One of those things, I believe, is how art reflects in us as beholders. How it makes us feel.

Go to your local museum. Enjoy this small (big?) human indulgence.

If you’re in/around Detroit, DIA’s Anishinaabe Art exhibition is still on until April 5. 2/2

This feels less like a privacy perfect storm and more like an infrastructure reckoning. Once AI workloads and cross-border data flows collide with GDPR reform, control of compute and models becomes the real pressure point. Data localization isn’t just regulatory anymore—it’s strategic.

... increased data sharing within complex AI agent models / tools and - for a lack of better word - "social medialisation" of chatbots with detailed profiles of users, using this for ads and the related pressure to keep users online for longer.

Only managed to read this now. Great piece. I particularly like the description of how rapidly the EU policy on re-opening GDPR changed. On LLMs, I always thought that models contain personal data. I think the big issues going forward will indeed be personalisation (increasing context windows), ...

Thank you very much for reading it and sharing, Norman!

I have a personal subscription for The Economist starting with 3 years ago and it’s the best investment (be it steep, indeed) in keeping track of the big world. The app is also very good. I rarely have the time to read the print edition, which piles in my livingroom, but I read it digitally daily.

More about the documentary & the protests here. After its release, 700 judges & prosecutors and counting are publicly denouncing their leadership’s deep corruption. 3/3

www.reuters.com/world/romani...

This is the same justice system which became an anti-corruption flagship in the EU in the early 2010s, when Laura Codruta Kovesi was the chief anti-corruption prosecutor, ousted ultimately by the political mob. The same mob systematically debilitated justice ever since. 2/3