Samuel

Vita est ferenda, non placanda

[Skipster @FarRightSkip]

You were watching PawPatrol on YouTube after curfew were you not?

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The UK economy basically works like this:

Get paid £2,000.

Give £900 to a landlord. Give £200 to the council. Give £150 to energy companies. Give £300 to supermarkets. Give £300 to car insurance and fuel.

Spend the rest surviving until next payday.

Then get lectured by someone who bought their house for £37,000 in 1988 about how you need to stop buying coffees and cancel subscriptions.

[‎jay 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇷🇨🇿 @16piastris]

brasil: will we ever be able to return to our former glory again😪

turkey: 😴😴😴

germany: we are gonna win with the power of homosexuality on our side💪💪

the england subplot:

[The TV Grump @TheTVGrump]

“Bedtime, children”

[Samuel @samhardiman92]

More needs to be said about the collapse of the unspoken social contract.

Saying sorry, acknowledging you're in someone's way. That stuff has genuinely eroded and it makes daily life more abrasive, arrogance has bred exponentially in the last decade.

[Samuel @samhardiman92]

Bouaddi looks a real gem in the making.

[big duntles @biglunty]

We all know she had her moments but Nanna was an unforgettable woman. We’ll be holding a small memorial service for her this Friday at Kirkdale Community Centre

[Samuel @samhardiman92]

@harrystabbings Good work Harry. Keeping our streets safe from subpar bangers and mash catastrophes. Hope they throw the book at the hoodlums.

[Dr. Lars Henrik Andersen 🇪🇺 @EUAITaxonomy]

The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece.

Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU.

Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service.

So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships.

Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open.

The EU rejected it.

Magnificent.

Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent.

Excellent.

This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing.

Estimated time to ship: 2047.

Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states.

Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response.

Worth it.

In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all.

Not a bug. The intended outcome.

Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision.

🇪🇺

[navarro @nvvarroo]

Yo intentando dormir la noche de antes de algo importante

[Samuel @samhardiman92]

@jewiss Still waiting on mine for an hour now

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

This sounds good in a headline, but it’s not technologically possible without scanning everyone’s private devices and messages.

That’s not child protection, it’s mass surveillance by another name. It's Government overreach dressed up as safety.

[Madeleine @JournoMaddie]

He’s not going to stop pushing for digital ID until he’s out of power, is he? That’s one of the real goals here.

He doesn’t want children to have access to platforms where people criticise his government and he wants police to know exactly who every anon account on those platforms is.

He’s a complete tyrant.

[Samuel @samhardiman92]

@RR_Hernandez29 @Alfaturk16 UI 9 has a higher version number

[Samuel @samhardiman92]

@Dozzle101 @stats_feed Any rumours about next year's number?

[Aero @ActualAero]

This is absolutely fucking PEAKKKKKK man 🥹

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

No, Keir Starmer will announce mandatory ID checks for all social media in the next two weeks.

Let’s not be naive about what this is really about. They want to be able to track down anons and send the cops round.

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

If your country has enough money to give money to other countries, your taxes are too high.

[FINAL FANTASY VII @finalfantasyvii]

Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the thrilling conclusion of the FFVII Remake Series, launches simultaneously on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, Epic Games Store and Steam in Spring 2027.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION’ has been announced.