João D

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Joao_Bx on Twitter. International relations, EU affairs, Brussels & EU bubble. Formerly European Commission. EU external relations, project management, videogames journalism, space. Posts in EN, PT, FR, plus other languages if I feel brave enough.

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Existe a meritocracia, e existe a patifocracia Quanto tempo até se conhecer um escândalo a envolver este vice-presidente e as finanças do novo grupo da extrema-direita? sicnoticias.pt/pais/2024-07...

Tânger Corrêa escolhido para vice presidente do grupo europeu de Viktor Orbansicnoticias.pt O novo grupo parlamentar Patriotas pela Europa elegeu, esta segunda-feira, o eurodeputado do Chega para um dos vice-presidentes daquele que passa a ser o terceiro maior grupo do Parlamento Europeu, co...

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Labour has moved very quickly to remove the Conservatives’ shadow ban on onshore wind. A boost for renewables projects.

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if it's not from the champagne region of france then it’s just called sparkling fascist tears

Funnily enough, the exit poll is a kind of a 'least worst' scenario for the Tories, compared to what previous polls have suggested.

Exit poll suggesting Labour doing worse (410) and Conservatives doing better (131) than any of the final MRP polls predicted.

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Amazing night for Labour. Catastrophic for the Tories. Good night fir Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru. Disturbing Reform success. Still, the actual results are to come…

Happy birthday, Dennis Bergkamp's goal against Argentina #WorldCup98 youtu.be/XsZkCFoqSBs

Netherlands - Argentina: Bergkamp Goal 1998 (HD)youtu.be The legendary World Cup goal from Dennis Bergkamp during the '98 Quarterfinal of Netherlands vs. Argentina. Movie contains the commentary from Jack van Gelde...

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Today in 1970, France conducted “Licorne,” its fourth thermonuclear weapon test—and 36th test overall—at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. Six hours after the 914-kiloton explosion, Defense Minister Michel Debré swam in the lagoon as a publicity stunt to show it was not dangerously radioactive.

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#polisky: I'm looking for examples of RECENT article or book titles that have pop culture or bad puns. Any subfield, any topic. Self nominations welcome :-)

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Turkey’s Merih Demiral facing ban over ‘wolf’ celebration in win over Austriawww.theguardian.com Merih Demiral, Turkey’s goalscorer from their last-16 win over Austria, could face a ban after Uefa opened an investigation into a gesture with apparent far-right connotations

And to think I had low expectations about this game #AUTTUR #Euro2024

I didn't foresee the Netherlands scoring as Romania was doing much better #ROMNED #Euro2024

"In this world of celebrity worship, the winning of football matches is a secondary concern." www.theguardian.com/football/art...

The Ronaldo show is unstoppable and reduces others to bit-part players | Jonathan Wilsonwww.theguardian.com In this world of celebrity worship, the winning of football matches is a secondary concern. It’s all about Ronaldo

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🇭🇺⚖️🇪🇺 Hungarian EU Council presidency and the rule of law, what to expect from six MEGA months of turning Europe into a global powerhouse it could never have been otherwise, or so at least the PM Orbán wants you to believe. 1/

Portuguese people to foreign tourists: you're not in a Spanish-speaking country, you dumb moron!!! can't you even look at a freakin map?! Also Portuguese people: Slovenia, Slovakia, Syldavia... it's all the same, right?

Outra vez a Eslováquia, RTP??

Ronaldo diz que o jogo com a Eslováquia foi "do oito ao 80"

Ronaldo diz que o jogo com a Eslováquia foi "do oito ao 80"www.rtp.pt Na reação após o jogo frente à Eslováquia, o jogador da seleção nacional destacou a "tristeza" por ter falhado uma grande penalidade no prolongamento e, ao mesmo tempo, a "alegria" por a equipa ter chegado aos quartos de final.

