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Patrick Heemstra
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Librarian between the PhDs. Library Trend Watcher. Editor of the Bieb Letter: debiebletter.beehiiv.com

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donmoyn.bsky.social
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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uk.theconversation.com
Selfies with passports or drivers’ licences can open users to sophisticated forms of fraud.
Online age checking is creating a treasure trove of data for hackers
Selfies with passports or drivers’ licences can open users to sophisticated forms of fraud.
tcnv.link
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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neilturkewitz.bsky.social
“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”
OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says
MUNICH (Reuters) -OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by reproducing lyrics from songs by best-selling musician Herbert Groenemeyer and others,​ a court ruled on Tuesday, in a clos...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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stinej.bsky.social
🙂 door Marten Mantel
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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privatechand.bsky.social
Nothing to see here, no cause for alarm at all 🫠
international.cnbc.com CNBC International @international.cnbc.com · 21h
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.

Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Nog minder ruimte op de stoep.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Ik heb al die tijd geen grenscontroles gezien....
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Kat Kitkat nam de bus uit Marrum en kwam pas negen jaar later terug bij zijn baasje www.omropfryslan.nl/nl/nieuws/17... #omropfryslân
Kat Kitkat nam de bus uit Marrum en kwam pas negen jaar later terug bij zijn baasje
Richie Holzken uit Marrum heeft na negen jaar zijn kat Kitkat terug.
www.omropfryslan.nl
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
patrick23dingen.bsky.social
‘Geef Groningse studenten voorrang bij geneeskunde, anders groeien de tekorten’ www.rtvnoord.nl/zorg/RX-290/... #rtvnoord
‘Geef Groningse studenten voorrang bij geneeskunde, anders groeien de tekorten’
‘Geef Groningse studenten voorrang bij geneeskunde, anders groeien de tekorten’
www.rtvnoord.nl
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Een carrièreswitch overwegen? weekend.knack.be/lifestyle/de...
Voor bibliofielen met budget: deze bibliotheekcuratoren stellen de meest bijzondere boekenkasten samen
Het gedrukte woord is helemaal terug, met het boek als statussymbool en boekenkasten die eruitzien als kunstwerkjes. Maar de planken vullen, dat doe je niet zelf. Laat dat maar over aan een bibliothee...
weekend.knack.be
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Siri, show me a tech bubble.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d
OpenAI is has now signed over a trillion dollars of cloud deals it can't afford. Based on these costs, OpenAI will spend $11 billion a month by 2027. This is more than the operating expenses of Meta, a profitable company with 78k employees.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
Though there are likely losses related to stock-based compensation, this only represented a cost of $2.5bn in the first half of 2025. The Information also reported that OpenAI “spent more than $2.5 billion on its cost of revenue,” suggesting inference costs of…around that? I don’t know. I really don’t know. But what I do know is that Sam Altman has made obscene, ridiculous promises to seemingly every company in the tech industry. He promised $38bn over seven years to Amazon Web Services (starting immediately), $300bn to Oracle over five years (starting in 2027), $22.4bn to CoreWeave over five years (started October 2025), and pledged that OpenAI will spend $250bn on Microsoft Azure, which I assume wraps in the already-reported $28bn it will spend on Azure in 2028. Based on these calculations, and OpenAI’s already-reported costs, I calculate that by 2027, OpenAI will be spending over $11bn a month on compute costs alone. Or, perhaps more. Last night, in a lengthy thread that was roundly mocked for its defensive tone and Dostoyevskian wordcount, Sam Altman said that OpenAI is “looking at [compute] commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the next 8 years.” Now, note the non-committal language there (“looking at”), but if we assume that it goes through with all of these, we’re looking at an average monthly spend of $14.58bn ($1.4tn divided by 96 months). For some context, Meta’s last quarterly (not monthly) operating expenses were $30bn — up from $27bn in the previous quarter — which works out to around $10bn a month for a company that regularly makes more than $15bn a quarter in net income (on revenues of over $51bn, though its latest quarter involved a $15bn or so hit to net income due to tariffs). Similarly, Microsoft had operating expenses of $39bn in its last quarter — around $13bn a month — on net income of over $27bn (and revenues of over $77bn). For some context, Meta has over 78,000 employees, and Microsoft over 200,000. In August, The Verge reporte…
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
Christ...
susannashore.bsky.social Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 7d
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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donnarie2.bsky.social
The Netherlands should install the removed plaques immediately outside the cemetery grounds--i.e., outside the US government's control.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
11/ Theo Bovens, the chairman of the Black Liberators in the Netherlands foundation and also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal party, says that he intends to raise the removal with the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
2/ The Dutch newspaper reports that two memorial panels installed at the NAC were removed some time earlier this year. They commemorated African-American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from German occupation during World War II.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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aselrod.bsky.social
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?
histoftech.bsky.social Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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ubiquity75.xyz
It seems to me that past right-wing moved to eliminate government programs would be couched in some sort of “taxpayer savings” rhetoric. I haven’t seen anything of the sort with the SNAP cuts. Just cruelty and no justification as to why, thinly veiled or otherwise.
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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nadiabouras.bsky.social
“Wij willen de normen en waarden van Nederlanders met een migratieachtergrond controleren, terwijl GroenLinks-PvdA alle Nederlanders gelijk wil behandelen.”
petradekoning.bsky.social Petra de Koning @petradekoning.bsky.social · 4d
‘GroenLinks-PvdA wil op alles exact het tegenovergestelde’
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Allemaal jonge koppies met ouders op zoek naar een studie in Groningen.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Botsing nummer 2575338056.
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
THEYRE CLOSING THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THIS SYSTEM TO BAN BOOKS BECAUSE THE SECRETARY OF STATE TOLD THEM TO.

This is a big fucking story. They won't be the only ones.
heykellyjensen.bsky.social kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d
The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them.

Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.

bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books
Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."
bookriot.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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coldwarhost.bsky.social
The boat:
a rusty shipwreck washed onto the shore
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM