Threads can't be in the EU unless it's federated, basically. It's likely Facebook/Instagram will adopt federated protocols as well. Facebook has to allow interoperability on their platform.
The industrial revolution was a mistake. Convenience and comfort have proven to not be worth the cost of complete ecological destruction. Total deindustrialization is the only solution, and it will not happen. We’re going to kill ourselves off, or nearly, and the world will be a better place for it in the long run.
I’m not Spanish and I don’t live in Spain either, I regret not having been exposed to the latest election campaign because it would have been super-interesting. In Italy, we are already experiencing a radical government change with far-right parties leading the coalition (and center-right becoming less and less significant progressively). Nonetheless, as far as foreign politics is concerned, there have been negligible changes compared to the previous governments in extra-European affairs, and no changes at all in European affairs in general. Despite all the pro/con narrative.
This is the world that you know: the world as it was at the end of the 20th century. It exists now only as a part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix… We have only bits and pieces of information, but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early 21st century, all of mankind was united in celebration.
We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI: a singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don’t know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power, and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.
Wasn’t that specifically in reference to the machines? So the viewer knows that they weren’t relying on fossil fuels and access to sunlight would be their weakness.
The original plot of the movie was that humans were not an energy source but the computing substrate; that all those brains were networked together as a meat-based platform for the AIs to run on, which is why Neo was able to change reality in the Matrix, because he was able to override the programming for the chunk running on him at any given time, just by thinking it.
But the fucking mouthbreathers they got in for their focus groups didn’t get the concept, so they had to rewrite it, demoting humans to freaking lemon-batteries and making a mockery of the whole thing.
I can’t blame the focus group participants in that scenario. Maybe using brains as a computing platform is only confusing to morons (which I doubt), but that doesn’t mean they needed to leap to a flatly nonsensical alternative.
I’ve heard this one commonly suggested as a “that would have been better” but was it actually the original script? Is there a source on this?
When the government is expected to provide such generous benefits (half his salary in Spain, per the article) it seems that something has to change. It’s even good that some people are working past that age, and continuing to pay into it for others. It seems inappropriate to ask the people who are depending on the pension to reduce benefits or pay more- why not ask more of the true beneficiaries of their labor?
My US-centric view is less rosy, as we get WAY less in pension and limited healthcare…all the while there are literal billionaires who pay no taxes. Keep the benefits, tax the rich.
TL;DR the particular issue called out in the article is that Threads imports data from IG.
Meta is in dialogue with EU regulators as whether this would be seen as one social media platform sharing with another. Until Meta gets more guidance on this and any other possible issues, they are holding off launchin in the EU.
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