Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

Meaning: We stole all your knowledge , writing, and art, and now we’re gonna put a meter on it and sell it back to you. You’re welcome.”

USA ermöglichen Recherche zu Nazis in der eigenen Familie

War der eigene Opa ein Nazi? Diese Frage kann nun über das US-Nationalarchiv beantwortet werden. Erstmals sind Mitgliedskarteien der NSDAP online einsehbar.

https://www.heise.de/news/USA-ermoeglichen-Recherche-zu-Nazis-in-der-eigenen-Familie-11217608.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Archivierung #Digitalisierung #Wissenschaft #news

Which email provider handles your municipality's official communications?

We built mxmap.nl to make that visible, all Dutch municipalities, mapped by email provider based on public DNS records.
Inspired by the Swiss original mxmap.ch by David Huser. We adapted it for the Netherlands. All credit for the concept goes to him.

Under the CLOUD Act, provider location matters. The map makes the current reality clear.

www.mxmap.nl

#DigitalSovereignty #GDPR #NIS2 #mxmap

It’s really impressed the number of people and organisations that are repeatedly and consistently wrong keep getting their views repeated as if they’re infallible geniuses.

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Gartner, and so on are just laughably uninformed about most of the things that they talk about. You can do pretty well betting against whatever they get excited by.

I’m not right all the time, but if my track record for prediction was as bad as these folks I’d refrain from making any statement about the future more precise than ‘tomorrow will probably be’.

The US is removing Russian sanctions, and now the EU wants to repair the pipeline from Russia to Hungary so Orbán can finance Putin's war.

Political pragmatism is our modern plague.

If you have not been blessed with them yet, let me induct you to the cult of Angine de Poitrine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

They’re the first (only?) thing of 2026* that actually makes sense and makes me feel human and alive again.

*I know they’ve been around for a while, but they are gaining popularity since the above video dropped a month ago.