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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google event in Brussels this evening “to celebrate Ireland’s Presidency” of the EU Council. “Google is delighted to bring together Irish policymakers…” rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/irish... (they have wisely now removed some of this text)

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 28/09/2026

World’s tallest wind turbine about complete - ‘The outer lattice mast: The base consists of a 300-meter-high steel lattice tower that is extremely stable yet comparatively lightweight (similar to a power transmission pylon or the Eiffel Tower)’ www.sprind.org/en/actions/p...

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Siri, show me the deliberate destruction of eight decades of American-led international diplomacy and cooperation in one photograph:

Screenshot of a September 28, 2026, post on ex-Twitter by right-wing foreign policy analyst, professor, author and former Trump Department of Defense senior policy adviser Matthew Koenig, showing the lobby of the US State Department adorned with 200 American flags:

“The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.”

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cilliangnss.bsky.social @cilliangnss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nice to see some work I've been involved with on Hackaday! #Galileo leads the way on providing cryptographic features for civil (non-military, not necessarily well-mannered!) users to reduce vulnerability to malicious spoofing attacks @euspa.bsky.social @navigation.esa.int hackaday.com?p=1162322

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Defeating Satellite Spoofing With Galileo’s Encryption

Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are surprisingly vulnerable to a variety of attacks, ranging from simple jammi…

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 28/09/2026

De openheid van de overheid kalft af om technische EN ideologische redenen. En dat komt slecht uit nu onze rechtsstaat onder druk staat. Bij @openstate.eu besprak ik dit, en vertelde ik ook wat wij er aan kunnen doen. Tekst inclusief persoonlijk ingesproken audio: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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Open State praatje: zonder transparantie geen democratie - Bert Hubert's writings

Eerst de korte versie van mijn praatje onlangs bij de Open State Foundation: Openheid is helend, het is veel lastiger foute of kwalitatief slechte dingen te doen als iedereen mee kan kijken. Ondertuss...

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Europe has invested in maintaining its independent access to space. People said we should just give up. And what do we read now? "Last week it emerged that SpaceX has stopped bidding for commercial Falcon 9 launches, allowing only US government customers" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At @citizenlab.ca we spend enormous time labouring over the ethical and legal limits to our investigative methods (for good reason!) If we didn't, we'd surely be shut down. Meanwhile AI platforms routinely unleash their systems to hack left, right and centre *without consequence* 🤷‍♂️

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M. C. Escher @mcescher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Fleur van Leusden @queenfennec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A.I. vormt op veel meer vlakken dan security en milieu een bedreiging. Het vormt ook een bedreiging voor onze democratie. Ik sprak erover voor CISO praat met voormalig Europarlementariër Marietje Schaake. Luister de aflevering nu: open.spotify.com/episode/1O3c...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 26/09/2026

They say no one rings a bell at the market peak but Ackman is doing his bit.

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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are hoaxes about wind turbine blades. A large wind turbine (11MW, offshore), will during its lifetime generate the electrical equivalent of burning ~200,000 tons of coal in an efficient thermal power plant. The total weight of the blades? 100 tons. And yes, they can be recycled too!

A square denoting "coal" with an area 2000 times larger than a square labelled "blades". Plus the same text as the post. And an attractive picture of an offshore wind turbine.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

big fan of how absurdly high the quality of this video of a rotating chicken sandwich (which is on wikimedia commons for some reason) is

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/09/2026

at this point, my entire AI take is: save your "alignment," what I want is accountability

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Dan Luu @danluu.com · 18/09/2026

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work: danluu.com/brain-off/

In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked2. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly.

As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works3. Sometimes there's a human in the loop and, if the thing doesn't work, they'll ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Niklas Gruhn calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy.4

Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. Not well enough that I'd want to use it or that it's successful, but I'm impressed at how effective being a meat proxy is in September 2026. You could even imagine LLMs improving enough that brain-off meat-proxy development produces average quality software in the foreseeable future.

Let's say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee5.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

danluu.com/brain-off/ by @danluu.com has some good honest truths on LLM-based software development: "There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee".

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cheryl has made a fine point. I, nor other safety professionals, have really said much about general safety precepts as they relate to AI, as opposed to the bullshit artist millenarian cultists that are happy to do so at length. One of the reasons is "These tools are an active detriment to safety."

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/09/2026

Per Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia will supply no oil to Europe next month due to strikes on its east and west pipeline.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This seems bad:

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M. C. Escher @mcescher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Writer's block in my experience also often means you don't have your thoughts in order. The block means we don't get to see your words. I suspect that many people now work around their writer's block by getting an LLM to do the writing. And thus we get a lot of half-baked thoughts in document form.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Von der Leyen embraces a far-reaching idea: She just announced she wants to open the door to Canada becoming the "first associate member of the European Union" (to huge applause).

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Doug Lucas @douglaslucas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Meanwhile, here's what the #Netherlands are doing. (Not that the Dutch are perfect. But the cat is.)

