RE:
Aral’s fediverse server
Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
The EU should think very seriously about visa requirements requiring vaccination certificates from USians before permitting entry. Unlike five yea...
 indeed, many countries do this, makes sense for EU to introduce such a requirement View quoted note →
#Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro #cloud -
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Exclusive: Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution
 "but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider." absurd if it isn't possible
#TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse -
Techdirt
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outc...
 "This was never about addressing privacy, propaganda, or national security. " #ellison
Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a #simulation after all -
ScienceDaily
Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientis...
 "Using #Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding,” something no computation can replicate." exciting stuff
RE:
mas.to
Tom Raftery (@TomRaftery@mas.to)
Solar’s biggest weakness was never cost. It was timing. That problem is now solved. Falling battery prices mean solar is cheap, clean, and dispa...
 "long-duration utility-scale battery storage now costs around $125/kWh all-in, translating to a levelised cost of storage of roughly $65/MWh. Pair that with today’s already cheap solar, and you get dispatchable electricity for around $76/MWh" hugely important View quoted note →
Videos of sexually suggestive, AI-generated children are racking up millions of likes on #TikTok, study finds - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report "TikTok responded that 14 of the accounts did not violate their rules and one account had been “restricted,”
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses #Language -
Quanta Magazine
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta Magazine
Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in th...
 " Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs." plausible stuff
Secrecy Tracker: The EU’s plan to classify (almost) everything -
EUobserver
Secrecy Tracker: The EU’s plan to classify (almost) everything
The latest Secrecy Tracker warns that a proposed EU law could restrict public access to documents, while also covering controversies over EU transp...
 "we are ending the year with some dire news. The right to access documents in the EU is potentially coming to an end." #foi
X deactivates @European Commission ad account after the company was fined €120M -
TechCrunch
X deactivates European Commission’s ad account after the company was fined €120M | TechCrunch
X has seemingly penalized the European Commission's account after the commission fined the company over blue checkmarks and ad transparency.
 so much for freedom of speech, musk. EU should close down all its #twitter accounts now
Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government -
BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government
Ex-Tory MP facilitated meetings with 10+ Labour MPs and met ministers in “cash-for-access operation”
 "Ex-Tory MP facilitated meetings with 10+ Labour MPs and met ministers in “cash-for-access operation”" every time...