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The Brazilian government filed an out-of-court notice for Meta to explain the possible effects of changes in Facebook and Instagram guidelines.

Government lawyers gave a 72-hour deadline for an explanation of the alterations in fact checking and fake news that may affect children, adolescents and women, for example.

In addition, a government working group was created with consultation to the rest of the Powers and civil society to follow up on the measures to protect freedom of expression, without tolerating the violation of fundamental rights.

A long and not super worthwhile article by kagan on ukraine and trump. There's nothing really to learn from this beyond the change to pessimism from once stalwart ukraine dick riders from the US foreign policy blob. The jist of it is that Trump is inclined to bail on project ukraine but doesn't want to look like a loser. In this way, trump's circumstances mirror his rhetoric - he is the same as his predecessors but is gauche about it.

The shift from "bringing the war to an end on day one" to "hoping to wrap it up in 6 months" (paraphrased) suggests a return to A Decent Interval thought, similar to Vietnam in the early 70s and Afghanistan in 2021.

https://archive.is/ghX7v

The big serge year end roundup is more worthwhile https://bigserge.substack.com/p/total-kievan-debellation on war nerd things

President Nicolás Maduro awards decorations to Venezuelan officials and high-ranking government officials who were sanctioned by the US, the EU and Canada after the swearing-in of the Venezuelan president.

The regional Jutland branch of DBU, Denmark's football association, has voted down a proposal for allowing amateur transgender, intersex and non-binary players to self-identity their gender. Out of 250 delegates only 34 voted in favour of the proposal. The Jutland branch is the largest regional branch of DBU and the first where such a proposal has been put up for a vote.

To judge from reporting on the vote, delegates voted against under the influence of the same transphobic moral panic against trans-female athletes that has plagued many other countries.

• Source: DR (state media), January 11th 2025

As (COTW) Canada starts with the ability to Farm tundra tiles , you first rush Animal Husbandary to unlook camps, then rush Temple of Artemis to get the amanities in you Tundra capital , as you nearly always have a camp. then its mostly empie building (dont forget to get the Kremlin) until you unlook the Mounties , Mounties are extremly Op ,they have 2 charges to create a National Park ( so worth 3000 Faith per unit basiclly) and Tundra tiles often have high appeal . So you can Bomb National Parks accross you Nation to get ridiculus amounts of Amenities. All While you advance with you Eco Fascist Horse Lord Mounties ,founding National Parks in the Pillaged Conquered Lands to keep the new citizens in Line.

Its a very strong Nation , with the Downsite of it beeing Canada. So you dont actually want to lead it to glory.

In a last-minute move, Biden sanctions what is basically the entire world regarding AI chips. There are now 3 tier countries, with tier 1 with unlimited access, tier 2 with 50.000 AI units limit and tier 3 countries with strictest restrictions. Tier 1 is (shrunk down list of) "always the same map" countries, Tier 3 China, Russia and friends, Tier 2 the rest of the world.

Interestingly enough, Tier 2 includes Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, all the ~~Nazi~~ Baltic states and Poland (heh heh). This could mean even gamers could have a hard time, or more likely no chance at all due to red tape, business demand, or inflated price, getting the upcoming Nvidia's strongest RTX 5090s in those countries.

Bloomberg article on archive link: https://archive.ph/UKYTp

LA Wildfires Push California Insurance Market to Its Limit

Love how the lightest color on that scale is $500k

reposting that one debatebro who was going 'why didn't they get insurance?'