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Stan van Houten

@stanvhouten.bsky.social
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"Een middenweg vinden is het geneesmiddel tegen polarisatie." 🏚️ Thuisloos, niet dakloos. 📱 Big-Tech Free ♊ Tweeling 😸 Total Cat Daddy 🇳🇱 Nederlands 🌍 Politiek (midden) 🏴‍☠️ Piratenpartij 🎮 Gamer 🏳️‍🌈 Gay

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Anonymous #OpMentalHealth @opmentalhealth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since it's both #CyberSec awareness month with #MentalHealth day coming up on the 10th, we feel it's important to discuss the stress that #CyberSec people can face. This article gives a good insight into the how and why exployees experience issues. It also goes into some prevention measures.
csoonline.com
Invisible battles: How cybersecurity work erodes mental health
Cyber pros are burning out in the shadows, proving you can’t secure the business if you don’t take care of the humans behind the screens.
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Groene stroom heeft geen Straat van Hormuz nodig. Just saying...
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ik was totaal geen lezer, nog steeds niet. Maar Paulien Cornelisse heeft mij altijd kunnen raken. Wat een pracht mens. Veel te jong gegaan. De naam van onze volgende cavia in huis staat vast. ♥️🫂
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And then there are people wondering why the rest of the world is losing trust in the Divided States of Murica #USA #America #Pentagon #Hack
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More of this please
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Signal @signal.org · 28/09/2026
A year ago we launched Signal Secure Backups. Now, we’re happy to share all of the additions and improvements we’ve made to backups since then: On-device backups, cross-platform support, storage optimization, and attachment backfill for linked devices. signal.org/blog/backup-...
signal.org
Back to Backups: A Year in Review
Last September, we introduced an optional new way to automatically keep your Signal data safely and securely backed up so that important messages and memories can be easily recovered if something unex...
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd really like #BlueSky to be less American orientated.
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ik zou best wel willen werken bij #Hyves. UX of Privacy-first zou écht mijn ding zijn.
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nu #Discord is begonnen met Age Verification, zou er een hele leuke opdracht kunnen liggen bij #Hyves om dat beter te doen. 👀
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ik ben weg van big-tech én streaming diensten. In ruil daarvoor, kocht ik een NAS, en switchte ik naar @proton.me. Maandelijkse kosten nu: €30,- #Enshittification van populaire diensten zoals Netflix, Disney+ & Google zal alleen maar erger worden.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’ve never seen a cat so clearly roll its eyes. Original post
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Goud 🤣
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/09/2026
Australia and Canada are leading the way - they are choosing closer ties with the EU. The EU is our closest partner. The UK government should put EU membership on the table. It's really a no-brainer.
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now THIS is exciting 👀
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ll have the weird one please
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I sometimes really hope extraterrestrials are real, and are guiding humanity. Because this shait lately ain't good.
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Stan, je was altijd zó'n #Google fan, en nou ben je er ineens op tegen." Dat klopt! Iemand kan van gedachten veranderen als een bedrijf zich volledig stort op AI. Maargoed, dat is volgens meesten weer "hypocriet"... Ik noem het leren.
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Sander Schimmelpenninck @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ik heb het een tijdje aangekeken met dit stelletje, maar dit is voor mij de druppel. Een kabinet van middelmanagers die geen probleem in AI zien omdat ‘iedereen het doet’ en je het ‘toch niet tegenhoudt’, verdient niets dan de totale ondergang. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
volkskrant.nl
Een kabinet van middelmanagers die geen probleem zien in AI omdat ‘iedereen het doet’, verdient niets dan de ondergang
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Smelt...
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Matthijs Pontier, PhD 🏴‍☠️ Piratenpartij @matthijs85.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Piraten en andere experts waarschuwen massaal tegen identificatieplicht social media (verpakt als leeftijdscontrole) nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... Maar politici willen juist totale surveillance en controle en luisteren niet.. #privacy No Digital ID & Age Verification! Teken ons burgerinitiatief #ECI:👇
Veel experts gruwen van schikking
met Meta en verbod op sociale
media voor kinderen - maar bijna
niemand wil ze horen
verbod op sociale media voor tieners beperkt
hun rechten te veel en kan zelfs averechts werken, vinden
experts. Mede om die reden zijn ze ook tegen de schikking
Maar ze worden amper gehoord.
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Nutwerk🔻 @nutwerk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Zoek het verschil. Klimaatmars vs. boerenacties #FDF.
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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Petunia 'Night Sky', a popular #annual known for its deep purple petals covered in a starry galaxy pattern. Each bloom has a unique arrangement so no two #flowers look identical. It is a semi-trailing plant that flowers from early summer through mid-autumn #StunDay #BloomScrolling #Gardening
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” GEORGE CARLIN LIFE IS WORTH LOSING (2005) My joint favourite Stand-Up of all time (along with Richard Pryor).
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#BlueSky needs an edit button.
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The British are at it again, and I fully support this method. bsky.app/profile/iwil...
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hij heeft wél gelijk...
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wanneer je stemt op Piraat, Betekent dat je het nooit meer verraadt. #piratecode @piratenpartij.nl
