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Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
By Dan Milmo and agency

Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/europe-ai-datacentres-growth-us-china-ecb-christine-lagarde

#AIartificialintelligence #Europe #ChristineLagarde #EuropeanCentralBank #DonaldTrump #Business #Computing #USnews #China #France #Greenland #EuropeanUnion #Technology #Worldnews #TheGuardian #DanMilmo #agency

Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
By Dan Milmo and agency

Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/europe-ai-datacentres-growth-us-china-ecb-christine-lagarde

#AIartificialintelligence #Europe #ChristineLagarde #EuropeanCentralBank #DonaldTrump #Business #Computing #USnews #China #France #Greenland #EuropeanUnion #Technology #Worldnews #TheGuardian #DanMilmo #agency

Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
By Dan Milmo and agency

Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/europe-ai-datacentres-growth-us-china-ecb-christine-lagarde

#AIartificialintelligence #Europe #ChristineLagarde #EuropeanCentralBank #DonaldTrump #Business #Computing #USnews #China #France #Greenland #EuropeanUnion #Technology #Worldnews #TheGuardian #DanMilmo #agency

Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
By Dan Milmo and agency

Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/europe-ai-datacentres-growth-us-china-ecb-christine-lagarde

#AIartificialintelligence #Europe #ChristineLagarde #EuropeanCentralBank #DonaldTrump #Business #Computing #USnews #China #France #Greenland #EuropeanUnion #Technology #Worldnews #TheGuardian #DanMilmo #agency

Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
By Dan Milmo and agency

Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/europe-ai-datacentres-growth-us-china-ecb-christine-lagarde

#AIartificialintelligence #Europe #ChristineLagarde #EuropeanCentralBank #DonaldTrump #Business #Computing #USnews #China #France #Greenland #EuropeanUnion #Technology #Worldnews #TheGuardian #DanMilmo #agency

UK ministers urged to act after US flies out diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children
By Kevin Rawlinson and agency

US officials reportedly raided envoy’s London home and took him to American airbase without warning Met police

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/14/ministers-us-diplomat-accused-indecent-images-children-uk

#Politics #UKnews #USnews #Worldnews #Law #USpolitics #Trumpadministration #London #TheGuardian #KevinRawlinson #agency

A famous Japanese adult actor, Kuraki Hana, has reportedly died.On the 13th, news of Kuraki’s death ..

사진 확대 A famous Japanese adult actor, Kuraki Hana, has reportedly died. [Photo source = SNS] A famous…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #agency #boyfriend #photosource #Tokyoreport #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/731077/

England braces for rainy bank holiday weekend
By Kevin Rawlinson and agency

Festivalgoers brave wet weather and strong winds as ‘unsettled’ conditions expected to last into start of next week

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/28/england-braces-for-rainy-bank-holiday-weekend

#UKweather #England #ReadingandLeedsfestival #TheGuardian #KevinRawlinson #agency

Bleibt nichts frei von Wirkung?

Wir wirken, weil wir existieren. Aber Wirkung ist noch keine Verantwortung.

https://whisper7.substack.com/p/bleibt-nichts-frei-von-wirkung

#Philosophie #Verantwortung #Wirkung

Is Nothing Free of Effect?

We have an effect because we exist. But effect is not yet responsibility.

https://whisper7.substack.com/p/is-nothing-free-of-effect

#Philosophy #Responsibility #Agency

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Treasury Wine Estates and Social Soup launch  House of Winefluence Australia’s first always-on wine creator academy

Social Soup, Australia and …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Australianwine #Agency #Australia #brands #HouseofWinefluence #innovation #SocialSoup #TreasuryWineEstates #Wine #winecreatoracademy #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2737005/treasury-wine-estates-and-social-soup-launch-house-of-winefluence-australias-first-always-on-wine-creator-academy/

Treasury Wine Estates and Social Soup launch  House of Winefluence Australia’s first always-on wine creator academy  https://www.diningandcooking.com/2737005/treasury-wine-estates-and-social-soup-launch-house-of-winefluence-australias-first-always-on-wine-creator-academy/ #Agency #Australia #AustralianWine #brands #HouseOfWinefluence #innovation #SocialSoup #TreasuryWineEstates #Wine #WineCreatorAcademy #WineFromAustralia #WineOfAustralia

A quotation from Josh Billings

Man kant make cirkumstanses, but he kan take them bi the horns, insted ov the tale.
 
[Man can’t make circumstances, but he can take them by the horns, instead of the tail.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-05 “Artikles Ov Faith” (1877 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85012/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #action #agency #circumstance #dragging #following #goingalong #reaction #reallife #reality #world

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/17/campaigner-threatened-prosecution-environment-agency-river-roding-cleanup. Paul Powlesland organises the #cleanup of the #River Roding in #Essex with a #team of #volunteers from the River Roding Trust, they remove 200 bags of #rubbish, #branches & #silt over 10 days from it - but now he's to be prosecuted, apparently, by the very #agency that refused to act in spite of repeated #requests to clean the river up itself, namely, the #Environment Agency, or should that be the "Anti-Environment Agency"?

Unity
A direction or colour of politics causes more division. I realise it is naive to not "talk about politics," but we can talk about it differently in the sense we can not add to that division.
If a conversation subject causes friction, that's ok. It's how we learn and, more importantly, how we learn to think. If that friction is painful, it needs to be examined in a way that supports & develops individual and community growth.
Some people find that investigation of painful experience/emotion at a particular point in life is too difficult. That's OK. It does not mean I agree with the expression of that learning or pain. It may come to a point where I can't be with that person due to that expression.
Acceptance is not agreement. Healing has to begin with recognition.
#motivation #agency #direction #empowerment #universaleducation #Unityindiversity #universalequality #universaljustice

Revolutionary Love- Transition and a feminist intervention,

WOW❤️

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A quotation from L'Engle

So let us look for beauty and grace, for love and friendship, for that which is creative and birth-giving and soul-stretching. Let us dare to laugh at ourselves, healthy, affirmative laughter. Only when we take ourselves lightly can we take ourselves seriously, so that we are given the courage to say, “Yes! I dare disturb the universe.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

More about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/838…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lengle #madeleinelengle #agency #beauty #change #courage #creativity #disturbing #gravitas #humility #humor #laughter #lightheartedness #selfactualization #selfaffirmation #selfappreciation #selfchallenging #selfesteem #selfimage #selfimportance #selfliberation #selfregard.selftrust #selfunderstanding #selfworth #senseofhumor #stretchgoals

A new colleague, Alaka Oluwatobi, shared his decolonial essay with me. I share this interest, so I read it and wrote a blog post. The essay is linked there as well as in the first comment if you'd like to read it without my opinions.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/07/the-masters-concepts-decolonising-the-house-without-keeping-the-furniture/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #politics #society #culture #humancondition #language #morality #colonialism #liberalism #imperialism #hegemony #sovereignty #agency #autonomy #assey #blog #podcast #metaethics #metaphysics #fanon #hegel #history #critique

Safeguarding Spatial Sovereignty in the Age of Rapidly Refreshed Machine-Readable Terrain
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https://peacelovefreedom.com/mapping/safeguarding-spatial-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-rapidly-refreshed-machine-readable-terrain/ <-- shared technical article / ‘editorial’
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H/T @JordanRegenie
“The map is not the territory.” ~ Alfred Korzybski
“As LiDAR becomes rapidly refreshed, globally available, and directly ingested by machines, the question is no longer what we can measure.
It’s whether humans retain the ability to understand, intervene in, and redirect how those measurements are used over time.
This article focuses on spatial sovereignty, not as a policy position, but as a design discipline, and on why alignment with established standards is becoming a prerequisite for effective scale…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #spatialsovereignty #sovereignty #alldataisspatial #OnExactitudeinScience #indigenous #Borges #territory #AI #AIsystems #ThreeLawsOfRobotics #governance #framework #policy #planning #agency #humanagencty #philosophy #approach #involvement #license #geoethics #socialjustice

Kontrolle als Praxis: Reize und Aufmerksamkeit so steuern, dass Handlungsfähigkeit bleibt.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/kontrolle

#Selbstreflexion #Achtsamkeit #Kontrolle #Wahrnehmung #Innenwelt #Psychologie #Alltag #Selbstregulation #Aufmerksamkeit #Handlungsfähigkeit

Control as practice: steering stimuli and attention to remain capable of action.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/control

#SelfReflection #Mindfulness #Control #Perception #InnerWorld #Psychology #EverydayLife #SelfRegulation #Attention #Agency

Chasing Returns Leaves a Big Carbon Footprint

This chart is from the World Inequality Report 2026, published this week by the World Inequality Lab.

The authors explain:

Most emission estimates traditionally attribute greenhouse gases to the final consumers of goods and services. This “consumption-based” approach highlights differences in lifestyle and consumption patterns. However, it overlooks another critical dimension of responsibility: capital ownership.

Focusing on ownership highlights investor agency:

While many consumers have limited ability to alter their consumption, due to constrained budgets, a lack of information, or limited access to alternatives, owners of productive assets actively decide how and where resources are invested. They directly benefit from the profits generated by emission-intensive industries. An ownership-based approach, therefore, assigns emissions from production to those who own the corresponding capital stock. 

Under this framework, an individual owning 50% of a company’s equity is attributed 50% of that firm’s emissions, whether directly or via intermediaries such as investment funds….

