Don't pin this on the war. People refuse to travel to the US because of the genuine risk they'll end up in some ICE dungeon to be detained indefinitely, tortured, humiliated and sexually assaulted by the deranged criminal DHS freaks.
Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, states that Hungarian authorities took seven Ukrainian Oschadbank employees hostage in Budapest, calling it state terrorism and racketeering. Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
#Ukraine accuses #Hungary of detaining seven Oschadbank employees and seizing cash in Budapest, calling it "state terrorism and racketeering."
Ukraine demands their release and #EU intervention, citing unlawful hostage-taking and robbery.
EU data watchdog is pushing for explicit limits on US access to European personal data. This goes beyond current privacy frameworks - it's about drawing hard jurisdictional lines over who can access what data from where. Tech sovereignty rapidly rising as top political issue.
💥SCOOP: Putin tasked Sergei Kiriyenko to run a Moldova-style election meddling operation in Hungary for Orbán, sending three GRU-linked political technologists with diplomatic or service passports to operate from the Russian Embassy in Budapest. More in my newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-krem...
There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.
There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.
Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement.
I think this is Israel.
All shining examples of democratic governance.
Just as with Snowden US tech companies are (unlike in the US case) apparently unbothered by European surveillance concerns about their AI systems - but this time its more serious IMO. These tools have incredible data on us, and can be used for manipulation more effectively than X's algorithm.
Stakhanovism but capitalist is not a recipe for economic growth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhUC...
Ubatz.
We're all dead and in hell (it's mostly emails).
A friend of mine suggested that we translate slop as "shtup" in Macedonian. Slop, as in pig food is "pomija," but he suggested shtup as an onomatopoeic word for badly-made viscous gloop common in school kitchens being dropped out of a ladle and on to a plate.
While you were whacking off to prestige systems, I mastered the low cost interceptor drone.
Suddenly, its turns out that it is not smart to arrogantly shit on an ally that has learned how to down 200 Shaheds every single night and then wipe out and oil refinery or a military airfield with a handful of cheap drones.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
I always thought the final Dominion War scenes looked more like the Spanish Armada.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI said they were defending Americans from the dangers of AI-powered mass surveillance last week.
Europeans, of course, are not Americans.
Read my article at @euractiv.com:
www.euractiv.com/news/us-ai-g...
1/10 If the last few days of Iranian strikes on Dubai have proven anything, it’s that a massive number of people completely despise the city and those living there.
And honestly? There are very good reasons to despise them.
A thread on the city of hypocrites 🧵👇
"You know when a shithead wins the lottery and immediately buys a frozen champagne sculpture of his own scrotum and pack of Filipino slave boys to hold up his home shelving units?
Well, if that person was a city it would be Dubai."
- Zero Punctuation (from review of Spec Ops: The Line)
I once stabbed myself in the leg because I was bored. 4 stitches.
A lot more countries have MAGA-like governments or large slopulist movements than people think.
Yeah, that's the thing. No dictator can last long in the face of determined institutional resistance. Bibi's been around since the 90s, continuously in power since the 2010s. It takes a village, as they say.
They’ve been living in online dreamspace, where you baldly announce something (“Donald Trump is the peace president! He would never start a war in the Middle East!”) and if enough people retweet it, it becomes true. The real world doesn’t work like that, it turns out
More and more I suspect these scum are paid by the Emirati government to spread their propaganda.
JFK is like Lubruk the orcish bard in Skyrim. So many people wanted him assassinated that the Dark Brotherhood had to hold a raffle.
We already have a MAGA-like criminal government in Macedonia and they're ruling happily with no problems whatsoever because this country is completely corrupt, the opposition is hapless and we have no institutions left that could check them. It's bleak.
The Bahraini Shias are basically in open revolt, and they form a majority of the population.
The Israelis have been trying to string him up for corruption and embezzlement, but him declaring new wars every other month keeps him immune from prosecution while he has war powers.
Makes perfect sense why a CCP tankie would (indirectly) support Trump. If you hate America and want China to win, Trump's your guy.
However, it probably would not have been as bad or spectacular as 9/11 and the response would not have been a full scale war.
