I’d argue it’s not useless, rather, it would remove any financial incentive for these companies to sink who knows how much into training AI. By putting them on the public domain, they would loose their competitve advantage over other cloud providers who could exploit it all the same, all the while not disturbing the current usage of AI.

Now, I do agree that destroying it would be even better, but I fear something like that would face too much force back by the parts of civil society who do use AI.

Heavy recommendation for Portal: Revolutions. It’s one of those super fun storied Portal 2 mods like Stories: Mel, if you like this kind of thing!

The abortion one is nearing the necessary support. Otherwise, they have a list of initiatives they’ve already answered.

Lots of really cool stuff there, sad to see that not all of them get traction troughout the EU (tax the rich my beloved :( )

2 ans ? Tu oublies les élections législatives de l’année prochaine lors de la nouvelle dissolution. Aucun parti ne veut paraitre “faible” ou “comprométant” par rapport au soutien de leur base, car ça pourait leur éclater à la figure pendant la campagne.

Les centristes sont conscients que aujourd’hui, le groupe dont l’unité est la plus fragile, c’est eux. Aux élections législatives de cete année, sans le front republicain, il n’y aurait pas eux de bloc centriste. S’allier avec le NFP pour former un gouvernement ne ferait que les rendre plus légitime comme “la seule alternative au RN”. S’allier au RN, à l’inverse, ferait à 100% exploser leur coalition, et donnerait à tous les membres du NFP une balle gratuite du genre “Macron = RN”.

Bref, tout le monde joue un jeu de dupe pour ne pas gouverner et apparaitre légitime pour 2025. Et en vérité, si Macron était malin, il nomerais Lucie Castets et la laisserais se casser la geule toute seule avec une motion de censure imédiate pour renforcer sa position. C’est pas comme si il en avait quoi que soit à foutre de la stabilité de notre régime ou de l’inflation aux vue de tout ce qui s’est passé ces dernières années.

Yeah, I don’t see the NFP (left alliance) collapsing over this. Both them and the RN rn only has the 2027 2025 elections in their mind and want to break the current stalemate by dismantling the centrist coalition, one way or the other.

The socialists have zero interest in breaking away from the NFP with whom they’ve only been gaining legitimacy to join Macron’s sinking ship.

What options does that actually leave? Well, Macron could play coy and the clock by nominating Barnier again (or someone worse, like Manuel Vals, or a member of Cioti (right-far)'s party, which would be the biggest insult to the elections in our history) until he can dissolve the parliement again… or he could resign.

The next weeks aren’t going to be fun.

You’d be suprised. A few years back in France, there were trials on hate speech involving death threats, and the 13 people who were brought in court were aged between 18 and 31.

And I remember and article (though was unable to find it again), that spoke about the many groups of 60+ y.o. people that spewed a lot of hate speech and death threats on Facebook.

À mettre en relation avec un article du Monde qui vient de qortir aujourd’hui :

« Le dilemme » : faut-il quitter X ?

Yikes. 59% des français trouvent que la police n’a pas assez de pouvoir ? 44% qu’il devrait y avoir une ‘préférence nationale’ (???) à l’emploi ?

Le cordon sanitaire entre le camp du président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, et l’extrême droite n’a jamais semblé si friable. Près d’un sympathisant sur deux (47 %) de la coalition présidentielle adhère aux constats faits par Marine Le Pen, sans forcément adhérer aux solutions. Ce chiffre était seulement de 29 % chez les sympathisants de Renaissance, le parti présidentiel, en 2023.

Ah, là voila d’où vient l’augmentation. +18% des electeurs macronistent tolèrent le RN.

Les sondés sont désormais 39 % à considérer le Nouveau Front populaire (NFP) comme la principale force d’opposition au gouvernement de Michel Barnier, contre 34 % qui désignent le RN. Signe d’un possible trouble chez les électeurs lepénistes : un quart d’entre eux considèrent que le NFP représente la première opposition au gouvernement.

Bon au moins il y a ça. C’est quand même fou que 34% considèrent encore le RN dans l’opposition alors qu’ils auraient pu faire tomber ce gouvernement dès qu’ils le voulaient.

Quelle horreur.

Oh wow. That’s even worse than Falcom’s policy regarding composers. Are they really that afraid their staff will get poached? Or are they being so cheap that they just don’t want them to get the raises that accompany the rise in fame?

Well, I have some good news for you!

And so, the global election year continues u_u…

As a french man, I wholeheartedly approve of the bond villain style Macron picture they gave as headline. It’s very appropriate for what he’s doing nowadays (even though, in this precise article case, he really didn’t do much tbh)

A collar or other physical appariments wouldn’t stop you from abducting it either. Where I come from and (I assume) in many parts of the world, cats have an electronic chip in their neck with basic info about the owner and how to contact them, which would be discovered when you bring them to the vet.

But I think that’s more of a cultural thing. Personally, I consider not letting your cat roam free in the neighbourhood (if you have the ability to let them) unjust and borderline animal abuse, close to how I would consider it if you kept your dog inside all the time.

Finally, taking a cat home out of, what, pettiness(?) sounds like a terrible idea, because beyond any notion of ethics, dealing witha cat you keep away from their territory and the people they know would be both a psycological and financial perspective. If you want to be hurtful to someone, there are easier and cheaper ways to do it than to abduct their pets.

So no, as a pet owner, abduction is really not anywhere near being a concern for me. Getting run over though? That IS a concern, particularly when cats panic. However, cats have far better hearring than we do and can hear cars from a mile away (esp when they’re familiar with them).

Kind of clickbaity title. The media companies will still stay under Alex Springer, it’s some advertisment divisions which are being sold. Nothing’s changing here.

The transitions between these eras will offer the chance to select a fresh civilization, with a range of options determined by your previous choices.

Wait a minute. I feel like I’ve seen that one before…

Oh well, fair enough. Humankind drew heavily on Civ in its design anyway.

Huh. A tribune by Sophie Binet (general secretary of the CGT, one of the biggest French trade union, and major player in the june elections as well as the protests last year) in the Guardian?

Certainly wasn’t on my bingo card today.

“De 1981 à 2010.” C’est plus d’actualité non ? T’en as un plus récent ?

(En plus la grande hausse du deficit public à la fin correspond à la crise de 2008, ce qui n’est donc pas surprenant)

Thank you for the link! It helped putting things into proper nuance and context (indcluding throwing away that ridiculous notion that the ‘Steam Store’ and the ‘Steam Gaming Platform’ are two completly different things in different markets).

However, reading the whole thing, it sounds to me like while the court dismissed some of the claims (1 to 4 and 7 apparently), they agreed that Wolfire and the other plaitiffs had the right to ‘plausibly allege unlawful conduct’ about the ‘Most-favored-nations restraints’ (the part where Steam forces publishers to set prices on all stores without steam keys being involved) without mentioning anything more on the subject.

I’m not americain so I’m not sure if I understand correctly, but that means the ruling isn’t over and it’ll go into an appeal court, right?

Um, I’ve read the complaint from top to bottom and it claims way more than just ‘Valve wouldn’t give them keys to resell’ if they’re not at the same price as on steam. It also claims Valve puts a ‘Price Veto’ clause which allows them to delist games from Steam if the publisher gives bigger sales on other platforms, even if they do not using steam keys, which does sound super uncompetitive to me.

Although I’ll agree the evidence listed in the complaint seem a bit on the light side. Do you know if the trial happened yet? And if so, do you know where I can find what resolution they reached?