[1/4] https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/
https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

Cory Doctorow: Instead of retaliating towards US tariffs with its own Tariffs, it should retaliate by repealing the Canadian equivalent of the DMCA. And it should follow up by publishing jailbreaks for various US companies that are jails. Doctorow argues that that would do far more harm to oppressive US companies that sell people jails, including Apple, Google, John Deere and car companies, and

Top 10 Most Educated OECD Countries in 2024 (% of adults aged 25-64 with tertiary education)

1. 🇨🇦 Canada - 63.3%

2. 🇯🇵 Japan - 56%

3. 🇮🇪 Ireland - 55.3%

4. 🇰🇷 South Korea - 54.5%

5. 🇦🇺 Australia - 51.4%

6. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - 51.3%

7. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 51.3%

8. 🇮🇱 Israel - 50.3%

9. 🇺🇸 United States - 50%

10.🇳🇴 Norway - 48.1%

Source: OECD Education at a Glance 2024

Today my #rust compiler told me "expected future, found a different future".

And I'm like: me too buddy, me too

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The EU is planning a new, graduated #tax on companies with more than 50 mio Euro revenue, the wires say.

I see a lost #opportunity. They should tax the market capitalization of companies, not their revenue. This would create a direct incentive to split up into smaller entities, rather than buying up (future) prospective competitors to squash #competition, and getting larger and larger in the process.

This is the best take on Fermi's Paradox that I've ever seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox