Mark V

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

You put a clickbait sensationalist headline to basically say “I barely lost any charge at all” 🙄

Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.

I’m on the EU’s side on this.

And so should be every global citizen that does not want their online world to be flooded with disinformation.

Twitter is just getting progressively worse as more and more sane people leave the sinking ship and what remains is a cesspool of nastiness.

Vanaf 8 jaar kan je ze pannenkoeken leren bakken!! 😁

(de eerste paar mislukken altijd maar zijn even lekker dus who cares)

Laat antwoord: naar ik gelezen heb zijn veiligheidsproblemen bij fietsen en auto’s meestal gelinkt aan fysieke beschadiging, wat bij thuisbatterijen toch een zeer laag risico is. Dus veiligheid is wat mij betreft geen argument voor of tegen.

8?

Ja absoluut. En hoeveel van die volgers zijn bovendien zombie accounts die het platform intussen verlaten hebben? Interactie en cultuur lijkt mij belangrijker dan pure follower count 🤷‍♂️

Ik zou er bijna jaloers op zijn

No, I’m just saying that if consumers aren’t taking it into consideration as a purchase criterium and if there is no government regulation enforcing it in most markets, it’s hard to blame OEMs for not making it a key consideration in their product design trade-offs.

Same answer as with cell phones: When was the last time a consumer chose a certain brand or model because the battery was easy to remove or disassemble? 🤷‍♂️

Zou hem da veel succes opleveren, zijne “directe aanpak”?

Yoshen?

Going to Mars makes very little real life sense anyway other than as a sci-fi fantasy. Might as well go live in the middle of the Sahara or go play Waterworld in the middle of the ocean. Both of those are much less harsh & hostile environments to sustain life compared to Mars.

We could build a giant floating island of solar panels off the coast, include a desalination plant and an electrolyzer, and send ships over to fill up on freshwater and green hydrogen 😄

Ja die starter packs zijn best wel handig. Mijn eerste paar weken op mastodon waren echt super stil tot je wat profielen begint te vinden - hier op een paar uur tijd de meeste van de oude Twitter bende terug gevonden. Looks promising.

Het probleem zit volgens mij niet in een gebrek aan ideeën of technologie, en hoe meer startups en ondernemers in dit domein hoe liever. Maar als je echt impact op schaal wil hebben dan moet de overheid een rol spelen. Zolang de externaliteiten extern blijven lost het zichzelf niet op volgens mij.

Ik werk voor een bedrijf dat inzet op sustainability. Veel van
onze producten helpen om CO2 te verlagen etc, maar er is altijd wel een kost in de early scale-up phase. Zonder government policy (e.g. CO2 tax) is er vaak geen willingness-to-pay en is het moeilijk tegen fossil fuel schaal op te boksen.

Fun fact: als je zoekt op “vlamingen starter pack” is deze post de enige hit 😅

Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.

Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky

Interesting starter pack - thank you for sharing.

Surprising number of Brits in there but I guess that makes sense in a way 😅

Do you expect that when EVs hit end-of-life the batteries will be mostly recycled, or mostly shipped off to a grid storage facility until they have no more cycles left in them?

World on track for catastrophic 3 degrees Celsius warming, UN warns Current plans and policies will lead to global temperatures rising between 2.6C and 3.1C this century, a new report finds.

Well this is profoundly depressing... 😐

www.politico.eu/article/unit...

Epic Games Store — and Fortnite — now available on iPad in the EU Just a day after third-party app stores were officially allowed on the iPad in the European Union, Epic Games announced on X that the Epic Games Store can now be installed on iPadOS. However, you need to live in a EU country and have an Apple account…

Epic Games Store — and Fortnite — now available on iPad in the EU

You're right, total bargain. Go for it!

I don't understand how they can be 3 months away from what their biggest AI release ever and not yet know whose LLM they're going to use?

Gotta wonder if the ambition of building this in-house simply failed and this is the backup plan. Or is this more like iCloud being built on top of AWS?

Apple & the EU’s browser fight will have one winner. It won’t be you This rubbish Apple-flavoured sequel to the EU’s browser scrap with Microsoft won’t win anyone a tech Oscar. Nor make almost anyone happy.

Apple and the EU’s browser fight will only have one winner – and it won’t be you • www.stuff.tv/features/app...

Nanoplastics linked to heart attack, stroke and early death, study finds | CNN People with nanoplastics in their arteries were twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die early from any cause, a new study found.

Bits of plastic wrap and plastic bag found in the carotids of 150 ppl. Micro/nanoplastics seen via electron microscopy of plaques removed from patients. May be associated with higher risk of cardiac events. Early & limited study but depressing none the less.

Is it time to rethink plastics yet? 🌎🧪

Visual Effects | 96th Oscars Nominee Programs Livestream Explore the fascinating world of Visual Effects with the nominated artists of the 96th Academy Awards.Join us for an insightful panel discussion where the no...

If you're at all interested in visual effects, you gotta watch this Academy presentation that took place last weekend. It goes in-depth with all five nominees, and shows before/after material that hasn't been seen publicly.

Visual Effects | 96th Oscars Nominees
www.youtube.com/live/XRFrZJL...

Ik vond em nogal traag, maar ergens kan ik dat ook wel appreciëren als een film zen tijd wat pakt.

Ik heb onlangs Godfather nog eens gezien, en die gaat naar moderne standaarden ook maar traagjes vooruit 😅