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Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist, publicist. https://berthub.eu/ More active on Mastodon -> @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org -> 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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nature.com
Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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janrosenow.bsky.social
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.

Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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zatapatique.bsky.social
Even a simple factoid like this gets overlooked, but it was not long ago that *everyone* directly knew multiple examples of people taken away by this at something preposterous like age 22
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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jorisluyendijk.bsky.social
same is true for European journalists and opinion makers. The US has gone off the deep end and we need to start thinking for ourselves.
aphclarkson.bsky.social Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d
European officials and colleagues who hanker after a world in which America returns to its pre-2015 centrist "normal" are kidding themselves
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
When writing to a journalist friend, I just said that it's a bit unravelling, right now, to be on the receiving end of this kind of belated real-time education in elite metabolization. Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It's so offhand you can think you're gazing through a pane of glass. gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two "sides, or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling "appraisal" surgically excised.
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d
Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
Trump in the Oval Office of the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The walls are decorated with tacky gold bullshit https://flic.kr/p/2rE6s9j
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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davekeating.substack.com
It's important for Europeans, and others from visa-waiver countries, to understand they don't have freedom of speech rights when visiting the United States.

The Trump regime is still deporting visitors for critical comments made online, because they can.
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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annettedittert.bsky.social
I wish those weather people on the radio would announce the currently unusual warm weather in a slightly less enthusiastic way.
18 degrees in November is not normal.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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rikefranke.bsky.social
In an ideal world, these #dronesightings would be free training for our counterdrone measures

#Brusselsairport
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
berthubert.bsky.social
Periodical reminder, if you care about The Netherlands and/or my Dutch language posts, please also follow my other account: @berthub.eu !
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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daniel.verlaan.xyz
GL-PVDA'er @barbarakathmann.bsky.social (plek 32) is met voorkeursstemmen opnieuw gekozen.

Lijkt het werk te zijn geweest van @berthubert.bsky.social en zijn initiatief NerdVote - een stem op een kandidaat die tech snapt - en de nerds die de campagne hebben verspreid :-)

berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Het Nerdvote Effect - Bert Hubert
tl;dr: Barbara Kathmann (GroenLinks-PvdA, 32) zal met voorkeursstemmen herkozen worden als kamerlid. Kwam dit door de NerdVote.nl campagne? Of kwam het door het mooie initiatief Stem op een Vrouw? Hie...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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ruut1.bsky.social
Terechte tik op de vingers voor @devolkskrant.bsky.social over het missen van het aspect #nerdvote. Wel sportief om er de brief van de dag over te plaatsen. @barbarakathmann.bsky.social @berthubert.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
Looks like another media organization is licking the fascist boot.
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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berthub.eu
“Als men het in Den Haag echt belangrijk vond, dan kwam zo’n ministerie er vanzelf wel. Maar nu proberen we het omgekeerde te doen. We maken er een minister van & dan moeten ze het wel belangrijk gaan vinden. Dat is eigenlijk het paard achter de wagen spannen.” www.ictmagazine.nl/blogs/kiezer...
Kiezers kiezen digitale expertise, politiek niet
Partijen zetten digitale kandidaten onderaan de lijst, maar 25.000 voorkeursstemmen op Barbara Kathmann tonen: burgers vinden digitalisering wél belangrijk.
www.ictmagazine.nl
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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davekeating.substack.com
This chimes with what I've been hearing.

“Our negotiators had never seen this before in any international talks. People being summoned to the U.S. Embassy in London — intimidation, threats of cessation of business, threats of family members losing visas."
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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michael-w-busch.bsky.social
Supernova detonations do have significant asymmetry to them.

This produces a "pulsar kick" that throws the neutron star sideways by hundreds of kilometers per second relative to the rest of the supernova remnant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_...
Pulsar kick - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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bentonra.bsky.social
I again pay tribute to @ria.ie for ceasing to use ‘X’ www.ria.ie/2025/05/01/t...

And AGAIN ask why the hell Irish universities continue to do so?!

Please @ucddublin.bsky.social @orlafeely.bsky.social give us some leadership here?
The Royal Irish Academy is ceasing activity on X (Twitter) - Royal Irish Academy
The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. Therefor...
www.ria.ie
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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thelookout.bsky.social
Interesting:
auonsson.bsky.social auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 8d
Today at 1109Z what looks like a mass spoof event of AIS-signal took place in central Baltic Sea.

In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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vladvexler.bsky.social
The fukuyamian mistake we keep making about trumpism and democracy -
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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oxinabox.bsky.social
It's embarassing to see someone with a PhD and years if experience use AI to make a presentation on something they are an expert on, and then tell you to ignore some parts of diagrams because the AI made them up and those bits are wrong.
That's embarrassing for us both.
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
berthubert.bsky.social
This Sunday I find the need to repost "Dear anonymous internet user asking for help". If you want help with the open source software I provide freely, and you are a giant corporation, do not hide behind a fake name or email address: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Dear anonymous internet user asking for help.. - Bert Hubert
Dear anonymous internet user, dear corporate employee hiding behind a gmail.com address, dear “GitHub account with a single issue”, Thank you for your interest in my free software, my project or the d...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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berthub.eu
Het verleidelijk om te blijven bij de gewone Amerikaanse clouds. Maar voor de "gegevens die van essentieel belang zijn" kan het ook volgens de Nederlandse Digitaliseringsstrategie echt niet meer. Bij Logius presenteerde ik donderdag onder andere over de schijnoplossingen die het niet gaan worden:
Bert op een podium met allemaal indrukwekkende lampen. Op de voorgrond staat een soort circusbord met lampjes, en het spelt 'Logius'. Bert staat voor een presentatie met doorgestreepte tekst: Servers in de EU Speciale afspraken met Microsoft “Gebruik je eigen sleutels” Double Key Encryption Een “Souvereine cloud” - van AWS, Google of Microsoft “We houden onze eigen documenten apart” Multi-cloud We gaan toch door met een zorgvuldige risico-afweging En dan: Nee, er is geen oplossing die inhoudt dat je hetzelfde kan blijven doen!
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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leonsimons.bsky.social
"An important predictor of future warming is Earth's energy imbalance [..] It is rising much more quickly than predicted by most climate models, possibly because of a darker planet corresponding to a large decrease in Earth's albedo which is near an all-time low "
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM