Florimond Houssiau
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WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...
European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union
Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...
www.euroveg.eu
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...
This is a fucking joke -- you need a paid account to turn off Gemini?? If anything this is the best proof of how deeply unpopular AI is (pay me or you must use the slop machine that costs me billions every year)
August 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This is a fucking joke -- you need a paid account to turn off Gemini?? If anything this is the best proof of how deeply unpopular AI is (pay me or you must use the slop machine that costs me billions every year)
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A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive
Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out.
But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time.
Members of Jordan’s military stand among pallets of aid about to be dropped on Gaza. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
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i can’t take the hypocrisy in so much western media coverage of israel’s bombing of iran and iran’s retaliation.
israel can do whatever it wants and they’ll find a way to legitimize it, but iran is positioned as fundamentally evil and thus deserving of attack and bloodthirsty in its response.
israel can do whatever it wants and they’ll find a way to legitimize it, but iran is positioned as fundamentally evil and thus deserving of attack and bloodthirsty in its response.
June 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
i can’t take the hypocrisy in so much western media coverage of israel’s bombing of iran and iran’s retaliation.
israel can do whatever it wants and they’ll find a way to legitimize it, but iran is positioned as fundamentally evil and thus deserving of attack and bloodthirsty in its response.
israel can do whatever it wants and they’ll find a way to legitimize it, but iran is positioned as fundamentally evil and thus deserving of attack and bloodthirsty in its response.
I posted this on the bad place, but I am once again asking privacy scientists to have a look at what's going on with medical professionals. Things are really bad there 🫠
May 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I posted this on the bad place, but I am once again asking privacy scientists to have a look at what's going on with medical professionals. Things are really bad there 🫠
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Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.
buff.ly
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Welp, guess I'm not the only one that had this useless and environmentally destructive "feature" pushed to their phone. Has anyone figured out how to remove it on Android? (besides switching to Signal)
April 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Welp, guess I'm not the only one that had this useless and environmentally destructive "feature" pushed to their phone. Has anyone figured out how to remove it on Android? (besides switching to Signal)
Reading synthetic data papers in healthcare journals is often infuriating as a privacy (ex-)researcher, but I stumbled across one that is really egregious. The authors cite Stadler et al. (the initial work on membership inference attacks on SDG), to (wrongly!) dismiss a SOTA notion of privacy,
March 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reading synthetic data papers in healthcare journals is often infuriating as a privacy (ex-)researcher, but I stumbled across one that is really egregious. The authors cite Stadler et al. (the initial work on membership inference attacks on SDG), to (wrongly!) dismiss a SOTA notion of privacy,
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
This paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc..., published at ICAIC25, blatantly plagiarises a paper by myself and colleagues at the Turing,, claiming that they developed the sqlsynthgen package. Although the text has been rephrased, the contents are nearly identical.
February 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc..., published at ICAIC25, blatantly plagiarises a paper by myself and colleagues at the Turing,, claiming that they developed the sqlsynthgen package. Although the text has been rephrased, the contents are nearly identical.
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Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting
I think probably 95% of speculation that your phone is secretly listening to you is overblown, but man the tech industry really does not do itself any favors with that 5% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
arstechnica.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting
This is so much better than having a liveable planet
December 12, 2024 at 9:53 PM
This is so much better than having a liveable planet