#demo europe

[6-evil-6-soul-6]

Devil May Cry trial edidion/demo PAL [SLED-50359]

Using infinite DT and advanced DT codes with a little help of Sin Scythes it is possible to fly out of garden's map since there is no invisible roof there. This map (and every other I guess, but I didn't find a glitch that I can go out through) is placed in a void, an empty black hole where you can walk on it at the very lowest point.

[his-heart-hymns]

You might have heard all the buzz about Lloyd Austin being chosen as the first Black Secretary of Defense by President Biden. So today, I stumbled upon something interesting. Turns out, Austin sits on the board of Raytheon Technologies, one of the biggest players in the defense industry, getting millions from stocks and compensations. I wasn't shocked a bit. It's just how things have been working in American politics for decades. The American government starts unnecessary wars, showering defense companies like Raytheon and Boeing with billions in contracts. And in return politicians, generals and bureaucrats get fat payouts. The elected "ruling class" enjoys lavish lifestyles while millions of civilians throughout the world are slaughtered and starved to death. Too much freedom and democracy.🤡

[keepthemacramesecret]

not attaching this to that post because obvioulsy the unexamined colonialism is more important than like. nitpicking historical details. but also its such a shame so many fantasy settings are so incurious about actual medieval european food because its so much more diverse and interesting than a bland assumption that everyone is eating either a big cartoon roast Meat™ or a potato stew and thats all there was. like im not a food history expert at all but ive been to reenactor banquets prepared by people who Are and these guys are out here doing the absolute most. making reproduction menus from specific stories or events and reconstructing recipes from extant medieval cookbooks (that are just online for free btw!) and re-building awareness of local native staple ingredients that have been all but lost (in this case lost largely due to the cultural impositions of that same colonial empire) and learning how to grow historically common fruit and veg that has been left behind. your modern day diet is probably more monotonous in terms of veggies than an average medieval irish person's but you'd never think so going by any fiction thats ostensibly set pre-1500

idk i just think if u Are writing a medieval-europe-based setting this information is pretty accessible and makes your world more interesting and more real and its FUN, so resorting to the genre classics of Ambiguous Potato Dish is genuinely lazy. sorry.

[brightstarblogs]

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[sigalrm]

"Free Palestine" by Pascal Volk Via Flickr: Free Palestine from Hamas!

[ilbioeconomista]

The EU bioeconomy takes a step forward: COPILOT open two Calls for Pilot and Demo Infrastructures and for Innovators

The European bioeconomy takes a step forward. COPILOT – a Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking CSA project coordinated by the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant – has opened two Open Calls with the aim to select the members for two co-creation groups for the platform and its activities: Open Call 1 will select 10 Pilot and Demo Infrastructures, Open Call 2 will select 15 Bioeconomy…

[numberxxisora]

Today, we took the helm of a space battle ship that has many limiting features in its kit.

[labelmademoiselle]

A New Handbag to Wear (Demo) - Label Mademoiselle - Site d'actualités pour les femmes modernes

A New Handbag to Wear (Demo)

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna dolor sit ametaliqua - Label Mademoiselle - Site d'actualités pour les femmes modernes

Label Mademoiselle, un site spécialisé dans les conseils et astuces dans divers domaines tels que le Mariage, les Voyages, la Décoration, la Maison, le Bien-être, etc.

[tilos-tagebuch]

Unipolar Multipolar - Verlorener Kompass

Eine weitere spannende Woche liegt hinter uns. Die 27 EU-Mitgliedsstaaten haben sich am Donnerstag auf ein zusätzliches Hilfspaket im Umfang von 50 Milliarden Euro für die Ukraine geeinigt. Ungarns Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán hatte noch bis zuletzt sein Veto eingelegt, doch nach Drohungen vonseiten der EU, Fördermittel einzufrieren, hat Ungarn seine Haltung nun angepasst.

