Top 1 reason I will never pay for Spotify but will continue to shell out for Apple Music: no AI slop.
Yes it has come to that. This is the world we live in. Even the music you listen to is not real.
Congrats. Enjoy the world warped by a product meant to please you.
People often ask if war coverage would have been different if we had social media in, say, the 1990s.
Nope. We'd still have some random celebrity call Miloลกeviฤ "iconic", and we'd all be outraged anyway.
We still have a lot to learn.
Today was really rough, in what has become a series of rough days. I had to write about the senseless and untimely death of Diogo Jota. Bottom line, you do what's right and you feel for his loved ones, that's all you can do.
Forever our 20. You'll never walk alone.
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
No thanks. A meme, not a song. Also, sketchy politics.
This is my #Eurovision2025 grand final top 10, in no particular order:
๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania
๐ฌ๐ท Greece
๐ฎ๐น Italy
๐ณ๐ฑ The Netherlands
๐ฆ๐น Austria
๐ฒ๐น Malta
๐ธ๐ช Sweden
๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg
๐ซ๐ท France
๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine
Honorable mentions: ๐ต๐น Portugal, ๐ณ๐ด Norway, ๐ธ๐ฒ San Marino (aka Italy 2)
GPT operators.
I can't believe how many people are using AI models to write anything from full-blown reported pieces and opinion articles to social media commentary and even โ get this โ homages to friends and colleagues who passed away.
Just copy-pasting what AI churns out, as if everyone's an idiot.
Shameful.
A meme featuring Mario Draghi prodding the EU
Everyone in Europe right now:
I did not know this. Thanks Tom!
Looking forward to the updated list which will surely feature Borduria, Syldavia, San Escobar and of course, Wakanda.
Yeah, my best guess would be that this pertains to people who came to the US on a Yugoslav passport at some point so it's quite possible some are refugees from the 1990s.
Imagine.
To the Republic of Unknownia? ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
All jokes aside, this is how any bureaucracy operates: never mind that a country doesn't exist โ if a person's last actual citizenship was that of Yugoslavia, in the eyes of Joe ICE, they're Yugoslavs. Would be interesting to know at least some of the actual human stories behind the numbers, though.
The entire document can be found here: static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...
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Not at all.
Apparently, an ICE document states that some 845 people residing in the US need to be deported back to Yugoslavia.
I didn't know the Trump administration is in possession of a time machine ๐
Also, please don't call it the "Roman salute." It has nothing to do with the Roman Empire, and when you call it that, you give cred to extremist claims and their lore.
That didn't take long.
As Melania Trump returns to the White House, Slovenes in her homeland brace for another 4 years of being turned into a punchline, their history and heritage often the subject of jokes as Americans struggle to adjust to a very European (& Slavic) First Lady. My story: www.politico.eu/article/mela...
An image of a bloddied uniform of a Bosnian soldier Oliviero Toscani made for an ad for Benetton, 1990s
Italy's renowned photographer Oliviero Toscani died โ mostly known in the West for his Benetton ads in the 1990s that pushed people's buttons.
Few might recall that he also spent an enormous amount of time and energy to draw attention to the war in Bosnia (like in this ad here). Un grande maestro.
By doing this, Kyiv has set an example that everyone should follow โ namely, when your enemies exploit and weaponize a historical issue for propaganda points (both in their countries and abroad), the best you can do is confront it head-on and show a willingness to discuss it openly and honestly.
๐จ A massive breakthrough: Polish PM Donald Tusk says an agreement has been reached with Kyiv to exhume the bodies of Poles killed by Ukrainian ultranationalists in the Volhynia region during WWII. This was a major wedge issue between the two and often exploited by Russian propaganda.
Quote of the day:
"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
- James Baldwin
Never forget.
Disappointed but not surprised that the French political class is making dewy-eyed tributes to convicted holocaust-denier and open fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen rather than saying "The Elysรฉe is aware of the death of convicted holocaust-denier and open fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen".
Nailed it
People are also very poor. As if those you are ready to blame for the situation would not use greener sources of energy for heating or drive brand-new cars if they could. And besides, these two examples you mention are only one part of a much broader issue.
Come on. Let's not make lazy arguments.
