Futurology Today

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27580641

Lazy Sunday

While English is still the de facto lingua franca, with the US burning bridges to Europe like there's no tomorrow, and the UK having left the EU, should they adopt an easy-to-learn auxillary language?

I'm thinking of an language like Esperanto, but not necessarily that. I was intrigued by Esperanto and went through the course on lernu.net and found it easy to pick up (though I am by no means fluent yet). While it is constructed, it was developed without any modern linguistic knowledge, so another option could be to construct a new language for this purpose, or adopt another already developed language that would serve the purpose better (I don't have an overview of what is out there).

I know there are several official languages already, but I imagine that leads to a lot of overhead. An auxillary language could make communication easier, and make it easier for citizens of any member state to participate in the Union, and would to some extent remove any power asymmetry resulting from native mastery of a language.

Good idea? Poor idea? Why? Why not?

Republican President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not joking about seeking a third presidential term, which is barred by the U.S. Constitution, but that it was too early to think about doing so.

Trump, who took office on January 20 for his second, non-consecutive White House term, has made vague allusions to seeking a third one but addressed it directly on Sunday in a telephone interview with NBC News.

"No, I'm not joking. I’m not joking," Trump said, but "it is far too early to think about it." "There are, there are methods which you could do it, as you know," he said. He declined to elaborate on any specific methods.

U.S. presidents are limited to two four-year terms, consecutive or not, according to the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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The original was posted on /r/ukrainianconflict by /u/rulepanic on 2025-03-31 03:05:18+00:00.

Original Title: Over the last week, US military aid flights to Ukraine jumped, with 747 freighters delivering supplies from a number of locations: 2x from McGuire Air Force Base, 3x from Joint Base Charleston, 1x from Ramstein Air Base, 1x from MacDill Air Force Base, 1x from Biggs Army Airfield.

A study of more than 45,000 Norwegian university students has shown that using screens in bed is strongly associated with insomnia symptoms and lower sleep duration. Researchers suspect that this is because screen time displaces sleep by taking up time when people would otherwise be resting. However, using social media was not found to be more harmful than other forms of screen use.

We thought it would be instructive to look at the 17 states with Democratic governors and Democratic majorities in their state legislatures over the past two years, and study what they actually got done. We wanted to separate those states that took up the challenge of governing from those that were unwilling to use the power they have been bequeathed by the electorate.

The resulting ranking, which we’re calling the Blue State Power Index, is admittedly highly unscientific. We took into account the margin of Democratic support in the legislature: What a nearly all-Democratic legislature can do should be more than a closely divided one. We thought about what record these states already had in place: If states had already accomplished key elements of a progressive agenda, then they had less to potentially achieve. Given that most states must balance their budgets, we took into account their resources and tax bases: What a state with a poor population can manage to fund is necessarily more constrained than a state with a rich one—especially with Trump administration cuts and threats looming.

Is there an open source solution that lets you record from your phone to an offsite location? Preferably something self hosted, but not crucial I guess.

Just thinking about scenarios where people in the US are stopped by cops and need to record their interactions, but want to make sure that the local info isn't destroyed. I've tried the Mobile Justice app for my state but it's not very reliable and I have no insight into the data after it's left my device.

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.31-081424/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-31/france-fines-apple-150-million-over-ios-data-tracking-consent

France’s antitrust regulator fined Apple Inc. €150 million ($162 million) after a lengthy probe into how the technology company asks to collect iOS users’ data and the impact on advertisers.

Apple’s ATT system is not allowing app publishers to comply with Europe’s GDPR privacy rules, the authority said, forcing these apps to display multiple pop-ups and making their use excessively complex.

Summary

France condemned U.S. interference after the U.S. embassy in Paris warned French firms against using diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, citing a Trump executive order banning such initiatives.

The U.S. letter required companies to certify DEI non-compliance or risk jeopardizing U.S. contracts.

France’s trade ministry called the move “unacceptable,” vowing to defend national values and businesses.

French law prohibits race-based hiring metrics, focusing instead on gender and socioeconomic inclusion.

Judges have issued at least a dozen nationwide injunctions against the Trump administration since the president took office in January

• Switzerland is considering amending its surveillance law to add new types of monitoring and information collection

• the current amendment is not subject to a parliamentary vote or public referendum under Swiss law.

(Also are Programming socks memes welcome here?)

China’s solar panel exports rose by 10% in 2024, with imports by global-south countries rising by 32% and those to the global north falling by 6%