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Huib Modderkolk @huibmodderkolk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In de nieuwste ‘Schaduwoorlog’ een verslag van een intens bezoek aan Kyiv. open.spotify.com/episode/2K9F...

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Drie inzichten na een gespannen bezoek aan Kyiv

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Dit blijft zo'n leuke traditie op www.rijksfinancien.nl

Een kat onder de tekst:
Rijksfinancien.nl uit de lucht

Op dit moment werken we aan het updaten van de website voor Prinsjesdag.

Op Prinsjesdag zelf (15 september) gaat om 15:35 uur de site weer online, met de laatste data, stukken en andere informatie.

Bij vragen: begrotingopinternet@minfin.nl.

We wensen u een mooie Prinsjesdag!

Team Rijksfinancien.nl

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Before the Dutch government presents their annual budget, they take down the previous budget website. And somehow the tradition grew to temporarily put a cat in its place. Behold www.rijksfinancien.nl

A cat underneath the announcement that the site will be back at 15:35

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Barbara Kathmann @barbarakathmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Alles wat we online doen, bijna al het internetverkeer gaat over zeekabels. Als we op onze handen blijven zitten zijn alle kabels over een paar jaar in handen van een handjevol BIGTECH bedrijven Samen met @berthubert.bsky.social te gast bij @bureaubuitenland.bsky.social #trump npo.nl/start/afspel...

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Bureau Buitenland | NPO Start

Sophie Derkzen en Bram Vermeulen bespreken afwisselend het wereldnieuws met terugkerende gasten die ons op een begrijpelijke manier meer grip geven op de snel veranderende wereld. Met aandacht voor gr...

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 13/09/2026

Wind turbine flexing in the…wind #renewableenergy

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A scene from wolf of Wall Street wheee Leo asks someone to sell him a pen. In the meme that person is labeled anthropic, and he says it’s going to kill everyone

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026

Also love how the news on the radio is like "no need to panic, just an agreement between the Very Special Tech Boys to try and avoid imminently killing all humans. In other news, small boats..."

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Myanmar Aerobics Dance

ALT: Myanmar Aerobics Dance

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The #WOPR was operated by a crewmember sitting inside the computer, entering commands into an Apple II at the director's instruction". When people say AI might kill us all, I think about the 1983 WarGames movie in which they hooked up the nuclear arsenal to a computer you could converse with.

A computer labelled WOPR, shaped like a rather large cabinet, full of blinking lights. Next to the WOPR stands a bearded man with a tie and a badge.

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Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Not long ago, Just Stop Oil activists were given long sentences for simply discussing blocking infrastructure. In contrast, the balaclava-wearing gangs now do much the same with apparent impunity. One could almost call it two-tier justice.”

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Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thoughts and prayers to CFD folks today... Source: r/CFD

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M. C. Escher @mcescher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Day and Night botfrens.com/collections/12055/cont…

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

More and more studies show that vaccination against various infectious diseases also leads to fewer cardiovascular deaths and lower rates of dementia. A rational public health system would be getting as many people vaccinated as possible. But. . .

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More Impossible-to-Ignore Vaccine Effects

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Erik Poppleton @poppleton.phd · 09/09/2026

New size record in DNA origami nanopores! 🧬

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Huib Modderkolk @huibmodderkolk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

De inlichtingendiensten mogen straks meer, het toezicht wordt minder. In de nieuwste ‘Schaduwoorlog’ vertellen we welke bevoegdheden AIVD en MIVD zullen krijgen en wat de risico’s zijn van de nieuwe wet: open.spotify.com/episode/1KWC...

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AIVD en MIVD krijgen meer bevoegdheden: dit gaat er veranderen

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pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since Burnham took office, counter-terrorism police have raided the homes of pensioners at dawn over 30-second videos; while a villager who rang CT Police to report 300 masked men planning to attack Muslims in Dover was told to dial 999, and the case was closed.

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'This isn't the Britain I grew up in': The activists raided by police over Palestine Action videos

Activists say police searched their entire homes, confiscating personal devices and items bearing the Palestinian flag, even rifling through personal diaries

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Kustaw Bessems @kustaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Het onuitroeibare beeld dat het belang van de zorg te veel boven andere belangen ging, is gunstig voor hoofdrolspelers. De échte conclusie van de OVV is veel harder: door het late ingrijpen werden meer mensen ziek én waren maatregelen harder. Dat dit niet landt, is voer voor massapsycholgie. (2/2)

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Kustaw Bessems @kustaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Een achterhoedegevecht, want iedereen praat elkaar na (gister weer bij Eva), maar de Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid concludeerde na uitgebreid onderzoek dat het kabinet in de coronacrisis niet het belang van de zorg voorop stelde en niet stuurde op besmettingen (fragment uit mijn boek Stuurloos) 1/2

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 08/09/2026

The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. Maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't be the worst thing if pro-democracy people stopped being ridiculously naive about social media. berjon.com/media-media/

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The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. It wouldn't be the worst thing if the pro-democracy camp stopped being naive about social media.

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