Yes. Seriously. And if x wants to operate in the EU then it has to follow EU law.

Consumer protection still exists and what x is doing with it’s ‘verified’ badges is just straight up deception. The only thing it verifies is that that account has paid x money.

Second, relating to transparency in advertising. Hybrid warfare is a major threat to the stability of Europe’s society, institutions and democracy. A major vector for that is propaganda carried out through Facebook and X. Both through fake users and adverts.

The EU should very much take this seriously and I’m glad that they are.

100%. Constant sane washing.

The charges are clear. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934

100% they’ve started gaming the algorithm to reduce artist payouts. Ambient music is rife with ai generated tracks taking negotiated rates, other genres will surely follow.

http://web.archive.org/web/20241221144306/https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

I switched to tidal from Spotify last year and am very happy. It just does music - no audio books, videos, podcasts - but to my mind that’s a feature. Music quality is far far better. The algorithm for recommendations I think is good.

I found streaming on the move less reliable until I dropped the audio quality and now it’s solid.

I used https://www.tunemymusic.com/ to move from Spotify to tidal. I had a lot of saves and playlists so had to use a paid plan but it was $5 or something and it worked well.

A little reminder to Trump that Murdoch is a king maker. Murdoch wants to keep people on the edge of power, flipped this way or that at Murdoch’s wim.

But also, murdoch shaped the dialog about what this picture depicted before anyone had seen it. Everyone is now describing it as a women instead of what it appears to be… a child.

He’s taking trump to the edge. But also preventing him going over. This is not quite as unfriendly as it would appear.

Yes.

This is so much worse than I imagined. I just assumed (as it was described as a ‘naked woman’ in the press) that it would be a cartoonish, exaggerated female form in a provocative pose, big tits and massive hips. The kind of thing an adolescent boy would draw in the margins of a text book at high school.

Instead, it’s THIS. Something that oozes darkness. It isn’t a women, it isn’t even a person, it’s just a torso. No head, legs or arms. Robbed of all autonomy, or thought or independence. The only detail he thought was important enough to add were it’s boyish looking, high set breasts. Reminiscent of a preteen.

it’s beyond creepy or pervy and is actually deeply disturbing.

It IS funny for sure. And to a massive narcissist it probably stings. And hopefully pulls them out of whatever reality bubble they normally reside in. They need to be reminded that they do not have public support at every opportunity.

£2k. And £50 a year for a chimney sweep.

Pretty sure heat pumps have higher maintenance costs as well.

Fire is dirt cheap, that’s why a good chunk of the world still uses it as their principal source of cooking and heating. They’re not doing it for the vibes.

Hear pumps are great, they have many advantages but cost is not one. Hopefully that’ll change.

A heat pump is £10k to buy and install, that ain’t cheap. In fact that would buy me enough wood to heat my house for 50 winters.

Cameron the chancer. He gambled, we lost.

This image is incredible.

You can’t pay someone to vote a certain way, but what if you pay people who love {[interest that correlates strongly with republican support]} to vote.

You don’t pay people to vote a particular way, which would be illegal, but you get the result you want regardless.

The slave trade is a mandatory part of the curriculum at ks3. You’ve just forgotten. And it’s pretty worts and all as far as Britain’s involvement goes.

I agree with your sentiments though, everyone likes to mythologise their history.

Trump is actually right here. Tax havens benefit themselves at the cost of their neighbours.

Close down tax havens!

There’s a whole section of law that determines when the police are able to take DNA samples or fingerprints, and more laws for how long they can keep that information.

It’s regulated. And bringing face recognition under biometric regulation is a no-brainer.

This is actually the world’s oldest cat flap. True fact.

This is not gonna be the vote winner they think it is. And fuck them for trying.