We’re back from Davos! In this week’s episode: 🌱 What’s the future of the EU Farm to Fork strategy? 🎵 Tick-tock for TikTok (w/ Zoltán Kész) 🌐 The importance of browsers (w/ Kush Amlani) Zoltan quoted on TikTok: https://dailynewshungary.com/will-tiktok-be-banned-in-the-eu-and-hungary/ Mozilla research on browser competition: https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/ February 2, 2023 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP100: New consumer electronics & Spotify’s controversies (co-hosted w/ Fabio Fernandes)
It is episode 100 of the ConsEUmer podcast! Happy birthday to us! Joining us this week as a co-host is Fabio Fernandes! These are our topics: 🪫 New consumer electronics tech presented at the ESC in Las Vegas 🎶 Does Netflix’s “The Playlist” tell the whole story on Spotify? You can follow Fabio Fernandes on […]
Pourquoi il faut se méfier de TikTok
Dans quelle mesure devons-nous être prudents lorsque nous adoptons des solutions technologiques chinoises ? TikTok est la star incontestable des réseaux sociaux actuellement, attirant plus d’utilisateurs nouveaux et de longue date que n’importe lequel de ses concurrents. L’entreprise chinoise a mis au point un algorithme qui permet aux utilisateurs de rester « accrochés » pendant des heures […]
The farming sector faces national security threats
The Biden administration has released an updated security memorandum, which outlines the threats to the American agricultural system, as well as ways to address them. “To achieve this, the Federal Government will identify and assess threats, vulnerabilities, and impacts from these high-consequence and catastrophic incidents – including but not limited to those presented by CBRN […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP99: Irish alcohol labels, Yellow vests, and Croatia gets the Euro (w/ Ivan Bertović)
In this week’s ConsEUmer episode: 🇮🇪 Alcohol labelling rules in Ireland upset France, Spain and others 🇫🇷 French opposition bemoans effects of new ETS2 rules 🇭🇷 How does Croatia take the Euro? (w/ Ivan Bertović) Follow Ivan Bertović on Twitter @ivbertovic. January 12, 2023 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: […]
Une rébellion impossible
Dans une société moderne, dépendante d’un Etat omniprésent dans nos vies, la résistance à l’Etat est plus difficile que jamais. La polarisation de la politique est devenue la pierre angulaire de toute analyse politique soi-disant intelligente. Chaque cycle électoral est couvert d’un vaste éventail de commentateurs qui nous disent que nous sommes de plus en […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP98: Special Episode: Debating AI Art!
Happy new year 2023! In this special ConsEUmer/CCR collab episode, we’re debating AI Art with members of the CCC team. January 5, 2023 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
Compared to Europe, the American farm system is more efficient and sustainable
One of the more notable misconceptions of many Americans is that people in the United States are worse off than their European counterparts. If we were to only look at income, Americans are wealthier than Europeans on multiple data points: the U.S. outperforms GDP per capita for most of the European Union. The American middle class also […]
Thank you for 2022!
I would like to thank all the readers who continue to follow this website either via email or through the WordPress Reader. I have stopped to promote this page for blogging purposes, but it continues, together with my LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, to be the best way to connect with the topics I’m working on. […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP97: The price isn’t right/Special Vienna roundtable (w/ Niko Jilch)
It’s the last ConsEUmer episode of the year, this time as a special roundtable edition with CCC staff, and special guest Niko Jilch ! This episode is all about prices! Prices of houses, food, and Bitcoin (on which Niko had some thoughts). (Note: we dealt with some audio quality issues, but we did the best […]