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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 7h

which is why there is a massive overlap with tech demos and tech execs who view this thing similarly

sure, at the paper-thin depth of a demo you can make a lot of things look good but they forgot that there has to be then something actually good delivered at the end of the day

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 7h

This is an excellent Blue Man Group reference.

open.spotify.com/track/3LQo6S...

Shake Your Euphemism - Single Version

open.spotify.com

Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 8h

ah yeah I remember the story about the british ambassador being chased by wild boar in our woods: apnews.com/not-diplomat...

Not diplomatic: Boar chases British ambassador in Austria

Some situations leave even the most seasoned diplomats unprepared. Take a British ambassador's encounter with a wild boar.

apnews.com

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 16h

FPTP means FPTP!

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 16h

Then the stability of the FPTP system is showcased like the Brexit dividends

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Nouvella @nouvella.bsky.social · 1d

Ich finde ja das Urteil zeigt auch die tiefsitzende Misogynie der ÖVP und die Verlogenheit der Politik.

"Wir brauchen keine Frauenquote, weil da kommen unqualifizierte Quotenfrauen zum Zug. Kompetente, qualifizierte Frauen brauchen keine Quote"

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 17h

Please keep doing the discworld QOTD - for one you’ll never run out of quotes, Terry wrote in such a multi-layered way that there is always more to discover.

I quite enjoy seeing it on my timeline.

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 1d

This reminds me of the theory of history that things do not heal in a society sense, just scar over and get encapsulated as if in amber.

People will be too busy to try to fix or mitigate the bigger topics once the current authoritarian system crashes in the US.

It sucks.

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 2d

even from an extremely cynical, self-interested point of view, creating an extremely liberal social network, a sort of anti-twitter would be quite profitable - plenty of oligarchs would buy it eventually

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 2d

It is incredibly ironic. Fediverse decentralization works but you wish it didn’t, and Bluesky decentralization doesn’t work while Bluesky developers try to pretend it does to avoid being accountable for running a centralized service.

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 2d

The slurp juice went into circular finance instead.

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 2d

There needs always to be some magic fix.

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 2d

Further mess

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

they wrote this, which understandably strongly implied sentience to the vast majority of people replying to them even if they explicitly disclaimed it later.

Claiming that bigotry exists against inanimate objects was...not persuasive.

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 7d

i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

yeah the original poster seems to have claimed that being anti-ai is bigotry and when people took the implication of this that AI has sentience they furiously backpedaled out of that.

It is a very simple case of someone writing a daft statement and doubling down on it instead of deleting.

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

That headline works in that direction too

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

Do cafes, restaurants and pubs only pay for use of that space on weekdays?

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

This would mean then that if I ask Stadt Wien for exclusive use of city property that is regularly used as a couple of parking places, it will be free of charge for me on the weekends?

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

Also since it is the weekend: why is it that public transport costs money on the weekend, but parking most everywhere is free of charge?

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Austrian Fietser @woemi.bsky.social · 3d

Vienna still charges far too little for on-street parking compared to garage rates, losing millions in potential revenue each year. While the city faces budget cuts in social services, it continues to heavily subsidize car use. Time to rethink urban priorities. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Wo noch massive Einsparungen oder Teuerungen in Wien drohen könnten

Ein Milliardendefizit zwingt die Stadt Wien zum Handeln. Einige Einschnitte stehen bereits fest. Um andere, etwa den Gratiskindergarten, wird heftig gerungen. Ein Überblick

www.derstandard.at

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

He needs to fake an injury convincingly. The referee won’t award a yellow card otherwise

Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

Social scientists will mine AI for decades

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 3d

This is why i like to substitute alchemy for AI.

All the stupid slogans get exposed for how ridiculous they are once you do that:

“Alchemy is here to stay”
“Alchemy is only getting better and better over time”
etc

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 4d

I’ve written more in depth about this here: secarch.dev/we-need-eu-h...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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