Oh and which LLM does Palantir use? Claude, from our favorite oh-so moral company, Anthropic. This is Russia-level oligarchy.

Prejšnji vikend sta se dva predstavnika Volt Slovenija udeležila vrha članic Volt Evropa, ki se ga 2x letno udeležijo delegacije vseh Voltov po Evropi. 🇪🇺💜 Na letošnjem spomladanskem vrhu so pogovori tekli o notranji organizaciji dela Volt Evropa, prihajajočih volitvah v mnogih evropskih državah.

From the handbook on military warfare

‼️The FT has launched a four-part series on Orbán and the Orbán government. The first part focused on Russian interference in support of Fidesz; this second part deals with the “family’s” enrichment. You wouldn’t believe it, but the FT mapped out their real estate empire from the air ✈️

The quantity of breaches is rising, and many go unnoticed. We've updated our Data Breach Observatory, check it out to keep on top of our ever-expanding record of 500+ breaches👇 https://proton.me/blog/data-breach-observatory-2026

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Op 18 maart gaan we naar de stembus voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen! Nog aan het twijfelen? Hier zijn drie redenen om op Volt te stemmen.

Good morning to a spectacular Sunday everybody. The Chaffinch is back and pretty busy in our garden. Carpe Diem! [📷Nikon D850 f/6,3 1/250 600mm ISO 1600]

Who funded most of the aid to Ukraine in their efforts to fight off Russia? Data from @kielinstitute shows nicely that Europe has indeed stepped up. The US relationship with Ukraine was on the way down but now Ukrainians teach the US all about drone warfare.

So cool this #bobkonf2026 😍 Thanks for the organisation, speakers and attendees! I'll try to ve there next year!

Congratulazioni a Davide D’Errico per la nomina a segretario della Commissione speciale Anticamorra della Campania. Legalità, trasparenza, rigenerazione dei territori e lotta alle mafie sono sfide che sentiamo anche nostre, decisive per il futuro della Campania e dell’Italia. Buon lavoro! 💜

Alexander Thiemann starts off the last talks track B block at #BOBkonf2026 with "Using Domain Driven Design to Refactor Stripe Billing".

Wind power, as it turns out, is very useful www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Meta appears to be reversing its strong stance on encryption. The first obvious casualty is that they’re abandoning and disabling end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs.

On talks track B at #BOBkonf2026, Fritz Henglein presents "Programming Efficient Joints" to a freshly caffeinated audience.

The E6 format, championed by the German finance minister, delivering. I am sceptical until a new format produces tangible EU policy outcomes, so this is a positive sign. E6 will have to translate CMU action to the whole EU market. So it’s multi-speed as much as a locomotive.

Together with @hildevautmans.bsky.social, I’m working towards the creation of a European army. 80% of Europeans want to cooperate on defense, its time to finally make it happen! Read our full statement here:

EU-Topdiplomatin Kaja Kallas erhebt in einem Interview harte Vorwürfe gegen Washington: Die USA arbeiteten aktiv an der Zersetzung der EU. Und ihre Methoden seien die von regelrechten Gegnern.

Palantir CEO Karp thinks his AI tech will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men. Meanwhile @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @eppgroup.bsky.social diligently working to dismantle AI regulation. 🤦‍♀️

For years, one man has blocked Europe's progress. Now it's our turn. April 12 is our chance to veto Orbán. 🗳️

Bildung, Kultur, Digitalisierung und eine Verschärfung der internationalen Weltlage. Unsere Europaabgeordnete und Vorsitzende des Ausschuss für Kultur und Bildung, Nela Riehl, hat mit der Heidelberger Studierendenzeitung Ruprecht über ihre Arbeit gesprochen. www.ruprecht.de/2026/03/10/v...

Some updates to my PCalc scientific calculator! Consider this the "new features that should have shipped last year" release. Mac: pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac Everything else: pcalc.com/store/pcalc

Het bericht dat 3,3 miljard euro aan IT-aanbestedingen van de Rijksoverheid is stopgezet - berthub.eu/tkconv/docum...

Software kann Menschen per Mausklick nackt machen. Solche nicht-einvernehmlichen Deepfakes wollen EU-Rat und EU-Parlament verbieten. Über den KI-Omnibus soll das Verbot Teil der KI-Verordnung werden. netzpolitik.org/2026/rat-und...

