After seven EU countries in a row failed to broker an EU Member State position on the controversial CSA Regulation, in late 2025, the government of Denmark pulled off what had previously seemed near-impossible.

One camp of countries, including Denmark themselves, had been fiercely pushing for mandatory scanning of private messages at scale, including in encrypted environments. Another camp, spearheaded by countries including Poland, Czechia and the Netherlands, was boldly pushing in the other direction. These countries rightly urged their peers not to let the important goal of this law be used as justification to implement mass surveillance or undermine the protections offered by end-to-end encryption.

That’s why on November 13 2025, Denmark’s proposal to eliminate forced detection entirely, and add protections for encrypted communications, came as such a surprise. Could it really be that after so many years of deeply polarised debates, EU government leaders have finally agreed that even when pursuing the most important societal goals (like protecting children), basic fundamental rights, constitutional protections and technical reality still apply? Did the citizen campaign FightChatControl.eu play a role? And how has this been possible even though Germany, previously a data protection champion, reportedly removed its long-running opposition to “chat

Yeah AI is an acceleration of that, which is why it sucks.

Fuck AI

There are so many levels to hell I haven’t even heard of.

Old crazy cat people are the real illuminati and they well surely corrupt this study in favor of spreading the domain of cats even deeper into our societies!!!

No Kings!

Technology makes all of our lives better!

Also to being cool is about being obscure so get at it nerds.

No but does hurting others ever make you feel closer to the person you want to be?

Ok so well then all the work is on OUR kids then and not the rest of the worlds kids to learn American? Why is the world so unfair to USA? We are too big of a country, it is unrealistic to learn languages, even one is hard given how rural and unique the American countryside is. The only hope we have is if pickup trucks evolve to be able to speak for us and keep us connected when we finally become unable to learn even a single language.

I found William Shatner’s lemmy account.

Bluesky is a joke and its userbase are the punchline.

Succinctly said, I love it

Wait but what if we just build more highways?

Yeah, you get a huge bonus multiplier on your humanity score for that. Don’t discount it!

two concepts

1. The literal state of Israel, a nation with laws, streets and schools

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

2. Judaism, a religion practiced in many places all over earth

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

Fuck AI

UpScrolled is also for-profit right?

One casualty is certainly the UKs space capability.

https://spacenews.com/uk-launcher-orbex-files-for-administration-after-failed-funding-efforts/

Turns out being isolationist is not compatible with going to space, who would have thought?

Is it a good idea to over and over again line up all your traumatic memories just right so they disappear in one big satisfying poof though?

They know the hero’s journey will sell because it is easy for the average Westerner to digest and enjoy. So you see a lot more hero’s journey stories on the screen than you do in the wide world of books, which can afford to be more experimental or art-driven. Someone like Banksy isn’t worried about finding a rich buyer to recoup the cost of his stencils and paint. Would you agree?

I think you see this conversation as discussing a serious of fairly innocuous individual elements whereas I see it as part of a broader, irrevocably intersectional problem that must be addressed in a wholistic fashion by integrating all pieces of it. I see advertisement as not separate from art and only harmful in its unintended collisions with it but rather an intentional as well as subconscious colonization and co-opting of the societal values around human artists that has culminated inevitably in AI wrecking havoc on what remains of our curiosity about human creativity.

Campbell’s theories therefore provide justification for white westerners to reject the interpretations that non-western peoples give for their own stories, if those interpretations don’t align with what the white westerners in question think the interpretations should be. Thus, western perspectives are portrayed as universal perspectives and non-western perspectives are dismissed.

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Thinking about the culturally specific influences behind familiar stories is important because it reveals that many of the assumptions that exist within our own culture that we take for granted are not universal at all, but rather rooted in very culturally specific prejudices. For instance, in the Star Wars movies, darkness and the color black are both closely associated with evil. The evil side of the Force is referred to as the “dark side” and the title darth, which is used by the evil Sith Lords, literally sounds like the word dark. On top of this, Darth Vader wears a black suit and the Emperor wears a black cloak.

This association of darkness and the color black with evil is rooted in Christianity, which has been the dominant religion in the United States for most of modern history. Throughout the writings of the New Testament, darkness is repeatedly equated with evil and Satan, while light is repeatedly associated with goodness and God. For instance, in the Gospel of John 8:12, Jesus is portrayed as saying, as translated in the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV):

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/31/the-heros-journey-is-nonsense/

“It’s always night, or we wouldn’t need light”