https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-218056?&lg=EN/EN

“Cybersovereignty,” now more than ever, thanks to plague and war. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_729 (…) Members of the College said: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “The European Chips Act will be a game changer for the global competitiveness of Europe’s single market. In the short term, it will increase our resilience to future crises, by enabling us […]

*It will take quite a while.

*It’s nice that these are actual chairs, with real lumber and real joinery, as opposed to lasercut-plywood and glue Maker chairs.

*It’s not another universe, it’s just software. https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/what-is-metaverse-as-a-service-maas/

*That’s quite a legal and military spectacle. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2022.065.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A065%3ATOC COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2022/350 of 1 March 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular […]

https://www.guerredirete.it/il-grande-puzzle-del-metaverso/ (…) La seconda ragione è che nel 2021 Facebook/Meta ha investito nello sviluppo di tecnologie legate al metaverso una tale quantità di denaro che i suoi Reality Labs (la divisione che si occupa delle tecnologie in realtà virtuale e aumentata) hanno fatto segnare 2,2 miliardi di dollari di ricavi e 10 miliardi di perdite […]

*As Jimmy Carter said many decades ago, an energy crisis is “the moral equivalent of war,” except when it’s an actual war, in which case people tend to forget about the moralising. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_1511 (…) REPowerEU – eliminating our dependence on Russian gas before 2030 Phasing out our dependence on fossil fuels from Russia can be […]

*An image from her Twitter stream.