Depending on the context, this may or may not be a false dichotomy.
If considering the act of voting in an election in a country with a two party system, each with a different shade of neoliberalism, then there are two choices realistically, and picking the lesser evil is a decent moral choice.
If considering other countries or primaries where there are more than two options polling above 2%, then it’d be a false dichotomy.
the company also said AI could have a “net positive potential” on climate
It’s going to get us Net Fucked by 2030
Doomscrolling can decrease the motivation to act, contribute to anxiety and analysis paralysis.
Banning communities can be helpful to avoid those that fuel doomscrolling rather than action.
It’s sad.
Adoption rate does matter. HEIC currently has a 13.99% adoption, and WebP has a 95.92% adoption rate in web browsers.
So when considering support in softwate, it’s more reasonable to pick WebP as default, rather than HEIC.
There are of course other considerations, like compression efficiency, format features, patents, …
Seached and found that the European Union published an explanation for its vote on a similar draft submitted by 2022 by Russia.
EU Explanation of Vote – UN General Assembly: Draft Resolution on Combating glorification of Nazism
This both explain the EU’s rationale for not voting Russia’s draft, and explicitly condemn Niazism
The European Union is unequivocal in its commitment to the global fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, anti-semitism and related intolerance. Our joint fight against contemporary forms of all extremist and totalitarian ideologies, including neo-Nazism, must be a joint priority for the whole international community.
Thanks for the context.
Given Russia submitted the text, and given how european countries voted, I suspect this is mostly about Russia looking for justifications for attacking a neighbour and grabbing land.
Defending Nazism or showing Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany. Holocaust denial is illegal in several european countries. Yet they abstained.
They’d probably vote for such a text if it came from another country that doesn’t “undermine genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism”
I would settle for 100x slower but uncensored Internet.
Blackrock is part of the big three (BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street). They own a portion of almost everything, including each other.
So it’s often the case that Blackrock is involved, even indirectly.
https://theconversation.com/these-three-firms-own-corporate-america-77072
Our only options were to remove the extension or manage it.
The best option is of course to install another browser and remove chrome.
That’s the whole point.
Meanwhile in the EU: TikTok, five other Chinese firms hit by EU privacy complaints
I’m starting to think using fossil fuel, and having a strong dependency on other countries for energy supply, may not be a good idea after all.
Rest of the world: We’re deprecating C++ due to lack of memory safety. Please consider doing something for safety.
C++ commite: Here’s a new convenient operator to make it easier to do a potentially unsafe, multi-level pointer dereference.
It sounds surprising given the headline, but looks quite reasonable when looking at the details in the article:
Says the man always dragging his feet when time comes to support Ukraine’s self-defense
Does this attack scale linearly with key size?
Using the D-Wave Advantage, we successfully factored a 22-bit RSA integer, demonstrating the potential for quantum machines to tackle cryptographic problems
That attack is a threat only if it scale better than existing attacks.
What about winning hearts and minds?
Fighting ennemies while antagonising civilians create new ennemies. I fear that strategy is fueling an endless war, rather than ending a war.
Translation: We’re extremely short staffed, so we are shaming our employees into sacrificing their vacation
Google talk a lot about future renewables and nuclear energy projects, but they’re increasing energy consumption before those projects start producing energy.
So Google rely on burning lots of fossil fuel to power its fast AI developments, meaning their AI plans are increasing pollution and aggravating climate change.