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This thread focusses on #Free #software on mobile. As a forever user of #FOSS #libre software, I will use this expertise to document these apps & digital ecosystems. This ever growing family of tools respects the user's #privacy. It nurtures a #democracy independent of Big Tech. Let's go! 🧵

Optimistically extrapolating: by 2030, no more gas powered cars will be sold. 🍀🤞⚡

The online part was important too, of course. We collectively decided to not interact with any right wing post or comment ever. Trolls and bots lost their power. This is a good lesson.

A new peer-reviewed estimate of what data centres will pump out in climate pollution - Between 300 to 1,300 mtco2-e per year, by 2035 (IEA scenarios) Mckinsey scenarios: - 3,000 by 2035 - 30,000 by 2045 arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14421 limited.systems/articles/ai-...

En je zou kunnen zeggen dat de nipte overwinning van Lula óók een overwinning op Meta/Mark Zuckerberg is. Er is hoop. Maar die moet je wel organiseren. Waanzinnig knap van de studenten in Servië en Brasil laat zien dat élke stem telt. ♥️🩷

"When you have money, you want power. When you have power, you want money. When you have both, you want to live forever." Great TL;DR for #NerdReich ⤵️ Truly in awe of the excellent research Gil's done to mosaic together all those quotes from tech billionaires into his most comprehensive docu book:

24 / 10 / 26 24²+10²=26² 🥸

I'll let you in on an engineering secret: If you can't fix it with duct tape, you haven't used enough of it.

#OTD in 1789, the Brabantian Revolution in the Habsburg Netherlands (against the rule of Joseph II) kicked off when the rebel army led by general Vander Meersch arrived in Turnhout. This would set in motion events that would lead to the Belgian republic in 1790.

Excellent #Longread! #TikTok

Just the other day: #Weather prediction to cover 6 weeks instead of the current 2.

Frontier AI labs, by Silicon Valley billionaires, claims EU "will be over in 5 years without them & must beg for access in exchange for providing hyperscalers with inducements to build huge amounts of compute here – permits, energy subsidies, tax breaks" They also fund an army of researchers in EU:

Meta denying opponents is visible. More hideous is US requesting/using your docs. "Whether it’s pressuring EU gov's in trade negotiations, challenging EU's position on Ukraine or pursuing other political or personal demands, the message is clear: technological dependence creates political leverage."

Folks are giving their AI agents full access to their bank accounts. These bots are also calling help desk bots. This could become fun fun fun!! 😂 "The rapid pace of AI advancement is becoming a security nightmare for America's financial institutions." No cure for stupidity 😏

Also EU: it's forbidden to tax jet fuel. The heath deaths study: www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

"the ritual around her remains shrouded in mystery, her predictions were – strangely – always right. Today our urge to predict the future mirrors the same psychological need that drove leaders to the Oracle at Delphi -- discomfort with uncertainty & deep seeded desire to control the unpredictable."

Goeiemorgen bsky! Herfst met herfstweer. Dat mag es.

Zag de laadpalen vorige week toen ik er passeerde langs de N16. Nu weet ik ook precies wat daar staat in Temse: 4* 1500kW⚡ 4* 400kW ⚡ 😳

Probleem Heeft Patches.

OpenAI, Anthropic get constant cash injections from desperate believers. "Meta & Google have been able to subsidize their AI products with revenue from their massive advertising businesses." Read: the only way they keep up their AI (and data centers) is because they got plenty user data to sell.

Poor Nazis, victim yet again 😭 /s "The data was allegedly extracted from more than 800 hosts associated with the party’s domain. It is distributed on the attackers' website via a torrent file weighing nearly 300GB."

Even beetje zoals ik het afgelopen uur: Not ready reading drive A Abort, Retry, Fail? Goeiemorgen bsky!

Trump II is at it again. 😳🧵

Serious question: In EU, does public rail/road transportation get tax-free energy like aviation does?

"Een vd belangrijkste oorzaken [van dalende overheidsontvangsten] is de dramatische daling vd tarieven vd vennootschapsbelasting. Bij de start vh millennium bedroeg dat tarief nog 40%. Dat daalde tot 34% in 2003 en vervolgens vanaf 2018 tot 30%, om in 2020 op 25% te belanden."

Few months into Trump II, DHS ordered CISA to acquire & hack a voting machine. Notably, CISA was to report to the administration, NOT to the voting machine company. But Trump II had already shot itself in the other foot, too, as CISA replied the staff capable of such had been fired by Musk's DOGE:

Frontier AI labs, by Silicon Valley billionaires, claims EU "will be over in 5 years without them & must beg for access in exchange for providing hyperscalers with inducements to build huge amounts of compute here – permits, energy subsidies, tax breaks" They also fund an army of researchers in EU:

We've had CSS tech since before humans came to be. It's called plants. Trees, for example. Very cost effective is to protect existing forests. But that doesn't inspire any VC, does it.

Hier op de radio hoorde ik hoe verschillende online boekverkopers al dan niet boeken geschreven door AI labelen. #Booksky In Canada pakken ze dat anders aan:

"America Is Now an Ally of Russia. Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Recht naar Sinte Pieter:

El-Sayed handled this so well I almost started thinking this guy was a plant lol but apparently not www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teep...

🎼But baby it ain't over 'til it's over 🎵 (This sailing 🛥️ season;)

Herfstwandeling over een binnendijk.

Why you should *really* block ads on all your devices, networks, part 47549: #AdAway #AdFection #Candiru #Discover-Tech Also, fuck Israel.

weird how the far-right in europe is more "centrist" on privacy than the centre-right EPP 🙄 generally it seems that the centre-left and left parties are more pro-privacy in EU parliament and renew europe, as always, is a mixed bag