On ChatGPT

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Some pieces of news:

I have cancelled my OpenAI subscription. Currently, using Gemini PRO.

We’ll see how it goes. Perhaps it’s not the end. I’ll likely still use it, just not in the premium subscription.

“How do you know if someone is vegan? Don’t worry – they’ll tell you.” (via The Guardian)

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On Adolescence (TV Mini Series 2025) – a very powerful movie

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Adolescence (TV Mini Series 2025) – I think it is the best TV Series I’ve seen.

I enjoyed the very big, hugely, enormous cuts.

I liked most of the way the main characters played their roles.

I especially like that it’s a short TV series.

Highly recommended.

As an interesting note, most characters didn’t play in all four episodes. Quite nice.

10/10.

Reviews (Romanian):

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Gomag SUMMIT 2026 reunește 500 de antreprenori și specialiști în eCommerce la București, pe 26 martie 2026

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Descoperă detalii aici summit.gomag.ro/

Gomag anunță oficial unul dintre cele mai importante evenimente de eCommerce din România, într-un format nou, pe 26 martie, la HALO Events Center.

Gomag SUMMIT & eCommerce Fest a devenit deja un eveniment de referință al comunității locale de comerț online și vânzări, iar anul acesta va găzdui 500 de antreprenori, decidenți, specialiști în marketing și experți în digital, într-o zi intensă de sesiuni, networking și decizii de business.

Biletele sunt disponibile pe pagina summit.gomag.ro, in format standard sau VIP, cu extra beneficii, inclusiv acces exclusiv la Gomag Connect After Party (după conferință).

Indiferent de categoria biletului, rezervarea locului include automat acces bonus la materiale originale de tip cursuri video, workbooks si checklist-uri PDF, în valoare totală de 4.970 de lei.

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Relația apropiată părinte–copil, cea mai puternică formă de prevenție a consumului de alcool la minori

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București, 27 februarie 2026 – Federația Organizațiilor Neguvernamentale pentru Copil (FONPC), cu susținerea Ursus Breweries, a organizat conferința „Inspiration Day – Stiluri parentale, echilibru emoțional și prevenția consumului de alcool la minori”. Evenimentul a reunit autorități, specialiști în psihologie și cercetători în educație care au pus în discuție tema conform căreia, astăzi, rolul familiei este mai important ca oricând pentru echilibrul emoțional al copiilor și prevenirea consumului timpuriu de alcool. Evenimentul a relevat situația actuală cu care se confruntă părinții din România, la zece ani din momentul realizării primei cercetări naționale care explorează legătura dintre stilurile parentale și consumul de alcool la minori.

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News priorities

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Yesterday, I went to CNN to see some news.

What struck me was the title – it was focused on American casualties.

So, America attacks Iran, lots of bad things happen over there. The most important piece of news, according to CNN? What are the casualties of the attackers.

Saddening.

This was supposed to be a joke, it seems it’s reality:

President Bush and Colin Powell are sitting in a cafe. A guy walks in and asks the waiter, „Isn’t that Bush and Powell sitting over there?” The waiter says, „Yep, that’s them.” So the guy walks over and says, „Wow, this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in here?” Bush says, „We’re planning WW III”. And the guy says, „Really? What’s going to happen?” Bush says, „Well, we’re going to kill 140 million Iraqis this time and one bicycle repairman.” The guy exclaimed, „A bicycle repairman? Why kill a bicycle repairman? Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and says, „See, smart guy! I told you no one would worry about the 140 million Iraqis!”

Bicycle repairman

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75% Growth in Hungary, 61.6% in Romania: How Bulgaria, Greece and Croatia Compare in the eCommerce Race

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The full report is available for download here. Readers who wish to join the conversation live can use the exclusive 15% discount code media15 when purchasing their ticket for Balkan eCommerce Summit 2026.

eCommerce across Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Hungary, and Croatia continued to grow throughout 2025, but the pace and maturity of that growth varied significantly from market to market. These are among the key findings of “The State of eCommerce in the Balkans in 2025”, conducted over the span of nine months during 2025 by the Balkan eCommerce Summit team. The research provides an in-depth snapshot of how online businesses operate across five Southeast European markets and outlines the key expectations for 2026.

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Verified LinkedIn users’ data is shared in shocking ways, report claims

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Mashable: Verified LinkedIn users’ data is shared in shocking ways, report claims

One observant anonymous user is warning other LinkedIn users that the Microsoft-owned social network for professionals utilizes a third-party verification service that, in turn, shares users’ data with other companies.

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According to rogi, what concerned him was exactly what Persona could do with his data. Persona accessed rogi’s full name, passport photo, selfie, facial biometric data, NFC chip data (or the info stored on the chip inside his passport), his nationality, sex, birthday, age, email, phone number, physical address, IP address, geolocation, device type, MAC address, browser, OS version, and language.

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Bottom-up analysis

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Bob May - localisation of function - bottom

About an analysis – should it be bottom-up or top-down? Should you go from the bottom and rise, or analyze from the top and go down.

When you analyze a professor or a university system, it’s much more appropriate to approach it like this:

“The good aspects of so-and-so are these. I refuse to focus on the negative ones, as long as the positives outweigh the negatives.”

The idea is that if you start by looking at the negative aspects, OR if you begin with an overall, global analysis, you’re likely to find shortcomings.

If, however, you start from the positive aspects, you will end up overlooking the negative ones.

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