Rudolf van der Berg
@internetthought.bsky.social
Telecom and Internet policy guy. Law, economics, policy and tech it all comes together in my work. Advise governments, telcos, businesses, academics and random people. Sustainability, competition, data centers, traffic, regulators, net neutrality, routing
Guess which country I'm in. Google maps failed to load and I wondered why...
December 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Guess which country I'm in. Google maps failed to load and I wondered why...
"Trump" and "class" in the same sentence doesn't sound right
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Trump" and "class" in the same sentence doesn't sound right
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This is one of the best papers that I've read this year! It demonstrates the power of bringing rigorous modern empirical methods to bear on the intuitions developed by previous generations of social scientists -- in this case Bourdieu. It also helps us soumitrashukla.github.io/making_the_e...
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This is one of the best papers that I've read this year! It demonstrates the power of bringing rigorous modern empirical methods to bear on the intuitions developed by previous generations of social scientists -- in this case Bourdieu. It also helps us soumitrashukla.github.io/making_the_e...
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You know how you've been worrying about a war with Venezuela all week? Good news! Now you can worry about a war with Denmark since Landry is all for invading Greenland.
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
You know how you've been worrying about a war with Venezuela all week? Good news! Now you can worry about a war with Denmark since Landry is all for invading Greenland.
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How Ancient Steppe Builders Used Turgay Geoglyphs to Track Sun - astanatimes.com/2025/12/how-... “In the area of the Ustogai geoglyphs, the sun hovers above the outermost mound for about three days. This is not an accident or a rare coincidence, it happens annually” #kazakhstan
How Ancient Steppe Builders Used Turgay Geoglyphs to Track Sun - The Astana Times
How Ancient Steppe Builders Used Turgay Geoglyphs to Track Sun
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December 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
How Ancient Steppe Builders Used Turgay Geoglyphs to Track Sun - astanatimes.com/2025/12/how-... “In the area of the Ustogai geoglyphs, the sun hovers above the outermost mound for about three days. This is not an accident or a rare coincidence, it happens annually” #kazakhstan
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Has anyone asked Brendan Carr whether he told staff to scrub the word "independent" from the FCC websites so that it retroactively aligned with his shocking (and incorrect) claim that the agency served Donald Trump instead?
www.youtube.com/live/cHY0dP5...
www.youtube.com/live/cHY0dP5...
Chairman Cruz Announces FCC Oversight Hearing
YouTube video by CommerceRepublicans
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December 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Has anyone asked Brendan Carr whether he told staff to scrub the word "independent" from the FCC websites so that it retroactively aligned with his shocking (and incorrect) claim that the agency served Donald Trump instead?
www.youtube.com/live/cHY0dP5...
www.youtube.com/live/cHY0dP5...
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UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.
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Orwell's FCC boss Brendan Carr. Always a charlatan and now a frontman for autocracy and oligarchy.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told a Senate committee on Wednesday that his agency is “not formally ... independent.” Shortly after he made that claim, the FCC seems to have removed the description of it as “independent” from the FCC's website. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/f...
FCC chief Brendan Carr tells Senate that his agency is 'not formally ... independent'
FCC chairman Brendan Carr testified to a congressional committee for the first time since ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show following a Carr threat.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Orwell's FCC boss Brendan Carr. Always a charlatan and now a frontman for autocracy and oligarchy.
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Ik heb ze zeker niet allemaal gelezen. Op een gegeven moment vond ik ze te flauw en voorspelbaar. Ik denk dat dat zo’n beetje was toen ik als puber in de ban van Tolkien kwam. Maar ‘Tumult in een toeristenhotel’ was wel lang mijn favoriet uit de Bob Evers-serie. www.bobevers.nl/images/boeki...
December 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Ik heb ze zeker niet allemaal gelezen. Op een gegeven moment vond ik ze te flauw en voorspelbaar. Ik denk dat dat zo’n beetje was toen ik als puber in de ban van Tolkien kwam. Maar ‘Tumult in een toeristenhotel’ was wel lang mijn favoriet uit de Bob Evers-serie. www.bobevers.nl/images/boeki...