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Wietze Brandsma 🏴‍☠️ @wabrandsma.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Economen en adviescommissies betogen helemaal niet dat de algehele belastingdruk omhoog moet, ze constateren dat die beter en rechtvaardiger kan worden verdeeld zodat die economisch gezien minder schadelijk is www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Mogen de oogkleppen af bij de discussie over belasting op inkomsten uit vermogen?
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dutch #satire show about #Trump, and his ever-changing experience on 9/11 🤣
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump's corruption spree is increasing exponentially.
Two years of personal income
Trump's 2025 financial disclosure, released on 30 June 2026, reported more than $2 billion in income, including over $1.4 billion from family cryptocurrency ventures.
World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm Trump co-founded with his sons, generated more than $550 million in token sales, nine times the $57 million reported for 2024, plus $260 million from sales of business interests. The $TRUMP memecoin, issued through CIC Digital, produced more than $635 million, chiefly in licensing royalties. A stablecoin holding company equity sale brought in more than $196 million. Digital wallet holdings exceeded $60 million.
Golf courses and resorts returned more than $500 million, up 15 per cent. Mar-a-Lago took $77 million, up from $50 million in 2024. Name licensing brought $52 million. Legal settlements with media companies came to more than $80 million.
Forbes put Trump's net worth at $2.4 billion in 2021 and $6.1 billion in 2026, and attributed most of the rise to crypto ventures created and marketed while he held office.
Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, said the crypto holdings are a clear conflict of interest. "For every other executive branch official, it would be a violation," Painter said.Stock trades from the presidential trust
Trump's trust executed more than 3,700 stock trades in the first three months of 2026, worth tens of millions of dollars.
The trust bought between $500,000 and $1 million of Nvidia stock in early January, a week after the Commerce Department approved Nvidia chip sales to China. It bought a further $1 million to $5 million in February, days before Nvidia announced a deal with Meta. Nine Palantir purchases totalled up to $680,000; Palantir holds a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract.
On 23 March, after nearly a month of war with Iran, Trump posted on Truth Social that conversations had been very good and productive. Oil prices fell 11 per cent. The trust bought energy stocks including Phillips 66, ExxonMobil and Chevron, alongside defence firms Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics.
"There's just no precedent in recent history," Dan Alexander, senior editor at Forbes, said of the trading.
Painter said a president who owns shares his official acts can move has a financial conflict of interest.Gulf money and foreign licensing
The United Arab Emirates invested in World Liberty Financial. Sons of Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy to the Middle East, are co-owners of the venture.
Five Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal, raised the UAE investments with the administration. The investments "raise questions about what more the UAE may receive," Warren said.
Figures published in August 2026 put Trump's foreign real-estate licensing income at $59.5 million, paid substantially by Gulf developers. Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden and Representative Robert Garcia wrote to Affinity Partners, the investment fund founded by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, on 19 March 2026 over its fundraising from Gulf states and a possible gap in foreign agent registration requirements.
Qatar's government gave the US a Boeing 747-8 valued at $400 million in May 2025. Independent estimates put the cost of fitting it out for presidential use at about $934 million in public money, drawn from the over-budget Sentinel nuclear missile programme. The retrofitted aircraft flew as Air Force One from 1 July 2026. The aircraft transfers to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation by 1 January 2029, which would allow personal use after he leaves office. Members of Congress introduced resolutions arguing the gift required their consent under the foreign emoluments clause.Public spending at private venues
Taxpayers have covered roughly $101.2 million in travel and security costs for Trump's golf trips since January 2025, on a HuffPost estimate built from per-trip figures in a 2019 Government Accountability Office report. A single Mar-a-Lago visit costs about $3.4 million. One trip to Trump's Scottish resort came to an estimated $9.7 million.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has documented Secret Service payments of nearly $2 million at Trump-owned properties across his time in office, paid from the federal budget to the president's own companies.
Annual disclosure forms published in September 2026 show Trump gave $155,000 in cash gifts to four White House aides: $45,000 each to executive assistant Natalie Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain Harris, and $20,000 to Oval Office operations director Walt Nauta. A White House official said the gifts were unrelated to official duties and permissible.
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Matthijs Pontier, PhD 🏴‍☠️ Piratenpartij @matthijs85.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Toezichthouder luidt noodklok: Nieuwe sleepwet geeft geheime diensten meer bevoegdheden, met minder toezicht nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar... ‘De democratische rechtsorde komt hiermee zelf in de gevarenzone’ #sleepwet #privacy #democratie #AI #Nieuwsuur mastodon.social/@Matthijs85/...
De toezichthouders op de AIVD en de
MIVD hebben forse kritiek op de nieuwe
Inlichtingenwet,meldt Nieuwsuur.Ze
noemen het wetsvoorstel niet in balans,
omdat de diensten meer mogen terwijl de
controle erop juist minder wordt.

Het kabinet wil de AIVD en MIVD meer
bevoegdheden geven omdat de dreiging
toeneemt.Toezichthouders CTIVD en TIB
vinden dat de diensten met de wet te
veel vrijheid krijgen bij het volgen
van mensen.0ok zijn er zorgen over het
verkrijgen van zogenoemde bulkdata en
het doorzoeken ervan met behulp van AI.
De colleges vrezen ook dat het toezicht
verzwakt,omdat ze in de wet worden
samengevoegd tot één toezichthouder.
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Stan van Houten @stanvhouten.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Com-pleet overgestapt van #GMail naar @proton.me 🎉 Ik was he-le-maal klaar met alle AI shit en het tracken van mijn online gedrag. Na de talloze hacks in Nederland, en als ICT'er wetende dat veel bedrijven niet WILLEN investeren in veiligheid, neem ik het roer in eigen handen.
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