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“Egad! … What a hideous creature!”

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God makes the snake.

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Boy … these things are a cinch! / CLAY / CLAY

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I'm all for this.

I want to see Trump try to stand in front of lights and stage for an extended period of time. His dementia, incontinence and physical frailty will be exposed to all. Maybe a major stroke light will be on the cards as well.

Americans to meaninglessly die for Israel

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How creepy is Jordan’s face in the fourth panel?? WHAT HAVE I DONE.

Also to clarify some points from last week’s comic. A) Aioli would be like an extra sauce on top, I’d still have a tomato sauce base, B) I’m surprised at how many of you didn’t know what aioli was, and C) Pizza is common here in New Zealand, I just meant I personally haven’t had pizza in ages!

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/free-4

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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2008-06-23

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Transcript:

Garfield: Well, well. Here comes Arlene. Hey, baby, what's happenin'?

Arlene: Buzz off, creep.

Garfield: How about a gourmet dinner?

Arlene I'm all yours! You really shouldn't have.

Garfield: Hang the expense. Onl the best garbage for you, my dear.

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A follow up of sorts to this article

Dublin ‘can’t trust itself to do the right thing’: Why Irish EU presidency should recuse itself from regulating Big Tech

A one-word answer to why EU lost control of Big Tech: Ireland

My favourite bit of interviewing Dr. Johnny Ryan was when he yelled “just off a plane, so if you know the answer, I will lose my mind if you ask me to repeat myself for the recording again” at me.

It didn’t make it to the final interview, which was published on EUobserver.

Ryan is, among the much needed group of people who speak up against Big Tech, one of the more eloquent and direct. He’s also very friendly.

His work at the Irish Council of Civil Liberties’ Enforce includes major investigations into the many, many, many ills of online advertising/surveillance capitalism, a radical belief in the underutilised potential of GDPR (the EU’s main data rights law) and now, a plea to have Ireland recuse itself from all digital files in its upcoming EU council presidency.

For those who don’t know (I didn’t), the answer to why the EU has not been able to crack down on Big Tech more is simple. One word, in fact: Ireland.

Ireland’s job, by way of how the GDPR was drafted, is to defend the rest of Europe when it comes to the tech companies headquartered there. Meta, Google, TikTok, Microsoft, LinkedIn, X, Apple all picked Ireland. So did most of their AI activity. Which means, in Ryan’s words: “Ireland is responsible for defending the rest of Europe when those companies abuse Europeans’ data.”

And surprise surprise, they’re not doing so adequately.

Continue Reading Here - https://euobserver.com/218423/a-one-word-answer-to-why-eu-lost-control-of-big-tech-ireland/

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