This is the best half hour from Rangers in an #oldfirm match since Walter Smith was in his pomp
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PointOfNo
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦In unrelated news, Microsoft is asking Microsoft Windows users to uninstall a recent Microsoft Windows update, issued and published by Microsoft, because said update is breaking Microsoft Windows.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-urges-uninstalling-the-update-kb5074109-after-bug-reports-on-windows-11-heres-how
Every single piece about this should be mentioning Satya Nadella bragging how 30% of new Microslop code is AI-generated:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html
Not providing this context is journalistic malpractice.
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayAs John Naughton warns (in parallel to many warnings here too), we are way too dependent on US technologies , although as he observes:
'Unwinding this dependency will be very difficult. But it has to be done'!
In this the Tangerine Tyrant's actions (alongside those of the TechBroligarchy) have been indicative of the trouble we could be in.
Up until now we have been too inattentive to the trap into which we have willingly walked.
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-uk-is-wedded-to-us-tech-time-for-a-divorce
Brian Jopek
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Jeff Atwood
I realise football is not the big story about America’s behaviour. But even FIFA can’t be so corrupt as to keep part of the World Cup in the USA.
Be a hell of a statement to move some of the group stage matches to Greenland or Denmark! But surely no matches can be in Trumpland.
Eric Alper
CurmudgeonIn 1980 the United States led a boycott of the Olympic games in Moscow due to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Sixty countries joined the boycott.
The 2026 World Cup is mostly in the United States.
[Yes, this post is about Venezuela.]