Had ik hier nog niks van gemerkt 😏 Ook hier hebben ze zowat alle grote festivals en zalen. Als je als band of als fan niet mee wil spelen, dan stoppen de Grote Concerten ook hé, want daar heeft Live Nation een monopolie op. 🤮 🤷

GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Gemini, DeepSeek,… all steering users towards stereotyping. "11 of the 12 stereotype cues significantly shifted model decisions across at least four of the six AI systems tested." One wouldn't want folks getting inspired into social mobility now, would we 😏

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Fast on/off switching, colors and wavelengths from IR all through the rainbow, on a silicon chip. Lasers, monochromatic no more:

Rice, a staple for half the world's population, faces major risks as rising global temperatures approach its upper thermal limits, threatening food security in key regions by 2070. doi.org/c782h7

You should really look into blocking ads and tracking domains on your devices or even network: In California, 55% of over 7000 websites checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of tracking.

Hoever staan we daarmee in België? Net nieuwe mazoutketels aan 't uitfaseren? #dtv

The FSFE, together with countless large organizations and foundations you all know, campaigns for "legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a #FOSS license. If it is public money, it should be public code as well." 📄🖊️

Zuckerberg: "Talk to the bot ✋" In a shocker move, employees send note takers to meetings.

"In power, solar plus storage now costs below $60 per megawatt hour (MWh) at a global level. The variable cost of LNG-fired power in Asia, at $20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), exceeds $160 per MWh – nearly three times the cost of never needing fuel again." Any questions?

Protip: schakel (zoals overal;) 2FA in en gebruik app wachtwoorden voor andere apps. Met 2FA moet je per email login bevestigen, met app wachtwoorden kan je per app autorisatie intrekken en betekent één onzorgvuldige beheerder nog niet dat gans je ATProto als dominostenen omvalt.

Gelukkig 'maar' de tank van de dieselgenerator (alsof dat diesel genereert;) dus niet zo'n hoeveelheid als in de Antwerpse haven, anderzijds wel het tweede incident met brandstof op onze waterwegen op nog geen week tijd:

Unless someone has a genuine need, no car should be bigger than this.

Great little 🧵 on how king car and everything about it has become so expensive. For Europe, there's additional safety requirements and emissions restrictions on top.

Amazon’s anti-human culture put on full display. “For more than an hour, several employees said, workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out their next steps.”

HISTORIC SUMMER WEEK Millions of Americans will need AC all week long next week with an unprecedented and historic April heat wave. Expect hundreds of monthly records, with widespread 90s and night Minimums in the 70s, including in DC. Some days will be way hotter than summer.

We need to talk a bit about how utterly absurd the March heatwave was in the USA. This heatwave would have been impossible without a boost from climate change, but even with climate change it remains a deeply unlikely event. A thread looking at some of the numbers. 🧵

"Shooting Shooting Stars" When modern life kills our hopes and dreams. zezvaz.com/cartoons

VDL: "the crisis highlights the high cost of relying on fossil fuels" and called upon governments to "avoiding large-scale interventions that could unnecessarily worsen public deficits." 22billion extra lost to fossil fuels while we expedite climate change. Can we scrap fossil fuels subsidies now?

Sooner or later, those who are responsible will also be affected, because nobody is above the laws of nature.💚🌿☘️🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

Yet another reason why you should get serious about blocking ads and trackers: “Webloc is a global geolocation surveillance system that monitors hundreds of millions of people based on data purchased from consumer apps and digital advertising.”

The breach affects some 20% of their customers. Of which 90% was gifted or even bought a membership following New Year's resolutions but never visited any of their fitness centers 😏

Maybe Van Bossuyt can run with a "Despite countless convictions by any and all of the highest courts that have any constitutional authority on the matter, I am determined to 🖕 you all if you dare come over. We'll vertically stack you in our jails while you await your deportation to Afghanistan."

The US had Poland and the UK pocketed as moles in EU back in the day. Orbán was next level, supported fiercely and openly by Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, China. Makes me wonder: what EU memberstate government will these regimes focus on next?

Big challenge now for EU-pessimists. All they had to do to prove their point that the EU was doomed was say "Hungary" or "Orban." Yet he's gone, and EU still standing. Maybe it's time to rethink EU-doomerism.

"Het businessmodel van DPG Media en Mediahuis schuift in sneltreinvaart op richting het business­model van big tech en draait om het verzamelen van data" "Inspiratie voor De Morgen haalt Van Thillo ook bij The Daily Mail: “Laat ons ook regelmatig een blik vrouwen opentrekken”" 48hrs gift link:

Orbán owned the media, universities, was supported by large corporations. He ~"received visits or verbal support from Trump, Vance, Netanyahu, Le Pen, Alice Weidel (the leader of the German far right), and other illiberal leaders from [around the world]." If even he managed to landslide lose:

Orban had fierce support from a massive international amalgam of fascists - Wilders, Francken, Putin, Trump. I would be shocked if Zuckerberg were against that. Also, I hope y'all keep enjoying your curated Meta feeds 😏

3½ years before that, Russia was the first to deploy a satellite. Sputnik, a 58cm sphere with a 1W radio transmitter, was heard for 3 weeks by radio amateurs around the world. Its blip blip blip shocked the US and allowed scientists to measure ionosphere, its drag allowed to measure density there.

Like, there's a reason Netanyahu's son was out there working the campaign trail for Orban as much as Vance was.

Orban losing is as bad for Israel as it is Russia. He's been their EU veto as much as Moscow's, when it comes to sanctions etc.

The past 2 weeks, Jet A1 price has doubled. 2 more doublings and it would be as if there were an actual tax on them, like at any gas station. 🤷

3½ years before that, Russia was the first to deploy a satellite. Sputnik, a 58cm sphere with a 1W radio transmitter, was heard for 3 weeks by radio amateurs around the world. Its blip blip blip shocked the US and allowed scientists to measure ionosphere, its drag allowed to measure density there.

With all the mutiny and looting as of late, I wish more of us came to see it that way. What a kicker closing message:

Monthly global climate data update from NOAA/NCEI for the month of March 2026. Third hottest month of March since 1850. datagraver.com/climate-data... #climate

I'll be fish and you will be, too.

Swordsmith copypasta program incapable of thought. Also, LLM processing LLM output isn't such a great idea after all. 😏

Daar hangt voor de meesten voor de rest van hun leven dan zowat alles van af:

"The High Court ruled in February that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. The Met rightly said it would stop making arrests."

Wat een zonsondergang vanavond zeg. #nn

In 2015, the 1st gravitational-wave was detected. 11 years later, there's enough detections for patterns to emerge: Fourth GW catalog (GWTC-4) by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collab shows prominent peaks around 10 & 35 solar masses. Likewise, spin and mass ratios noticeably change around 20 & 40 solar masses. 💫

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So glad to see they're back down safely. Especially when considering the heath shield on #Artemis I partially failed. With outside temperatures up to around 10.000°C (Sun surface is about 6000°C), reentry path was adjusted for Artemis II in order to maintain heath shield integrity. And it worked! 🚀🛸

Liberté

1h15 until #Artemis II splashdown. I will, yet again unfortunately, resume watching later. Be safe y'all! 🤞 #nn

R.I.P.

Sad lad.

Zalig warm windje deze op avondwandeling. Nog even van genieten want ik zie (richting Gent?) al bliksemen. #nn