"We see a large number of countries where the rule of law continues to decline,
most notably in Italy, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary,
of course. The reason behind this is because the EU is not strong enough in its responses to rule of law decline"

Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backups

What all this says is that simple decisions are best made by careful conscious thought. But for complicated decisions, the best choices may result from “deliberation without paying attention,” that is letting the thinking be done by the unconscious mind

Examples of wasted potential:

Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.

James: 3D-printed prosthetic limbs for A-levels. Today? Writing credit risk reports.

Alex: Developed AI drone swarms for disaster relief at 18. Graduated with top honours from Imperial. His job? Tweaking a single button's ergonomics on home appliances.

These aren't outliers. They're a generation of engineering prodigies whose talents are being squandered.

This isn't just wage disparity. It's misallocation of human capital on a national scale.

It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.

I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture

the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "depressed" to "bright"

This year has been masterclass in human destruction, UN chief tells Cop29

ehhh...

the blogosphere, and the public social media landscape, represented the spirit of this civilizational chapter in a much truer way than old media

Reeves, who qualified 31st out of the 35 cars, ran as high as 21st and successfully avoided a first lap crash in turn 14. Reeves finished 25th

oh oh...

Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: this is why social media has become ungovernable

Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating

One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.

This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation

man braucht einen .cbz-Webcomic-Reader dafür, cooles Projekt!

It turns out, the “One Weird Trick” to faster software delivery was not “fire your testers”.

Wrecking this discipline was one of the worst kind of management mistakes

This repository contains source code for Elite on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), with every single line documented and (for the most part) explained

Mit offenen Karten: Deutschland einig "Pharma-Land" (Zitat Söder)

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Paintings That Will Make You Question Everything Wrong in This World