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jmaris

@jmaris@eupolicy.social

#EuropeanParliament Senior policy advisor to an #MEP in Renew Europe, specialised in 💻#Digital, 🚄#Rail & 🧪#Research Policy.

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ArtBear, (edited ) to politics

Of course democracy is disappointing. That's the design. Gently disappointing everyone trying chart a middle course. Leaving everyone not entirely satisfied, because resources are finite & everyone wants different things.

Good is mildly unsatisfying for everyone. That is the point. The least shitty system we aspire to

Throwing mildly disappointing democracy away, for not being perfect, is insanity.

Democratic void is terrible for nearly everyone, that's it's main feature.

jmaris,
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@ArtBear exactly ! In the European Parliament this is our mantra: never let perfect be the enemy of good.

jmaris,
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@ArtBear You and me both... I was born and grew up in the UK and became so fond of the European Project that I made it my career. It tore me apart when we left.

And although the UK has been a pain in the past, and has never been the most favourable to integration, at times like these (invasion of Ukraine) they are sorely missed...

jmaris, to meta
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I'm all for criticising and , but this post is seriously misleading.

The data described in the privacy policy is what is necessary to federate comments. Whether this implies they can then use this data for other purposes is still up for debate.

Doing so would likely be illegal in the EU though.

- https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111585528118111249

jmaris, to Ukraine
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Guy Verhofstadt says it like it is: on "I’m angry that we always use the big words but don’t bring the big guns"

video/mp4

jmaris, to random
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Judge finds "reasonable evidence" Tesla new their autopilot was defective.

Surprise Surprise...

- https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/111474193954851506

jmaris, to random
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I've just tried the new Beta and... wow, I'm completely blown away. It looks amazing, seems to have threading, and is blisteringly fast on my terribly overloaded inboxes. Bravo to the @thunderbird team!

jmaris, to random
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Europe is finally beginning to up its productions, but we need to move much faster to adequately support .

- https://genix.ink/

jmaris,
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@d8nnii I agree. The bombs might not be falling over the yet, but make no mistake : we are at war with . It is time we started acting like it.

jmaris, to opensource
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This week, the Parliament signed off on the budget of the institutions, and it was a great week for : the sign-offs praise institutions for using Open Source software, encourage the adoption of , and push for the generalisation of the use of Open Source in EU institutions.

koen, to Amsterdam
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Dear European based LGBTIQ+ people.. (so basically everybody).

Today I attended an event in organized by @waag @DeGroene @gemeenteamsterdam and the Amsterdam public library called

Featured speaker this time was Euro Member of Parliament @kimvsparrentak who passionately spoke on the need for a more free Internet detached from and more focussed on and real interaction.

When confronted with her presence on X and Insta, and the lack of active presence here on the we promised to help her.

Please help us get a decent follower-base here and follow her account right now, before she even gets a chance to get more active. A follower base of more than a 1000 people will surely help her convince her party members to spend time and money on a real presence here.

I used a cut out of the image posted by @sicco in this post: https://todon.nl/@sicco/112372340250592627 thank you for that Sicco.

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@koen @waag @DeGroene @gemeenteamsterdam @kimvsparrentak @sicco have worked with Kim several times over the last 2 years: she's an amazing MEP who consistently stands up for LGBTQI and Digital rights! Certainly worth following !

jmaris, to Ukraine
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Two years into Russia's brutal war of aggression against , still doesn't understand that it is at war. My thoughts on the changes we need to make to guarantee Ukrainian victory, and the challenges ahead 🔗⬇️

https://jmaris.me/jekyll/update/2024/02/24/EuropeIsAtWar.html

jmaris, to apple
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If keep this bullshit up the will have an unexpectedly large budget in the coming years.

Fines for not complying With the are up to 10% annual turnover.

jmaris, to opensource
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The #FOSDEM panels on the #CRA and #PLD underlined the divide between policy-makers and #OpenSource devs.

To bridge that divide, I think policy-makers have to work to make the #EU more accessible, which is why I decided to launch https://unfsckthe.eu/, a collaborative knowledge-base that will provide documentation for the EU, and help make it easier for the open source community to get their voices heard in #Brussels

You can also contribute on Github!

jmaris, (edited ) to France
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Many of my compatriots have been bragging recently about how was right about

But as Russia pounds and Ukrainian soldiers face growing ammunition shortages, 🇫🇷 is blocking purchases of ammo for because it comes from outside the , again putting its defence industry before the Ukrainian soldiers' lives.

It's shameful: we pretend to want to lead EU defence, but only look after our own interests. CEE will never trust us.

https://t.co/4V7BIM90rZ

jmaris, to Bulgaria
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Was amazing to talk to the @Mastodon team at about getting politicians on !

I hope we can expand the 's official instance soon and get MEPs onboard!

jmaris, to Ukraine
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jmaris, to random
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An excellent long article on the fight against in the US.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/22/macomb-county-michigan-suburbs-american-politics-00131386

jmaris, (edited ) to apple
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Just had the pleasure of listening to Alex from @owa about the and ! The DMA will massively strengthen what 's can do, but we have to be strict and make sure behaves!

jmaris, to random
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"Pay us more for the privilege of training our AI" - Google, apparently

@hkrn https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/111841467394991460

jmaris, to GNOME
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Loving the and stands (stand?) at , so cool to see the two together, and with super friendly reps too ❤️

jmaris, to ai
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The Trilemma: or why AI won't be as revolutionary as we expect.

We are in the midst of an AI revolution... or are we? As business leaders around the world scramble to integrate AI into their products and business practices, the cracks are beginning to emerge. We've seen GPT4 fail at basic reasoning, Google's AI search telling people to jump from a bridge, Microsoft's copilot inventing quotes from Vladimir Putin, and recidivism algorithms that continue to send the wrong people to prison.

jmaris,
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I might be completely wrong about this, but as it stands the data to build safe and reliable AI doesn't exist: scraping reddit to train an AI won't produce quality results, nore has scraping the wider internet. Building a bullshit generator whose usefulness diminishes by the day and marketing it as general purpose AI isn't a sign we're heading for a bright future: it's a sign we are in the midst of an AI bubble, and it's only a matter of time before it pops...

abolitionniste, to random
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As a detour to https://eupolicy.social/@Veza85UE/111688177027828831 @Veza85UE 2.1.2024:
> https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/03/11/the-versailles-declaration-10-11-03-2022/
I have a question concerning the legal status of such 'declarations'.

More details:
https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=242#p242

Or translated:
https://trojkatretiho-cz.translate.goog/viewtopic.php?p=242&_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en#p242

@elCelio @pmroman

jmaris, (edited )
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@abolitionniste @pmroman @elCelio @HistoPol @nooartur @Veza85UE honestly the issue with being concise in the EU is that involves leaving things out, the treaties are the best place to look.

What is not written: the European Council is also where important issues that could not be resolved in the Council of the European Union are resolved.

In fact, some (me) consider the EC to simply be a special configuration of the Council of the EU

jmaris, to Bulgaria
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The only way Europe survives the next 10 years is by dramatically ramping up its military-industrial production.

We are not ready for a Russian attack, and Trump's America won't help us. Europe needs to start producing everything it needs itself, and fast.

jmaris,
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@g
Well, you know the good old saying: "You can take a horse to water, but if Vladimir Putin has told the horse the water is lava and the horse is dumb enough to believe him, then you can't make it drink."

sebastientarnowski, to random

In France...
Do people really care?
I asked some, tlhey didn't even notice...

jmaris,
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@sebastientarnowski Something like this...

jmaris,
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@sebastientarnowski or this

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