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What did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen,
the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday?
I don’t know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact.
I arrived in Copenhagen the day after the call
—the subject, of course, was the future of Greenland,
which Denmark owns and which Trump wants
—and discovered that appointments I had with Danish politicians were suddenly in danger of being canceled.
Amid Frederiksen’s emergency meeting with business leaders, her foreign minister’s emergency meeting with party leaders,
and an additional emergency meeting of the foreign-affairs committee in Parliament, everything,
all of a sudden, was in complete flux.
The result:
Mid-morning, I found myself standing on the Knippel Bridge between the Danish foreign ministry and the Danish Parliament,
holding a phone,
--waiting to be told which direction to walk.
Denmark in January is not warm;
I went to the Parliament and waited there.
The meeting was canceled anyway.
After that, nobody wanted to say anything on the record at all.
Thus have Americans who voted for Trump because of the putatively high price of eggs now precipitated a political crisis in Scandinavia.
11 years ago Klint Finley laid out how neo-reactionary thought was taking hold in Silicon Valley
"many professionals, rather than admit to their role in gentrification, wealth disparity and job displacement, are casting themselves as victims. "
It remains an an amazing primer
Better than that horseshit NYT interview of "intellectual" Curtis Yarvin
Debt likely to be written off as administrators find buyer for the
Brighton
i360 #LDreporter https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/01/17/i360-to-rise-again-as-council-prepares-to-write-off-51m-debt/
Twitter/X is right wing controlled.
Meta (Instagram, Threads, Facebook) is right wing aligned.
TikTok is aligning itself with Trump.
Crypto-centric decentralized platforms are right wing aligned (the jury's out about whether crypto-funded ones are too).
Major newspapers are aligning themselves around the right wing.
Whoever controls the narrative has the ability to obfuscate and overwrite the truth.
The Fediverse is more important for freedom than ever before.
La società madre di TikTok, #ByteDance, deve ancora #impegnarsi in una #vendita come #scadenza #governativa e potenziale investimento negli Stati Uniti, approccio basato sul divieto di preoccupazioni relative alla #sicurezzanazionale. 2/2
And he’s popped up at #BAIC! Definitely a step up from Ford. #car #CarDesign #羅偉基
https://www.cardesignnews.com/designers/anthony-lo-joins-baic/46203.article
#MrBeast, lo You Tuber (#JimmyDonaldson) sarebbe in trattative per diventare un proprietario di minoranza di #TikTok negli #StatiUniti.
Le fonti dicono che i gruppi di #investitori lo vedono come un #partner chiave grazie al suo successo sui #socialmedia.
Sebbene le discussioni siano preliminari, MrBeast potrebbe investire nella piattaforma e assicurarsi il capitale, anche se i dettagli rimangono poco chiari. 1/2
Last September, I reported on a working Turing machine being submitted as a Lego Ideas project. This engineering feat earned 10,000 votes and is now in review at Lego to actually become a set sold in stores.
Although I'm skeptical if this will ever make it further than review stage, this shows that there are enough enthusiasts for theoretical CompSci to push this on Lego's agenda.
For reference, this article has a demo video: https://heise.de/-9867024
Extra cash needed to build more than 200 new #Brighton council homes as increased building costs put pressure on budget #LDreporter
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/01/17/extra-800k-needed-to-fund-87m-council-housebuilding-project/