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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Find the best spot for the eclipse www.sunsetatlas.ch?mode=eclipse
sunsetatlas.ch
Sunset Atlas — Find the Best Sunset Spot Near You
Find the best place to watch the sunset tonight. Interactive map with quality scores for every viewpoint across Europe. Free, no signup.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As AI-generated text becomes harder to identify, the real clues lie in how online conversations are being manipulated, report Seán Roberts and Kateryna Krykoniuk. theconversation.com/ai-is-making...
theconversation.com
AI is making disinformation harder to spot – but we’ve found a new way to catch it
As AI-generated text becomes harder to identify, the real clues lie in how online conversations are being manipulated.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One of my favorite #Roman objects: World's oldest known "Swiss army knife", including a hinged knife, fork, spoon, spike, prick, sieve, spatula. Unfortunately, there is no provenance of this multi-tool, but it’s not a unique item: There are a few more examples, e.g. one was...🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology
The folding multi-tool, it is built around a silver handle and a set of folding, pivoted implements. Its most visible feature is the broad oval spoon at the left; additional utensils fold from the opposite end and beneath the handle. A dark, heavily corroded piece along the top is the original iron knife blade.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Mamdani has just unveiled his Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews: five "game changing" teams of public interest hackers who will remake NYC's digital services: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... 36/
nyc.gov
Transcript: Mayor Mamdani Launches “Public Interest Technology (Pit) Crew” to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals
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Jake V @viraldonutz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
What happens when you no longer need a chat forum, but can get all the encouragement you need from a personal self-contained plagiarism machine in your pocket?
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/05/2026
Micron, which made RAM and SSDs under the brand name Crucial, has exited the consumer market altogether because “AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage."
404media.co
The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Waarom zijn jullie zelf nog niet gemigreerd?
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Apple is 50 today and we have a huge package of fun stories on the site -- my little contribution is thinking about the iPhone and how the entire world bent around it. Gift link! -> www.theverge.com/tech/905398/...
theverge.com
Everything is iPhone now
The iPhone changed Apple — and the world — forever.
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The Register @theregister.com · 16/02/2026
Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed
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Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed
Great concept, shame about the details Opinion  If you've ever flipped over a power brick, you'll be familiar with the hieroglyphics of type approval. It's become less crazy over the years as things have got smaller and signage requirements softened, but at its peak tens of logos and acronyms of testing labs and national approvals covered the backside of PSUs in surrealist graffiti.…
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Wow, fewer kids with depression in just two months. It's a miracle.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...
fortune.com
Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune
The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations" fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...
fortune.com
Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune
The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Ik ben bepaald geen fan van Eva, maar dit vind ik echt heel zorgwekkend. "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/d...
quoteinvestigator.com
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Have you soldered it yet?
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Bij de vorige verkiezingen heb ik ook op je gestemd vanwege je kennis op het gebied van Digitale Zaken. Maar toen stond je op een verkiesbare plaats. Goed te zien dat de nerdvote campagne deze keer heeft geholpen. Gefeliciteerd.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/11/2025
"I’m not looking so bad now, huh? Absolute best case, the LLM-generated legal advice you get is merely plagiarizing, probably from me. But more likely, it’s a mish-mash of Reddit posts filtered through an algorithm coded by a Belarusian teen on the run from Interpol."
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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Signal @signal.org · 03/10/2025
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
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CCC @ccc.de · 01/10/2025
Messenger-App Signal: Meredith Whittaker kritisiert Pläne der EU zur #Chatkontrolle und droht, mit dem Messenger dann den europäischen Markt zu verlassen www.heise.de/news/Chefin-...
heise.de
WhatsApp-Konkurrent Signal droht mit Rückzug aus Europa
Signal gilt als einer der sichersten Messenger. Die App könnte aber in Europa vom Markt verschwinden, falls sich die Chatkontrolle in der EU durchsetzt.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
x.com/YourAnonCent...
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Maar moeten we volgens die logica dan ook niet naar Truth Social?
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/03/2025
Thousands of potential layoffs *apparently* still isn't efficient enough for Elon Musk. Now, operatives linked to DOGE are reportedly modifying AutoRIF, a Defense Department program that could enable mass firings of federal workers.
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DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers
Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.
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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 14/01/2025
"Days after Meta announced controversial changes to its content moderation policies, a group of prominent technology leaders and nonprofit executives launched an ambitious $30 million campaign to build a social media ecosystem free from 'billionaire control.'" www.businessinsider.com/free-our-fee...
businessinsider.com
A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
The campaign aims to raise $30 million to build an open source social platform free from "billionaire control".
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/12/2024
That one weird trick that lets you pretend that you took over Twitter to restore free speech, but regularly ban/shadowban/deboost those you don't like: just claim anything you don't like is spam.
Elon Musk tweet: Just a reminder that the algorithm is trying to maximize unregretted user-seconds. 

