Our priority should be to immediately negotiate an end to this horrific war, not to refill the trenches by deporting Ukrainian refugees and assisting Zelensky's thugs to kidnap more men. Our leaders who started this war in 2014 have sabotaged all paths to peace for 12 years now.
Possiamo dire tutto il peggio su VDL&co .. ma dobbiamo sempre ricordare che se viene varato il 21esimo pacchetto di sanzioni alla #Russia che colpiscono più NOI del sanzionato.. è perché c’è l’appoggio dei gov. #UE@GiorgiaMeloni continua a lavorare CONTRO i ns interessi
The EU’s budgetary coup
For the EU’s new multiannual budget the Commission has proposed a framework totalling almost €2 trillion, equivalent to around 1.26% of EU gross national income (GNI) over the seven-year period. The European Parliament, never shy about spending other people’s money, wants to push that to 1.38% of GNI. But neither institution really admits the structural tensions buried in the figures. The EU must service roughly €750 billion in bloc pandemic debt, the repayment of which is now being permanently integrated into the regular EU budget. The Commission’s own proposal earmarks €149.3 billion for repaying the so-called “NextGenerationEU Recovery” and “Resilience Facility” funds — a sum that amounts to nearly 10% of total MFF commitments.
This matters because of what it reveals about the true nature of NextGenerationEU (NGEU).
What was sold to European publics as an exceptional, one-off response to the Covid crisis is now the fiscal template for the Union’s future. The pandemic fund set the precedent: the EU can borrow on capital markets, distribute grants to member states, and then embed the repayment into the general budget for decades to come — all without anything resembling a proper democratic mandate. This is arguably what the “unprecedented” EU fiscal response to the pandemic was always about: normalising common debt as a mechanism for tilting the institutional balance of power decisively in favour of the Commission, downgrading member states and locking in a structural shift in European integration. Indeed, the EU has since repeated the trick with a €90 billion package for Ukraine, again funded through joint debt backed by the common budget. The “historical exception” has quietly become the norm.
To repay its vast debts, the Commission has proposed a package of new levies on companies. But if the new taxes fall short, as is likely, the fallback is a compulsory levy on member states. The existing “Own Resources Decision” — another wonderful piece of EU lexicon — already empowers the Commission to call on national governments for additional GNI-based contributions to cover NGEU repayments, on top of regular programme spending. In other words, if the new revenue streams underperform, the bill lands automatically on national treasuries, decided not by sovereign parliaments, but by the remorseless logic of the EU’s debt repayment. At any rate, EU debt now functions as a de facto tax on member states, bypassing the normal channels of democratic budgetary control.
Read my article on the EU’s budgetary coup here: https://t.co/JckGAaGzqE
Greece's bankruptcy lives on. In the midst of all the cacophony celebrating our splendid 'recovery', 60% of households cannot make ends meet. The never-ending legacy of the EU's savaging of our people...
Qua a Mosca mi confermano che la #Russia non avrebbe nessun veto all’ingresso della #Ucraina nella #UE
Poi sorridendo mi chiedono che vantaggi ne avremmo noi
Non ho saluto articolare bene la risposta, ma ci siamo capiti
⚠️ Per rimediare al 6 in condotta e poter sostenere la maturità, gli studenti che hanno esposto lo striscione “L’Italia agli italiani” dovranno scrivere una “tesina rieducativa” dal titolo
👉 “Chi ha fatto l’Italia”
Il materiale da consultare, fornito agli studenti, parla di “leggi razziali” e “gli africani siamo noi”.
You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.
You thought it was you. It is not you.
Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.
Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.
The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.
Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.
What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.
Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.
They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.
The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."
The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.
This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.
The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.
Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.
BREAKING: "Greater Israel" is now marketed in London. Like in Montreal and in New York.
Apartheid without borders.
P.S. This explains why criticism of Israel is being restricted (and "anti-antisemitism" laws keep appearing). Apartheid is not only a crime. It is a business model.
@antoniopolito1 Madò Polito, ma se non capisci un cazzo non é colpa di Bettini.
Parti per il fronte e non scassare la.michia, eroe col culo degli ucraini
È buffo come nessun antinatalista consideri mai come, per quanto forti siano le sue convinzioni, la prossima generazione verrà interamente da coloro che si oppongono ad esse.
In Barcelona schneidet ein Marokkaner in aller Öffentlichkeit einer 41-jährigen Touristin die Kehle durch - sie ist tot. Der Mann wurde festgenommen.
https://t.co/EhTfcFGmI5
Il dipinto di trova in un edificio isolato al centro di un parco.
È un attacco terroristico barbarico che dice tutto sul regime ucraino e in particolare sui suoi mandanti, i liberali inglesi, protagonisti di un enorme massacro di civili a Sebastopoli durante la guerra di Crimea.