Gert Scobel über das Gehirn, Erinnerungen und wieso wir so viel vergessen – gerade aus der Kindheit

This progress is just amazing! Who would have thought that COVID would lead to so many scientific breakthroughs.

It’s interesting and shocking that so many young voters only now seem to look more into the candidates and what they stand for! The election campaign is going for a while now, the internet is full of information about Trump and his fascist and sexist behavior. Or maybe it was just not visible on their social media platform of choice… 🤔

It is wild to me that there are 18 to 21 year olds out there who seem to get their whole “news” from TikTok. This shows once more to me that social networks need to be regulated - kind of like a tv network, a newspaper or an online magazine. They are responsible for the content on their publishing platform once they reach a certain size and have a lot of users - especially when they use algorithms. They should be liable for all the scams, fake ads, the fake news, the lies and propaganda.

Another interesting newsletter. This time it is “No Mercy / No Malice” by Scott Galloway . I am sure I am late to the party again! His latest edition about AI has some very interesting food for thought:

Back to NVDA. Think about this: One company has added the value of the global auto industry and the GDP of Sweden in 12 months. OpenAI, and by extension its sugar daddy, Microsoft, are similarly benefitting. But investor hunger for AI stories can’t be sated by a few businesses. CNBC makes an annual list of the 50 most disruptive companies, and two-thirds of the entrants on the 2024 list “describe artificial intelligence as ‘critical’ to their businesses.” The key word in that sentence is “describe.” Every comms exec and CEO who can spell “AI” (i.e., all of them) has decided Ai is the protagonist of their company’s story. However, similar to Game of Thrones, a lot of these leading men and women aren’t going to make it to Season 2.

A tour of Marques Brownlee’s 1.000.000$ studio. Quite impressive setup he’s got there. 😲

Very interesting comments by Ian Betteridge on the antitrust actions from the US and the EU against Apple, Meta, and Google. A sight for sore eyes after John Gruber’s tremendously stupid takes on the European Union’s “Digital Markets Act ” (DMA)

I paid Apple £1099 for my last iPhone. It made a handsome profit on it, probably between 30-40%. At that point, Apple should no longer be able to stop me from doing what the hell I want with the product I purchased. So yes, the fact that it does exactly that is problematic.

Apple doesn’t do that on the Mac I’m typing on. Why should it have that level of control over the iPhone I bought?

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As American companies are learning, the EU does not like companies that try and do an end run around the law. This appears to have dawned on Apple, which has already – in the space of a few weeks! – widened its plans to comply with the DMA and DSA. Perhaps not enough, which is why the EU is investigating them. But the mood from Apple has definitely started to change from sullen evasiveness to being more open to compliance. It’s not yet at the point of working to make a good compliant product for its customers, but it’s getting there.