Tom T. Daugaard

BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen stress the urgent need for a strong, independent Europe, fully capable of defending itself without relying on the U.S. Speaking to DR, Macron highlighted that when the U.S. threatened Denmark over Greenland, France immediately offered troops to protect the territory: "You cannot threaten an ally and a European partner. And yes, we are ready to commit because it is Europe. The Greenland crisis revealed a harsh reality: Europe cannot rely on the U.S. for its own security. Macron stressed that the ongoing war in Iran has already drained U.S. missile stockpiles, limiting America’s ability to fully support its allies in Europe and Ukraine. "Too many countries are dependent on U.S. capabilities and presence" he warned. Europe must build stronger armies, a resilient industrial and innovative base, and the ability to produce advanced defense capabilities on its own soil." Frederiksen echoed Macron, saying that while Denmark remains transatlantic at heart, the world has changed: “The answer is Europe.” The Greenland moment, she added, showed that a united and independent Europe is essential politically, militarily, and diplomatically. The leaders also stressed energy and technological independence. Europe must reduce reliance on foreign oil and gas, control its tech infrastructure, and protect its democracies from external interference. Macron emphasized the importance of safeguarding young people online as part of this independence. Greenland was only the beginning. Between conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, dwindling U.S. support, and rising global pressures, Macron and Frederiksen argue that Europe must take its security and future into its own hands. The message is clear: Europe must be ready to act autonomously, defend its people, and safeguard its values without relying on anyone else. They cited the Greenland crisis in January as a pivotal wake-up call for European unity.

An 18-year-old Japanese classical guitarist, Haruna Miyagawa, performs Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, a technically demanding violin piece arranged for guitar, highlighting its sequence of variations and arpeggios in a contemporary concert hall setting.

Spice Girls completely redubbed by a dude, is one of the most hilarious things we've ever seen!

The US American right wing is now blaming Europe for not helping them attack Iran. To be honest, Europe does not yet have very clear opinions about this. The USA launched a war without warning, without a public debate, and without consulting Europe, so we are only now starting to form opinions about it. Right now, I think most people feel like this: NATO is a defensive alliance. We have no obligation to join U.S. attacks on other countries. We would only do so if they involved us and presented compelling reasons, clear objectives, and a solid plan. And all of that is missing. There is no question that the Iranian regime is evil and deserves to be overthrown after it killed 30,000 demonstrators. But the goal does not seem to be regime change, and the threat of nuclear weapons is not convincing. We all remember the USA lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and cannot be expected to trust a similar claim at face value again. We need better reasons and stronger evidence before entering a war without a plan that is likely to result in chaos. I am open to arguments, but I think this is how most Europeans feel right now.

Someone combined John Bolton with Michael Bolton and I can’t unsee it

This is probably the single feature that makes China most unique as a civilization in human history: it is pretty much the only one where religion never had a say in political affairs. We often wrongly believe that China's secularism came with Communism but this couldn't be more wrong. The roots are far, far more ancient than this. Think about any other civilization - India, Persia, ancient Egypt, European civilization, the Incas: they all had a priestly class that held considerable political power. China? Never. Never, ever? Actually China, in its very early history, had a brush with theocracy during the Shang dynasty in the 2nd millennium BC. And it is precisely this episode - or rather what came afterwards - that decisively de-linked religion from government affairs. How so? Because around 1046 BC, the Zhou overthrew the Shang and immediately faced a big problem of legitimacy. The Shang had claimed to rule because Heaven had chosen them. If that were true, then the Zhou had just committed the ultimate act of sacrilege. How do you justify going against God’s will? The answer the Duke of Zhou (who can thus be credited as the - perhaps unwitting - inventor of secularism) came up with was essentially to say that Heaven's mandate is not a birthright but a contract - conditional on the virtue of the ruler and good governance. It might not sound like much but this idea completely changed the whole equation: suddenly the legitimacy of power didn’t rest on God’s will but on man’s moral judgement, on whether the ruler had virtue (德, Dé) and governed well. Which meant that, ultimately, the people - as opposed to a God - became the arbiter of whether a ruler is legitimate. If there is one single decision that most shaped China's destiny as a civilization, it's probably this one. And, as I explain in my latest article, it ultimately shaped all of us in profound ways: through a chain of events involving Jesuit missionaries, Voltaire, and what French Enlightenment thinkers called "l'argument chinois" ("the Chinese argument"), it is this very idea that ended up secularizing Europe too and drove the Enlightenment movement. That's the topic of my latest article: the origins of China's secularism, how it shaped three thousand years of Chinese civilization, and why - far from being a belief in nothing or an absence of belief as it's all too often depicted - it's on the contrary a faith in humanity itself. Read it all here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