Auch im Kriegsgeschehen in Israel sind spannende Entwicklungen zu beobachten: Der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) hat dem Eilantrag Südafrikas zur Beendigung des Völkermordes im Gazastreifen stattgegeben, den geforderten sofortigen Stopp des Militäreinsatzes ordnete er allerdings nicht an. Darüber und über die derzeitig stattfindenden Demonstrationen "gegen rechts" sprechen Dr. Karin Kneissl und der heutige Gast der Sendung Felix Feistel.

🎧 https://www.0815-info.news/Web_Links-Unipolar-Multipolar-Verlorener-Kompass-visit-11370.html

[sonsofks]

Prepárate para el Próximo Combate con el Explosivo Trailer de TEKKEN 8

La Batalla se Desata con Invitados de Lujo y la Emoción de los Campeones Mundiales ¡El universo de TEKKEN 8 se presenta en todo su esplendor con un avance que te dejará sin aliento! Bandai Namco Europe, en colaboración con la renombrada agencia de publicidad BETC, ha lanzado un trailer live-action titulado “Get Ready for the Next Battle”. Dirigido por Lukas TIELKE, este emocionante video reúne a…

[czgif]

Jiří Burian in Kapitán Demo: Řekni mámě, ať ti koupí bentley (Ask Your Mum to Buy You a Bentley) 2021, MV, dir. Jordan Haj & Givinar Kříž IMDB - YT

[nethervoice]

EUROPE DOESN'T LIKE YOUR SLICK AMERICAN DEMOS

I was listening to some key people who hire voice talent in Europe. What most of them had in common was an intense dislike for slick, overproduced demos from US talent. What’s so wrong with these demos, you may ask? They have been produced by people who know what they’re doing, and most of them don’t come cheap. According to Euro-casting directors, the problem is that a lot of voice actors cannot…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses

MERE HOURS REMAIN for the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything forever, and wow, it's pretty amazing, huh?

AI pitchmen don't make it easy. They like to pile on the cognitive dissonance and demand that we all somehow resolve it. This is a thing cult leaders do, too – tell blatant and obvious lies to their followers. When a cult follower repeats the lie to others, they are demonstrating their loyalty, both to the leader and to themselves.

Over and over, the claims of AI pitchmen turn out to be blatant lies. This has been the case since at least the age of the Mechanical Turk, the 18th chess-playing automaton that was actually just a chess player crammed into the base of an elaborate puppet that was exhibited as an autonomous, intelligent robot.

The most prominent Mechanical Turk huckster is Elon Musk, who habitually, blatantly and repeatedly lies about AI. He's been promising "full self driving" Telsas in "one to two years" for more than a decade. Periodically, he'll "demonstrate" a car that's in full-self driving mode – which then turns out to be canned, recorded demo:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17/

Musk even trotted an autonomous, humanoid robot on-stage at an investor presentation, failing to mention that this mechanical marvel was just a person in a robot suit:

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/elon-musk-tesla-robot-optimus-ai

Now, Musk has announced that his junk-science neural interface company, Neuralink, has made the leap to implanting neural interface chips in a human brain. As Joan Westenberg writes, the press have repeated this claim as presumptively true, despite its wild implausibility:

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/elon-musk-lies

Neuralink, after all, is a company notorious for mutilating primates in pursuit of showy, meaningless demos:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/

I'm perfectly willing to believe that Musk would risk someone else's life to help him with this nonsense, because he doesn't see other people as real and deserving of compassion or empathy. But he's also profoundly lazy and is accustomed to a world that unquestioningly swallows his most outlandish pronouncements, so Occam's Razor dictates that the most likely explanation here is that he just made it up.

The odds that there's a human being beta-testing Musk's neural interface with the only brain they will ever have aren't zero. But I give it the same odds as the Raelians' claim to have cloned a human being:

https://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/03/cf.opinion.rael/

The human-in-a-robot-suit gambit is everywhere in AI hype. Cruise, GM's disgraced "robot taxi" company, had 1.5 remote operators for every one of the cars on the road. They used AI to replace a single, low-waged driver with 1.5 high-waged, specialized technicians. Truly, it was a marvel.

