“People keep asking, ‘What’s wrong with the Democratic Party? What’s the right message?’” Kuster said. “They act like there are magic words. And it’s like, ‘It’s not a question of just getting the right words. It’s that *we are too freaking old*.’” Yeah.

Luidruchtige stilstand. #pieterderks https://youtu.be/P_4iS-1qkbQ?si=QOr3Tft1dEzLvfWO

do remember: "will be open sourced soon" and "will be upstreamed soon" are both shorthand for "fuck off you aren't getting source and we'll shut it down before then"

Maybe I'm just being twitchy and hypersensitive, but an article published by GitHub repeatedly highlighting an implicit difference between "git" as a set of cross-compatible tools and "git" as a specific open source project sets off my spidey sense. The version of git that matters is the open […]

videos of Semantic Web in Libraries 2025 are already showing up: https://www.youtube.com/@swib9211/videos #linkeddata #libraries

@pluralistic 20 min For all you Cory fans out there. It’s always a delight to see him interviewed.. I did not know that current affairs is a nonprofit organization, completely supported by subscription. If somebody’s looking for an add free and non-corporate publication here you are […]

Remember that time Mozilla said it was going to stop working with the personal data removal service Onerep after I published a story showing Onerep's CEO was actually running several people search sites at the same time? […]

Wow, #phosh got a mention from @[email protected] . Thanks @nikodunk for letting us know: https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly https://mastodon.social/@nikodunk/115577662268604983

Geen belang, Theo heeft zijn centen binnen. "Beelden van vermeende drones boven Brussels Airport en militaire domeinen blijken politiehelikopter en cargovliegtuig." https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/11/12/check-drones-zaventem-heverlee-melsbroek-helikopter-vliegtuig/

On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/148/3/687/8058558

2/2 #harrypettit

Dit was dus nooit de schuld van Europa he, maar van websitebouwers die geen websites zonder tracking door derde partijen kunnen maken. “We pakken eindelijk cookiemoeheid aan”: Europese Commissie wil minder vaak cookiescherm […]

Een burgerwetenschapper met 6 fijnstofmeters op z'n terrein: https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2181615455

"De grote witte koepels in Goor lekken methaangas. Dat is verboden. Het stinkt en is slecht voor het milieu." https://www.tubantia.nl/hof-van-twente/biovergister-in-goor-zo-lek-als-een-mandje-hoge-boetes-dreigen~a069d045/

The US needs to be removed from any and all negotiations involving Ukraine. Under Trump it is a proxy of Russia. World leaders, especially Europeans, need to regain independence of their national defence.

Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/servo_002_arrives/ As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine <- by me on @theregister

"In het persbericht schrijft de Commissie niet hoe zij de AVG wil aanpassen, maar in eerder uitgelekte wetteksten[..], stond dat de Commissie het voor AI-bedrijven mogelijk wil maken om data te gebruiken die onder 'bijzondere categorieën' vallen, zoals het geloof of de politieke voorkeur van een […]

Serious post, please boost... On #internationalmensday here's your periodic reminder, fellow AMAB prostate carrying people who are over 50: Go see your doctor. Don't put it off. Ask for a DRE or a PSA test. Yes, DRE means a finger up your bum, get over it. They probably won't find anything […]

Iemand met een universitaire aanstelling die _mij_ om literatuur vraagt, alsof _ik_ toegang heb tot het materiaal dat de universiteiten de afgelopen kwart eeuw achter betaalmuren hebben gelegd. Ik begrijp dat niet.

Vraag aan jezelf welke coping mechanismes jij herkent in dit verhaal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOPOAnj7B0 Ter voorkoming van burnouts en/of veel grotere kans op fysieke dingen die je écht niet wilt.

Omg, we're such a joke and a menace. Well deserved :face_melting: --- Canada received Tuesday’s Fossil of the Day award at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The award, bestowed by Climate Action Network International, recognizes the country deemed to have done the most each day to […]

"om beginnende longklachten serieus te nemen. Hoe eerder de ziekte wordt vastgesteld, hoe beter de kwaliteit van leven." https://www.longfonds.nl/nieuws/wereld-copd-dag-copd-op-tijd-herkennen-helpt-om-erger-te-voorkomen

I like remote. Toddler care and eldercare mean I can’t be in-office daily. But. I was in the office yesterday and it was so productive. So many unplanned but useful side conversations. So much information density and relationship-building. If everyone had the same rhythms hybrid would be awesome.

