(Image below from DALL-E 3: “Spain in the world, intense, power, global, chaotic”)
A Complex, Global 21st Century
1/ The NYT is suing Open AI (Chat GPT) and Microsoft for using its copyrighted content: “Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it”. (Story, court document)
2/ There are some good first takes on where it all might go on Twitter.
A Changing Spain
3/ Reuters: Spain confirms nuclear power phase-out, extends renewable projects deadlines.
4/ Sánchez went on a trip to…Iraq. In early morning (Spain time) statements, no questions, with the Iraqui PM, he said he supported an immediate, permanent ceasefire and a two-state solution to the Israel-Gaza conflict.
5/ Global alt-right influencer Jack Posobiec, with 2 million followers on X, published a new podcast episode: “EVERYTHING THEY TOLD YOU ABOUT THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR WAS A LIE FRANCO SAVED SPAIN AND FOUGHT FOR CHRIST”.
6/ Bildu, the left-wing Basque party associated with ETA, is back in charge of Pamplona City Hall, (Navarra) after the socialists voted in favour during a controversial confidence vote against the right.
7/ Belarra (Podemos): “The social majority is back in progressive government in Iruña [Basque name for Pamplona]”.
8/ Vox: “Infamy is committed in Pamplona. Pedro Sánchez hands the city to the heirs of ETA”.
9/ El País: “The Socialist Party needs to explain its deal with the radical Basque separatist coalition”.
10/ El Mundo: “What happened yesterday was not only the complete political legitimation of Bildu by the PSOE, but a change in the essence of the PSOE itself, a moral dissent against everything socialism had defended and fought for for decades in the Basque Country and a Navarra, ravaged by terrorism”.
11/ ABC: “Sánchez breaks his word again and allows the Socialist Party to hand over the mayor’s office in Pamplona to Basque radicals, contrary to what he promised before the July general election”.
12/ Might we see the implosion of Spain's alt-right party Vox in 2024 if Ortega-Smith challenges Abascal for the leadership? In that political subculture, such a challenge to the alpha male will be seen as even more disloyal than usual, a betrayal, and prove extremely divisive.
New York Times: “Through Microsoft’s Bing Chat (recently rebranded as “Copilot”) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment”.
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