Great essay from @om on the #enshittification of media and communication because we cranked up the velocity:

https://om.co/2026/01/21/velocity-is-the-new-authority-heres-why/

Via @gruber

I do appreciate all the work the EU has done with regulatory work around data sovereignty and the DMA. But they would still be gigafucked if the US ordered Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to cut them off. They may not even have the encryption keys accessible entirely in the EU. The fact that their […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/115938964027844355

Somebody tell this to the Europeans that just announced W with great fanfare…

Trust that the rich are only interested in ROI and not the commons.

It’s a stark difference hearing #canada’s Carney 1] and the [#EU’s VonDerLeyen [2].

One’s strategic, the other is tactical. One is global, the other is regional. One is inviting, the other is excluding. One is value and human-first, the other is economy first. One is humble and acknowledging […]

It's not that Europe "must be ready" — Europe *is* ready.

What we're looking for is leaders who are ready as well.

A Supreme Court case about a bank robbery could redefine digital rights in the US. I wrote about it and its implications. https://werd.io/who-owns-your-data/

European Union companies' annual purchases of cloud software services that benefit the US economy amount to €264 billion … If the EU were able to produce 15% of the cloud software services it currently purchases from the United States in 2035, this would result in 463,000 additional jobs in the […]

This percentage figure really shows how much control EU companies have given to their US counterparts. Also, how big is the opportunity here.

> 80% of total spending on cloud software and services for business use in Europe went to US companies

Another case of quality #liquidglass UI design…
cc @gruber

Great article by #louisrosenberg on #ai. I have felt uneasy with the idea of purely statistical systems. This article sheds some light that in fact model abstraction seems to be happening, which is huge; and another step closer to “intelligence”.

It also tees up my other criticism: The resource […]

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGreens/115889853291596060

Now we just need to bring this freedom everywhere across the globe.

Should be “Greenland and Denmark”, not “Denmark and Greenland”, dear European politicians.

Also, when are you gonna get off your arse, form a EU defence framework (alongside/within NATO), better international collaboration with the countries reasonably respecting international laws and values […]

What idiot called it vibe coding and not prayer programming

I want to live in a country that takes pride in leaving nobody behind, where the strong feel good about themselves, not because they have more than others, but because they are able to carry those less fortunate.

#thoughts #dream

Yessss.
See, the Commission *can* get its act together, and act effectively and decisively. Which is why it's frustrating when they don't.

Committing war crimes or outright murdering people, or both. That's what the president of the United States and his military henchmen are doing on the open seas, in your name and with your tax dollars.

Read this from one of our best national security journalists […]