Globalization is key to maintaining the guy-in-a-robot-suit phenomenon. Globalization gives AI pitchmen access to millions of low-waged workers who can pretend to be software programs, allowing us to pretend to have transcended the capitalism's exploitation trap. This is also a very old pattern – just a couple decades after the Mechanical Turk toured Europe, Thomas Jefferson returned from the continent with the dumbwaiter. Jefferson refined and installed these marvels, announcing to his dinner guests that they allowed him to replace his "servants" (that is, his slaves). Dumbwaiters don't replace slaves, of course – they just keep them out of sight:

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-the-dumbwaiter/

So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: "AI stands for 'absent Indian'":

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain

A reader wrote to me this week. They're a multi-decade veteran of Amazon who had a fascinating tale about the launch of Amazon Go, the "fully automated" Amazon retail outlets that let you wander around, pick up goods and walk out again, while AI-enabled cameras totted up the goods in your basket and charged your card for them.

According to this reader, the AI cameras didn't work any better than Tesla's full-self driving mode, and had to be backstopped by a minimum of three camera operators in an Indian call center, "so that there could be a quorum system for deciding on a customer's activity – three autopilots good, two autopilots bad."

Amazon got a ton of press from the launch of the Amazon Go stores. A lot of it was very favorable, of course: Mister Market is insatiably horny for firing human beings and replacing them with robots, so any announcement that you've got a human-replacing robot is a surefire way to make Line Go Up. But there was also plenty of critical press about this – pieces that took Amazon to task for replacing human beings with robots.

What was missing from the criticism? Articles that said that Amazon was probably lying about its robots, that it had replaced low-waged clerks in the USA with even-lower-waged camera-jockeys in India.

Which is a shame, because that criticism would have hit Amazon where it hurts, right there in the ole Line Go Up. Amazon's stock price boost off the back of the Amazon Go announcements represented the market's bet that Amazon would evert out of cyberspace and fill all of our physical retail corridors with monopolistic robot stores, moated with IP that prevented other retailers from similarly slashing their wage bills. That unbridgeable moat would guarantee Amazon generations of monopoly rents, which it would share with any shareholders who piled into the stock at that moment.

See the difference? Criticize Amazon for its devastatingly effective automation and you help Amazon sell stock to suckers, which makes Amazon executives richer. Criticize Amazon for lying about its automation, and you clobber the personal net worth of the executives who spun up this lie, because their portfolios are full of Amazon stock:

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

Amazon Go didn't go. The hundreds of Amazon Go stores we were promised never materialized. There's an embarrassing rump of 25 of these things still around, which will doubtless be quietly shuttered in the years to come. But Amazon Go wasn't a failure. It allowed its architects to pocket massive capital gains on the way to building generational wealth and establishing a new permanent aristocracy of habitual bullshitters dressed up as high-tech wizards.

"Wizard" is the right word for it. The high-tech sector pretends to be science fiction, but it's usually fantasy. For a generation, America's largest tech firms peddled the dream of imminently establishing colonies on distant worlds or even traveling to other solar systems, something that is still so far in our future that it might well never come to pass:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead

During the Space Age, we got the same kind of performative bullshit. On The Well David Gans mentioned hearing a promo on SiriusXM for a radio show with "the first AI co-host." To this, Craig L Maudlin replied, "Reminds me of fins on automobiles."

Yup, that's exactly it. An AI radio co-host is to artificial intelligence as a Cadillac Eldorado Biaritz tail-fin is to interstellar rocketry.

Back the Kickstarter for the audiobook of The Bezzle here!

