Google is clearly trying to find a loophole here. Their loophole clearly sucks.

In all likelihood it’ll end up in front of the Court of Justice of the European Union. And in all likelihood Google will lose again.

The Court of Justice generally seems unimpressed by American lobbyists, so the strategy of finding a dumb loophole is probably doomed to fail.

The EU already forced sideloading to be officially supported on iPhones thanks to the Digital Markets Act, and that law applies to Google as well.

The US will likely apply pressure, just like they are trying to force their death machines to be legalized on European roads. Apple already tried to pressure the union and failed, but the political climate has changed a bit since then, and while EU bureaucrats can be fierce, European leadership tends to be weak as fuck.

But yeah, chances are that this change won’t apply to the EU. :)

Yeah, I got what you meant - it’s a word that takes on a billion different meanings. I just find it to be important to push back against the strawman whenever I see it, as I’m not gonna let a bunch of dumb kids raised by a social media algorithm ruin feminism for me. Get off my lawn etc.

In feminist scholarship it tends more towards the “we are all victims of patriarchy” stance. Most my friends are academics so they tend to lean the same direction, though not always.

It’s worth emphasising that concerns about male mental health in large part comes from feminism. Feminism is not inherently man hating, and research of gender dynamics through the lense of feminism is what made it possible to observe how patriarchal structures in society harm not only women, but also men.

It’s kinda like how a marxist will tell you that even rich people are happier in egalitarian societies: Capitalism hurts everyone, including the ones seemingly profiting from it. In the same way, feminism gave way to the insight that patriarchy hurts everyone, including men.

That said, you’re not wrong that here is a (perhaps more popular rather than scholarly) feminist critique of male grievances. Feminism is a bunch of different things, and there’s a bunch of contradictions between different understandings of feminism.

Not too weird then that people end up hating the whole issue. Some feminists hate it because it’s sympathising with the oppressor or whatever, while anti-feminists hate it because they see it as soft feminist bullshit or whatever. Having a nuanced opinion about anything these days is difficult.

note, I think models used for finding cures to diseases and other sciences are a good thing. I’m referring to the general populace LLM hype

The good news: These models are never LLMs, because LLMs can never be anything else than bullshit generators.

The bad news: The first studies of actual performance seem to indicate a similar pattern in hospitals to what is seen with the AI hype all the time: While people often perceive themselves to be more efficient, actual efficiency might in fact drop. It turns out that four Polish hospitals that started using machine learning models to detect cancer actually found fewer instances of cancer as a result, not more. It might of course improve as the technology gets better, and it could supplement instead of replace human expertise. But the story “AI is amazing for detecting cancer” is sadly not as clear-cut as we have been lead to believe.

Edit: read comments below!

It’s often repeated, but I love the distinction between knowledge and wisdom based on this fact.

Knowledge is to know tomato is a fruit; wisdom is to not put it in a fruit salad.

How about getting a portable monitor?

Pros:

• Cheaper
• Less e-waste, doesn’t require a whole new computer
• Fewer components that can break
• Stays up to date along with your phone - won’t be unable to update netflix in five years because of lacking software updates
• Probably a better screen than what you’d get from a cheap tablet

Cons:

• Your phone would need to support an external monitor
• Not a separate device; good for watching videos, less good for sofa surfing
• You’d need to connect your phone somehow while consuming content. I think there are some wireless options, but personally I’d probably just use a cable.

Sarah El Haïry, France’s High Commissioner for Children, described the death as “horrifying”.

“Platforms have an immense responsibility in regulating online content so that our children are not exposed to violent content. I call on parents to be extremely vigilant”, she wrote on X.

The satire writes itself.

Not exactly inspiring a lot of confidence that these people will have the necessary skills to deal with this tragedy and prevent it from happening again. She should be the one looking into regulating online platforms, starting with the one she’s posting from.

I get that it’s not very fun to talk about, but I wish women would tell men about these constant risk assessments more often. We live in parallel worlds and it seems most men are completely fucking oblivious - even many of the mostly well meaning ones. And even when they’re told about it they might initially dismiss it as crazy talk.