It seems that the Radboud digital exam system (Ans) was also experiencing problems due to the global #cloudflare outage. 😞

🇪🇺EU governments are removing #chatcontrol from today's COREPER agenda because a majority has not yet been reached. For the reasons, see this leaked cable, especially regarding Spain's demand: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LEWP-Meeting_12-November-2025.pdf

Any data that is collected on servers will eventually leak or be abused otherwise. By design, no one can enumerate #deltachat profiles which are private and not published on any server. Conversely, #chatmail relays do not see or collect private data or metadata […] [Original post on chaos.social]

'GenAI is not empowering researchers but cementing their precarious roles.' https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why-ai-transparency-is-not-enough

'by outsourcing brainstorming, drafting, writing, reading, translating, copyediting, etc., we deliberately deskill ourselves, harm our metacognitive abilities, and devalue essential competencies of academic research. We must ask ourselves what are the incentives for doing so.' […]

'Calling genAI a “tool” has become the standard way of referring to what is, in fact, a political technology. Tools are seen as neutral and unaccountable. This notion rests on several false assumptions: tools are indispensable; tools don’t have human flaws;' […]

'The delegation of tasks to “tools and assistants” constitutes a methodological decision and must be addressed as such. Researchers should therefore be required to explain why they are trusting a black box that is neither open nor fair. Disclosing the use of genAI through a taxonomy avoids […]

Dat. Geen dienstauto met chauffeur meer, van onze centen, maar gewoon terug in het vak bij het uitschot dat #pvv is. Waar hij #wilders een boerenlul vindt en #Wilders omgekeerd hem als lui en elitair bestempelt. #bosma

"hoe hij die techniek inzet om tijdrovende administratieve klussen voor hem te laten doen" https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8392671/han-onderzoekt-mogelijk-datalek-na-ongeoorloofd-ai-gebruik-door-docent AI is nogal vaak een "als we problemen niet bij de daadwerkelijke bron goed kunnen structureren, dan […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/115572086526058545 I keep saying it, but there's an anti-intellectualism that's deeply rooted in techbro culture, and that's escaping containment. Just because coding interviewers misuse CS concepts to gatekeep people doesn't mean those concepts are […]

The same elites who lament that "woke" is just symbolic politics, all about representation rather than "real" class issues, will of course *lose their ever-loving shit* if a politician comes and actually centers class issues. (cf Mamdani)

Musk launched DOGE in order to kill the investigations of himself & Tesla at the SEC and NHTSA. The rest of it (starving hundreds of thousands of kids by slashing USAID) was just collateral damage, a distraction.

15% of students in Charlotte are skipping school because it's being invaded by the us federal government

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]

- Copilot was forced to nearly every MS user without their consent - Gemini starts each time an Android user touch his smartphone main button - Whatsapp users suddenly interact with an AI they can’t disable - Firefox will soon have its own AI - Even myself, as a @protonprivacy and @kagihq user […]

📺 📽️ 🎞️ Kijktip: vanavond om 22:40 op #npo2 - De veelvuldig bekroonde documentaire "No Other Land" https://www.npodoc.nl/documentaires/2025/11/no-other-land.html […]

2/2 #trump #epstein "Donald John Trump is dangerously unfit and must—must—resign. We demand it. Now."

NOS Stories is sinds vandaag ook via hun eigen website te bekijken! 🥳 https://stories.nos.nl/ Eindelijk kunnen jongeren zonder YouTube, Insta of TikTok account NOS Stories reportages bekijken. Als ze nu ook nog een RSS feed e/o ActivityPub feed gaan aanbieden is het helemaal perfect! Pls 🥺 […]

Amazing headline! "Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $60bn" https://www.ft.com/content/064bbca0-1cb2-45ab-85f4-25fdfc318d89

Stinkt poep? https://www.nu.nl/tech/6376373/europese-commissie-onderzoekt-of-clouddiensten-te-veel-macht-hebben.html

Olijfoogst op Westoever geteisterd door terreur van kolonisten - https://nos.nl/l/2590849 "Olijfbomen groeien al duizenden jaren op het Palestijnse land en het land wat nu #Israël is." Zo zouden we het altijd moeten noemen: "het land dat nu Israël is". (Net zoals we het eigenlijk ook zouden […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115569669020807811 Access to a non-billionaire owned and authoritarian-proof social network is self-defence. Today Mastodon became one of the open source projects I donate to. They're simply that important.

Lots of things going on in the world of AI this week! It turns out LLMs in the medical world aren't delivering the results promised (by Geoffrey Hinton, among others), and what's the deal with the AI bubble? Plus a lot of AI reading tips, so if Santa/Sint needs to fill some socks/shoes with […]

350 jobs on the line at CSIRO. This is despicable. Well done to Pocock for rightfully pointing out that “In opposition, Labor called for better funding, yet in government they are delivering cuts.” The hypocrisy. WTF are Labor doing? #CSIRO #auspol […]

Laten we hopen dat de Tweede Kamer tenminste een voorzitter kiest die een krans kan leggen zonder ophef te veroorzaken en waarvoor de gewone Nederlander zich niet hoeft te schamen. Ik hoop op Tom, maar Thom zou ook al een verbetering zijn. Martin Bosma liet als Kamervoorzitter zijn partijkleur […]