencies on the US that can (and already have) been politicized is undeniably pressing.
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The issue isnβt so much about strangulating basic research as about market and institutional design. Much one can disagree with Merz here too, e.g. an ordoliberal preference for simplification instead of a continental industrial strategy, but this is an issue that goes beyond Germany as well.
Merz does have an old-crank-streak of βpeople are spoiled these daysβ introducing nonsense like limiting sick leave, but in this particular case the broken clock is correct. Europe is completely dependent on the US for IT & defence, in spite of our own good researchers & scientific institutions.
Not quite βaww youβre sweetβ, more just reprieve at not receiving a full-frontal assault this time. There was public pushback at the highest levels too.
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New data shows #Brexit has lowered UK GDP by 6-8% in 10 years. Investment down 18%, employment down 4%.
It's even worse than economists had predicted pre-referendum, because they thought there would be a bounce-back long term.
"Economists were roughly right on the magnitude of the impact, but...
Also proof that one can be centrist and still not reactionary. Itβs perfectly possible to just forthrightly reject the rightwing nonsense they hurl about. Itβs really more an indictment of a specific class of self-styled βmoderatesβ that far-right framings have such a hold over them.
Interesting chart today from the FT.
Europeans' first instinct is to talk themselves down. So many people here happily nod along with Anglo-Saxon bullies trashing this continent.
But their negativity is usually not justified by the facts.
www.ft.com/content/af70...
Assuming half of Americans are irredeemable gutter racists seems like a misdiagnosis with politically catastrophic results. Another example was the Palestine-issue voters, many of whom went for Trump (or just abstained from voting).
Hmm, isnβt the point of open debate not convincing your interlocutor, but the audience? The American system seems to be serving a segment of the voter base besides the preternatural racists very poorly when they feel like their only option is to bet on Trump.
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Some, sure. Not sure it applies to everyone.
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You mean the countries (in Europe at least) who are still deeply dependent on US military capabilities while a war with nearly 2 million casualties is raging on?
Itβs telling the only resignations so far have happened... in Europe.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Epstein is intertwined with powerful US elites who have pursued pedophilic relations and she treats it as a piece of entertainment, βboringβ.
One suspects this is actually about the circles she frequents being implicated in these crimes. But the framing, βboringβ, also so very Baudrillardian.
Because the USSR and Russia are not the same entities. One should acquire a minimum of historical knowledge before making confident statements like this.
Yes, the USSR was an overland empire with unwillingly colonized peoples who never accepted russification. Russia proper, by and large, is not.
Iβm not sure what world you are living in. That wonβt happen, one way or another, with a nuclear state. All Ukraine can do is eliminate the Russian *will* to fight.
But it takes time for states to exhaust & genuinely change their perspectives. The USSR collapsed not because of Reaganite bellicosity (it was a time of relative thaw with the West in fact), but from genuine internal ideological exhaustion.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Since both sides still have plenty of fight left in them, our goal is to keep Ukraine in the game long enough for Russia to be exhausted and willing to negotiate a deal that wouldnβt be a de facto Ukrainian capitulation (or a Russian re-invasion a few years down the line).
Hasnβt the mantra always been βRussia cannot win, Ukraine cannot loseβ?
How to define victory is the question here. Independence and European integration for Ukraine yes, while also containing any fallout in Russia is the tightrope that must be walked.
The USSR was a genuine case of overland imperialism, with ethnically homogeneous states that never accepted the their colonization. Russia proper is not the same.
In any case, βweβre still hereβ with the first large-scale land war on the European continent since WWII. Russia collapsed & radicalized
Russia already relapsed into its imperial ambitions after a major defeat (USSR collapse), there is no reason a defeat in Ukraine couldnβt be sold by some hardliner as a reason to go into full mobilization and preparation for wider war against Europe.
The fear of collapse is precisely what hamstrings European aid, clearly a matter of consideration. Imagine 50 unstable nuclear-armed mafia states and the resulting refugee wave, or an even more bellicose hardliner from some of the siloviki in power.
This has always been the issue with this war: given that in a nuclear age it wonβt be like defeating the Nazis, how to keep Ukraine sovereign while also trying to ensure positive long-term developments inside Russia, given that it will always be Europeβs neighbor?
Does it? People tend to not consider what the effects on Russian society might be long-term. An outright defeat without Western tanks in Moscow to force a surrender and de-imperialization at gunpoint could fuel revanchism even further than itβs currently under Putin.
