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· Feb 5
Waag | 15 alternative apps for better privacy and wellbeing
Not-for-profit apps that are good for your privacy? With a nice design and amazing functionality? They exist! Check out our list of 15 apps that offer a viable alternative to big tech.
waag.org
Yes, you *can* do something *now* against the hegemony of the treacherous techbros: waag.org/en/article/1...
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Good to work together, but… we, Europe, may need a plan for decoupling from America (to be resilient and build on our strenghts and interests).
Interesting piece in @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3KtTXUG
Interesting piece in @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3KtTXUG
Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America
The EU must make itself minimally vulnerable to inevitable US pressure
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Good to work together, but… we, Europe, may need a plan for decoupling from America (to be resilient and build on our strenghts and interests).
Interesting piece in @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3KtTXUG
Interesting piece in @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3KtTXUG
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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Geert Wilders is onbeschaamd en overduidelijk n gevaar voor onze democratie. En alle lokale en provinciale bestuurders die steeds weer met bedreigingen te maken hebben kunnen hem mede verantwoordelijk stellen.
Als Nederland n leider zou hebben, zou hij nu duidelijk en begrenzend optreden.
Als Nederland n leider zou hebben, zou hij nu duidelijk en begrenzend optreden.
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Geert Wilders is onbeschaamd en overduidelijk n gevaar voor onze democratie. En alle lokale en provinciale bestuurders die steeds weer met bedreigingen te maken hebben kunnen hem mede verantwoordelijk stellen.
Als Nederland n leider zou hebben, zou hij nu duidelijk en begrenzend optreden.
Als Nederland n leider zou hebben, zou hij nu duidelijk en begrenzend optreden.
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In Apple’s case, I think two things probably happened.
First, HCI was killed by behavioral economics (see below), and nobody remembers how to do it.
Second, they put a supply-chain guy in charge who can’t even see design, so there is no incentive anyway.
First, HCI was killed by behavioral economics (see below), and nobody remembers how to do it.
Second, they put a supply-chain guy in charge who can’t even see design, so there is no incentive anyway.
HCI (Human Computer Interaction), first foreshadowed by Ted Nelson as "fantics" and then formalized by Apple is effectively dead as a field of human-factors engineering.
Now HCI is just behavioral economics, with computers.
Now HCI is just behavioral economics, with computers.
learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research
i’m afraid that’s all gone
i’m afraid that’s all gone
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In Apple’s case, I think two things probably happened.
First, HCI was killed by behavioral economics (see below), and nobody remembers how to do it.
Second, they put a supply-chain guy in charge who can’t even see design, so there is no incentive anyway.
First, HCI was killed by behavioral economics (see below), and nobody remembers how to do it.
Second, they put a supply-chain guy in charge who can’t even see design, so there is no incentive anyway.
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The ex- President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, orchestrated a decades-long drug trafficking conspiracy. He flooded America with cocaine & ravaged his Central American country.
Trump has pardoned him
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Trump has pardoned him
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The ex- President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, orchestrated a decades-long drug trafficking conspiracy. He flooded America with cocaine & ravaged his Central American country.
Trump has pardoned him
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Trump has pardoned him
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this is quite the detail
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Morning Bluesky.
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Morning Bluesky.
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.
Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.
Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
November 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.
Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.
Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
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my take on Stranger Things continues to be that it’s not actually good, but it does serve a useful ecological niche as “something sort of amusing to watch while you eat pizza or takeout Indian food”
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
my take on Stranger Things continues to be that it’s not actually good, but it does serve a useful ecological niche as “something sort of amusing to watch while you eat pizza or takeout Indian food”
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#Kyiv after Russian attack
"This Saturday morning I could have spent with my children at the playground or at the cinema. Instead, after 10 hours in a bomb shelter due to a massive air attack on Kyiv, I came to my son’s school to collect the shattered glass",Veronika Velch said
📹Veronika Velch
"This Saturday morning I could have spent with my children at the playground or at the cinema. Instead, after 10 hours in a bomb shelter due to a massive air attack on Kyiv, I came to my son’s school to collect the shattered glass",Veronika Velch said
📹Veronika Velch
November 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#Kyiv after Russian attack
"This Saturday morning I could have spent with my children at the playground or at the cinema. Instead, after 10 hours in a bomb shelter due to a massive air attack on Kyiv, I came to my son’s school to collect the shattered glass",Veronika Velch said
📹Veronika Velch
"This Saturday morning I could have spent with my children at the playground or at the cinema. Instead, after 10 hours in a bomb shelter due to a massive air attack on Kyiv, I came to my son’s school to collect the shattered glass",Veronika Velch said
📹Veronika Velch
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The head of George W Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel Professor Jack Goldsmith: “I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported.
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The head of George W Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel Professor Jack Goldsmith: “I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported.
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
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Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Might be kicking off.
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At least two people were killed in a Russian attack on Kyiv overnight, and more than 30 were injured. Dozens of fires broke out.
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
At least two people were killed in a Russian attack on Kyiv overnight, and more than 30 were injured. Dozens of fires broke out.
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Donald Trump is a disgusting buffoon without a single redeeming quality.
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Donald Trump is a disgusting buffoon without a single redeeming quality.
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Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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People start gathering at Tbilisi State University for the march dedicated to the 1 YEAR anniversary of the daily protests in Georgia against the hostile takeover of our country.
#GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia
📷 Giorgi Kakabadze
#GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia
📷 Giorgi Kakabadze
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
People start gathering at Tbilisi State University for the march dedicated to the 1 YEAR anniversary of the daily protests in Georgia against the hostile takeover of our country.
#GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia
📷 Giorgi Kakabadze
#GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia
📷 Giorgi Kakabadze
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The right step and an indication that Ukraine’s anticorruption institutions have reached a level of maturity absent in many European democracies. This happened thanks to Ukr civil society and ordinary people who rallied in the middle of war this summer to protect the institutions’ independence.
⚡️ Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy says Andriy Yermak has submitted his resignation as head of the Presidential Office.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The right step and an indication that Ukraine’s anticorruption institutions have reached a level of maturity absent in many European democracies. This happened thanks to Ukr civil society and ordinary people who rallied in the middle of war this summer to protect the institutions’ independence.
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Zelenskyy chief of staff resigns after property raid by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Zelenskyy chief of staff resigns after property raid by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies – Europe live
‘I want there to be no rumours and speculation,’ Zelenskyy says as Yermak resigns
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Zelenskyy chief of staff resigns after property raid by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...