Despite all the talk about AI making our lives better, none of them have a "divorce" setting. Thanks for the reminders of the anniversary and the holiday's together. I would like to have some control over what are happy memories ;-)
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Despite all the talk about AI making our lives better, none of them have a "divorce" setting. Thanks for the reminders of the anniversary and the holiday's together. I would like to have some control over what are happy memories ;-)
Het #rapportwennink bevat veel stof tot nadenken, maar het deel over regulatory sandboxes vergeet dat we die in Nederland al hebben voor 5G en 6G. Daarvoor hoeven we niet naar Frankrijk te kijken www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #wennink #MinEZ
#6g #wennink #rapportwennink #regulatorysandboxes #minez | Rudolf van der Berg
Het Rapport Wennink bevat veel stof tot nadenken. Toch is er een punt van kritiek mogelijk op het stuk over regulatory sandboxes. Het rapport stelt dat we daar in Nederland niet genoeg gebruik van mak...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Het #rapportwennink bevat veel stof tot nadenken, maar het deel over regulatory sandboxes vergeet dat we die in Nederland al hebben voor 5G en 6G. Daarvoor hoeven we niet naar Frankrijk te kijken www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #wennink #MinEZ
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Rogers v. Rogers is a hilarious and mesmerizing one-man play that's about the lack competition and corporate power run amok in Canada. It's therapy for long-suffering consumers www.donotpassgo.ca/p/winning-ug...
Winning ugly: Rogers v. Rogers is a masterpiece of competition policy as entertainment
The one-man play voices Canadians' frustration with corporate concentration while expertly poking fun at it and humanizing the individuals involved
www.donotpassgo.ca
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Rogers v. Rogers is a hilarious and mesmerizing one-man play that's about the lack competition and corporate power run amok in Canada. It's therapy for long-suffering consumers www.donotpassgo.ca/p/winning-ug...
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"FCC may bar Chinese telecom companies from connecting to US networks... If the FCC removes them, it would require all intermediate providers and voice service providers handling calls in the US to cease accepting all calls directly from the Chinese telecoms" - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
FCC may bar Chinese telecom companies from connecting to US networks
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it may bar three major Chinese telecom companies from connecting to U.S. networks over efforts to prevent robocalls, the latest in a series of...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"FCC may bar Chinese telecom companies from connecting to US networks... If the FCC removes them, it would require all intermediate providers and voice service providers handling calls in the US to cease accepting all calls directly from the Chinese telecoms" - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Dutch public prosecutor demands 8 months jail time for person who DDOS-ed the 112 emergency call system with a SIMbox network. He did this out of spite over a falling out with his ex-business partners in that SIMbox company. tweakers.net/nieuws/24245...
Nederlands OM eist celstraf om 'ddosen' van 112-centrale met simboxnetwerk
Het Nederlandse Openbaar Ministerie eist een celstraf van acht maanden tegen een man die een 112-centrale platlegde met duizenden geautomatiseerde telefoonoproepen. De 112-centrale was daardoor langer...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Dutch public prosecutor demands 8 months jail time for person who DDOS-ed the 112 emergency call system with a SIMbox network. He did this out of spite over a falling out with his ex-business partners in that SIMbox company. tweakers.net/nieuws/24245...
Next week Monday Statistics Netherlands will publish
Energy consumption by data centres
How much energy do data centres consume?
www.cbs.nl/en-gb/public... @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social
Energy consumption by data centres
How much energy do data centres consume?
www.cbs.nl/en-gb/public... @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Next week Monday Statistics Netherlands will publish
Energy consumption by data centres
How much energy do data centres consume?
www.cbs.nl/en-gb/public... @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social
Energy consumption by data centres
How much energy do data centres consume?
www.cbs.nl/en-gb/public... @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social
Emergency calls to 112, 911 or #triplezero are facing issues in countries that have done a #2Gshutdown or #3Gshutdown. The USA, Australia and Sweden all have experienced issues, regulatory intervention handset bans and other problems. I'm intending to do a write-up www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#2gshutdown #3gshutdown #volte #mobile #emergencycalls | Rudolf van der Berg
The 2G/3G shutdowns in the USA, Australia and Sweden haven't been a smashing success. There was (the threat of) regulatory interventions in all 3 countries, roaming and wholesale partners caught unawa...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Emergency calls to 112, 911 or #triplezero are facing issues in countries that have done a #2Gshutdown or #3Gshutdown. The USA, Australia and Sweden all have experienced issues, regulatory intervention handset bans and other problems. I'm intending to do a write-up www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Hoe een Facebook advertentie voor ogenschijnlijk het AD leidt naar aad .nl (een bestaand domein), maar dan redirect naar een fake AD pagina, waar een promo staat voor een fake crypto platform Sterk Evolux. Het ziet er voor de leek vast echt uit, maar het laat zien hoe fout Facebook is tegenwoordig
December 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Hoe een Facebook advertentie voor ogenschijnlijk het AD leidt naar aad .nl (een bestaand domein), maar dan redirect naar een fake AD pagina, waar een promo staat voor een fake crypto platform Sterk Evolux. Het ziet er voor de leek vast echt uit, maar het laat zien hoe fout Facebook is tegenwoordig
Schoentje zetten voor Sinterklaas in Albert Heijn Parkwijk Almere.
