Tiago

Tech person. Fan of #php #laravelphp #drupal

[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.

🇪🇺

[Tiago Vasconcelos @talvasconcelos]

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[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

Chuck Norris told a woman to calm down and she did.

[Tiago @tiagoff]

@PatricioOnCode @laravelphp 💪

[Tiago @tiagoff]

@expresso Não é só em St Maria…!

[Tiago @tiagoff]

@JoeNakamoto Seems to impact Spain as well…

[Tiago @tiagoff]

@economia_pt @pedrotmareis 😂😂😂 esta última frase 🤣🤣🤣

[Tiago @tiagoff]

@expresso Previsão 2050: consumo de bovinos geneticamente alterados aumenta em 20x a probabilidade cancro.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

My keynote at the H.C. Wainwright Annual Global Investment Conference provides an overview of #Bitcoin for institutional investors.

[BURKOV @burkov]

I wouldn't go to France if I was the Toyota CEO.

[Tiago @tiagoff]

Não houve “devolução do dinheiro das propinas”.
Houve o pagamento único de um subsídio (de valor igual às propinas) usando o dinheiro de todos os contribuintes, incluindo os que não foram à Univ. por não conseguirem pagar as propinas!

Já não parece tão justo assim, pois não?

[Expresso @expresso]

O prémio salarial de valorização das qualificações, que na prática corresponde à devolução das propinas pagas ao longo da licenciatura ou do mestrado a quem resida em Portugal e tenha começado a trabalhar, já foi pago a 74.917 diplomados.

Saiba mais: https://t.co/qIWnldlZBw

[Bitcoin.com News @BitcoinNews]

.@ElonMusk Exposes Secret EU #Censorship Deal Proposal https://t.co/b3Ib9Jgd8y

[Tiago @tiagoff]

There’s a special place in hell for the f***** that decided that Excel function names are translated!
🤬

[Tiago @tiagoff]

@danjharrin @filamentphp - Forms: Ability to add Infolist components in Forms.
- Tables: having subrecords/detail records
- Tables: improve performance. Since it is 1 big Livewire component, the entire thing (query incl.) is rendered multiple times unnecessarily.

[Pedro Mamede ® @pedromamede]

Hugo Soares a parar tudo e a esclarecer na hora a nota de rodapé na @cnnportugal!

[Tiago @tiagoff]

“…autodeterminação da identidade de género”

Grande falha de premissa: o género não pode ser autodeterminado!
A natureza define-o e a realidade simplesmente “é”.

Quanto a subjectividades, que cada um seja feliz mas SEM as tentar impor aos outros.

https://t.co/opHlNwpU5f

[Tiago @tiagoff]

Inflação real: 10%, q.e.d.

[Expresso @expresso]

Uma lista de compras com 16 produtos para a ceia de Natal custa agora mais 10% do que há um ano, segundo os dados da Deco Proteste. São mais €4,50 do que em dezembro do ano passado.

Saiba o que aumentou: https://t.co/lb82pb1KDQ

[Nikolas @Nikolaoz]

Burnham & Francis’s theory of the Managerial Revolution needs updated.

The Managerial Class has been replaced by a Credentialist Class.

Managerial Elites derive their power from technical ability to manage systems; our current elites clearly posses no such ability. At some point, technical managerial skill ceased to be the dominant trait selected for in the jungle of high power, and instead résumé-building, favor-brokering, and ideological-signaling skills gained favor. Notice job-hoppers and fail-uppers collecting badges and climbing higher up in the canopy everywhere you look? Snakes with poisoned fangs overtook the Foxes, who long ago displaced the Lions.

Just as Lions sought to augment their power by leveraging Foxes but only ended up ceding power to Foxes, so too have Foxes given way to Snakes: leveraging their power with assets the new elites provided, the old elites were nevertheless usurped by the new until remnants of their authority began to dissolve in their hands like a crumbling sand castle.

The Cathedral learned that it could launder credentials in much the same way the State learned it could launder currency: the Dollar and Diploma were once backed by something, but the elites entrusted to control these resources removed the gold which underpinned them and have instead been printing and giving them to friends in a patronage scheme, devaluing the assets to the price of paper and ink. But the illusion of value remains: they rule because they control the dollars and diplomas and if you disagree then they won’t give you any dollars or diplomas.

One could argue that Credentialism is just a part or conclusion of Managerialism but I see two fundamental differences: 1) Managerial Elites offered a bold, aspirational vision for humanity. Scientific Utopianism was always fake, but at least it was gilded. The Credentialist Elites, on the other hand, have since the turn of the century offered no positive vision or ideal (a uniform beige mass of consumers spanning the globe is not an image, it is static; not a height to achieve but a bottom to sink into). 2) A veneer of competence and legitimacy covered Managerialism. When a Managerial Elite said “The vaccine is safe and effective and will stop the spread,” you believed them and they were probably even right because they had to be competent to rise to power. Credentialist Elites offer no evidence of competence—in fact they have offered the opposite at every turn. They acknowledge things are changing for the worse, tell their clients to “just suck it up”, and shame or even criminalize those who won’t; Economic, social, and spiritual pillars now lie in ruin, and the new elites dance atop them in a way that the old wouldn’t dare; Order is spinning into chaos; The emperor has no clothes; The Narrative has been exposed as a lie—they know it, we know it, and they know that we know it.

Maybe this is the logical conclusion of Managerialism, and the Managers have merely mutated. One thing is certain, anyways: these are not your grandfather’s elites. Kamala Harris doesn’t have technical managerial skills. Joe Biden doesn’t have technical managerial skills. Claudine Gay doesn’t have technical managerial skills. These elites were selected for their credentials: i.e. the titles they’ve held, the boxes they check, the favors they owe. You could argue they are mere puppets for the actual managerial elite. There are some competent managers in the machines behind them, yes, but their numbers dwindle. A new Type emerges, like a weed, everywhere. You see this.

Like the Managerial Elite, the Credentialed are ten thousand tyrants protected behind an Ephel Duath of procedure and legal papers. But their power and legitimacy is oil drawn of a different well, and you can see very clearly how Leviathan’s engine runs differently for it. We ought to update our mental models accordingly.

[Tiago @tiagoff]

@Pietro_Andolini “The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam.”

[Tiago @tiagoff]

Portanto um aumento de ~18%.

Apoiado SE:
- senhorios puderem aumentar rendas em 18%.
- escalões de IRS ajustarem de acordo, para que um salário 18% maior pague a mesma taxa que hoje.

…senão não é uma proposta, é só mesmo hipocrisia!

https://t.co/5nGYh1BkBz