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Won't someone please think of the children?

Won't someone please think of the children?

New laws eroding privacy always follow a tired script: Invoke the “four horsemen of the infocalypse” to scare us into accepting surveillance “for the children” or “for security.” The reality is, neither our kids nor the public are any safer, just less free.

Wherever something is wrong, something is too big

Wherever something is wrong, something is too big

In mid-July 2024, computers in large parts of the world were hit by serious IT problems. Massive disruptions followed at airlines, stock exchanges, and stores globally. Nearly 10 million computers were affected.

A child's laughter: an algorithmic product?

A child's laughter: an algorithmic product?

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, said recently that the human brain is nothing but a biological computer. He was completely certain of this. But is that really the case?

Chat Control 2: Digitalizing the Panopticon

Chat Control 2: Digitalizing the Panopticon

Europe’s assault on free speech has become widespread and far-reaching. In Germany, a journalist was fined and given a suspended prison sentence this spring for circulating a satirical image of the interior minister captioned “I hate free speech.”

When Justice Fails the Vulnerable

When Justice Fails the Vulnerable

A video of a young Scottish girl brandishing both a knife and an axe went viral in late August. She allegedly tried to protect her sister from unwanted advances by an adult man according to the accompanying narrative - a true heroine.

Money that rots like potatoes

Money that rots like potatoes

Only money that goes out of date like a newspaper, rots like potatoes, rusts like iron, evaporates like ether, is capable of standing the test as an instrument for the exchange of potatoes, newspapers, iron and ether.

Until the opposite has been proven

Until the opposite has been proven

The core principle of presumed innocence is currently being undermined year by year. The emerging new world order, marked by age controls, introduces a new perverse inversion: one’s humanity is no longer assumed, unless proven otherwise.

EU - a self-licking ice cream cone?

EU - a self-licking ice cream cone?

The European Commission presented an interim target for 2040 in July on the path to climate neutrality. By 2040, the EU aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% compared to 1990 levels.

Your savings - or Brussel's covert slush fund?

Your savings - or Brussel's covert slush fund?

The European Union’s economic underperformance has been subject to intense debate since Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank (ECB), published a report on the topic last year.

Order from Chaos

Order from Chaos

Henry Kissinger, an experienced statesman and diplomat, may have put it best: that “Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences”.

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