Children placing their "shoe" so Saint Nicolas can put a present in it. Picture taken in local supermarket. Saint Nicolas also does this occasionally at home in the period leading up to the 5th of December 😉
Children placing their "shoe" so Saint Nicolas can put a present in it. Picture taken in local supermarket. Saint Nicolas also does this occasionally at home in the period leading up to the 5th of December 😉
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Schoentje zetten voor Sinterklaas in Albert Heijn Parkwijk Almere.
Children placing their "shoe" so Saint Nicolas can put a present in it. Picture taken in local supermarket. Saint Nicolas also does this occasionally at home in the period leading up to the 5th of December 😉
Children placing their "shoe" so Saint Nicolas can put a present in it. Picture taken in local supermarket. Saint Nicolas also does this occasionally at home in the period leading up to the 5th of December 😉
Fairphone users in Sweden find out that repairability means nothing. Without the ability to make emergency calls over 4G (which needs support from telcos, chipset vendors, network vendors) the @fairphone.com is still going to be blocked and bricked. #VoLTE #Fairphone www.reddit.com/r/sweden/com...
From the sweden community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the sweden community
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November 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Fairphone users in Sweden find out that repairability means nothing. Without the ability to make emergency calls over 4G (which needs support from telcos, chipset vendors, network vendors) the @fairphone.com is still going to be blocked and bricked. #VoLTE #Fairphone www.reddit.com/r/sweden/com...
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Een Brits experiment waarbij vrouwen op business-netwerksite LinkedIn hun geslacht op ‘man’ zetten, of ‘mannelijkere’ posts schreven, leverde veel deelneemsters opmerkelijk méér bereik op. LinkedIn ontkent dat het mannen zou voortrekken.
‘Bro coding’ op LinkedIn? Vrouwen zien bereik fors toenemen na aanpassen geslacht naar ‘man’
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November 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Een Brits experiment waarbij vrouwen op business-netwerksite LinkedIn hun geslacht op ‘man’ zetten, of ‘mannelijkere’ posts schreven, leverde veel deelneemsters opmerkelijk méér bereik op. LinkedIn ontkent dat het mannen zou voortrekken.
PTS Sweden punishes Swedish consumers by bricking their working 4G phones. Mobile operators want to shut down 2G/3G. Phones that support #VoLTE are found to revert to 2G/3G for 112 emergency calls. Instead of stopping the 2G/3G shutdown, PTS orders telcos to block the phones
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Operatörer ska säkerställa tillgång till 112 – vissa mobiltelefoner kommer att blockeras
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November 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
PTS Sweden punishes Swedish consumers by bricking their working 4G phones. Mobile operators want to shut down 2G/3G. Phones that support #VoLTE are found to revert to 2G/3G for 112 emergency calls. Instead of stopping the 2G/3G shutdown, PTS orders telcos to block the phones
pts.se/nyheter-och-...
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Germany has to repeat its 2019 5G spectrum auction that allowed 1&1 to enter the market!! there was unlawful interference from the minister on the regulator BNetzA. The minister didn't want a requirement for MVNO access in the frequency licenses? www.heise.de/news/5G-Aukt... by
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@fsteiner.bsky.social
5G-Auktion 2019 endgültig rechtswidrig
Im Streit um die Vergabe von 5G-Lizenzen scheitert die Bundesnetzagentur vor dem Bundesverwaltungsgericht. Ein jahrelanger juristischer Disput endet damit.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Germany has to repeat its 2019 5G spectrum auction that allowed 1&1 to enter the market!! there was unlawful interference from the minister on the regulator BNetzA. The minister didn't want a requirement for MVNO access in the frequency licenses? www.heise.de/news/5G-Aukt... by
@fsteiner.bsky.social
@fsteiner.bsky.social
7 deaths through ChatGPT isn't that much, if you compare it to to how dangerous Telynol is according to the US government. And the UD had more pressing issues to deal with such as school shootings, so rogue AI just isn't that big a problem yet
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
7 deaths through ChatGPT isn't that much, if you compare it to to how dangerous Telynol is according to the US government. And the UD had more pressing issues to deal with such as school shootings, so rogue AI just isn't that big a problem yet
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Vodafone will stop #peering in Europe. Apparently it will remove itself from all IXPs, halt private peering and move all that traffic to Inter.Link, a german firm. I can't really understand why it does. A write-up at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #netneutrality #fairshare #DeNOG #UKNOF #IXP
Vodafone selects Inter.link to enhance interconnection with other Internet service providers | Rudolf van der Berg
Is Vodafone brilliant? Or is it daft? What do you think? Apparently Vodafone will stop all public and private #peering in Europe. The press release of Vodafone and the news articles in Germany aren't...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Vodafone will stop #peering in Europe. Apparently it will remove itself from all IXPs, halt private peering and move all that traffic to Inter.Link, a german firm. I can't really understand why it does. A write-up at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #netneutrality #fairshare #DeNOG #UKNOF #IXP