Despite the title, the article presents many well reasoned arguments that Europeans are making many important contributions to technology and society and that it is better to do it the European way rather than becoming better at creating monopolies and extracting wealth from society, like the big American tech. companies.

Who needs separate apps when you can just tell copilot what you want and it can put the slop straight into your trough?

Didn’t OpenAI say it’s right about 25% of the time?

Maybe WHO could declare a mental health emergency and mandate a lockdown and minimum 8 hours per day of AI use. And ban references to ‘slop’ - It’s really bad for the mental health of the billionaires when they hear their scam referred to as ‘slop’.

Petroleum industry in Mexico:

it is the fourth largest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere

Might have something to do with it.

And don’t forget the other common modes of attack: election interference, kidnapping and assassination of political leaders, funding and providing arms to militant groups to destabilise and foment regime change, piracy and direct military invasion of sovereign nations.

The threats are real.

No. He means his friends.

P.S. Trump is his own best friends. He’s very popular. Everyone says so. The most popular president ever.

P.P.S. That’s the royal we. The presidency will be a hereditary monarchy before they’re done with it.

Yes, only if you actually use it. But the question was: How will they prove that I have any social media history? the premise being that one can deny the existence of any history while actually using social media. Age verification will make this increasingly difficult and risky. If you use social media and deny it and they can prove you lied about using it, there will be consequences.

Have you heard about ‘age verification’ to ‘protect the children’? You too will be age verified. They will know all your accounts. That’s the whole point of age verification. It is to eliminate anonymity.

I did a little more searching with similar conclusion: most of what’s available is pretty extremely biased and unreliable. But it does seem there may be a connection beyond the vaccine he created being manufactured by Merck.

This CBS News article from 2008 says:

Offit holds in a $1.5 million dollar research chair at Children’s Hospital, funded by Merck. He holds the patent on an anti-diarrhea vaccine he developed with Merck, Rotateq, which has prevented thousands of hospitalizations.

That appears to be a quote from a Couric & Co Blog entry but that is “the official blog of the CBS Evening News”, so I guess CBS is quoting themselves and the information is as reliable as CBS. Unfortunately the linked blog entry no longer exists.

Offit is the current Chairholder of the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology according to UPENN website. I guess that’s a reliable source. CBS didn’t name the chair funded by Merck but the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology was established by Merck, according to UPENN.

On the other hand this UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences CME Information Sheet, which lists Offit as a speaker, says:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

I don’t see anything about ongoing funding of the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology by Merck. Only that Merck established it (presumably providing some endowment), and the possibly related report by CBS. Maybe $1.5million was the initial endowment.

B8B - Business ate business.

Is there any truth to the allegation that Dr Paul Offit received $1.5million from Merck? I don’t see any disclosure of such conflict of interest in the The Guardian article but it comes up when I search for information about him.

You know it’s only a matter of time until computers are ‘sold’ by subscription.

MEPs insist that age assurance systems must be accurate and preserve minors’ privacy

The EU, where War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength and Surveillance is Privacy.

Can they be made into finished lumber in Canada at a cost that would allow them to sell for a profit into export markets? What would it take to achieve this?

This makes me think of Don’t Talk to the Police

Google can read your emails whether you opt out or not.

Canada’s next. Or maybe Greenland.

Is it disabled in hardware, firmware or software? Does Linux enable it?

It’s an interesting article but it seems to me that when it comes to opposing abuse of power, free communication is more fundamental than free software. Without sufficiently free communication, free software is practically unavailable and for many purposes (anything that involves communication with others) it is unusable. Without sufficiently free means of communication, the fediverse will cease to exist. Access to and use of the Internet is increasingly regulated.