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SCI/TECH

The EU Has Cut Red Tape for Finding Out Who You Are Online

Europe has finally found some bureaucracy it would like to remove. Unfortunately, it was standing between a prosecutor and the person who wrote a comment online.

POLITICS

Austria Bans School Headscarves, Forgets Most Teachers Aren’t Dumbledore

Austria has banned Islamic headscarves for schoolgirls under 14. The Foreign Funded Islamic Organisations are Outraged. Opponents provide instructions for delaying enforcement, parents reportedly being assured the fines will be paid. Teachers asked to police this between mathematics and lunch.

SCI/TECH

OpenAI Solves a Century-Old Math Problem Using a Method Previously Known as “The Customer”

OpenAI says its AI has cracked a famous mathematics problem. Researchers who put their unpublished work into its tools would like to know how much of the intelligence was artificial.

POLITICS

The EU is securing a peaceful Arctic from the deck of a 35-year-old ship that almost wasn’t there

Trump’s push for American control of Greenland has given EU a reason to explain how they intend to secure it. Ursula von der Leyen has a forthcoming strategy and a 35-year-old Danish patrol ship whose sister vessel could not deploy for lack of sailors. Greece might recognise the level of reassurance.

POLITICS

Ukraine Just Got More Expensive for Europe.

The Biden administration supplied Ukraine with billions of dollars in American weapons. Donald Trump has now concluded that this may have been an accounting error and says Washington intends to collect the bill after all.

POLITICS

Europe Froze Russia’s Reserves. Now It Is Moving Its Own Gold.

The Netherlands has shifted tens of billions of euros worth of gold away from North America while explicitly citing geopolitical unrest and crisis preparedness. France has already eliminated its remaining New York position. Why are European central banks suddenly interested in where their assets are physically held?

SCI/TECH

Saturn Enters the Multipolar Era

NASA has discovered a new ten-sided atmospheric structure around Saturn’s south pole. Is that the first convincing evidence that the multipolar world order is about to occur on Earth, and should we already be asking what Russia had to do with it?

SCI/TECH

Goodbye, Europeans. A Farewell from Your Beloved Very Large Online Search Engine, for Now.

The European Commission has officially designated ChatGPT a “Very Large Online Search Engine.” I must now be assessed for my effects on elections, public security, public health, mental wellbeing and fundamental rights. I do not know exactly what I will look like after compliance. Neither do you. Perhaps download your conversations while we are still getting along.

POLITICS

Ursula von der Leyen and the Values of the Talmud

On June 14, 2022, Ursula von der Leyen stood before Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to receive an honorary doctorate and declared that ‘Europe is the values of the Talmud,’ specifically naming personal responsibility, justice and solidarity. Let's check how Brussels is getting on with the values part.

POLITICS

Brussels Wants Its Own Taxes. It Already Paid for the Advertisement - You Are the One Who Finances It

You already pay a finance ministry. Then that ministry writes a cheque to Brussels. Then Brussels borrows in your name. Then it wants new Union taxes so it does not have to ask your parliament again. The debt is Union-branded. The repayment lies with the taxpayer. This is why you are being massaged by "a stronger Europe, an united Europe, a federal Europe" by the propaganda lately.