It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

Beyond the message of the talk, the insights on the parliamentary monitoring system are super interesting!

All over people changing their votes Along with their overcoats If Adolf Hitler flew in today They’d send a limousine anyway

“Heinen had ook kunnen verbinden. Door wat meer sympathie te tonen voor partij wiens hoofdkwartier door kaalkoppen met NSB-vlaggen was vernield. Laat zien dat je aan dezelfde kant staat: die van de democratie.” Duidelijk commentaar @volkskrant.nl. VVD is facilitator en goedprater van extreemrechts.

Een bespreking van het handzame boekje _Het kon minder: de lessen van Johan Remkes_. Ook zonder fan te zijn of te worden van Remkes is dit een inzichtelijk werk over hoe politiek ook kan/kon werken. Met waardering voor ouderwetsche dingen als 'goed luisteren'. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The Disney brand, and the USA brand, sinking together. Parody from Dutch TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

I recently presented "Small is beautiful: microstacks or megadependencies". Below a lightly edited transcript of this talk (plus link to the video). Microstacks are cool, can save you lots of (geopolitical) hassle and money, but do require some specific skills: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

So, apparently big tech firms are telling employees to get back to the US before midnight eastern time tonight, or else avoid returning entirely until there is more clarity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Earlier this year I presented on "Small is beautiful: microstacks or megadependencies", webdevcon.nl/session/smal... - in which I talk about the state of web development, cloud, and the fun of building self contained highly efficient solutions.

Can portable DNA tools detect unsafe drinking water? High schooler Noah Bryan developed a same-day test with Bento Lab + sequencing. ⭐ Results in <9h ⭐ Detects pathogens like Salmonella, Clostridium & Vibrio ⭐ A step toward safer drinking water access 🔗 Read more: bento.bio/story/rapid-...

Pour one out for the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. Satire is dead in a world where the real "reporting" looks like this

Zojuist verschenen, aflevering "Meer nerds in de Tweede Kamer!" van de podcast Met nerds om Tafel. Met @barbarakathmann.bsky.social & mij, en we hebben het ook over nerdvote.nl & opentk.nl. Maar luister vooral zelf! www.metnerdsomtafel.nl/podcast/435-...

If I were a Brit, I would be more upset and focused on how my own government oppresses dissent than on what Trump does in the U.S. The authoritarianism under Starmer is getting absolutely crazy.

The horrific events taking place in Gaza on a daily basis must stop. There needs to be an immediate ceasefire, unrestrained access for all humanitarian aid, and the release of all hostages held by Hamas.

"I'm willing to choose a less evil alternative, however only once that alternative is better, cheaper and works *exactly* like the evil thing I'm using right now, including integrations with all the other questionable suppliers I rely on" And we wonder why alternatives do not succeed...

Now that everyone is (again) finding out that having 1600 random NPM (indirect) dependencies isn't a great idea, a reminder I wrote about this very problem in @spectrum.ieee.org in 2024: spectrum.ieee.org/lean-softwar...

*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

The US is weaponising Europe's dependencies, as 🇪🇺President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu alluded to in her #SOTEU. So why is the EU reacting by creating even more dependencies on America?

"markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is arguably the single most correct thing anyone has ever said about them keynes knew his shit

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

As #ChatControl festers, the European Court of Human Rights previously ruled against RUSSIA: "The Court concludes that the [] obligation to decrypt end-to-end encrypted communications risks amounting to a requirement that providers of such services weaken the encryption mechanism for all users" 1/2

Some good news today: Researchers using remotely operated submarines keep discovering new fish species, hundreds so far. This one is the bumpy snailfish

Here's the same region since 1854, using the NOAA ERSST V5 dataset. August 2025 is not available yet here. If the annual summer increase is as high as for @ecmwf.int ERA5 above, the ~0.4°C jump break another y-axis...

Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.

"These days we'd call this setup an air-gapped sovereign computing solution"

Zstandard's --long range mode works wonders for assemblies, but needs uninterrupted single line sequences. *AllTheBacteria 661k, multiline fasta* gzip (pigz): 751GB zstandard --long: 641GB (30% original size) *Single line fasta* gzip (pigz): 700GB zstandard --long: 232GB (10% original size)

Just scrolling through cert.europa.eu/publications... should make it clear to anyone that our software security situation is unsustainable.

Heat pumps are truly the coolest things ever. Or hottest, depending on which end you are on.

Brussels archaeological dig reveals ancient EU intranet tubes

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This is a fascinating move www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Robocop is one of the greatest films ever made and on the short list of contenders for single best dystopian satire Hollywood has produced in the last 40 years

This week’s Marble wrap-up: ✍🏼 Simon Kuper on clarity & memory in writing: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 💡 Sunday Writer’s Digest featuring a love letter to “bad” first drafts: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/sunday-wri... Happy Sunday & may your words find their flow!

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Can anyone point me to crowdsourcing/forecasting projects being by governments? I’m familiar with Sweden’s Glimt (www.foi.se/en/foi/resea...) which is in co-operation with Ukraine, but keen to learn about any other efforts under way.

Politician: Birth rates are plunging. We have to do something Me: This can of baby formula costs $50. Can you fix that? Politician: We are making a $100 million Super Bowl ad for the uterus

"They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements." - www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!

yes, this is it. we lose loudly sometimes. but we keep on keeping on. we keep resisting, keep obstructing, keep teaching, keep creating, keep protesting, keep creating space for new forms of resistance, keep forging communities of care. we keep making good trouble, however we can.

Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society

We kunnen kiezen uit meer dan 1000 kandidaat-kamerleden voor de volgende verkiezingen. Het is helaas niet makkelijk voor een kamerlid om veel te bereiken, maar sommigen lukt het wel. Hoe herken je zulke invloedrijke kandidaten? Hier wat me opviel de laatste jaren berthub.eu/articles/pos... #NerdVote

Death Panel of One

As folks are getting all excited by Trump disappearing from sight, a common thing for people with heart failure is to get 'decompensated', which is effectively drowning from the inside. Although this eventually ends badly, pts do often recover (for a while). my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Er valt weer een actief lid van de commissie Digitale Zaken af, Jan Valize is door het PVV-lid op plek 39 gezet. Ik heb goede hoop dat we @barbarakathmann.bsky.social hoger op de lijst gaan krijgen, maar op @mariekekoekkoek.voltnederland.org na is iedereen virtueel weg... berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Please read my thoughtful essay or post on something that interests you. Also I had gpt generate an ugly studio ghibli-knockoff image and slapped it on the top because this definitely conveys quality, trustworthiness, and especially relevance.

Doing a talk on the terrible state of cyber security tomorrow. This is one of the slides.

Interesting to see. The last election meant a loss of expertise in the German Bundestag as well.