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Europe’s $24T breakup with Visa & Mastercard has begun. ECB’s Lagarde warns almost all EU card/mobile payments still run on non‑European rails, sending spending data outside the EU. Now EPI + EuroPA are launching Wero, a pan‑EU wallet for 130M users to pay cross‑border without US networks. A huge shift for payment sovereignty—and data privacy.

#payments #fintech #eu #wero #datasovereignty

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

Europe vs Visa & Mastercard: The $24 Trillion Payments Shift

Europe is building its own payments system and reducing reliance on Visa and Mastercard. Here’s why the $24 trillion shift matters now.

European Business Magazine

Mark Hughes 13h ago

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Jason Lefkowitz 14h ago

“Iran, despite the decapitation of its leadership, has dealt the United States a strategic defeat in the classical sense. It will end the war in a stronger position than when it came under attack. The United States will end the war in a weaker position than before it launched its war. The rest is details.”

https://www.forever-wars.com/so-you-lost-a-war-to-iran/

So You Lost A War To Iran

And you're going to try to convince us you… won. Wow. Wow, OK

FOREVER WARS

Mark Hughes 16h ago

Open Rights Group 22h ago

"The State is being ripped off and hollowed out."

Listen to ORG's Exec Director @jim discuss the need for UK digital sovereignty to break from our dependence on foreign-owned Big Tech and how to escape the enshittification of social media.

Check out the @openDemocracy podcast ⬇️

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/in-solidarity-podcast/ai-panopticon-surveillance-jim-killock-open-rights/

#digitalsovereignty #interoperability #enshittification #socialmedia #bigtech #digitalrights #fediverse

When the state openly admits it wants its eyes on you at all

openDemocracy

Mark Hughes 16h ago

European Commission 17h ago

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The EU and Australia open negotiations on Australia’s association to Horizon Europe — the world’s largest and most prestigious research and innovation funding programme.

Read more: link.europa.eu/4VQthN

Mark Hughes 18h ago

Trump's illegal #IranWar is going badly, crippling the world economy and sending US gas prices sky high so he's having tantrums.

As was obvious, he couldn't change the regime or keep the Strait of Hormuz open without ground troops, so he's ranting at all the countries that he didn't involve beforehand who would have told him this and stayed out of it anyway.

#Trump has shown that America can't beat a country like #Iran with conventional weapons, despite massive capabilities of US military.

Mark Hughes 18h ago

oli 22h ago

This gem stays evergreen.

> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

-- Brian Kernighan

Mark Hughes 18h ago

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Troels Halken 🇵🇸 🇪🇺 🇬🇪🇷🇸🇭🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦 🇮🇷🇱🇧🇧🇭🇨🇺1d ago

Israel's definition of a Palestinian terrorist is all Palestinians. Israel's military kangaroo courts have a "conviction rate" of 99%. Israel holds 11.000 Palestinian men, women, and children in its concentration camps. 🫶🇵🇸 #Genocide

Mark Hughes 18h ago

Just read about human composting, an alternative to burial or cremation.

A body can be turned into useable compost just by leaving it in a mix of organic material (alphalpha and wood chips) for only 60 days. It's also cheaper than the alternatives!

Amazing. As a kid I always wanted to be put in a muck spreader and spread on the fields.

#Funerals #ecological #HumanComposting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgjgnwdjrzo