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Peter Motte, language expert

@petermotte.bsky.social

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Freelance language expert English/German/French to Dutch since 1998. Lots of technical translations, also fun departments like comic books and toy trains. Also tourism, a difficult beast because of the amount of topics covered in touristic brouchers.

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 9h

Nearly everything published about quantum physics in the brain is nonsense. This time a physicist in Istanbul has come up with something different, he says that quantum effects don't need to last long to leave a permanent mark and it may happen all the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehba...

Quantum Effects Can Shape Human Thought, Physicist Shows

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A detector in Russia caught a single photon with an energy far beyond anything particle colliders can produce. According to physics as we know it, it should never have made it to Earth. Now a team of physicists says it might be the first evidence for quantum gravity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxQ...

First Evidence for Quantum Gravity?

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI is getting more capable by the day, and nobody knows how to keep it on our side. One computer scientist has an answer as creative as simple: give AI a religion: Tell it that we're all living inside a computer simulation run by an omniscient programmer-god. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjrQ...

Make AI Believe in God to Keep Humans Safe, Scientist Argues

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A billionaire investor has put up a million dollars a year for scientists who stuck with unpopular results and turned out to be right. I think it's a timely idea and a good one. I also have a list of people who might deserve it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0xP...

One Million Dollars for Telling the Truth. Who Might Win It?

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fusion startups keep postponing their dates, but it's becoming clear who is doing well and who isn't. Helion is valued at fifteen billion dollars, and three groups have now said their machine cannot work, one of them the researcher whose work it is based on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwB4...

This $15 Billion Nuclear Fusion Machine Can’t Work, Physicists Say

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Laptops, telefoons en tablets verboden bij UvA-opleiding interdisciplinaire sociale wetenschap Wat een goede actie van de @UvA! nos.nl/artikel/2632...

Laptops, telefoons en tablets verboden bij UvA-opleiding interdisciplinaire sociale wetenschap

Dit doet de opleiding om de concentratie te bevorderen. Studenten kunnen tijdens het college aantekeningen op papier maken.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is why "I love Shavo" videos take over your feed. A spontaneous moment between a person and their pet, and the oxytocin rush is mutual.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Eighty years ago Richard Feynman said that a quantum particle takes every possible path at the same time. A team of physicists in China now says they have experimentally shown this is not just an interpretation but physical reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Im...

FINALLY: A Proof that Particles Take All Paths At Once?

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI might be conscious, but not as we thought www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zvt...

AI Could Be Conscious During Training, Not When You Use It, Scientist Says [REUPLOAD]

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Degrowthers are dangerous www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GYD...

A Nobel Laureate Says Growth Is Doomed. He Is Wrong

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wetenschappelijke artikelen worden de laatste jaren steeds minder leesbaar en dat komt door AI. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/09/de-f...

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De financiële wereld overspoeld door chatbots

Wetenschappelijke artikelen worden de laatste jaren steeds minder leesbaar en dat komt door AI.

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A physicist claims that AI will bring the end of philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmvQ...

AI Will End Philosophy, Physicist Claims

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Jeroen Clemens 📚🌱🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jeroencl.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

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Natasja Gibbs: ‘Een steeds kleiner groepje machtige mensen bepaalt welke informatie we krijgen’

Radio 1-presentator Natasja Gibbs maakt zich zorgen over de staat van de kwaliteitsjournalistiek. Om die reden schrijft ze het pamflet, 'Waarom een gezonde democratie niet zonder journalisten kan'.

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For years the expansion of the universe looked like it was speeding. The latest observations say otherwise, and one physicist thinks the explanation has been hiding in quantum mechanics all along. It might be gravity revealing its quantum nature for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kln2...

Einstein’s Biggest Blunder Might Have Been Even Bigger!

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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KDaver @kdaver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

www.knmi.nl/over-het-knm... Ondertussen krijgt luchtvaart al sinds kort na WWII vrijstellingen van BTW op kerosine en BTW op tickets. Dat gaat om miljarden per jaar. Nog los van 31 miljard in '95 voor de HUB. Perverser wordt het niet. Luchtvaart gaat over lijken.

Hoe groot is de invloed van luchtvaart op het klimaat?

De zomervakantie is afgelopen. Een periode waarin veel mensen het vliegtuig pakken om naar verre bestemmingen te reizen. Maar ook naar plekken rela...

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In 1983 Benjamin Libet found that brain activity predicts your movements before you are aware of deciding to move. Three new papers say the measurements were fine but the interpretation was not. www.youtube.com/watch?v=15s0...

Neuroscience’s Case Against Free Will Is Falling Apart

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I looked at the reports about the OpenAI/Huggingface incident and I think we're not talking enough about the most worrisome part www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KS...

The Hugging Face Hack Was Much Worse Than I Thought

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

Peter Motte, language expert @petermotte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Op Windows 11 (misschien ook 10) vind je in Instellingen het volgende: Instellingen -> Privacy en beveiliging -> Schermafbeelding en schermopnamen De ingang staat bijna helemaal onderaan. Het is een zogenaamde "beveiliging" van MS, die waarbij de pc een afbeelding of schermopname van je pc maakt.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Alice Weidel, the leader of the neo Nazi AfD party in Germany, is a lesbian woman married to an immigrant woman of color with two adopted kids She is proudly anti immigrant, anti LGBT and anti LGBT adoption and lives primarily in Switzerland. Rights for me, none for thee.

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

String theory has been famously untestable for decades. This week the Economist reported that has changed, and the reason involves an extra dimension of space that might be just big enough to notice in a tabletop experiment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_DF...

Just One More Dimension and Dark Matter Is Solved

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There is money in telling you AI will destroy humanity, and there is money in telling you it will improve your life. Both sides are quietly paying creators to make the case. Some of it is disclosed properly and some of it very much is not. Let's take a look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPdm...

I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us

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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thanks @hossenfelder.bsky.social for a clear-eyed view of the latest fuss and flapdoodle. I might yet get the $$$ to build my detector to finally prove that peanut butter affects the rotation of the Earth.

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WirWarTaal @wirwartaal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

AI: Afnemende Intelligentie

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An experimental collaboration has reported what may be the first detection of a dark matter particle. I have a brief summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLM...

Dark Matter Finally Detected?

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Miet Ooms (van noncha vogala, Buurtaal, leestekens en spelling) @taalmiet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ik ben er ook bij! Over ... iets heel interessants! 😁

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Artificial intelligence has eaten mathematics. Physics is next, and almost nobody is talking about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=utu5...

AI Is Taking Over Physics and Nobody Talks About It

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An astrophysicist has claimed that some unidentified anomalous phenomena that were observed in recent years in the United States might be warp drives. He has written a paper about it in which he calculates how such a warp drive would look. I have a brief summary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZB1...

Warp Drives Can Explain Some UAP Observations, Physicist Says

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

Peter Motte, language expert @petermotte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Alcohol schaadt de gezondheid

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WirWarTaal @wirwartaal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ik wapen me door vooral 'offline' te leven. Waarom zou je jezelf permanent met het internet verbinden? Lekker lezen, lezen !, LEZEN, fietsen, wandelen, hardlopen, mediteren, spelletjes spelen, een film kijken, niksen, klussen, tuinieren, koken, met de hond lopen.

Peter Motte, language expert @petermotte.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Eigenlijk komt META er goed vanaf met die minnelijke schikking: nos.nl/artikel/2628...

Meta schikt voor 18 miljard in zaak over verslaafd maken van kinderen

"Het is de grootste schikking met een techbedrijf ooit", zegt correspondent Rudy Bouma.

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Jeroen Clemens 📚🌱🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jeroencl.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

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Zonder verzet leidt AI nóóit tot vooruitgang

In het boek Power and Progress onderzoeken twee Amerikaanse economen wanneer technologie bijdroeg aan ‘vooruitgang’. Hun conclusie: vooral verzet tegen de keuzes en visie van de techbezitters is hierb...

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Quantum computing was supposed to be the next big thing, and for years the companies building it kept promising commercial payoffs were just around the corner with small, noisy devices (NISQs). Google, IBM, IonQ, they all gave dates. None of them delivered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX_o...

Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Miet Ooms (van noncha vogala, Buurtaal, leestekens en spelling) @taalmiet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Met ondergetekende :-)

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WirWarTaal @wirwartaal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Goed voorbeeld dat de 'presens historicum' (gebeurtenissen in 't verleden met 'n tegenwoordige tijd omschrijven) vaak leidt tot minder duidelijkheid. Hier moet m.i. 't contrast tussen vroeger (verbanning van Spinoza: verleden tijd) en nu (Ofek doet ontdekking: tegenw.tijd) centraal staan.

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, an approach almost everyone had written off as fundamentally flawed. It’s the first new idea in nuclear fusion design for decades. Let's take a look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzDe...

The First New Nuclear Fusion Idea for Decades

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

Peter Motte, language expert @petermotte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

AI is a slotmachine ai makes unexpected mistakes

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AI is a slotmachine

ai makes unexpected mistakes

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Peter Motte, language expert @petermotte.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Recent gevonden in een #AI-vertaling: "Ich have" in plaats van "Ich habe". Zonder inzicht van het #Engels naar het #Duits #vertaald, gevaarlijk als je een van beide talen niet goed kent, en trouwens onbegrijpelijk waarom die #AI daarmee aankwam.

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Kees Klomp @keesklomp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wat Hickel hier zegt is zó keihard raak 👇

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Scientists have discovered a new type of matter. Inside a cooled crystal, structures spontaneously arranged themselves into a three dimensional weave, and they did it at around room temperature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzQQ...

Breakthrough: New Type of Matter Discovered

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

Peter Motte, language expert @petermotte.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Positive reaction from a client positive reaction from a client, especially for heavy mobile equipment of various sorts, English to Dutch

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Positive reaction from a client

positive reaction from a client, especially for heavy mobile equipment of various sorts, English to Dutch

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Remco Sleiderink @remcosleiderink.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ben jij een jonge neerlandicus, historicus of theoloog die vier jaar lang in de mystieke literatuur en de archieven wil duiken? John Arblaster en ik zoeken een kandidaat voor het doctoraatsproject “Op het spoor van de Vrije Geest in Brussel: ketterij en repressie in de vroege 15de eeuw”. Repost=fijn

Zicht op Brussel in de vijftiende eeuw (c) Brussel, Rijksarchief

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Could our universe have been born inside a collapsing star? The paper behind the idea describes a new solution to Einstein's equations in which a collapsing star expands on the inside and never forms a black hole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vJD...

New Universes Can Form Inside Dying Stars, Physicists Show

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

Peter Motte, language expert @petermotte.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Der römisch-katholische Papst Leo XIV. über KI Der römisch-katholische Papst Leo XIV. über KI, Enzyklika Magnifica Humanitas

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Der römisch-katholische Papst Leo XIV. über KI

Der römisch-katholische Papst Leo XIV. über KI, Enzyklika Magnifica Humanitas

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A group of astronomers say they've spotted more than twenty giant unidentified objects racing around the Moon, some of them forty kilometres across, and that the Moon serves as a base for them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUr...

Alien Spacecraft Are On the Moon, Astronomers Claim. Seriously now?

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

Peter Motte, language expert @petermotte.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Menselijke vertalingen, CAT-vertalingen, machinevertalingen en AI-vertalingen voor- en nadelen van menselijke vertalingen, CAT-, MT- en AI-vertalingen

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Menselijke vertalingen, CAT-vertalingen, machinevertalingen en AI-vertalingen

voor- en nadelen van menselijke vertalingen, CAT-, MT- en AI-vertalingen

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You've probably heard that quantum mechanics is spooky, that measuring one particle instantly affects another across any distance. A physicist now says there's a reason: the universe doesn't have one dimension of time, but two. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e_J...

Two Dimensions of Time Explain Quantum Physics, Physicist Argues

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The origin of life is one of the biggest mysteries left in science. Now a group of researchers says there wasn't just one origin, there were two. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6edA...

Plot Twist: Life on Earth had TWO Origins!

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Again, some decent advice...