I plan to open a bar when I stop working in tech. The farm life is not for me, but I love the atmosphere of a good bar.

That’s also your fault though, especially for allowing it to happen twice. I have physical copies stored of the recovery codes with all my other essential documents for precisely this reason.

Yes, not the best source, but this was reported in many outlets including thegaurdian, nytimes and bbc.

Making a top comment for this. I have found a recording on medici.tv from April 2025 (same choreography): https://www.medici.tv/en/ballets/edward-clug-peer-gynt-grieg-la-scala

It’s a subscription service, but if you really want to watch it, it’s worth it (and you can cancel after a month anyway)

I want to watch this as well, but can’t find anything either. I sent a mail to the opera house asking how I can get a recording.

Edit: got a reply. They don’t have the recording and told me to contact the choreographer as he apparently owns the rights. Will try to do so later today (at work now)

Update 2: Found the instagram of the choreographer (Edward Clug) and sent him a message

Update 3: After checking his instagram a bit further, it turns out that there still are performances now and then (averaging at 1 per year, last one was in April). This led me to some more internet searching and I found where you can watch the most recent one (at La Scala in Milan): https://www.medici.tv/en/ballets/edward-clug-peer-gynt-grieg-la-scala

Last update: he blocked me without responding. But hey, I found it so I still call it a win.

I watched the first episode and mid-tv describes it perfectly. It’s not good, it’s not bad, it’s completely mediocre. Which can be acceptable if the characters have depth, but it’s such a flat black-white storyline for most characters that I don’t intend to waste any more time on this.

It doesn’t even help. Copilot in excel is awfully incompetent.

We are not ready though. Mentally, sure, but in case of an all out war we would still run out of ammo, bombs and manpower in weeks. Only now do we see the first factories and production lines coming online based on the investments of the past years and even then not all the supply lines have been adjusted for it. Europe could probably be ready by the end of 2027 at the earliest, provided it removes its command and control dependency from the US.

Realistically, Europe won’t be ready until 2030. That’s not to say we wouldn’t be able to get ready sooner, we absolutely would, if we were to switch to a war economy. But nobody wants that, because it ruins your economy and is grossly expensive.

That doesn’t mean we would get crushed, that wouldn’t be the case, but we would be on the defensive for a while until the gears of war are properly greased.

Rip the OA

This bubble will pop because the profits won’t come close to what is needed. They’re betting the house on developing agi with models that are completely unsuitable for that purpose. Even their redefined agi they most likely won’t reach. Basing agi on llm is fundamentally unsound, therefore can’t live up to the hype and won’t get the record adaptation required for profitability.

The arabs can pump all their fossil fuel money into this and keep the development going for much longer than it should, but even they will want to see returns at one point.

I feel this is where the coalition of the willing as the dubbed it, need to step up and say “fuck this”, find a solution for the frozen assets, establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine and put the US under pressure to stop being a little bitch and continue the intel support.

That being said, without US sanctions and support this would become exponentially harder to do.

I’m not super deep into it, but I honestly hardly noticed. Only when I ended up at reddit for some obscure tech issue did I notice it and 10 minutes later it worked again. The thread turned out to be useless anyway.

Based on some of the reactions from other translation teams it seemed linked to a bug specific to Asian languages though. I didn’t read all of the comments because some wrote half a novel, but while this absolutely sucks it sounds more like a botched attempt at introducing the sumo bot than a deliberate slight.

Depends on how you look at it. The deal she made is never going to get ratified by the EU member states, but placated Trump enough to lower his stupid tariffs to acceptable levels. I think she 100% knew the deal she agreed with him was never going in effect and she just wanted to buy time, which so far has worked.

It makes a lot of sense to buy time for a variety of reasons. She took a hit to her image with this “deal” but she effectively accomplished all the goals she had going into those discussions. But from afar it looks like she was played.

Preserving is important, sure. But if the settlement required them to delete it and they keep an offline backup and this ever gets out, the settlement is voided and it opens up a world of hurt for them.

This is not a debate about the merits of preservation but about legal repercussions for the Internet Archive.

And open themselves up to massive penalties? That would be beyond stupid.

I’m glad to hear this. Some weeks ago I was pondering how to do age checks anonymously and this was pretty much the idea I came up with. It just makes a lot more sense because it does what you want without revealing anything private.

Edit: had a brain fart and wrote unanimously instead of anonymously

I agree. I enjoyed the first 2 but the third season was quite bad.

I think you vastly underestimate the catch-22 Putin has steered Russia in. They’re not recovering from this economic disaster this century. They’re damned if they do (continue the war) and damned if they don’t. That’s also why NATO considers Russia a significant threat to regional stability even if the war were to end where they get everything they wanted. It’s a lose-lose situation for Russia, but continued aggression to keep the war economy going is currently the path of least resistance.

Infrastructure spending? This is Russia we are talking about. From every ruble spent by the government, at least 75% disappears if not more. The systemic corruption in Russia will obliterate any supposed advantage they have by ending the war.

And those foreign assets are only partially government assets. These include investment accounts of normal Russians, payment to companies that have been held back, etc… We are talking billions but Russia is bleeding billions every month now, and the release of those assets will only partially mitigate the unfolding souffle like collapse of the Russian economy. It’s not a sudden crash, just a general return to poverty.

A return of fossil fuel sales to prewar income would help, but I don’t see that happening as long as they occupy the Donbas and Crimea. Some sanctions will be lifted in case of a peace agreement but not even regime change will roll back all of the sanctions.