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Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist, publicist. https://berthub.eu/ More active on Mastodon -> @[email protected] -> Nederlandse BlueSky @berthub.eu

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · Jan 25

(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

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

He’s standing there singing, and they come out in camo with weapons and grab him:

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

Altman: the next update will *not* tell people to kill themselves in order to attain quantum resonance with god.

Everyone: yeah that'd be pretty nice

Altman: It will *not* tell people to murder their spouses.

Everyone: cool, good feature.

Altman: and you can fuck it

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

Blimey. That’s embarrassing.

Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 5h

Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.”

Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 11h

"I wouldn't treat sovereignty as a long-term strategy, that's a mistake. There are things we can do every day." — @marietjeschaake.bsky.social

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 2d

Really encouraging progress in cancer vaccine work. Bonus editorial at the end:

Progress in Cancer Vaccines (Really)

www.science.org

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 2d

This Substack has a statement that WingTech put out on the Nexperia takeover by the Dutch government. It was on WeChat and has since removed. There are also details about the managers involved in what is described as a coup www.pekingnology.com/p/dutch-govt... #nexperia #wingtech

Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese semiconductor giant's chipmaker Nexperia

Wingtech, the Shanghai-listed parent, denounces what it essentially calls a boardroom coup involving the Dutch government and local executives

www.pekingnology.com

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch government removes Chinese owner of Dutch semiconductor company Nexperia. The shares of the Chinese owner Wingtech in Nexperia will go to another firm to be determined by the Enterprise Division of the Court of Appeal
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo... #digitalsovereignty #semiconductors

Kabinet grijpt ongekend hard in bij chipfabrikant Nexperia, Chinese eigenaar op afstand gezet

De inzet van de wet heeft als gevolg dat het bedrijf een jaar lang niets mag veranderen aan de activa van Nexperia.

www.bnr.nl

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

'Mainstream parties no longer offer an element that every successful political project requires: a promise of a better world.'

Tap here for Simon Kuper's column: on.ft.com/3L4mLmt

A utopian future is still possible (just)

Mainstream parties have stopped promising voters better lives

on.ft.com

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 4d

Ukrainian power grid workers are actually superhuman btw

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 4d

In The Hague we named a lane after this meeting: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Street sign saying "Laan van Reagan en Gorbatsjov", with a subtitle explaining this is named after the 1986 meeting that ended the cold war.

Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 4d

(he never said that - quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/s...)

quoteinvestigator.com

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 8d

First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍

Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪

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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 5d

Netherlands bought Russian fossil fuels worth 500 million euros, an 72% increase compared to 2024. "The Dutch government noted it supports EU phase-out plans but until laws are in place, it cannot void existing contracts with Russian suppliers."
We're so rules-based if it suits us.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 5d

⚡️Seven EU states increase Russian energy imports in 2025, Reuters reports.

Seven EU states increase Russian energy imports in 2025, Reuters reports

Among the seven nations increasing their purchases, France saw a 40% jump, importing 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion), while the Netherlands’ imports surged 72% to 498 million euros ($579 million). Be...

kyivindependent.com

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 6d

RFK Jr: We're doing MAHA by reversing every American circumcision one at a time

Reporter: Wait -

RFK Jr: [gesturing at his van] I have two coolers full of foreskins in there

Reporter: How - wait -

RFK Jr: Scientists won't tell you this but you can just rehydrate them using nonpolar water

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 6d

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7d

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social · 7d

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 7d

Het #NerdVote stemadvies is online! Er is een helder advies, maar het is ook weer niet simpel. Er zijn uitstekende kandidaten die het helaas niet gaan halen. Daarom is het advies strategisch. Reacties zeer welkom! nerdvote.nl

NerdVote.NL

Ondersteuning voor en informatie over alle kandidaat-kamerleden met en warm hart voor onze privacy en eigen IT-vaardigheden.

nerdvote.nl

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 7d

dank u!

Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 8d

goed bekeken kennelijk, viel een hoop mensen op!

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 8d

Een sterke, competente vaste kamercommissie Digitale zaken.
Dit initiatief van @berthubert.bsky.social vraagt aandacht voor "genoeg kennis in de Tweede Kamer te behouden of te krijgen [zo] dat de commissie ook na de verkiezingen geloofwaardig door kan" #tk2025

nerdvote.nl/diza/

NerdVote.NL

Ondersteuning voor en informatie over alle kandidaat-kamerleden met en warm hart voor onze privacy en eigen IT-vaardigheden.

nerdvote.nl

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 8d

The most obvious conclusion is that it has now become more than evident that citizens are withdrawing and disengaging from the arena of conventional politics. Even when they vote, and this is less often than before, or in smaller proportions, their preferences emerge closer and closer to the moment of voting itself, and are now less easily guided by cohesive partisan cues. For whatever reason, and there is no shortage of hypotheses offering to explain this change, there are now fewer and fewer standpatters, and hence more and more citizens who, when they think about politics at all, are likely to operate on the basis of short-term considerations and influences.
Electorates in this sense are becoming progressively destructured, affording more scope to the media to play the role of agenda-setter, and requiring a much greater campaign effort from parties and candidates. What we see here, in short, is a form of voting behaviour that is increasingly contingent, and a type of voter whose choices appear increasingly accidental or even random.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 9d

They could also reach for www.bbc.com/news/busines....

'Bowie bonds' - the singer's financial innovation

David Bowie was a pop music icon to many, but he was also involved in innovation in the world of finance.

www.bbc.com

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 12d

Each weekday, FT Alphaville picks a dozen or so articles from elsewhere.

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All this, and nearly 20 years of FTAV archive, is completely free on.ft.com/3tDRiiu

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Find us by email, RSS, X, Bluesky, and Terminal (sort of)

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