@Sustainable2050 Why adding this picture to your post? People seeing your post will remember this picture NOT your message. And PVV says ‘thank you for boosting our fake images’ (and boosting our populist message). Ps. the article you quote is paywalled too.

Wil je ook zo’n fantastische poster? Ga naar www.barbarakathmann.nl #verkiezingen #raamposter #stemkathmann

Het fascisme is terug. Vind je dat overdreven? Dat is precies hoe het werkt.

Deze uitlegvideo van De Correspondent, van minder dan 10 minuten, wens ik een groot bereik toe. Met name onder mensen die mochten denken dat het 'allemaal wel meevalt'.

Beter en krachtiger dan deze korte en toegankelijke video valt het niet uit te leggen. Dat we even goed weten waar we staan.

#fascisme #decorrespondent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpE7gR46sc

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/europe/prince-william-interviews-mental-health-monarchy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s08.1rRv.QAj0Xu30-LU8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#113 #mentalhealth #suicide #geestelijkegezondheid

@AliceStollmeyer Tsja, het populisme van de columnist …je vergroot één quote van één politicus (Timmermans) tot een hyperbool en presenteert jezelf vervolgens als moraalridder die daartegen ten strijde trekt…letterlijk. Hoe heette dat effect ook alweer?

Wat een armoede…

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We want to hear your views on the guidelines to improve legal clarity for businesses and ensure coherent enforcement.

📅 Feedback open until 4 Dec 2025.

More: https://link.europa.eu/gbmdVY

I'm going to tell you a little story about why I inherently mistrust technology companies who "move fast and break things", and in particular how this applies in generative AI.

I was working as a senior technical writer for a multinational company up until the end of last year, when the US parent company decided that a product team isn't a necessary function and all you need is engineers™️. Given that I was the writer in charge of all developer documentation, as well as the developer of the writing platform we worked on, I was told to assess the use of a generative AI tool to improve search.

I shan't name the company with whom we worked because I don't want to give them any publicity (even bad publicity), but suffice to say they were a generative AI chatbot outfit who claimed specialty in summarizing knowledgebases. Sounds like an ideal fit, thinks I, and I have seen this tool used elsewhere to mixed results. So I set up a consultation with them to get some information.

I meet with the CEO over Zoom and ask some pointed questions about the product. Mostly, the answers were pretty standard. However, two of them worried me immensely.

The first question was around pricing. I informed them of our content structure, the number of users we had on a daily basis, and the number of search queries we handled + associated clickthrough rates. I asked how much – ballpark – their product would set us back. That, he replied, was an unknown. They would negotiate a price with us, and anything that we used over that price would be absorbed by them. A screaming red flag, if ever I saw one.

The next was one that was extremely important to me. The company I worked for had a huge footprint in Asia, particularly in Japan. We hired localizers and translators to work on all copy so that we could be sure that it was translated appropriately for each country, and also to help us with naming conventions. Let's say you have a company called SoHo Housing, and you specialize in building management. Then let's say you hit upon the idea of creating a queryable index of housing stock that you want to sell as an addon. You call this product "SHIndex". Your Japanese localizer will immediately point out that Japanese clients will hate this name due to the inclusion of "Shi" ("死") meaning "death". At this point, you need to rework the name.

I asked this CEO about how the bot would handle international content. We stored content for different languages under subpaths (e.g. /en, /ja, /ko, /zh) and worked hard with localizers to make the content searchable. The CEO responded excitedly that this didn't matter, and that only the English language content was needed. The mechanism, he explained, was that the bot would detect a person was asking a question in Japanese, translate it to English, query the content set to find an answer, then translate a summary of that content to Japanese.

At this point, the answer was an immediate "no". It may well be that this company has now resolved this issue, but they should under no circumstances have been allowed anywhere near a production knowledgebase with such a provably terrible design that would cause glaring and sensitive issues. That's quite beside the fact that the generated summaries were often misleading or flat out wrong, or that caching would have forced us to expensively reindex content if we needed to correct something. The absolute lack of understanding of their chosen field was utterly baffling and extremely concerning.

