Matthew Green on the European Commission’s “Chat Control”:

In practice, the Commission’s proposal—if it is implemented in production systems—invites a range of technical attacks that we simply do not comprehend today, and that scientists have barely begun to think about. Moreover, the Commission is not content to restrain themselves to scanning for known CSAM [Child Sexual-Abuse Media] content as Apple did. Their desire to target previously unknown content as well as textual content such as “grooming behavior” poses risks from many parties and requires countermeasures against abuse and surveillance that are completely undeveloped.

I agree!

A problem with everything EU is that many people think proposals from the Commission is enough for legislation to get through. It’s not how the EU works. If this goes through, it’s because our elected government ministers and MEPs vote in favour of the Commission’s proposal. If we allow this stupidity, it’s because we pick stupid people at the ballot box.

Pressure is building on Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, to recognise gay rights. This is good news. The very idea that marriage equality somehow threatens anyone is bogus.

While most people in Europe rest on Good Friday, I’m at work, which is fine since it gives me extra money. The sun is shining in Copenhagen today.

Palestinian terrorists hit Israel with biggest bombardments since 2006. Can’t understand how these people can hate Jews this much.

If there’s one thing good about war, it’s that it debunks stereotype about gay men being men enough to fight. I alway point out that Alexander the Great and the Roman Army did pretty good, but many are so clueless and assume I’m telling lies.

The spring has arrived to Copenhagen. Look through the window from my workplace and wants to go outside. But people insist on getting injured abroad, so here I am, stuck behind a desk in an alarm centre.

This has to be the most bizarre news story for quite some time. One could almost mistake the Dalai Lama for a Catholic priest.

Disgusting as this is, why should anyone be surprised by the most anti-Semitic regime harassing its Jewish population? The opposite would be the news worth reporting.

Another week comes to its end. Now, Shabbat.

This is my favourite time of the year. The Nordic winter freeze leaves room for the heat of the sun. Trees are coming to life. Men put their shorts on, and the air fills with birds tweeting. I can see what the Romanticists saw in nature.

The first drag queen I know from television is gone. I liked Dame Edna as a boy, long before I know what a drag queen was.

A new study, published in Sex Roles, suggests that fathers spend more time with sons and that men learn how to be a man from their fathers. Not breaking news, but still an interesting read.

These are strange times. Yesterday, Sweden sent a rescue team to evacuate embassy staff in Sudan. I might be wrong, but I think it’s the first time Sweden does anything like this.

I’m working the night shift. From 10pm to 7am. Normally, the phone doesn’t stop ringing, but now it’s been quiet for far too long. Time goes very slowly in an alarm centre when there’s not enough work to do.

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.

He had the most ridiculous freak show on television, but it gave me some good laughs. Now he’s gone.

Work, work, work. No real Shabbat for me this weekend. 😒

Egypt is unhappy about Netflix’s new drama production. For Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Antiquities Council, depicting the famous queen as black is nothing less than a falsification of Egyptian history. He adds that there is nothing racist in this view. Yeah, right.