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/#tailfins

[girlgerard]

i’ve been thinking a lot about gerard’s character they developed in the last leg of this tour and the way i believe it really solidified what we might have coming for us in the future.

it’s really sweet, if you look in the comments of some of the videos from brisbane and osaka, you can see people who’ve obviously been my chem fans for at least 15 years saying things like ‘i’ve watched every video from this tour and this is the first show where i really saw the spark come back’ and ‘that’s the gerard way i remember’ and other cheesy shit like that. and the thing is they’re totally right!

this whole tour developed more fluidly in intensity and meaning than in any of their previous gigs. mcr has always been a band to change with their time and creative drive, but this was a different type of transition to me. you could see as characters started to be built, from gerard DIY’ing his own costumes in europe to increasingly meaningful outfits with whole backstories in the USA all the way to one consistent character with a uniquely terrifying stage presence in the last leg.

that last character, at least to me, is totally gripping. she’s unexplained, she’s scary as hell, she’s near-undead, she has this commanding presence gerard hasn’t really done since early-mid black parade. in every single performance they’re so in-character and it’s such a BLAST

importantly, this character also showed up in the shortest, least-publicized part of the tour. imo she wasn’t meant for cameras, really.

to me it’s so clear that she’s a result of gerard earnestly solidifying where they might want their next artistic endeavors to go - that kind of serious direction, maybe even that character specifically.

he’s talked about how he always has stage characters that reflect his music and, broadly, things they’re working through in their life. the revenge stage character was a mix of both demo lovers which can have a ton of different interpretations, the patient was a joan-esque personification of grief and existentialism, party poison was a pop-art way of dealing with your own artistic/literal death. it makes me wonder why this character, the only truly consistent character this whole tour, came about, and if it’s related to gerard’s nightly diatribes on war and later-tour statements on (presumably) queer/trans rights.

it also makes me think that we have a lot coming in the future. a character that solid and a direction so suddenly bottlenecked into such a specific concept, such a mychemicalromance concept, especially out of a tour that was originally supposed to be a casual celebration of music, i think points towards something new.

[sigalrm]

Palästina Demo by Pascal Volk Via Flickr: Die sehen alle so interessiert aus.

[smugpugchimera]

Week of solidarity with Ukraine is about to start. There are different events around Europe around this occasion, and if you're in one of the following places you can participate!

Following announcements brought to you by Solidarity Collective Anti-authoritarian volunteer network from Ukraine You can support them on PayPal -suppliesforukrainenow@proton.me -humanitarian.aid.for.ukraine@proton.me ------------------------- Week of Solidarity With Ukraine Is About To Start In late January we called on our comradely initiatives and activist groups to hold events to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We are grateful to everyone who reacted to it or decided to organise events to support Ukrainian resistance independently. It is nice to see that, unlike volatile politicians, genuine solidarity between progressive powers remains still!

Therefore we’re pleased to invite you to join street demonstrations, film screenings and concerts organized by antiauthoritarians in solidarity, and they start tomorrow! The list turned out to be quite impressive.

21 February Zoom. Online discussion «Ukraine: LGBTQIA+ community in war», held by the European network in solidarity with Ukraine and against war (ENSU). Registration beforehand is required https://www.facebook.com/events/550415114687627

Zoom. Also, this Friday, Spanish leftists LIT-CI will hold an online discussion titled “Ukraine resists while protecting its freedom!” Ukrainian leftists and trade unionists Yurii Samoilov, Dionisii Vinohradiv, and Kateryna Hrytseva will participate.

22 February

Prague On 22 February a music festival Riot Over River, regularly organized by our friends from the Anarchist Federation of the Czech Republic (AFED), will take place. A night of music with tens of various artists, Food Not Bombs and a fundraiser for Solidarity Collectives – something worth not missing. https://www.facebook.com/events/566047495995031/

London. Same day noon starts demonstration Russian Troops Out! Solidarity with Ukraine! organized by the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. All these three years they’re tirelessly filling the streets demanding reinforcement of military support of Ukraine. https://www.facebook.com/events/644631464700585?active_tab=about

Barcelona. At 11:00, Barcelona will host a screening of a film about the Taras Shevchenko Company, Ukrainian internationalist fighters who took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republic. https://www.ugt.cat/commemoracio-del-tercer-aniversari-de-la-guerra-a-ucraina-cineforum-sobre-la-solidaritat-obrera-internacional-en-temps-de-guerra/

At 19:00, the metal/punk concert Noise for Cause, organised by Barcelona anarchists, will start. The money raised at the concert will support the humanitarian missions of the Solidarity Collectives. https://www.instagram.com/antifaucrania.vlc/p/DFpmkJFNZma/

23 February

Barcelona. The culmination of the Barcelonian solidarity campaign will be an antifascist demonstration ‘Barcelona with Ukraine’, starting at 16:00 from Passeig de Gràcia 90.