If far more credible, verified subscriber accounts (not bots) mute/block your account compared to those who like your posts, your reach will ...

Quote tweet from Elon above that: "That said, any accounts found to be engaged in coordinated attacks to spam target accounts with mute/blocks will themselves be categorized – correctly – as spam. 

Live by the spam, die by the spam."
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Gonna dissent here: Blocklists are a hazard here on Bluesky. People create them, give them names you'd think you agree with, then add people to sucker you into blocking them. Don't use blocklists. Curate your blocks, and enjoy them properly :)
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Heerlijke interactieve website waarop je een locatie kan ingeven, zien waar die x miljoen jaar geleden lag (door plaattektoniek) en, belangrijkst van al: welke dino's in uw buurt leefden. dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth
dinosaurpictures.org
Ancient Earth
Earth looked very different long ago. Search for addresses across 750 million years of Earth's history.
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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
yeah. this is just giving up the game: 1. keep folks only on his site 2. get people to offer their reporting to him for free 3. reward folks who aggregate reporting (and do so w/ minimum crediting). It's a shitty user experience. It also should incentivize reporters/outlets to move elsewhere
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Op Bluesky kunnen mensen en organisaties hun eigen domeinnaam gebruiken. minpres@overheid.nl is betrouwbaarder dan minpres@hotmail.com.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
annaholligan@bsky.social
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DCN @dcnorg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi everyone! DCN is now on bluesky and happy to be here. We’re just getting going but first want to post some starter packs we’ve discovered to get you to the amazing journalists and creators at DCN’s members. First up, spotlight on the BBC: go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
CTRL + SHIFT + A to search all open tabs in Chromium based browsers. The ones using sound listed at the top.
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Victor Baissait @victorbaissait.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
La chanson pour ici Jeff Lynne's ELO - Mr. Blue Sky (Live at Wembley Stadium 2017) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQaJ...
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Jeff Lynne's ELO - Mr. Blue Sky (Live at Wembley Stadium 2017)
YouTube video by [TheNEW]
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
semiphemeral is coming back. cyd.social
cyd.social
Cyd - Claw back your data from Big Tech
Automatically delete your data from tech platforms, except for what you want to keep
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Je kan het hele jaar kopen bij de betere speciaalzaken peppernutsholland.nl/onze-winkels/
peppernutsholland.nl
Peppernuts Holland Winkels | Peppernuts Holland
Peppernuts Holland heeft twee permanente vestigingen die het gehele jaar door geopend zijn. Daarnaast hebben wij ook een tiental pop-up stores door het land.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
nytimes.com
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction
The satirical newspaper plans to shutter Jones’ InfoWars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/11/2024
I have also now created my first "starter pack" which recommends 150 people and three good feeds. I didn't pick the 150 people all that carefully, but just went through my list of people I follow and chose the maximum number I could from folks who I regularly interact with. go.bsky.app/QKm8yFP
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
zie ook: www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/237...
theverge.com
Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss
Adam Mosseri says it isn’t going to “encourage” these verticals.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Ik hoorde onlangs een interessant interview met Zuck waarin hij uitlegde dat hij Threads bewust niet politiek wil maken. Daar heb je het algo tegen je.
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Voor breaking news is Xitter helaas nog steeds beter.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Thanks for including mine! This is such a great list of books. It's wild to be on a social platform where you can't tag Cory Doctorow. I had to do a search to be sure but it's true. He wrote about why he isn't joining BlueSky here: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
doctorow.medium.com
Bluesky and enshittification
No one is the enshittifier of their own story.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Guardian will no longer post its content to X
theguardian.com
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Trouw ging ze al voor. Maar gelukkig heeft Xitter nog Xitizen journalists zoals Ian Miles Cheong, Raisa, Visegrad24, en Radio Genoa /s
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Jeroen @yuroon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before we get to see Bataclan/Christchurch/Breivik terror drone attacks :(
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