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- on Survey: US influence on Germany seen to be growing | dpa international in c/europe@feddit.org · 29 Aug 2026
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
“current gov allows us to do anything so we don’t care anymore because that’s cheaper”
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on How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies | ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in th… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
It’s not just Russian propaganda anymore. It got adopted more widely in an effort to establish oligarchies in the West as well.
It’s useful for the super-rich because staying on the path of democracy and regulation hurts their profits, and it’s useful for Putin because it destabilizes Europe when European countries turn more isolated and separated with right-wing nationalist leaderships.
This, plus the blackmailability (is that a word?) that comes from being dependent on US cloud services and US payment providers. There are many instittions and companies in Europe who would be absolutely f*cked if they even just temporarily lost access to their Microsoft/Apple/AWS/Google/Meta/Mastercard/Visa/Paypal/… accounts. And since the current US administration is a bully who will exploit weaknesses for their own gain, … add 1+1 together yourself.
Europe had a lot of time but never bothered with sovereign IT. Even with the current US administration they still mostly continue like before, as if nothing changed in the world. That’s like technical debt. It may not haunt you now, it may not haunt you within 10 years, but it WILL haunt you at some point. That point is now within viewing distance.