I really despise the fact that the software industry is full of people who really just don't seem to care about the basics. If this limitation was presented as such, that might have been acceptable. If they'd have said "this only works with English content" we might have trialed it. But the fact that they had monkey-patched such a dangerous solution and presented it as production-ready meant that I had to veto the use of the product entirely.

Good fun. Fuck software.

@SIDN @internet_nl
Tsja, niet alleen bedrijven…óók politieke partijen
#Groenlinks : https://internet.nl/mail/groenlinks.nl/1629032/ :yikes:
#Pvda : https://internet.nl/mail/pvda.nl/1629036/ 🤬
#Groenlinkspvda : https://internet.nl/mail/groenlinkspvda.nl/1629039/ 🤬
#D66 : https://internet.nl/mail/d66.nl/1629040/ 😢
#vvd : https://internet.nl/mail/vvd.nl/1629041/ 😢
#CDA : https://internet.nl/mail/cda.nl/1629042/ 🥳

‘PVV voert campagne met nepfoto’s’ https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/11/pvv-voert-campagne-met-nepfotos-a4909238?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20251011

@barbarakathmann Vergeet dan ook niet mee te nemen dat #groenlinkspvda zeer recentelijk nog #microtargeting inzette op Instagram en FB om potentiele kiezers onbewust te beinvloeden, een praktijk die afgelopen week verboden is. Hiervoor worden privacygevoelige gegevens gebruikt. https://nos.nl/collectie/14002/artikel/2586030-politieke-partijen-gaven-vlak-voor-verbod-nog-tienduizenden-euro-s-uit-op-sociale-media

Dus ja….goed idee dat AI deltaplan, óók om toekomstig misbruik door jouw partij te voorkomen! #pvda #groenlinks #privacy

Google has just released a technical report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. To learn why it's significant, read here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1122288/google-gemini-ai-energy/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/personaltech/sora-ai-video-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE8.6dKr.S82uR0Kyeer&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#sora #ai #deepfake #openai

📢 10 years since #Schrems (C-362/14) – the landmark ruling that invalidated the Commission’s “Safe Harbour” decision, found US data protections inadequate, and reshaped #digitalprivacy in the EU and beyond 🔒

Learn 👉 https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-10/cp150117en.pdf

#EUlaw #DataProtection

#RodeLijn

https://clip.place/w/sZGiYq7ExX1fD6Lcmywxob

TREK DE #RODELIJN

"Het minste wat we kunnen doen is: niet wegkijken. Niet goedpraten. Niet uitwissen. Niet apart zetten. Niet ‘normaal’ maken wat niet normaal is."
#WillemAlexander tijdens zijn toespraak bij de herdenking op de Dam op 4 mei 2020. WEGKIJKEN TIJDENS WOII

NIET MEER WEGKIJKEN NU: #Gaza #genocide

#vvd #cu #nsc #bbb #sgp #cda #groenlinkspvda #d66 #pvdd #volt
#amnestyinternational #pax #oxfamnovib #artsenzondergrenzen #savethechildren

#Mira #RodeLijn #DavidvanWheel #medemenselijkheid #vvd #yesilgöz

“De vraag is: hoe denkt het kabinet over een meisje zoals Mira? ‘Het leven van Mira is opnieuw in gevaar schrijft (arts) Syed aan de minister, ‘omdat het niet lukt haar medisch te evacueren. Het risico op infecties in zo’n drain is levensgroot. Als dat gebeurt, is haar kand om te overleven heel laag.’

@DefendDemocracy well…Macron has more than enough problems in France. Credit downgrading, continuing social unrest, towering national debts being a direct threat to the financial stability of the EU, a pension scheme it can’t afford to sustain. A president with too much power compared to other EU democracies. And failure to deliver. That instability is a more of a direct threat to the unity with Germany then BigTech, which is already been regulated by the EU. #wagthedog

@anneapplebaum2000 duh….

This Is Clever (8 Photos)

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/10/04/this-is-clever/

Another small victory today.

A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a "nerd" who doesn't understand how the world works.

I was happy to be a nerd, if necessary, to explain the pros and cons of the solution to the client.
The result? The salesperson was politely thanked and "sent home", and I'm now evaluating some details of the new mail server, which, by the client's choice, will be based on OpenBSD.

Because people need explanations, not brochures.

#OwnYourData #OpenBSD #RunBSD