Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

(sorry to spam you with this) - voor mijn Nederlandstalige volgers, weet dat mijn dingen over Nederland, politiek etc te vinden zijn op mijn andere account: @berthub.eu

Please honor Mao as the democratically elected rule of law leader he was!

I'm a rebel you know.

Sinds eind 2025 is de vacaturemailer van de overheid stuk. Kamerleden stelden vragen & kregen als antwoord dat het niet "stuk" is, maar dat het gaat om een *verbetering* die al 9 maanden gaande is. Ook over #DigiD krijgt men dat soort antwoorden. Tekst & audio hoe dit kan: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Despite orders for polls to remain open for an extra two hours, results are already coming in, including from states with the strongest evidence of voter suppression, like Bahia. This will be a long night. What is happening is an unprecedented crime against democracy in Brazil.

I predict that Galileo satellite E09 will be taken out of service rather soon. Too many of these clock jumps. Follow this all live on @gnss_changes@bot.country over at Mastodon.

Had to draw the ‘cat puddle on a glass table’ photo because WHO COULD RESIST #art #cat

"We no longer have America as an ally on climate," EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra tells the Europa Power conference in Strasbourg. It's not every day you hear such an acknowledgement from the 🇪🇺Commission.

We finally have a status update from Hostwinds. I have requested immediate restoration of access to allow us to restore CelesTrak's services in support of safety of flight. Stay tuned and follow here for more.

After 2 days in close proximity (less than 5 km, possibly much less), Kosmos-2612 moved away from ICEYE X36 on Oct 18 and is now more than 100 km away, according to US Space Force tracking data

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Just leave me in here. I'll be happy.

Inspired by Escher's 1954 exhibition, mathematician Roger Penrose and his father devised the impossible staircase. When their paper reached Escher, he turned the idea into the classic lithograph Ascending and Descending (1960). He sent... https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

There is a fascinating connection between M.C. Escher and Roger Penrose (who is still with us). Penrose (re)discovered "impossible stairs" as an object, and when Escher read about these he turned this into his famous painting "Ascending and Descending": escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/about-esc...

We just had a conference about it, and still nothing is happening. Here's my writeup: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Hard to find the words tonight. Helen was an amazing journalist, smart, hard-working, clear-eyed. She was also a kind, generous person and a good friend. Sad beyond words.

Every field of science has a moment where the "fun in the lab with da boiz" attitude runs headlong into the real world consequences of doing whatever without consideration of fault, failure, or consequences. Chemistry had it with Ypres, physics with the Manhattan Project, CompSci might have it here.

14/ The strikes appear to have taken offline the Honest Sign system, (known in Russian as Chestny ZNAK or Честный ЗНАК). This is Russia's national digital track-and-trace system for consumer goods, operated by the Center for Research in Perspective Technologies (CRPT).

There’s a certain glib response to warnings of harm from powerful AI that is “they’ll only do that if you tell them to do it”. Which - yes. That’s my concern. Have you seen people?

Archived for posterity

Today I'm at the 9th E.DSO – EE-ISAC - ENCS – #ENISA Cybersecurity Forum “Holding Together in a Changing World: Grid Cyber Resilience and Preparedness” - and as I have nothing to present, I might liveblog a bit on Mastodon: eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert... www.edsoforsmartgrids.eu/content/uplo...

Nobel Prize for optogenetics

Maybe good to know that the plague has frequent outbreaks. This is not a long-dead disease that we got rid of (sadly). www.who.int/news-room/fa...

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

This is very true. A huge theme in a lot of recent coverage that AI is a bit like Saving Private Ryan. Everybody's gotta step up and adopt AI to get it across the goal line.

This really sounds like the right people have drawn the right lessons

With all the talk of "hybrid" warfare, this piece may be relevant again. In no way are our societies resilient against hostile disruption. A pre-war reality check: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Occasionally I revisit this absolute master piece from The Onion: "The next time Congress passes a bill dealing with civil rights or taxes, I wouldn’t be surprised if the U.S. populace is mentioned somewhere in the final language.” theonion.com/american-peo...

For anyone who understands Dutch: these 15 minutes on #DigitalAutonomy are definitely worth reading or listening to. For anyone who doesn’t understand Dutch: 🚫 Google Translate 🇺🇸👎🏻 ✅ DeepL / Reverso 🇪🇺💪 🚫 Duolingo 🇺🇸👎🏻 ✅ Drops (languagedrops.com ) or check buy-european.net/en/alternati... 🇪🇺💪

You know good and damn well we want to see this fluffy little big head! Awwww.

#doublelive

Google event in Brussels this evening “to celebrate Ireland’s Presidency” of the EU Council. “Google is delighted to bring together Irish policymakers…” rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/irish... (they have wisely now removed some of this text)

World’s tallest wind turbine about complete - ‘The outer lattice mast: The base consists of a 300-meter-high steel lattice tower that is extremely stable yet comparatively lightweight (similar to a power transmission pylon or the Eiffel Tower)’ www.sprind.org/en/actions/p...

Siri, show me the deliberate destruction of eight decades of American-led international diplomacy and cooperation in one photograph:

Nice to see some work I've been involved with on Hackaday! #Galileo leads the way on providing cryptographic features for civil (non-military, not necessarily well-mannered!) users to reduce vulnerability to malicious spoofing attacks @euspa.bsky.social @navigation.esa.int hackaday.com?p=1162322

De openheid van de overheid kalft af om technische EN ideologische redenen. En dat komt slecht uit nu onze rechtsstaat onder druk staat. Bij @openstate.eu besprak ik dit, en vertelde ik ook wat wij er aan kunnen doen. Tekst inclusief persoonlijk ingesproken audio: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Europe has invested in maintaining its independent access to space. People said we should just give up. And what do we read now? "Last week it emerged that SpaceX has stopped bidding for commercial Falcon 9 launches, allowing only US government customers" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

You'd think this would be obvious, but apparently it isn't: Do not invite big-tech to join your digital autonomy discussion berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Europe has invested in maintaining its independent access to space. People said we should just give up. And what do we read now? "Last week it emerged that SpaceX has stopped bidding for commercial Falcon 9 launches, allowing only US government customers" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

At @citizenlab.ca we spend enormous time labouring over the ethical and legal limits to our investigative methods (for good reason!) If we didn't, we'd surely be shut down. Meanwhile AI platforms routinely unleash their systems to hack left, right and centre *without consequence* 🤷‍♂️

Bird Fish https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938482

A.I. vormt op veel meer vlakken dan security en milieu een bedreiging. Het vormt ook een bedreiging voor onze democratie. Ik sprak erover voor CISO praat met voormalig Europarlementariër Marietje Schaake. Luister de aflevering nu: open.spotify.com/episode/1O3c...