Peter Motte
petermotte.bsky.social
Peter Motte
@petermotte.bsky.social
Freelance translator English/German/French to Dutch since 1998. Lots of technical translators, also more fun departments like comic books and toy trains. Less tourism, a rather difficult beast because of the amount of topics covered in touristic brouchers.
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According to new data analysis, our solar system is traveling through the universe roughly 3 times faster than our current models predict it should be moving. Why is this, and why does it matter? Let’s take a look.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGXn...
Solar System Moves Way Too Fast, Cosmological Theory in Doubt
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Vandaag op de webiste van de #krant #DeStandaard:
"Nooit meer faillissementen in november".
Wordt dat bij wet geregeld? :-) #taal #dubbelzinnig #ambigu
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Wow, wát een onderzoek over glyfosaat: www.foodlog.nl/artikel/arti...

Auteurs van een van de belangrijkste en meest geciteerde reviews over de kankerverwekkendheid van glyfosaat blijkt selectief te hebben gewinkeld in de wetenschap én kregen mogelijk geld en ghostwriters van Monsanto.
Artikel dat glyfosaat veilig verklaarde is teruggetrokken
De bekende glyfosaat-review uit 2000 van Gary Williams, Robert Kroes en Ian Munro onder de titel Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide…
www.foodlog.nl
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Eboeken bezit je ook niet. Daar is zelfs jurisprudentie over.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Small modular nuclear reactors are coming -- against all odds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1r_...
Small Nuclear Reactors are Coming --- Against All Odds
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I am convinced that eventually AI will become conscious and I am beginning to worry that we simply wouldn’t notice because no one is watching out for it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8tt...
I Worry AI Might Become Conscious – And We Won’t Notice
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I think this is a special time in human history to be alive. Happy Thanksgiving!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9l7...
This is a special time in human history
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Momenteel werk ik aan een #campagne voor #Nederland voor mensen die #rechtsbijstand kunnen krijgen in de vorm van een #nationale, #collectieve #claim tegen te hoge facturen.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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My annual advice on how to navigate angry arguments during holiday dinners.

[4-min Read]

neildegrassetyson.com/commentary/2...
How to Navigate Arguments During Holiday Dinner - Neil deGrasse Tyson
By Neil deGrasse Tyson Social Media — OpEd November 17, 2022 Inspired by the contents of the book
neildegrassetyson.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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A physicist from Japan claims that he has found the first direct evidence for dark matter in very highly energetic gamma-ray emissions from the centre of our galaxy. Let’s have a look at the paper.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwz...
Scientists may have detected dark matter.
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Scientists just found a massive 7,000 kilometer-long gravitational anomaly off the coast of Africa in data from a NASA satellite. The anomaly occurred from 2006 to 2008 and has now disappeared. What caused it? Let’s have a look.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eME...
Huge Gravity Anomaly Discovered!
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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** Evidence You Might Be In A Cult **

You follow one charismatic Leader.

In your Leader’s mind, your Leader can do no wrong.

In your mind, your Leader can do no wrong.

Your Leader demonizes dissidents & outsiders.

Loyalty's the ultimate measure of your devotion.

You don't know you're in a Cult
May 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Not that anyone asked, but the country with the World's lowest life expectancy (Chad) has a higher life expectancy than the country with the highest life expectancy 120 yrs ago (Sweden).

Think Science and especially Medicine has somehow failed you? Think again.

#ScienceMatters
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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A mathematician has calculated the odds that we are alone in the universe. It seems unlikely.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aJ3...
Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Physicists have experimentally confirmed a 50 year old prediction of special relativity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IwZ...
It Took Physicists 50 Years To Prove Einstein Right About This
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Het tij begint voorzichtig te keren. Maar onmiddellijk staan er dan mensen op die het negentiende-eeuwse ideaal van één volk heeft één taal niet willen opgeven. Zoals de psycholoog Iris Breetvelt in een stuk op Vakdidactiek Nederlands.

neerlandistiek.nl/2025/11/een-...
Een achterhoedegevecht voor de eentaligheid
Het tij begint voorzichtig te keren. Maar onmiddellijk staan er dan mensen op die het negentiende-eeuwse ideaal van één volk heeft één taal niet willen opgeven. Zoals de psycholoog Iris Breetvelt i…
neerlandistiek.nl
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I deleted my #mastodon account today.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Working the whole day on a file refuting all criticism on a translation. What a way to waste my time: preferentials, not taking into account euphonic reasons or readability, nor the efforst to appear to a broad age group, for which I had to deviate from the original #translation #criticism #defence
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Gisteren, dinsdag 18 nov 2025, was er wereldwijd een probleem met #cloudflare , en dat had ook invloed op de #e-mail en #webmail van #proximus
In de loop van de dag geraakte dat opgelost, maar vanmorgen is het probleem er weer, en ik vermoed dat het een effect is van het probleem met cloudflare
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#cloudflare ligt eruit op dit moment, een boel website zijn #onbereikbaar
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM