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New comment by clydethefrog in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

clydethefrog — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:23:47 +0000

They announced they will veto military actions to open Straight of Hormuz in the UN security council.

New comment by clydethefrog in "Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes"

clydethefrog — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:47:09 +0000

Some of these newsletters were also edited and published in opinion pages of the Mediahuis publications.

New comment by clydethefrog in "Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields"

clydethefrog — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:10:41 +0000

They could stage a "Operation Spiderweb" inspired attack [0], but this seems highly unlikely with the current powerful surveillance state of the USA. I once read a wild theory that some Mexican cartels might be able to, since they have access to military hardware too nowadays.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb

New comment by clydethefrog in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

clydethefrog — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:28:35 +0000

Just last night:

"It’s worth pointing out that Hezbollah has managed to get rockets right down to the south of Israel today – and that is unprecedented. Never before has Hezbollah managed to get rockets so far south into Israel."

https://aje.news/b8762y?update=4414645

New comment by clydethefrog in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

clydethefrog — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:22:53 +0000

Strange how there are so many progressive radical groups and somehow the anti-nuclear activists are the only ones that manage to change the energy agenda in favour of the very powerful lobby of the fossil fuels. The animal activists never changed the subsidies to animal agriculture, the activists for international causes like Palestine haven't managed much either.

New comment by clydethefrog in "[dead]"

clydethefrog — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:20:08 +0000

Crazy to see how all the comments here are AI bots. Thankfully we have the green usernames to make it more obvious.

New comment by clydethefrog in "Iranian security chief Ali Larijani killed in air strike"

clydethefrog — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:10:15 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_in_Iran

Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting

clydethefrog — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:59:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/article/waymo-austin-shooting-21948947.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211145

Points: 129

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New comment by clydethefrog in "Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation"

clydethefrog — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:06:17 +0000

Pinterest has the honour to lead the leaderboard from #1 tot #7 in the blocked domain list.

https://kagi.com/stats?stat=insights

New comment by clydethefrog in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

clydethefrog — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:59:30 +0000

I remember the writers of SV actually somehow had to tone down the ridiculousness of the SV setting. See this quote from The New Yorker [0]:

>“His [Teller, working for Google] message was, ‘We don’t do stupid things here. We do things that actually are going to change the world, whether you choose to make fun of that or not.’

>Teller ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.”

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-v...

New comment by clydethefrog in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

clydethefrog — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:01:42 +0000

There has been recent academic research (+ book) about how it's the opposite - Israel relied on foreign intelligence (Club de Berne) for it's most famous operations.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/140/604-605/777/8140798

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/histor...

New comment by clydethefrog in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

clydethefrog — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:58:12 +0000

The European Commission bases its investigation on the rules laid down in the Digital Services Act (DSA). This European legislation, introduced in 2022, imposes strict requirements on companies offering digital services in Europe.

In addition to TikTok, the social media company Meta, Facebook's parent company, is also under the investigation.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

Quoting: >The Commission is concerned that the systems of both Facebook and Instagram, including their algorithms, may stimulate behavioural addictions in children, as well as create so-called 'rabbit-hole effects'. In addition, the Commission is also concerned about age-assurance and verification methods put in place by Meta.

And before someone mentions the other? X - the everything app formally known as Twitter - is also under the Commission's scrutiny. It was fined approximately 120 million euro at the end of last year.

New comment by clydethefrog in "Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads"

clydethefrog — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:39:10 +0000

Interesting part of the making of these ads - "While Claude helped behind the scenes – synthesising research and streamlining production – Anthropic and Mother say the concept, direction, scripts, performances and production were led by human teams."

https://lbbonline.com/news/claude-anthropic-mother-jeff-low-...

I wonder how much the CEO of ChatGPT used his own weapon to counter (very weakly, imo) this human-made attack ad.

New comment by clydethefrog in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

clydethefrog — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:14:30 +0000

I agree with Socrates and too many people have the wrong memory of him, making his prediction come true. There was a great philosophical book last year, Open Socrates [1], that explains his methods and ideas are the opposite direction of how most people use AI. Socrates believed we can only get closer to knowledge through the process of open, inquisitive conversation with other beings who are willing to refute us and be refuted in turn. He claimed ideas can only be expressed and shared in dialogue & live conversation. The one-direction communication of all the media since books have lacked this, and AI's version of dialogue is sycophancy and statistical common patterns instead of fresh ideas.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/books/review/open-socrate...

New comment by clydethefrog in "Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights"

clydethefrog — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:38:00 +0000

Nonsense since the 2024 European Parliament that has a big far-right wing. The EPP has already broken down a lot of progressive green policies with help of the far right [1], the "cordon sanitaire" is now broken.

https://www.politico.eu/article/epp-votes-with-far-right-to-...

New comment by clydethefrog in "Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights"

clydethefrog — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:29:33 +0000

Just as with most parts of the EU (imo both it's strength and it's weakness) there is some complexity and bureaucracy involved with founding out the political spectrum of MEPs. You can research the EU political groups and the political alliances and the corresponding positions on these Wikipedia pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_Europe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_political_alliances

New comment by clydethefrog in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

clydethefrog — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:45:19 +0000

See also the protests in Serbia [1] led by university students, that have been also mostly ignored by both the EU and the USA. The EU commented "they will not accept or support a violent change of power in Serbia", and the USA claimed they do not support "those who undermine the rule of law or who forcefully take over government buildings."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%93present_Serbian_a...

New comment by clydethefrog in "Eat Real Food"

clydethefrog — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:08:25 +0000

I liked the Canada food guide.

https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

Discussion in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18985017

New comment by clydethefrog in "Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites"

clydethefrog — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:40:08 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515191

New comment by clydethefrog in "This is not the future"

clydethefrog — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:36:38 +0000

"in formal experiments the only people who behaved exactly according to the mathematical models created by game theory are economists themselves, and psychopaths" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(television_documentar...