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Peter Magyar’s Tisza wins Hungary election as Viktor Orban concedes

aljazeera.com

Longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban has conceded defeat in the country's parliamentary election.

Not going to pretend like I know anything about Peter Magyar, but having Orban leave—and do so peacefully—is a huge win. I’ve seen people say things like fascism always loses, but I don’t think that’s the right mindset to have. It takes work and courage to defeat it and just because it eventually loses, doesn’t mean there aren’t real life consequences suffered by real people in the meantime who won’t get to see the fascists lose.

Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troublesome, Judge Says

wired.com

Hamilton acknowledged that Hegseth has no legal authority to bar military contractors from using Anthropic for work unrelated to the Department of Defense. When asked by Lin why Hegseth would have posted that, Hamilton said, “I don’t know.”

It’s 100% punitive. You don’t go from using the product and negotiating a new contract to expand capabilities to declaring they are a supply chain risk and can’t be used by any government contractor. It’s ridiculous.

Donald Trump’s latest climbdown suggests he wants to end the war

economist.com

On Monday Mr Trump did the rounds of American business television channels, repeating his claims of “great conversations” with Iran. Iran has firmly denied the existence of such talks in public and rejected offers from America in private, according to a Gulf official. The war’s unexpectedly long duration, as well as Mr Trump’s latest climbdown, undermine the idea that Iran’s regime is fragile and that regime change is possible. Instead, it is looking more likely that the ill-judged campaign will either drag on or end messily, with an Iran that is battered but defiant, and still able to inflict considerable damage on the region and the world.

This is what happens when you have power hungry buffoons in power. Make no doubt about it, America are the bad guys. Despite how bad things might've been in Iran or Venezuela, bombing indiscriminately because they don't do things our way should sound some alarms—especially since they are basically just trying other get the Iran nuclear deal back that Trump threw out during his first term; and now he's just lying out of his ass all over the place even more than normal, which .

📱 The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

Politico

The fact that the Commission said TikTok should change the basic design of its service is “ground-breaking for the business model fueled by surveillance and advertising," said Katarzyna Szymielewicz, president of the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish civil society group.

Honestly, I really love this idea. It’s so easy to just fall into doom scrolling and go down a never-ending rabbit hole. So forcing some kind of decision-making to continue is a good idea, given some of the addiction we’ve seen arise from these types of apps.

I’ve also been thinking defaulting to an algorithmic timeline should be nixed. If a user wants to make that decision and switch over, let ’em. But even on Instagram, where you have the following feed, you have to switch to it every single time—that should be the default. Then you can switch to a discover feed or the algorithm or whatever if you so choose.

Or maybe I’m just a weak human being with no self-control. But both could be true.

🤖 OpenAI amending deal with Pentagon, CEO Altman says

Reuters

Surprisingly absolutely no one with half a brain, OpenAI actually couldn’t fulfill the same deal as Anthropic while holding to the same high standards and principles.

And it’s all of these shortsighted nincompoops that are going to absolutely destroy the economy—and not just the stock market, but the everyday lives of normal folks—along with the idiotic policies, actions, and war (crimes) of the current administration.

I’m rambling and getting a bit off topic now, but we are at the point (and, to be clear, have been for sometime) in a post-capitalistic society where outputs don’t actually matter. Instead what businesses make is irrelevant as all they care about are numbers on a spreadsheet to appease Wall Street. The best ideas or products don’t prevail, just those who have inherited or “created” wealth, sitting on billions of dollars with companies that make billions in profit, but somehow can’t afford to pay full-time employees enough to keep them off of welfare.

It’s almost funny when the right wing made up this fake idea of a “welfare queen” who just wanted to sit at home and collect a check, when, in reality, they created a system where those same people have to work two jobs to survive—working harder than any CEO pencil pusher—while still sitting below the poverty line because of the actual welfare class that was created due out of Regan and trickle down economics.

🗳️ Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

The Hill

“This change is part of a broader, ongoing effort to align all of Gallup’s public work with its mission,” a spokesperson for Gallup said. “We look forward to continuing to offer independent research that adheres to the highest standards of social science.”

Yeah, I believe them when they say it has nothing to do with the current administration and the fact this president has the lowest approval rating ever. Makes total sense they’d stop to “align with its mission.”