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[AI slop… rant] I typed “day in the life of a night train manager” into Google because this phone didn’t have Kagi and and i needed the link of my talk rapidly… An AI summary came up giving a summary of my job… interesting no… it cited my talk as ONLY source on completely made up statements […]

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

I don't like the new Mastodon interface. Basically all essential functionality is stuffed in the bottom left corner, a very odd decision. It prioritizes content consumption (feeds/ hashtags) over contributions and interactions (new posts, notification and messages).

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

I love the smell of credit default swaps in the morning.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

> Volumes of credit default swaps linked to big tech groups soar as investors seek protection against boom unravelling (ft today)

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

BlueGreen Labs is present at the #COP17 on #biodiversity in Armenia, with Lyndon presenting the Sino-Belgian project on swift migration. A second presentation will be given later in the Urban zone.

BlueGreen Labs presentation of swifts on the COP17 in Armenia

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Somebody finally made a series from the classic book “do not ever do this incredibly unethical experiment again”

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 7h

"In Trump’s case, all indications are that his party is heading for defeat in the midterms. And while a normal president might be able to live with a Congress controlled by the opposing party, there has been so much corruption and malfeasance over the past two years that Democratic control of […]

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Very proud of my province today. Get wrecked, seppies. #ableg #abpoli #alberta #abreferendum

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

We are sensing a pattern

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"VS kan branden zoals Frankrijk als Democraten winnen, waarschuwt president" Inderdaad, we weten allemaal wie hier slechte verliezers zijn […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I just listened in to a talk given by a colleague called "How your students are really using AI" and wow I have a lot to digest. Great talk, showed some of the ways that students are using genAI to learn stuff better (and a lot of ways they're using genAI to not learn stuff). Speaker made the […]

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

On “desire paths” via @stribley

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

And I'm old enough to remember when Red Delicious was delicious but not quite so red. Now it's very red, and not so delicious, unless you're lucky enough to know an orchard with the (much) older cultivars. Turns out that today's cultivars were selected for color to meet #MarketDemand based on […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

working with vulnerability report really is the toilet cleaning of open source

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

"Occam’s razor suggests a more direct explanation: Trump is a weak man who is intimidated by stronger and smarter men. His humiliating relationship with Putin is different only in degree from the way he interacts with other authoritarian leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping and North Korea’s […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Just trying to imagine how this conversation went. Someone finally convinces Musk that he should do a charity thing. "What do kids like?" asks the father of many children. "Stock shares! YES! Kids love the stock market! That's perfect!" mastodon.social/@PCMag/117467761132…

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@jfmezei It seems like there should be a term for that, but I don't know it off the top of my head (also haven't had tea yet this morning) A couple hours before sunrise and after sunset are the prime bright satellite times, but exactly how long they are sunlit depends on their altitude, your […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

There are quite a few stars visible while I'm out doing evening chores now, so I spend a lot of time glancing up while moving between tasks. Just now, I glanced up at Cassiopeia and there were so many satellites, I actually felt dizzy while my brain struggled to figure out what was stationary […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I was accused of being sensationalist or exaggerating when our 2022 research paper predicted one in 15 visible points in the sky would be a moving satellite. I think maybe we were actually too conservative. I hate this so very very much.

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I started shooting with a point and shoot camera for exactly this reason. Phones can be handy, but there is this oppressive and implicit request to share (by the nature of it being a connected device).

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Jon Henshaw @henshaw.social · 19/10/2026

Choosing to live in the moment is far more fulfilling than constantly performing for others. We've allowed smartphones and social media to ruin the simple joy of being fully immersed in the experience […]

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Regardless of the merit of the claim. Automation, when they do it it is called a business plan worthy of a trillion dollar IPO. When you do it, you get banned.

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Using AI may make us lazy from disuse of our skills, but what if we never learned the skills in the first place? Skills we once had come back- like riding a bike- but what if our students rely on AI early in training? A blogpost on "never-skilling" and […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Photo of a bike tunnel with people on bicycles, with motion blur

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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

The SNL "news" map background has removed Belgium. #SNLUK

Map of Europe without Belgium. Or the Isle of Man for that matter.

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Alas, the reason I won't get to see good friends in the US. You can't trust the regime.

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Joe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️ @joewynne.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

📰 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐧𝐮𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐱 𝐙𝐨𝐨 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 🌎 NYC: The American chestnut — once the giant of Eastern forests — has been planted again at the Bronx Zoo, the very place where its devastating blight was first documented about 100 years ago. 🌳 This symbolic homecoming marks a […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 18/10/2026

It's very easy to get depressed by the state of politics right now, but then you see interactions like this one, and it rekindles your faith. A new generation of politicians will come forward and they will be different. #AbduElSayed #USpol #Politics

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Joe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️ @joewynne.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

📰 Solar Panels Save Cranberry Bogs 🌎 Massachusetts: Long‑idle cranberry bogs are producing again thanks to agrivoltaics that make the economics work. ☀️ Panels raised high above the vines let farmers keep cultivating while earning steady land‑lease income, a dual‑revenue model that finally […]

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@eliocamp Exactly, I find discussion concerning algorithms often a distraction, it is a (fallible) tech solution to the task called "intent". People increasingly want to be "informed" while not doing the work of informing themselves.

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

All issues with LLMs are a variation on the PBJ instruction meme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Frankly this is a non-issue. Accept that you can't keep up with everything (or your writing to be read), regardless of the algorithm used.

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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Sorry Oekraïne, we zijn te druk bezig met te klappen als zeehonden voor deze cryotofascist die een gigantische tank perslucht gepropt heeft in een clown-auto die origineel was aangekondigd in 2017 en die nu niemand in 2028 zal kunnen kopen.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Public housing in Singapore: 40-50 floor apartments on the left. Multi-storey parking on the right. Parking building has rooftop garden. Ground floor has daycare for children, and seniors. Bridge connects from residential to rooftop garden. Within walking […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A photo of new style HDB flats in Singapore about 40-50 floors with a connecting bridge at the 15th floor onto the rooftop garden

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

13,800 year old dwelling -- and dogs -- in the Americas: 'At a site called Shégˊ Xdaltthˊíˊ (which means "They Were There" in the Alaska Native Athabascan language), about 34 miles (55 kilometers) southeast of Fairbanks, archaeologists have excavated an encampment that some of the first people […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Is it made with real Pokémon?

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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head. People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […] [Original post on social.luca.run]

Mit 21 habe ich Webse en weiteren Unternehmen habe ich Back up now beitet und mich auf Konzeption, Skalierung und technische Machbarkeit von Geschäftsmodellen fokussiert.

In den letzten Wochen habe ich mir bewusst viel Zeit genommen, mich tiefergehend mit ChatGPT Codex und Claude Code auseinanderzusetzen. Mit Codex habe ich ein Plugin für mein Smart-Home-System gebaut, um mein Energiemanagement (HEMS) an unsere Anforderungen anzupassen.

Die Software basiert ausschließlich auf Open Source: Python, PostgreSQL und Flutter für das Frontend. Das Plugin liest via Modbus TCP den Wechselrichter aus, verbindet sich mit der Wallbox, der Batterie, mit Solcast für die PV-Prognose und meinen direkt ansteuerbaren Verbrauchern.

Vierzehn Stunden Entwicklung, fünf Stunden Testing, dann eine Woche Optimierung und Bugfixing - und nun automatisiert mein individuelles HEMS alles eigenständig.

Früher wurden dafür hohe fünfstellige Beträge ausgegeben. Jetzt ist es einen Prompt entfernt. Individualentwicklung boomt und die Möglichkeiten wirken grenzenlos.

Was mich daran am meisten beschäftigt, ist nicht die Technik. Es ist die Tatsache, dass Softwareentwicklung viel dynamischer wird und einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich wird.

Natürlich bedeutet das (noch) nicht, dass sichere und performante Software einen Prompt entfernt ist. Aber man benötigt keine hohe Vorstellungskraft, um zu sehen, dass KI sehr bald bei Security- und Architekturfragen vollautomatisch leistungsfähige Systeme konzeptioniert und baut.

Die Frage ist somit nicht mehr, ob man etwas bauen kann. Die Frage ist, ob es jemand benötigt und man einen Bedarf decken kann.

Eines ist aber klar: Menschen mit viel Kreativität haben nun ein Tool an der Hand, das ihnen dabei hilft, technische Hürden schneller zu überwinden.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

😬 😬 😬 "Why Canadian Starlink subscribers (probably) shouldn't worry about U.S interference" www.cbc.ca/news/world/satellite-us-… Ok time to go for a (cold but not windy) bike ride

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Robin Marx @robinmarx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The world is rapidly going to hell and I can’t say I’ve personally enjoyed parenting for the past two years, but every time I see a pregnant lady or a couple with a small kid I mentally send good vibes their way. Hope things work out for them.

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 #GamescomAsia @hey.paris · 17/10/2026

Saw someone sharing their A-ha Take On Me style shader, and as it's something I've been working on for ages (making things look like paper for our game, Leonardo's Moon Ship), here's a WIP of mine. #godotengine #godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

To those who complain about Deutsche Bahn*, wait till you try the Deutsche Autobahn.. We decided to try a new transport mode to cross Germany this week, having left ticket booking too late to be reasonably priced and given recent disruptions on the line. Our rental EV, a VW ID.4 was perfect […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The kompromat must be bad #Trump Signs #ExecutiveOrder Exempting #Russia From #Sanctions #Legislation The sanctions were part of legislation that was named after Senator #LindseyGraham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July. #law #geopolitics #PutinsPuppet #Ukraine #allies #Europe […]

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