‘When Musk and Trump joined Russia’s policies, supporting far-right parties in Europe and threatening freedom on the continent, supporting Ukraine becomes even more essential” the organizers write. https://t.me/taxanka_info/162

Amsterdam. Beyond a full week of various events (about them below), on 23 February Amsterdam will have a street demo to support Ukraine. Starts at 12:00. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGRRc2MIDpu/

24 February Berlin. On 24 February, the annual march to mark the anniversary of the full-scale invasion will take place in Berlin. The anarchist block will take part in it, and our friends from GNIP and RAF are calling to join them. The block gathers at 17:00 at Alexanderplatz, from where it will go to Berlin Cathedral to join the main part of the demonstration. If you are in Berlin, be sure to join! https://www.instagram.com/p/DGAUfEasK1A/?igsh=MWRkeDBodzZzb2RlNw%3D%3D

Dresden. Another march in solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance, organised by ABC Belarus and local anarchists, will take place in Dresden. It starts at 17:00 on Neumarkt square. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGFrRQKNaaG/?igsh=bjRidXhjaWI2NXQ0

Warsaw. On 24 February, a rally in support of Ukraine will begin at 18:00 in Warsaw. The anarchist block will take part in it. Like last year, it is organised by Belarusian and Polish comrades. ‘No one but ourselves: neither Trump, Putin, Zelensky, nor the European Union will stop the killings and terror – only a solidarity and self-organised people can do it,’ they said in a statement. https://pramen.io/ru/2025/02/demonstratsiya-v-podderzhku-ukrainy-fvarashava-ru-pl/

Prague. Czech comrades from Tábor Solidarity responded to the call of the Collectives. On Monday, 24 February, they invite you to the event Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance. Three years of full-scale war. The programme includes a story about queer activists in the war, a presentation by GNIP and a conversation with Czech activist Jan Martinovský, who helps people in the South of Ukraine. The event starts at 18:00. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGRHCX9swm9/?igsh=MWx6aDMwcW04ZGZjMA%3D%3D

Brno. Another event to mark the 3rd anniversary will take place in Brno. Polina Davydenko and 𝗟𝘂𝗸𝗮́𝘀̌ 𝗗𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀̌ will share about their travels to Eastern Ukraine, the discussion will be followed by a screening of short documentaries: Where Russia Ends by Oleksiy Radynski and Sashko Protyah’s My Favourite Job. https://www.instagram.com/p/DF-D215MKs_/

28 February

Prague. The Czechs continue to surprise us with the level of their support! Next Friday, Prague will host the event Empire Will Fall, Freedom Will Prevail, which will include a screening of the film Stop-Zemlia by Kateryna Gornostai. The funds raised at the event will also be donated to the Solidarity Collectives, for which we are extremely grateful. https://akce.nolog.cz/event/imperium-padne-svoboda-zvitezi-soliakce-a-promitani-k-vyroci-utoku-na-ukrajinu

Netherlands We’d like to highlight the anti-authoritarian community in Amsterdam, which actually organised a whole week of solidarity with Ukraine from 26 February to 3 March.

23 February - march in solidarity with Ukraine 26 February - screening of the documentary 20 Days in Mariupol. 27 February - screening of the documentary Intercepted. 28 February - punk/reggae concert 2 March - screening of the documentary film Donbas 3 March - screening of the documentary Where Russia Ends https://www.instagram.com/p/DGQscgUoW5Y/?igsh=MWYzeGc2Zm9qc2RnZg%3D%3D