"The Beatles are the only group I can think of in rock ‘n’ roll history that improved to such heights from their early days. It was incredible the way they kept improving — it was like an avalanche. I don’t see how anybody could not have been touched by something that they did, even if they were cynical. From all the songs they did, from their beginnings right up through the end, there’s no way that you could not have been touched by that. "If it hadn't been for the Beatles, there wouldn't be anyone like us around." --#JimmyPage #LedZeppelin #Yardbirds @JimmyPage #HardRock #HallOfFame #GuitarHero #Songwriters #TheBeatles #Evolution #Influence #GOAT

A short film from 1902 of a German suspended railway called the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, shot in 68 mm, colorized and upscaled in 4K. It shows an unusual drone-like view of a German city at the beginning of the 20th century. [📹 MoMA]

Suk. Det er med stor sandsynlighed opfattelsen hos mange i Kongeriget ovenpå budskabet fra Trump og hans særlige grønlandsudsending, Landry, om at de vil redde mange syge grønlændere med et hospitalsskib. For enten er dette en bevidst provokation midt i forhandlingerne om Grønland - og en del af et forsøg på en påvirkningskampagne overfor grønlænderne, eller også er det et udtryk for en fundamental mangel på viden om Kongeriget, hvor alle - også grønlænderne - har ret til fri behandling i sundhedsvæsnet. Noget amerikanerne jo ikke har. Så man kunne med rette spørge Trump, hvorfor han ikke bruger hospitalsskibet på de tusinder af syge og fattige amerikanere, der ikke har råd til ordentlig behandling i stedet for at sende skibet til et land, der ikke har bedt om det.  Det er paradoksalt, at denne melding kommer samme dag, som et besætningsmedlem på en amerikansk ubåd blev evakueret af Arktisk Kommando ud for Nuuk. Personen havde akut behov for lægehjælp, og evakueringen skete via helikopter til det grønlandske sundhedsvæsen. Og paradoksalt er det også, at Trump & Co finder det relevant at bruge energi på et hospitalsskib til Grønland, alt imens et muligt amerikansk angreb på Iran lurer, og Trump burde have nok at gøre med det store told-cirkus. Men sådan er der åbenbart så meget - og præsidentens fokus på Grønland er kommet for at blive - ligegyldigt hvor meget mange måtte sukke.  @tv2newsdk fra 7 og frem.

Far er sur. Og... gammel? Ret vild tale. Portræt af en vred, forvirret mand, der råber af skyerne.

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

@ThoNg676733 Børge Rosenbaum a.k.a. Victor Borge. A Danish-American comedian.

A very talented funny pianist 🤣🤣 Who is he?🤔

EU's Kaja Kallas: Coming from a country that is number two in the Press Freedom Index, hearing criticism regarding press freedom from a country that is fifty-eighth on this list (the U.S.) is interesting.

Wow this is incredible This artist plays one of Vivaldi’s most difficult pieces on his accordion, a work that is normally performed by a whole orchestra

How to draw a nose symmetrically

@johndory1914 The people in this region is genetically very closely related.

New favorite fictional country

Når et billede siger mere end 1000 ord… #håndbold #dansktysk

@front_ukrainian 🇩🇰

❗️Drop a flag of your country if you continue to support the President of 🇺🇦Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky

MASSIVE BREAKING: A witness swore under penalty of perjury that Donald Trump threatened a young girl, telling her she could “disappear like another 12-year-old female,” and then threatened to kill her entire family, according to Epstein-related court records. This allegation appears in Dataset 9 of Epstein File EFTA01250883.pdf. This is sworn testimony. If the witness fabricated this account, they would face multiple years in federal prison for perjury.

Looks like Trump has been doing golf course burials for a while...