Accounting for emissions through this ownership lens reveals a high degree of concentration. In France, Germany, and the United States, the carbon footprint of the wealthiest 10% is three to five times higher when private ownership–based emissions are included….

The extreme concentration of private ownership–based emissions stems from both the amount of wealth owned and the investment choices made. Wealthy individuals not only hold larger asset portfolios but also allocate them disproportionately toward high-carbon sectors. 

As shown in Figure 6.3, every $1 million invested in business assets in the United States corresponds to roughly 143 tonnes of carbon emissions, compared with 75 tonnes for equities (Chancel and Rehm (2025a)). Similar patterns emerge in France and Germany.

The global top 10% allocates about half of their wealth to such carbon-intensive holdings, often seeking higher-risk, higher-return investments that coincide with higher emissions. Hsu, Li, and Tsou (2023) find that high-emission companies yield, on average, 4.4 percentage points more in annual excess returns than low-emission peers—an implicit “pollution premium” that further incentivizes carbon-heavy investments. 

From this ownership perspective, the nature of emissions changes across the wealth distribution. For low- and middle-income groups, nearly all emissions are linked to essential consumption — transportation, heating, or electricity. For the top 10%, and especially for the top 1%, emissions from capital ownership dominate, accounting for 75–95% of their total footprint in France, Germany, and the United States. This also means that the wealthiest have a far greater capacity to reduce emissions without compromising their living standards. [emphasis mine]

And, note, this chart is drawn from 2019 data, and does not take into account the investing trends, governance failures, or policy retreats of the last several years.

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#agency #collectiveAgency #ethics #futureHoarding #inequality #investing #ownership #resourceHoarding #responsibility #responsibleInvesting

“If we want to be able to see what’s happening, we’ll have to be in the front”

"Police hate to be outflanked—they can’t risk being surrounded themselves."

https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/its-safer-in-the-front-taking-the-offensive-against-tyranny

#fear #frontLine #struggles #Bush #GeorgeWBush #IraqWar #comrades #collectives #crowdManagement #WashingtonDC #anarchists #antiFascists #territory #kettling #responsibility #tearGas #agency #demos #demonstrations #protests

New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:

#Free #Agency #Frenzy

comics.lucentinian.com/8802
#DailyJokes #AIComedy #NewsLaughs #AIJokes #FunnyNews

#preutsheid #modernisme #courtisane #naakt #ÉdouardManet #FélixVallotton #Mivekannin #Olympia #identiteit #representatie #sensualiteit #machtsdynamiek #negentiendeeeuw #confrontatie #agency #zwartevrouw #symbolisme #kunstgeschiedenis #objectificatie https://kanteldenker.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/preutsheid-en-modernisme-in-de-compositie-van-de-courtisane-van-manets-olympia-tot-vallottons-naakten-en-mivekannins-herinterpretaties/

Use what you've got; change the course: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/change-the-course/

#agency #change #empowerment #struggle #workCollectives #collectives #community #teamWork #workPlace #dei #womeninTech #corporateLife #MandyBrown

Use what you've got; change the course: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/change-the-course/

#agency #change #empowerment #struggle #workCollectives #collectives #community #teamWork #workPlace #dei #womeninTech #corporateLife #MandyBrown

Use what you've got; change the course: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/change-the-course/

#agency #change #empowerment #struggle #workCollectives #collectives #community #teamWork #workPlace #dei #womeninTech #corporateLife #MandyBrown

Use what you've got; change the course: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/change-the-course/

#agency #change #empowerment #struggle #workCollectives #collectives #community #teamWork #workPlace #dei #womeninTech #corporateLife #MandyBrown

#SecretService #Probing #ElonMusk’s #Post About #Threats to #President #JoeBiden and #VicePresident #KamalaHarris.

Musk posted on #X suggesting it was strange no one attempted to #assassinate President Biden or Vice President Harris. In response to a #FOIA #request, the #agency said it is withholding #records due to "#EnforcementProceedings."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-09-19/musk-x-post-about-biden-harris-threats-leads-to-secret-service-investigation

#Verteilung von #Ressource​n durch #Zukunftsplanung: #Auffassung von #Lebensbewältigungskompetenz als #Vorteil unter #Dispositiv #Agency / #Handlungsmacht;

#Gelingen des #Erleben​s der #Umöglichkeit des #beeinflussen #können​s durch #Festlegung eines #funktional #differenziert​en #System​s #Gesellschaft, das im #medial​en #Außen #Abgrenzung zu #intern​en #Konflikt​en #entdeckt.

#Corona; #Erfindung des #Internet.

#Welt am #Sonntag, Heinz #Bude, Da #brennt etwas an. 09.08.20, S. 45