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German: Eule, Uhu, Kauz

French: Hibou, Chouette

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How is Sweden so low? They are pretty far north but >5x lower than many others?

Looks like it was an F-35. https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/iran-shoots-second-us-f-35-fighter-jet-says-pilot-survival-unlikely-israel-war-middle-east/articleshow/129994398.cms

This is not helping the marketing for it being a “next gen” and stealth aircraft.

I wonder if countries will use this as ammo to back out of F-35 orders

This is what I see:

OTTAWA — The United States has flagged Canada’s early interest in a sovereign cloud that would bar foreign governments from accessing data without consent as a potential trade irritant.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer included it among several procurement issues in the annual report on foreign trade barriers he submitted Tuesday to U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump.

As always, Canada’s tightly controlled dairy market got a mention. So did the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act, which Greer has flagged as priorities for the coming review of the North American trade pact. The federal government’s Buy Canadian policy for contracts over $25 million is a new one this year, as are moves by some provinces to keep U.S. alcohol out of liquor stores. The long wait for regulatory approval of aircraft and a proposed change to the disclosure rules regarding fragrance allergens in cosmetics also debuted on this year’s list. Gabriel Brunet, a spokesperson for Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, said the government’s trade team is reviewing the report.

On the sovereign cloud, the report cites an August 2025 “request for information” by Shared Services Canada, the federal government’s central information technology agency, asking Canadian suppliers about their ability to provide the federal government with a “fully sovereign public cloud solution.”

That feedback would then be considered in future procurement policy development, which the agency framed as a response to “emerging challenges relating to digital sovereignty.” Shared Services did not mention the U.S. specifically, but the onset of Trump’s trade war and his threats to annex Canada by “economic force” months earlier had thrust the issue into the spotlight.

Greer’s report notes the proposal calls for cloud services where data would be “processed, transmitted and stored exclusively in Canada.” It would exclude suppliers subject to laws letting foreign governments access Canada’s data without written consent. (Another requirement Greer did not mention: providers could not be “subject to foreign laws that permit foreign governments to request measures that could affect or discontinue the service.”)

Shared Services said it was unable to comment in time for publication, but an update to the request for information suggests the conditions highlighted in Greer’s report remain. In its notice, the agency said it had invoked the National Security Exception for all stages of the procurement process for sovereign cloud services. That means nothing in any of Canada’s free trade agreements barring such protectionism would apply.

There is a difference, though, between exploring the possibility of creating a “fully sovereign public cloud solution” and actually doing it—especially without U.S. tech giants.

The federal government acknowledged as much last October in its “framework” on digital sovereignty: “It is impossible for the [government of Canada] to obtain a state of complete digital sovereignty, known as digital autonomy, due to the absolute interconnected nature of the digital world.” Manav Gupta, IBM Canada’s chief technology officer, told The Logic last month that the views of Canadian politicians on digital sovereignty had been “maturing.”

In January 2025, the federal government said it would review its business relationship with Amazon after the e-commerce firm closed its fulfillment centres and sorting facilities in Quebec. As The Logic reported, that review led officials to conclude that Ottawa’s reliance on Amazon Web Services, its second-largest cloud vendor, limited its leverage against the tech giant.

Dude that’s huge. How is this the first I’m hearing of this?

If you don’t want to watch YouTube: https://transparentelection.org/

Our approach leverages each state’s authority to define corporate powers, creating a pathway to campaign finance reform that doesn’t rely on restricting speech but instead focuses on not granting political spending powers to corporations in the first place.

Lots of countries are talking a big game but Spain is out there doing it.

In the US, politicians are rarely in on the schemes themselves, they get money more indirectly from lobbyists, superPACs, or insider trading. Are politicians in the UK not able to profit from their votes?

Yeah caffeine has been around a long time. I’m sure these simple solutions won’t last much longer. They will us AI to monitor the actions are meaningful so people will use AI to make the actions look meaningful and so on…

two years’ probation with a three-year suspended license

Scrolls for me.

And even if the AI fails to make any improvements, they will still have aggregated a bunch of global manufacturing under one roof, theirs.

Good

Sure, ever since 2018 when trump pulled out of the nuke deal with Iran, things have been headed down hill.

This is sick! Thanks for sharing your project with us! I would have never guessed you could do voice over TOR but PTT was a clever solution. Its like the old nextel phones that had PTT. I wonder if its possible to remap the volume button to be a hardware PTT button.

Looking from the outside, I would say the Canadian people already changed their opinion of the US, that’s what got Carney elected, and they have been very consistent with the long term success of Buy Canadian and the plunging travel numbers into the US.

Carney’s original comments were not at all critical of the US’s aggression, they were more supportive, which is clearly not the stance that Canadians in general are taking towards the US.

In 2018 the US threw away the diplomatic solution established in 2015 and replaced it with sanctions (which do kill people). Now its moved to directly killing people. There is a lot to be critical of.

https://tesseract.dubvee.org/post/42620689

It had politics in the title. But yeah it could be argued that it was more meta, idk.

I know very little of Spain’s politics but they seem to be hitting it out of the park since I started paying attention. They have made a really impressive move to renewables and they seem to be taking the strongest stand against US and Israeli aggression that I have seen from Europe (Ireland and Italy as well).

Here is an article. The dude did age: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/impersonator-jim-carrey-interview-at-french-film-awards-shocks-fans/news-story/a318110b402ce2ec5c4f760707d8dcfc