Frank Witte
@alarcos.bsky.social
Prof. UCL Econ. Computational Economist & ex-Theoretical Physicist, Alpine Glacier hiker, born: 30 Messidor CLXXIV.
If these AI companies would be held to the same standards as aircraft manufacturers or pharmaceutical companies ... we i) wouldn't be having any of these discussions and ii) we'd end up with a by-far superior product.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If these AI companies would be held to the same standards as aircraft manufacturers or pharmaceutical companies ... we i) wouldn't be having any of these discussions and ii) we'd end up with a by-far superior product.
The half-hearted Libya air-campaign is completely incomparable to a ground war on European soil that seeks to defend European territory against an invader, amd that has clear contact lines.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The half-hearted Libya air-campaign is completely incomparable to a ground war on European soil that seeks to defend European territory against an invader, amd that has clear contact lines.
Vive La France!
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November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Vive La France!
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And for once the Union could do something actually useful for a change, and call industrial action against the govt’s relentless demolishing of the sector, rather than its current pipe dreams about wanting more pay when the whole sector is collapsing.
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And for once the Union could do something actually useful for a change, and call industrial action against the govt’s relentless demolishing of the sector, rather than its current pipe dreams about wanting more pay when the whole sector is collapsing.
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The Finnish Architecture Museum is joining the Design Museum and they sold off excess furniture. So now there is an Artek Y805A glass table (Alvar Aalto, 1947) as a side table in the living room. Which is very nice, but now it needs some expensive design table light to tie the room together. Sigh.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
😂 What a relief ... I had an excellent time in Helsinki by the way! My visit to the Design Museum with their Moomin exhibition was a delightful highlight.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
😂 What a relief ... I had an excellent time in Helsinki by the way! My visit to the Design Museum with their Moomin exhibition was a delightful highlight.
I was there last week but didn't notice 🤭nor did I see four dudes in pink 😊 Mysteries upon mysteries.
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I was there last week but didn't notice 🤭nor did I see four dudes in pink 😊 Mysteries upon mysteries.
Well, the Trump plan is Ukraine's surrender ... the US has already surrendered a while ago and now negotiates on Russia's behalf.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Well, the Trump plan is Ukraine's surrender ... the US has already surrendered a while ago and now negotiates on Russia's behalf.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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