Me talking about SwiftUI at @bobkonf.bsky.social

The final talk on track B of #BOBkonf2026 is @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org 's "SwiftUI is functional":

It felt strange - Georgians are lovely people. So when I was shouted at and aggressively pushed to answer journalists yesterday, I immediately asked "Are you Imedi?" They were. I didn't know Rustavi fell too. :( I believe propagandist TVs of authoritarians should be banned from entry of the EP.

As long as the EU doesn’t speak with a single voice, debate about foreign affairs remains a largely academic exercise, merely commenting Trump’s actions. Europe needs a strategy of its own, and a European government with the power to act. My interview with @France24 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9F-...

🔴 🛰️ Hera caught Deimos up close! A year ago today, our space safety mission Hera observed the martian moon Deimos from ~1000 km away. 🧪🔭 🔗 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

This is a meaningful win. Great job team!

Volt is growing in Bavaria! 🚀 In 2020, our newly formed political party ran in only a few cities across the region. In 2026, we expanded — a lot! Volt has won seats in more cities than ever before and multiplied our presence where we were already active.

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce that the Functional Architecture workshop has been accepted to this years ICFP! The Call for Papers for FUNARCH2026 is open - **deadline is June 1st**! See (icfp26.sigplan.org/home/funarch...) for more information. See you in Indianapolis!

Building Europe’s digital future.     With €75 million supported by Horizon Europe, we are building a federated Telco-Edge-Cloud infrastructure to secure high-speed computing and ensure Europe’s digital services are powered by our own infrastructure ↓     link.europa.eu/DYdTNP

Sitting in the ICE to Berlin for @bobkonf.bsky.social 🚅

Lia migrated from @bsky.app to @eurosky.social, then back to @bsky.app and finally back to @eurosky.social - without issues. Don't be afraid to migrate.

Huge win for privacy! 🎉 Thanks to Greens/EFA MEP @marketkag.bsky.social the European Parliament spoke out against #chatcontrol - the unlimited and ineffective mass scanning of our private online communication. More details 👇

The cost of non-enlargement would exceed that of new members joining the EU, say MEPs in a new resolution stressing that EU enlargement is a strategic investment in Europe’s security and stability. Press release 🔽 www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

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European heat pump sales are up 11% in 2025. Helping this growth to continue must be a crucial part of government response to the incoming energy crisis.

This is another reason why we need an independent body to look after the enforcement of the EU digital laws.

Tekenen! petities.nl/petitions/ge...

Sabotage as a service. Iran is recruiting spies and potential saboteurs through Telegram, and Russia is doing the same. Both services pay ordinary people for specific tasks, because maintaining classical agent networks is too expensive and too easy to dismantle. inews.co.uk/news/iran-hi...

"Allow me to give you one figure: without ETS, we would now consume 100 bcm more gas – again, making us more vulnerable and more dependent. So, we need ETS, but we need to modernise it."

Ursula von der Leyen: "Since the beginning of the conflict, gas prices have risen by 50% and oil prices by 27%. If you translate that into euros: 10 days of war have already cost European taxpayers an additional €3 billion in fossil fuels imports. That is the price of our dependence."

No surprise: table media reports that while the number of German employees went up only 12.7% between 2016 and 2025, the number of employees in the defence sector went up by 64.9%

Tutorial track A at #BOBkonf2026 continues after a tea break with Michael Koppmann's "Illegal States Are My Favorite Security Vulnerabilities (to Delete at Compile Time)", where he demonstrates how we can model business workflows and constraints with types. Find out more: bobkonf.de/2026/koppman...

117(!) economen en hoogleraren roepen het kabinet op te stoppen met subsidie aan Tata Steel. Volt durft dit al langer te stellen. Houd niet vast aan het oude maar maak ruimte voor de groene, innovatieve economie van de toekomst. Met Europees groen staal. Volt roept minister ter verantwoording.

Hot take: half of LLM use for code editing is safe refactorings that intellij was able to do ages ago, but primarily just in Java, and never quite reached this level in other languages... For better or worse, we now can, but with lots of $$$ burnt each time you do huh

I’ll be there!

Tickets for Friday's #BOBkonf2026 and the conference dinner are going fast and we're almost out -- in case you were still unsure whether to grab one, this might be the time! pretix.eu/control/even...