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But they all suck, or rather the Internet kinda sucks these days. Google very much included in the sucking.

In Google Search’s prime DDG was still terrible and not a viable competitor even with the privacy advantage. Now both services are almost comparable, so it’s kind of a no-brainer to ditch Google.

Yeah, search has degraded along with the Internet, you almost need an LLM now to filter out all the garbage hits. For a while, adding “reddit” to your search term was an OK high level filter to remove blogspam and e-commerce sites, but interacting with reddit is so annoying now that it’s barely an option and many of the quality reddit posters have moved on while the state and corporate astroturfers are running the show. Never mind that the “reddit filter” also removed results from much better sources, like specialist forums.

Yeah and, like Starmer with his burner phone, using Tim Apple™ Phone with “trust me bro, I’m not gonna tell anyone what you’re doing on your phone, bro, I only gave the fascist president of that hostile country 24 carat gold as tribute that one time, bro, it’s not like I’m on his side or whatever” security features.

What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?

I’m guessing it wouldn’t be very effective for European travellers to the US that already have a lot of their communication based on American servers/infrastructure.

At this point I can’t imagine why people would want to live on or visit Sicily. The appeal of the food and culture is undeniable, but the island’s place on the frontlines of climate change really overshadows that by a wide margin in my book: summer temperatures that can go near 50 c, water shortages (the mafia taking over water distribution!), horrific wild fires. The list goes on.

The problem is that it isn’t clear what kinds of exposure private credit and other actors in the shadow banking space hold, because they generally operate on a model of financial obfuscation to get around banking regulation (i.e. being actual banks). What is known is that they are deeply intertwined with financing the AI bubble, even if all their exposure is through debt instruments, crypto schemes or insurance contracts (that probably is not the full scope though), they will be hit hard when their “borrowers” can’t pay back.

yours to hear

Though, from the snippet above it seems he just gave Greenlanders the right to listen to it, not actuallly gave the territory of Greenland all economic rights to his catalogue

And possibly the most parts of shadow banking, i.e the alt accounts of major financial institutions.

Fun times ahead!

It’s a different disease though. There is no political option that isn’t for migration crackdowns, imprisoning children and removing safeguards against repression and surveillance. But as opposed to the Trump regime, neither side of Swedish politics are trying to abolish the other or is actively trying to break down the constitutional order.

Ok, NVM Trump is great, super reliableand Nato is not at all in a state of disrepair. Got it.

But boy what a stupid move it proved to be to join Nato in panic. Historic blunder by Finland and Sweden.

Rescued to a sinking ship with a mad captain, where the mid-level officers are just running around in disbelief, unable to decide between doubling down on loyalty to the captain or taking command for themselves. Who will the captain shoot next? Will he shoot at all against the people he’s sworn to protect you from?

Yes and no, it moves the goal post and makes it harder for some criminals/terrorists to launder money. But organized crime is one of the largest business sectors in the world, so many have large incentives to get around the rules.

It’s helpful to think of crime as a (or many separate) business sector(s) in this context, because at large scale criminals can benefit from much of the economic infrastructure that is required for legitimate international businesses, particularly modern businesses that sell things that don’t cost much/anything to produce (doesn’t have a fixed profit margin), such as subscriptions, streaming or intellectual property (e.g. music or games downloads).

Not long ago the circulation of this dirty money was a staple of many parts of the established financial system (see the Wachovia cartel scandal as an example). Today’s rules and crackdowns after the 2008 financial crisis has changed that somewhat.

You know how you can only withdraw a certain amount of money from an ATM even if you have more in your account and need it in cash?

That’s because of laws against money laundering and terror financing. The gist of it is that criminals and terrorists will finance/get cash out of their activities through using a bunch of middle men/fronts, cash and other ways to obfuscate the origin/destination of the money.

If you’re rich, you look good

That’s not news

Dry Cleaning – Anna Calls from the Arctic

It’s a time honored tradition to treat foreign legions as disposable, even if Russia takes that to another level with the country’s general lack of regard for human life.

Tl;dr surveillance equipment working perfectly, used for dystopian surveillance. Major shocker.

In the context of parenting there are certainly better things you can do to prevent “shennanigans” other than subjecting them to surveillance. Like you know… raising them?

Terrifying with a generation of peole grown up under total control and expected to be perfectly obedient. They will be shitty adults. But hey, at least they won’t have memories of that time they snuck out at night to watch the stars.

Rutte is Trump’s most loyal ally and friend.