Martin Moene

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Lithuanian FM rejects Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest: Europe ‘no place for war criminals’ Lithuania’s foreign minister said Monday that there is “no place in Europe for war criminals”, responding to reports tha...

🇱🇹 Litouwse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Budrys:

"De enige plek voor Poetin in Europa is in Den Haag, voor het tribunaal – niet in een van onze hoofdsteden.”

“Europa heeft geen plaats voor oorlogsmisdadigers. Er is geen route door Europa voor oorlogsmisdadigers om evenementen bij te wonen.”

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg "In the Trump tug-of-war Russia is leading again" claims Russian paper ahead of Budapest summit.

Interesting how in Russian media *Hic*seth's tie was clearly seen as featuring the Russian flag colours.

CC @realjakebroe.bsky.social

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Sudetenland was a warning, not a guide.

Trump really is like a much dumber and older Neville Chamberlain.

Shrapnel hits cars on California highway during Marines celebration California Governor Gavin Newsom had shut down the freeway, even though White House officials said it was safe.

After Newsom warned for JD "Couch" Vance's dangerous military event with live ammo, an incident with 155 mm shell shrapnel nearly killed some of Vance's own security detail.

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Clearly @theguardian.com is not a serious publication but just out there to troll for engagement.

Does anyone really pay for that rag?

Where Graph Theory Meets The Road: The Algorithms Behind Route Planning Back in the hazy olden days of the pre-2000s, navigating between two locations generally required someone to whip out a paper map and painstakingly figure out the most optimal route between those d…

These days, route planning is a trivial task we ask of our computers every day.

But what's actually going on under the hood?

Maya Posch investigates.

hackaday.com/2024/04/04/w...

The MSL10 Mechanosensor Makes Venus Flytrap Plants Touchy Carnivorous plants are a fascinating part of the natural world, especially species like the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) that rely on what is effectively a spring-loaded trap to ensnare unsuspecting …read more

The MSL10 Mechanosensor Makes Venus Flytrap Plants Touchy

Lilac crocuses in a lawn in slight Sunshine, two in front, several more somewhat further away.

Huh, it's 1760882052.

Ukraine's interceptor drones are rewriting the air war playbook. NATO is taking notice. Interceptor drones, once a far-fetched experiment, are now a cornerstone of Ukraine's air defense, downing Russian Shaheds. NATO is watching closely.

🔗 www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-inte...

Feeling my faith in humanity healing somewhat at the sight of these beautiful anti-fascist views.

Frogs strong together, Pikachu says 'lightning against fascists'.

Down with Nazi pigs~

The sign that captures my mood. #NoKings #Portland

(...): "What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None."

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

Hundreds gather for Amsterdam’s second “No Kings” protest

Hundreds gather for Amsterdam’s second “No Kings” protest www.dutchnews.nl?p=258708

Initiatieven als Hoek6 lijken een druppel op een gloeiende plaat en daarom ’niet de moeite waard’ voor dergelijke fondsen, maar voor deze jongeren, een hele kleine groep, kunnen ze het verschil maken. Ik heb gedoneerd, zullen we dat alsjeblieft allemaal doen?

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Link 0 is xania.org/202206/happy... I think :)

But the grifters behind this scam will have done well, as will the investors who had two neurons to rub together.

Make sure you get your 401(k) and other investments out of the bubble before it pops. It won't be long now.

We saw with e.g. GPT-5 that LLMs cannot really be scaled up any more. The magic from brute-forcing things has run out, and thus the AI scam is beginning to run out of steam.

There will be no real artificial intelligence, no magical new dawn of humanity. Just a big pop & people losing life savings.

All You Need For Artificial Intelligence Is A Commodore 64 Artificial intelligence has always been around us, with [Timothy J. O’Malley]’s 1985 book on AI projects for the Commodore 64 being one example of this. With AI defined as being the the…

I think that a big part of the AI scam here is that most people don't seem to grasp that OpenAI and kin do not have access to some new kind of tech.

LLMs and kin were known and used back in the 1950s, with hobbyists tinkering around with them on their C64s, e.g.:

hackaday.com/2024/11/03/a...

YouTube video by Adam Conover Sora Proves the AI Bubble Is Going to Burst So Hard

This man speaks for all of us.

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Not using the Gmail Web Application - don't know if that allows for mutiple IMAP accounts.

If not, then there's not much to rule overthere in this respect.

It's also possible to use multiple IMAP accounts in each email client. I also do that in Gmail on Android.

Perhaps one can setup rules in Gmail to move email from one inbox to another inbox/folder, if that's what you like to have.

Science @ Leiden A black cat lying on a gray mat before the entrance of the Gorlaeus Building, its back towards the entrance and looking away from the camera, a white paw visible.

No doubt.

The Al future is like when GPS navigation first became commonplace and smooth-brained individuals began to so completely rely on them that they'd literally drive off cliffs, get themselves stuck on too narrow roads/under bridges and walk into open manholes.

Evolution truly is a sight to behold.

Site of Secret 1950s Cold War Iceworm Project Rediscovered The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing excellent cover for placing missiles right on the USSR’s …read more

Site of Secret 1950s Cold War Iceworm Project Rediscovered

Here in Europe, if you are a citizen, you are registered to vote. It's still completely beyond me why the US pretends to be a democracy when you have to fight tooth and nail to vote in a democratic process.

What beacon of democracy and freedom?

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Americans in the Netherlands prepare for No Kings rally - DutchNews.nl On Saturday, Americans will gather on Museumplein in Amsterdam as part of the No Kings protest, a worldwide demonstration opposing the policies of US president Donald Trump. Organisers are following u...

Thanks to @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social for publicizing the event. "On Saturday, Americans will gather on Museumplein in Amsterdam as part of the No Kings protest, a worldwide demonstration opposing the policies of US president Donald Trump."

* Museumplein 19 in Amsterdam
* 13-15 hr on Sat Oct 18, 2025

A tree, adjacent to a sidewalk, in autumn colour dress, with at the same time green, yellow and red leaves, predominantly yellow, catching some rays of Sunshine while gray clouds are the background.

Something in the way you move...