Portugal-France in the quarter-finals is going to be such an unbearable game to watch. Oh well... #Euro2024

What in the world have we done to deserve this? First that dreadfully anaesthetic France-Belgium, now this moronic Portugal-Slovenia... #Euro2024 #PORSVN

This game was a chore to watch, both France and Belgium should be made to go through a punishment play off just for this #FRABEL #Euro2024

Portuguese public television can't tell Slovenia from Slovakia on Euro 2024 article about the Portugal-Slovenia game today.

Euro2024. Selecionador eslovaco com "dores de cabeça" pela qualidade de Portugal

Euro2024. Selecionador eslovaco com "dores de cabeça" pela qualidade de Portugalwww.rtp.pt O selecionador da Eslovénia afirmou hoje que fica com "dores de cabeça" quando analisa a qualidade que existe em Portugal, mas negou qualquer 'timidez' no duelo de segunda-feira, dos oitavos de final do Euro2024 de futebol.

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European Commission accuses Meta of violating digital competition rules with ‘pay or OK’ model

European Commission accuses Meta of violating digital competition rules with ‘pay or OK’ modeldlvr.it fsd

Oh no, Southgate now is forced to attack, can you imagine? #ENGSVK #Euro2024

And the Lord said "Let there be urinols, and toilets, and other sanitary facilities for my children"

And God spake all these words, saying, I am PIPI thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage

Acho uma certa piada como em português importámos uma das definições da palavra 'coqueluche' mas não a outra.

Coqueluche, tuberculose, syphilis... Ces maladies "oubliées" qui augmentent aussi en France

Coqueluche, tuberculose, syphilis... Ces maladies "oubliées" qui augmentent aussi en Francewww.france24.com Alors qu'elles stagnaient à des niveaux plutôt bas, des maladies comme la coqueluche, la rougeole, la tuberculose ou la syphilis font leur retour en France ces dernières années, et nécessitent une vigilance accrue des professionnels de santé et de la population. Comment était-on parvenu à les maintenir à des seuils bas et pourquoi sont-elles en augmentation ? Éléments d'explication.

Ah, the lovely summers in the northern half of Europe... #GERDEN #Euro2024

64 minutes, Italy has zero shots on target. Says it all #SWIITA #Euro2024

'Lixo confidencial'

Segurança Social deixa documentos com dados pessoais na via pública

Segurança Social deixa documentos com dados pessoais na via públicawww.rtp.pt A Segurança Social deixou milhares de documentos expostos na via pública com dados pessoais de cidadãos. O incidente que aconteceu em Barcelos representa uma contraordenação grave, que pode corresponder a uma multa de 10 milhões de euros. Mas também pode configurar crime de violação do dever de sigilo.

Doesn't mean much by now but it will never not be insane how in US elections, the Republicans could field a bag full of turds with flies around it and the Democrats would *still* have to put forward a flawless candidate to convince 'undecided voters' why a pile of turds would not be a good POTUS.

I never thought of SimCity on SNES (one of my absolute favourite 16-bit games) as an AVGN game but here we are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TRV...

SimCity (SNES) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)www.youtube.com YouTube video by Cinemassacre

Amoreiras + vida social de Lisboa nos anos 90 = loja da Bimotor no piso de cima para ver os jogos Tinham uma selecção *um pouco* melhor e maior do que a maioria das lojas portuguesas da altura. Ainda havia a Dentinho, a Inter Toys e a Strauss, mas só na Bimotor havia posteres de jogos nas paredes.

Falta-te vida social de Lisboa dos anos 90 :-) Não sei se ainda é, mas na altura, o Madeirense era um dos restaurantes onde era bem, uma pessoa ser vista. E muito negócio se fez naquelas mesas :-) (muito por causa do Manuel Fernandes - o que está vivo - um ótimo relações públicas do espaço).

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"even if ChatGPT is not, itself, a hard bullshitter, it is nonetheless a bullshit machine. The bullshitter is the person using it, since they (i) don’t care about the truth of what it says, (ii) want the reader to believe what the application outputs."

Scholars call BS on ChatGPT like: “Large language models have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations” "We argue that these falsehoods [are] better understood as *bullshit* in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005)"

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...