one of the dramatis personaeses of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6jfRSNp6O8 #Perturbator #synthwave #ulver

Morgen (woensdag) ben ik met mijn Nerdvote.nl pet op (figuurlijk) bij deze bijeenkomst https://stemopeenvrouw.com/agenda/naar-een-politiek-zonder-big-tech-afhankelijkheid/ in Nieuwspoort Den Haag. Met @barbarakathmann, @Felienne, Maartje Knaap, Hanneke van der Werf, Marieke Koekkoek en […]

ChristenUnie zag het plan om met AI al onze chats door Amerikanen te gaan laten scannen en dacht, ja, dat is wat we nodig hebben. https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2025D42603 - en wat meer achtergrond over deze waanzin, https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-weer-terug/

ever notice how women aren't taking off belts when they go through TSA checks? pants fit women. they do not fit men. QED

dresses are true masculinity

I know this isn't important at all but I really think that pants should not be associated with menswear? like not in a "clothes should not be gendered" way, I just think pants are inefficient for people who don't have hips, not to mention the crotch comfort thing

We were offline for a moment for installing the new switch as well as a quick cleaning of the fans!

Spent many (many!) hours pulling legal explanations and apologies from lawyers who were caught using AI that hallucinated in which they explained to a judge why they used AI. The explanations are astonishing and extremely good […]

Nützlich: Offenbar fügt ChatGPT bei Links in Literaturlisten mittlerweile einen Parameter `utm_source=chatgpt.com` ein. Das kann hilfreich sein, zumal die Qualität von generierten Literaturlisten besser wird. Just sayin’. #servicetoot

Geen zorgen Gaza, professioneel oorlogscrimineel Tony Blair zal een oogje in het zeil houden! - een effectief deel van het vredesplan

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BREEK: Alle Nederlandse universiteiten, ook Leiden, stappen naar de rechter vanwege de bezuinigingen op starters- en stimuleringsbeurzen. ‘Wat is een bestuursakkoord waard als het met een pennenstreek weer weg is?’ www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/unive...

And thus, the only ones not involved in the plan for Palestine's future are the Palestinians. A genocidal country and its funder decide, to loud applause, that the genocide will go unpunished, the victims unheard, the land stolen, a future in the hands of the perpetrators only.

Gisteren promoveerde Rowin Jansen op zijn proefschrift "Toezicht op de AIVD en MIVD". Ter gelegenheid hiervan was er ook een symposium, met zeer imposante sprekers en een vrijwel even imposant publiek. Hier mijn verslag, waarin ik schrik van de naïviteit van een deel van het […]

#nist have issued updated #password guidelines for businesses. Interestingly they now say that requiring special characters is no longer a recommendation, but longer passwords / passphrases (using spaces) is a better idea. I say "interesting" because that's something I've been doing for many […]

Closed doors, events in inaccessible locations, and lecturers who refuse to adapt: students with disabilities still encounter numerous obstacles, as Avalon Leiman has experienced. ‘It’s an awful feeling to be permanently excluded.’ www.mareonline.nl/en/backgroun...

"Er hing een briefje op de universiteit dat we op 3 oktober vieren dat Leiden bevrijd is van de Spaanse bezetting en dat daarom alle gebouwen die dag gesloten zijn. Een buitenlandse collega vroeg voorzichtig wanneer die bezetting dan precies was geweest." (Column uit 2017 in de herhaling) […]

> OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear. It's kind of hilarious that they go "if you don't want me to pirate your movies, you need to opt out" […]

Stuk van meer dan 10.000 woorden. En meer dan de helft van de bezoekers leest het helemaal uit. Geloof de mensen niet die zeggen dat niemand meer leest! Mogelijk leest niemand saaie stukken meer, dat geloof ik dan wel. Meetmethode staat hier […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

finally some normal fucking people on reddit

Maybe pete hegseth is gathering all the generals tomorrow so they can do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A_-HRFfc

I bet you need some cute goats (I definitely do)

I think this teapot just called me the f slur

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

Just when I thought AI couldn't get any more ridiculous, people went and made MCP "tools" to transfer money, actual fucking money, between stochastic parrots. https://mastodon.social/@bruces/115289438656046888

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

I was taught in biology class in school that being able to roll your tongue is a genetic trait and an example of Mendelian inheritance. This is false. It‘s a myth that science has long debunked. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/genetic-myth-textbooks-get-wrong

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

“Ook moeten de incassobureaus geregistreerd staan bij de screeningsautoriteit van het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid.” “Een woordvoerder van de Inspectie laat de NOS weten dat er naar schatting zo'n 2500 incassobureaus in Nederland actief zijn, maar dat daarvan slechts 10 procent bij de […]

Good morning to sunny autumn dogs getting into mommy’s Ge’ez textbook unsupervised #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #linguistics

The answer to "the AI systems that corporate overlords push everywhere are shit" is not "so we need open source AI". These systems are shit cause they structurally are. They are just being shoved everywhere to reduce labor power. "Open source AI" (if that even existed) is not changing that.

#Hematite Iron Roses are sculptural, radiating tabular crystals that form rose-like petals, and clusters. I wonder if iron roses ever bloomed on Mars? More info in comment. Vote only once: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4... #EarthArt #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the #www for free. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free "For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also […]

Nooit gedacht dat ik nog eens nostalgisch zou worden over de VVD https://www.trouw.nl/politiek/het-kieskompas-laat-zien-de-rechtse-partijen-worden-rechtser-en-radicaler~b66639b6/

Legit, a super cool gay ANITFA patch design though. From the 1940s ANTIFA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Headquarters_Allied_Expeditionary_Force

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I don't normally bother with restaurant reviews, but this one took a turn. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/sep/28/brasserie-constance-london-sw6-grace-dent-restaurant-review

In eine Stichwahl zu kommen ist für Rechtsextreme bereits ein bedeutsamer Erfolg, denn damit gerät der demokratische Prozess ins Stottern. Wenn es noch mehr Argumente für ein AfD-Verbot braucht: die letzten Kommunalwahlen haben sie geliefert. Die glimpflichen Ergebnisse sind wenig erleichternd.

Dass demokratische Parteien gegen Rechtsextreme in Stichwahlen gewinnen ist zwar positiv - dennoch ist dann die Demokratie schon angekratzt. Eine Auswahl zwischen verschiedenen demokratischen Ausrichtungen mit inhaltlich verwertbaren Alternativen ist so schon nicht mehr gegeben. 1/

Overheden willen ons meer en meer in de gaten houders, tot AI-scanners in onze chatapps aan toe. Maar wat is wijsheid? We wegen dit niet goed af, met name op basis van steeds zwakkere herinneringen aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Inmiddels is er zoveel data over ons te verkrijgen dat het steeds […]

Vandaag in de zendtijd voor politieke partijen die schijt hebben aan onze democratie:

Fresh graffiti on Odin’s usual route — so presumably they meant him. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

I’m not a fan of doing this but it is for a good cause. Hi, as you might know blahaj.social :blahaj: is a small vulunteer ran incomeless part of the fediverse :blobhaj_hearthug: We built it several years ago with recycled servers and network equipment. Our […] [Original post on blahaj.social]

So, I hear about this "medbed" thing and search youTube to find some kind of overview about the scam but none of the results do that. They are just advertisements for medbeds or people who think they are real. That's bad.

I’d explored this area before and had been waiting for the right kind of sky. The forecast showed 100% cloud cover - and for once, it was the good kind: high clouds. I packed up and left. Being back out there, surrounded by jagged rocks, sprawling platforms […] [Original post on mastodon.art]