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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Weer de oliebollenkramen open als het 25°c is dan www.at5.nl/artikelen/240082/amsterd… [en] Non-Dutch explanation: Traditional deep-fried dough(nut) stalls appear in Amsterdam October-December. It's (now) usually warm then. Latest reports 25°c […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: todon.eu/@Wouter_Pieterse/117330888… Are you telling me that companies that promote ultraprocessed vegan 'meat alternatives' might not be nice corporations? Who'd have expected it. Yes sarcasm. But really could there ever be any corporation pushing ultraprocessed food that […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@Gina/117303157025833… NS have had to rebuild and remodel whole stations (and lots of stations) for implementing barriers everywhere. At what cost? Why? Because some few people travel for free?

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: floss.social/@omgubuntu/11729301557… Calibre had a sprawling feature creep problem before AI ...

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

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I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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DW Innovation @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Last weekend, roughly 200 media, IT, and policy people attended #FediDay Berlin to discuss the status quo & future of the #Fediverse & decentralized #SocialMedia. Our @lxplm also attended – albeit on behalf of #SWR X Lab (welcome to the #ARD federation) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

As A/I has to cease operation, the importance of stopping this happening again increases. Re: Disabling of the autistici.org domain name by PIR From a letter by the President of the Italian Chapter of the Internet Society "we find these actions incompatible with dot org claiming to be the safe […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Update to that a statement by the Italian Bank currently closing A/Is account lists.servus.at/pipermail/lists.net… "Banca Etica and the sanctions imposed on Autistici/Inventati: no to the use of anti-terrorism legislation against dissent […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.nl/@Marloezovic/1171973527… Article below, from the main liberal newspaper in The Netherlands, about A/I and the broader implications of the US sanctioning organisations: loss of barking, even though not a US bank; loss of domain names even though not bought in the […]

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anarcat @anarcat.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@AberdeenLocal1312… PIR (the .org registry) confirms it suspended the autistici.org domain name out of fear of the US legal threats, arguing it is "legally mandated to suspend it", which is not, IMHO, a given at all (given that PIR doesn't have any […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

How much does it cost to go Amsterdam -> Leer by train. Well don't as NS (Dutch Railways). NS: That's international we don't do that. Go to NS International. NS International: That's on the OV Chipkaart [sic] we don't do that. Oh no! Worse NS International in […] [Original post on todon.eu]

ns.nl showing no trains from Amsterdam to Leer. Linking to nsinternational.com

nsinternational.com does not have prices for trains from Amsterdam - Leer because you can use the 'OV Chipkaart'. It lists trains via Groningen, but also via Bad Bentheim and Obehrausen.

A suggested route from nsinternational.com using the ICE to Oberhausen and change to the IC to Leer, where it will not sell you a ticket as you don't need an international ticket and can use the 'OV-chipkaart' to check-in and out.

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

social-connectedness.org/cgfr this is so cool map of Facebook friendship data showing cross-gender friendships (blue = more equal, red = more gender segregation)

a map of Europe and north Africa showing gender split in Facebook friendship networks. generally NW France, northern Spain, east Germany have more gender mixing than other places

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

"It is about who controls digital infrastructure and services, whose interests it serves, and whether communities have meaningful power and agency over the technologies they use. It means fostering an environment that encourages the development of diverse technologies, grounded in lived […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

"Approximately 3,000-4,000 datasets have been removed from public access [by the #Trump administration], some of which have been captured by data rescue efforts, while the status of others is unknown." www.datarescueproject.org/data-loss… #Censorship #Data #DefendResearch […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@ekes Ah, yes, that’s correct. Paths (time allocation on the tracks) are requested in spring/summer for the following timetable year. Timetable is finalised in October in most countries and valid mid-December to mid-December. A train without a path in the timetable can’t ever run. Ad hoc […]

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AFA Nederland @afa.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

WIJ ONDERSTEUNEN AZC-STATEMENT AMSTERDAMSE KRAKERS! Wij van AFA Nederland hebben vol overtuiging het statement van een groep krakers uit Amsterdam over de media-aandacht rondom de onlangs gekraakte toekomstige azc-locatie in Diemen, mede ondertekend. Zie onze […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Vervaagde kaart van Amsterdam met het kraaklogo er overheen.

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

RENFE why? Booking trip. Tickets for French part of journey: selling out. Tickets/Timetable for Spanish part of journey: not yet released. #CrossBorderRail RENFE every *&%! time

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Cycling on Rails @cycling-on-rails.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

@quixoticgeek Like somehow people aren't bothered that half the space in a passenger airplane is dedicated to luggage. So why not run trains with half the carriages reserved for luggage & freight?

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

RE: social.tchncs.de/@partim/1169809979… Reminder. Don't ask or store it if you don't actually need it. Accidents (and malicious states and more) happen www.heise.de/en/news/Interrail-repo…

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

New in Mastodon 4.6: Newsletters 📬 Mastodon servers now support email newsletters, which allow people without a social web account to subscribe to your posts via email. This feature is opt-in at the server level. We're building Mastodon for people and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

1% of all electricity goes to one data centre in NL www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/07/13/datace… The real news here is that Microsoft have complied with the law and actually published […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Never has the weight of the nation on the shoulders of one man looked so much like a bin. #binface

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Someone's just pointed out that brfares' new BUY button also makes buying tickets from your local station to London International (CIV) easier, for use in connection with Eurostar: I've just updated the advice and instructions at www.seat61.com/european-tra...

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European train travel from the UK regions | Buying tickets to connect with Eurostar

Advice on buying UK train tickets to London to connect with Eurostar, or how to use ferry links to reach mainland Europe by-passing London...

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

RE: aoir.social/@devinasarwatay/1167557… Young people have clearer idea how this works than the (not young) politicians:- “The problem is the way platforms work, not young people using them,” one student explained. 'An analysis of the student responses found: ' Young people […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Goodbye Google Translate/Lens. f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.tra… Direct camera overlay image translation, and the rest. Offline,. Open Source. Firefox translation models, Wiktionary, PaddleOCR. Just share an image, or alink, or a document with it. Or open the camera or doc […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

If you made it up they'd say it was unbelieveable: The former director of Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth NL) who got a job at Tata Steel (yep, really) has been sacked after one day. For, nope, not that, for... not disclosing that he was the leader of an extreme right group in South Africa […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Oh No. Please No. Some of those lyrics sites have started adding AI to describe the meanings. What utter banal twaddle I've just read. And you'd have thought with that training corpus that was something AI might do better than random average. Maybe review other lyrics and known information about […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

What if Interrail reservations were available in a single booking even when travelling across operators and with both regular reservations and Interrail supplements - that would be pretty neat, right? This is exactly what we have cooking in the Railfinder […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Railfinder showing a trip from Gothenburg to Mulhouse with a combination of seat reservations in a single booking.

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

great visualisation of UK taxes by Dan Neidle & co taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/05/28/85-uk-t… makes me really want to see the French one because it feels like we have many more tiny taxes here

A pie chart showing the contribution of each tax to total UK government revenue by type/subtype

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The excellent RTT (Real Time Trains) website now has an app! It shows how any British train performed up to 2 weeks ago, shows planned rolling stock for any given train, and shows the *planned* platform so you can be positioned ready, ahead of the scrum (includes Eurostar).

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

How things move a different paces. Some still try and "AI" all the things: "A lot of companies are trying to name every single product with ‘AI’ first, or trying to get ‘AI’ into an actual product name,.. People are littering marketing with how AI is making a difference. It’s an ‘AI-driven’ or […]

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anarcat @anarcat.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

the approach #meta / #facebook has take is absolutely horrifying, with people surveilled with keyloggers and forced to train the AIs replacing them sfstandard.com/pacific-standard-tim… i've updated the blog post to reflect […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Beware rebuy.nl rebuy.de 100% battery phone offers: Phone with 50€ extra paid for 100% battery purchased. Arrives: Not 100%. Phone was fine otherwise, happy to keep, but they wouldn't refund 50€. They sold a phone with a 100% battery so that was that. Phone had to go back to be replaced. On […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Having seen the awful before/after Gaza 'postcard' drone image I thought I'd check it. Managing to get two identical shots. With buildings lining up so well. It's stark. Yes it's faked. THE REALITY'S WORSE if I understand the description here […] [Original post on todon.eu]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Probably the even less used Danube crossing Hungary - Romania. Some up to date pictures if you want @jon cc-0 Just one train a day, it's not perfect for connections. Not that the Hungarian side is great either. The bus from Sofia was pretty good though […] [Original post on todon.eu]

Interior of Vidin - Craiova train. Looking towards the drivers cabin. It's previous life as a Swiss or German train maybe from the stickers? It has very high windows so Swiss?

Crossing the Vidin - Califat bridge. Looking out of the train, over the road also on the bridge, along the Danube toward Vidin. The cracked window of the train obvious.

Interior of the Vidin - Craiova train. With it's huge, and damaged, windows clear to be seen.

Exterior of the Vidin - Craiova train. Diesel, as the Romanian side is not electrified. Sure someone can fill in what type of train, and where it came from.

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

"Technologies are invented, attacked, delayed, dropped, delayed, re-emerge, vanish again. Some gain momentum, only to disappear within a matter of months. Others fail to latch on, and then, decades earlier, suddenly rise to the fore." […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

#cablesofresistance immediate thoughts: So many people came, from so far, and from such different groups. Highlighting that the excessive power of Big Tech has become locus. Issues about climate, environment, warfare, migration, repression, workers rights, sexism, racism, imperialism all […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

No, it is not a technical problem.

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

💭 Some of the most educated individuals go into finance. News: Trump mumbles something Stocks: Up Oil: Down ** next day ** News: Trump mumbles something not quite the same Stocks: Down Oil: Up ** and repeat ** 💭 It's the most efficient way of organising the economy. Narrator: Meanwhile […]

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Perhaps counterintuitive but guardrails are full-blown cognition in the case of models that contain data from the web which obviously also contains inappropriate content. Only human cognition at that point can sort this data into appropriate for a child or not […]

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/116… The film about CLODO mentioned in the thread (Machines in Flames) is worth watching for the insight into the group and the times they were operating in; but do so with the right mindset, it 's really slow and meditative.

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Ramon Fincken 🇺🇦 @ramonfincken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Odido was dus iso 27001 certified....

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

De Telegraaf heeft het nieuws wel opgepakt, andere Nederlandse media hadden er geen zin an lijkt het. www.telegraaf.nl/lifestyle/tech/odi…

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ekes @ekes.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

@stefanlindbohm Super interesting result out of Railfinder. Vidin - Budapest. Suggests to take the train in Craiova to Draganesti Olt, to catch the Night Train (which stops at Craiova). Actually a nice idea. You get on the Night Train at a more civilised time. Took […] [Original post on todon.eu]

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