I am certain that my AliExpress headphones will get updates in the next few weeks!

Yeah - Facebook kind of is the right company to produce something like this. They kind of had a little bit of this with Farmville back in the day. They have all those people and your aunt on their apps. There has to be a way to get all those Facebook users into gaming, to get all those WhatsApp groups to play together or to implement something on Instagram. It’s really stupid how they did this

The most funny thing about this is that they banned you for 7 days. No permaban for the russian government agent, just 7 days!

I mean - it kind of does work. There are millions of people socializing in online games. Playing World of Warcraft with their friends or people they met there. Building crazy things on a Minecraft server while forming friendships. Playing on that Counterstrike Server for decades with the same people. Forming that guild or that clan in an MMORPG. There is something that does work. Not sure why Zuckerberg wanted VR to be part of that and that Facebook touch of poo is also not helping, but trying to build “World of Warcraft for your aunt” is not the worst idea.

So there are people parking their toddlers in a VR world?

It’s actually crazy that you can burn $100B in a project that everybody mocked from the beginnings and still be CEO after that while having earned billions in compensation

Not everything has to be 100% perfect - even Windows is not able to run all of my games. Most games run without problems and those games which make problems are mostly due to anticheat. It’s a perfectly reasonable solution to simply dual boot if you want to play Call of modern Warfare: DLC edition

What this also does mean: Russian Railways will not invest as much into their infrastructure, because they do not have the money. This might work for some while, but there will be that bridge that needed to be replaced back in 1995. The much needed new line will not be build. Facilities will rot and disintegrate. Maintenance is not being done. Investment in new trains will be postponed. It will work for a while and then slowly start to disintegrate

Bitcoin. A technology trying to circumvent our highly regulated financial system? Which is mostly used to sell drugs online and evade sanctions? Where we knew at the start that it would need more energy than whole countries if it was successful? And then there are those 51% attacks? Yeah, that’s stupid. I really would have expected governments to crack down harsh on everything bitcoin and cryptocoin and would have expected that owning or using them would be as illegal as owning child porn.

There is another battle: There is a fight to open up app installation on phones. The EU recently forced Apple to allow other app stores on iOS and Apple is fighting this as hard as you would expect. Apple & Google are taking 30% of each sale in their stores and are making bank. One of the arguments they are pushing is “safety”. Only apps on their vetted app stores are safe, every other store is unsafe and so on. If they allow a child porn app in their store, all of their arguments in this debate are invalid. And that is also an important fact for that debate.

There are two outcomes out of this: Big chances are that nobody cares. There are a lot of people flying drones in cities, even if they shouldn’t. If you’re unlucky, the police will catch you and you’re in trouble, but that really has nothing to do with palestine, but rather the fact that flying drones in cities is illegal in nearly every european country for good reasons.

International sport has totally sold out to dictators. Putins Russia is allowed to compete and push their propaganda. The world cup 26 in the USA will be a shit show and Trump propaganda. The Tour de France is dominated by team “UAE”, the country literally sponsoring a genocide in Sudan. PSG is financed by Qatar. It’s not fun anymore.

I never, never thought that we would see a headline like “The USA is threatening the UK with sanctions if they block a website where you can generate child porn”. It’s truly insane what is currently happening.

Does it? It was possible a while ago, but in the last years, we saw train tickets going to apps. There is no ticket machine at my local stop. There are areas where you can only park your car with an app. I need 2FA to get into my accounts. Restaurants have QR code menus. So going to protests or just living your life without a phone is getting harder

There is a fundamental difference between the USA of the past and Trumps MAGA regime. Yes, the USA was never really trustworthy, even under Clinton or Obama. But what Trump is currently doing is on a totally new level.

You can do most of that without any fancy AI or machine learning: Since you already have your own domain, setup some mail redirects and filter all mails going into them into subfolders. I have a redirect for onlineshopping where all those order confirmation and delivery informations and unwanted newsletters go. I have another I use for creating accounts - all 2FA etc. are going there. And then I have the main mail for actual communication and another redirect for all those interesting substack newsletters and so on.

If you take a look at every survey out there, there will always be 10% idiots. Regardless of what you’re polling for, 10% of the answers will be batshit insane. You can ask questions like “Do you want to be more healthy in the new year” and 10% will answer “no”. You can ask “Do you want to quit smoking” and 10% will answer that they want to increase their tobacco usage.

We kind of know that he suffers from dementia. So he really might think that someone owes him an island, but it’s really crazy that the world has to deal with the ramblings of someone who should be in elder care

If they don’t like the UN, maybe they should also give up their seat and their veto power on the security council?

No, it doesn’t. But that is totally something that should run locally on your own devices.