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Fun fact. The jack of all trades idiom has evolved and been added to over the centuries. Here the conclusion of an analysis from stack exchange

Conclusions

To sum up, I offer this timeline of the earliest occurrences I could find for the various forms of jack of all trades and the proverbial phrases built up around it:

1618 Jack-of-all-trades

1631 Tom of all Trades

1639 John-of-all-trades

1721 Jack of all trades, and it would seem, Good at none

1732 Jack of all Trades is of no Trade

1741 Jack of all trades, and in truth, master of none

1785 a Jack of all trades, but master of none

1930 a Jack of all trades and a master of one

2007 Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one

The extra-long version of the expression may be considerably older than the 2007 earliest established occurrence might suggest—perhaps even a decade or two older. But it isn't the original form of the expression; and in comparison with the forms that arose during the 1700s, it is quite young.

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‘Digital sovereignty’: why the EU may be shifting from internet regulation to building homegrown tech -- [Opinion]

When I followed the development and passing of the DSA/DMA I always envisioned that it would cause American big tech to leave the EU and a new stack would emerge from the European open source ecosystem. The EU, member states, and local governments have also been funding open source projects to this end (Next Generation internet, NGI).

I was a bit optimistic about the speed. I remember telling my family that the interoperability requirement of chat services would demolish the big tech hemegony by the end of the decade.

I don't think this will happen that quickly anymore. But what the author describes as a shifting of the focus towards the creation of a "eurostack", I would describe as the natural and intentional consequence of regulating big tech into respecting European civil rights.

Overall I'm still pretty optimistic of the growth of european open source projects replacing US big tech.

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Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine

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I'd like to learn more about the progress on the rearmament of Europe. Do you have any long form resources I could read?

I only hear bits and pieces about the slow progress. I remember hearing the goal that the EU would produce X amounts of ammunition per year. Did that happen? I also recently heard about Ukraine opening a factory in Denmark. That seems good, but still not the broad rearmament I've been wanting to see.

Are there good overviews, with some stats and maybe some nice looking graphics? I realize a lot is secret, but still.

Edit: I decided not to be a lazy bum and did my own googling. I found this testimony about the "Danish Model" by a member of CSIS. I learnt that Ukraine has capacity to produce $35B of military equipment per year, but only $6B to spend. Other countries are purchasing another $10B worth of military equipment per year from Ukrainian producers. This is the Danish model.

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I thought this part was interesting. People are correct about the amount of toxic content (~33%) but just missattributes it to an equivalent share of the population.

These findings reveal a striking pattern in how people misunderstand online toxicity. Participants drastically overestimated how many users posted toxic comments on social media—believing it was 38% when it is actually 3% (a 13-fold overestimation). However, they were nearly accurate about how much total content this set of users produces—estimating 38% when it is actually 33% (a 1.15-fold overestimation). This suggests people may encounter toxic content at roughly the expected volume but attribute it to far more widespread participation than actually occurs. Rather than recognizing a small group of highly active accounts, people appear to imagine toxic behavior as broadly distributed across the user base.

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