Justin Loup
@jplp.bsky.social
Work on EU/UNECE technical policies, former engineer, also I used to do a bit of philosophy.
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This just arrived, written in 1956 and just translated. With it came these lines, pertinent to the age of AI (attributed to "To the Cogs," Molussian Industrial Hymns):
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.
December 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This just arrived, written in 1956 and just translated. With it came these lines, pertinent to the age of AI (attributed to "To the Cogs," Molussian Industrial Hymns):
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.
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OTD in 2002, Ivan Illich died. A radical social critic and philosopher, Illich offered one of the most distinctive and influential critiques of modern technology in the 20th century.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
OTD in 2002, Ivan Illich died. A radical social critic and philosopher, Illich offered one of the most distinctive and influential critiques of modern technology in the 20th century.
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Don’t be too relieved: Dutch election result not ‘end of populism’ or far-right
Don’t be too relieved: Dutch election result not ‘end of populism’ or far-right
The number of people who choose to vote far-right remains unchanged (with 48 seats vs 46), and now they have more flavours of far-right to choose from.
euobserver.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Don’t be too relieved: Dutch election result not ‘end of populism’ or far-right
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Channeling @abenewman.bsky.social and my recent piece en francais for @grandcontinent.bsky.social ? legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2... (I'm joking but weirder things have happened to us)
October 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Channeling @abenewman.bsky.social and my recent piece en francais for @grandcontinent.bsky.social ? legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2... (I'm joking but weirder things have happened to us)
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Interesting new article makes (I think) the correct diagnosis: "The New Ideologies of Eurocentrism: Neo-feudalism, Techno-feudalism and Irrational Myths of the Present" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The New Ideologies of Eurocentrism: Neo-feudalism, Techno-feudalism and Irrational Myths of the Present
Western social theorists have begun positing the possibility of a new feudal mode of production putting an end to capitalism. Some of these writers have called this “neo-feudalism” and others “tech...
www.tandfonline.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Interesting new article makes (I think) the correct diagnosis: "The New Ideologies of Eurocentrism: Neo-feudalism, Techno-feudalism and Irrational Myths of the Present" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Woon je in een van de onderstaande gemeenten?
Dan maakt jouw lokale politie gebruik van Israëlische software.
Lees het artikel op @apache.be : apache.be/2025/07/25/b...
Dan maakt jouw lokale politie gebruik van Israëlische software.
Lees het artikel op @apache.be : apache.be/2025/07/25/b...
July 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Woon je in een van de onderstaande gemeenten?
Dan maakt jouw lokale politie gebruik van Israëlische software.
Lees het artikel op @apache.be : apache.be/2025/07/25/b...
Dan maakt jouw lokale politie gebruik van Israëlische software.
Lees het artikel op @apache.be : apache.be/2025/07/25/b...
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Today marks the birth of German philosopher Günther Anders (1902 – 1992). He was a student of Edmund Husserl at the University of Freiburg, where he also studied with Martin Heidegger.
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July 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Today marks the birth of German philosopher Günther Anders (1902 – 1992). He was a student of Edmund Husserl at the University of Freiburg, where he also studied with Martin Heidegger.
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Fresh insights shed new light on #HuaweiGate
Insiders tell Follow the Money that Huawei’s management was well aware of potentially corrupt lobbying practices and had even prepared a plan in case the office was raided.
Insiders tell Follow the Money that Huawei’s management was well aware of potentially corrupt lobbying practices and had even prepared a plan in case the office was raided.
To win back EU access, Huawei turned to a rogue lobbyist. Valerio Ottati secured high-level meetings – but his former colleagues long suspected he was rigging the game, by bribing officials and falsifying documents. Managers looked away, until police stepped in. www.ftm.eu/articles/hua...
‘This MEP is on my payroll’: Huawei lobbyist bragged about bribery in the office
At a time when Huawei’s reputation hit a new low in Brussels, one man kept the doors to politicians open – until he was arrested for alleged bribery. Now, insiders tell Follow the Money that Huawei’s ...
www.ftm.eu
July 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Fresh insights shed new light on #HuaweiGate
Insiders tell Follow the Money that Huawei’s management was well aware of potentially corrupt lobbying practices and had even prepared a plan in case the office was raided.
Insiders tell Follow the Money that Huawei’s management was well aware of potentially corrupt lobbying practices and had even prepared a plan in case the office was raided.
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'It’s whatever amount is enough to stay off the naughty list,' said one consultant, as executives feel pressured to spend a nominal sum on the site following Musk's high-profile role in Trump's team. www.ft.com/content/8d3e...
March 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
'It’s whatever amount is enough to stay off the naughty list,' said one consultant, as executives feel pressured to spend a nominal sum on the site following Musk's high-profile role in Trump's team. www.ft.com/content/8d3e...
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March 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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🔥 New study from the #ACCESS4ALL project! I found that lobby teams with a balanced gender composition & shared national backgrounds with MEPs secure more access to the European Parliament🇪🇺But biases remain, especially against lobbyists from newer EU states👇 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament
This article focuses on the access that interest groups secure to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). It examines whether and how interest group access is influenced by the socio-demographic...
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2024 at 3:26 PM
🔥 New study from the #ACCESS4ALL project! I found that lobby teams with a balanced gender composition & shared national backgrounds with MEPs secure more access to the European Parliament🇪🇺But biases remain, especially against lobbyists from newer EU states👇 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What happened when the editor of @theatlantic.com was included on Mike Walz's group chat
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What happened when the editor of @theatlantic.com was included on Mike Walz's group chat
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The current state of tech is pretty neatly summed up by Microsoft removing one of the ctrl keys, something that most people will use daily, to replace it with a dedicated copilot key months or even years before actually rolling out copilot, a function that most people actively do not want
January 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The current state of tech is pretty neatly summed up by Microsoft removing one of the ctrl keys, something that most people will use daily, to replace it with a dedicated copilot key months or even years before actually rolling out copilot, a function that most people actively do not want
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Universities should charge large publishers a subscription to ask their researchers for peer review.
Then, institutions should use that money for better, fairer research assessment.
And, of course, as a reciprocal bargaining tool in read-and-publish agreements.
#academicsky
Then, institutions should use that money for better, fairer research assessment.
And, of course, as a reciprocal bargaining tool in read-and-publish agreements.
#academicsky
January 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Universities should charge large publishers a subscription to ask their researchers for peer review.
Then, institutions should use that money for better, fairer research assessment.
And, of course, as a reciprocal bargaining tool in read-and-publish agreements.
#academicsky
Then, institutions should use that money for better, fairer research assessment.
And, of course, as a reciprocal bargaining tool in read-and-publish agreements.
#academicsky
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I’ll die on this hill: dual citizenship for people who have moved to another country should be a basic human right.
www.thelocal.de/20250106/cdu...
www.thelocal.de/20250106/cdu...
CDU leader: 'Dual citizenship creates too many problems in Germany'
In a new interview, CDU leader Friedrich Merz has called for drastic changes to Germany's citizenship reform and suggested tightening the law around revoking passports from dual citizens who commit cr...
www.thelocal.de
January 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’ll die on this hill: dual citizenship for people who have moved to another country should be a basic human right.
www.thelocal.de/20250106/cdu...
www.thelocal.de/20250106/cdu...
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The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
January 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
New
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
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this is worth reading if only as further evidence for the thesis that these self-proclaimed philosopher capitalists are total morons who huff paint and call it insight
All I can say about this Peter Thiel op-ed in the Financial Times is that it reads like something he actually wrote. No comms team or AI chatbot is capable of producing this strange paranoid string of sentences www.ft.com/content/a46c...
A time for truth and reconciliation
Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets
www.ft.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
this is worth reading if only as further evidence for the thesis that these self-proclaimed philosopher capitalists are total morons who huff paint and call it insight
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This is a really neat idea. Using delay data to forecast if you're going to get your connection on German railways bahnvorhersage.de
It uses historical delay data to work this out
It feels very provisional for now, but the idea is excellent
It uses historical delay data to work this out
It feels very provisional for now, but the idea is excellent
Bahn-Vorhersage
Rankingsystem für Zugverbindungen nach ihrer Anschlusssicherheit basierend auf Machine Learning
bahnvorhersage.de
December 27, 2024 at 2:47 PM
This is a really neat idea. Using delay data to forecast if you're going to get your connection on German railways bahnvorhersage.de
It uses historical delay data to work this out
It feels very provisional for now, but the idea is excellent
It uses historical delay data to work this out
It feels very provisional for now, but the idea is excellent
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Reflecting on this year with AI I still think Gūnther Anders is indispensable reading for our time. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Günther Anders in Silicon Valley: Artificial intelligence and moral atrophy - Elke Schwarz, 2019
Artificial Intelligence as a buzzword and a technological development is presently cast as the ultimate ‘game changer’ for economy and society; a technology of ...
journals.sagepub.com
December 27, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Reflecting on this year with AI I still think Gūnther Anders is indispensable reading for our time. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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This is what you do when you are making something everybody wants
“What about people who don’t want to pay for an AI assistant to spruce up their documents and summarize emails? They are out of luck.”
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/micr...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/micr...
December 26, 2024 at 7:07 PM
This is what you do when you are making something everybody wants
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Some guy running an AI for office in Colorado. Newsom touting Generative AI to solve California's homeless crisis and fix its budget. How long until we get a real-life Talbot Yancy?
The problem with reading Philip K Dick is that it all comes true, all too soon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pen...
The problem with reading Philip K Dick is that it all comes true, all too soon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pen...
The Penultimate Truth - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 6, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Some guy running an AI for office in Colorado. Newsom touting Generative AI to solve California's homeless crisis and fix its budget. How long until we get a real-life Talbot Yancy?
The problem with reading Philip K Dick is that it all comes true, all too soon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pen...
The problem with reading Philip K Dick is that it all comes true, all too soon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pen...
"This could lead to wearable technology that tells the lecturer that students' attention is waning"...Something makes me think @ethicistforhire.bsky.social will love that prospect
No more soporific lectures
In a unique experiment, researchers at the University of Twente conducted brain measurements on 20 students at the same time. During a one-hour lecture that alternated between passive and interactive,...
www.utwente.nl
February 15, 2024 at 2:55 PM
"This could lead to wearable technology that tells the lecturer that students' attention is waning"...Something makes me think @ethicistforhire.bsky.social will love that prospect
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Did you know that Hungary has blocked a common budget before, in 1903, in the Habsburg Empire? Perhaps the solution could inspire today’s EU.
My latest for @ForeignPolicy
foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/31/e...
My latest for @ForeignPolicy
foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/31/e...
The Habsburg Solution for Viktor Orban
History offers Europe a playbook for fighting back against Hungarian blackmail.
foreignpolicy.com
January 31, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Did you know that Hungary has blocked a common budget before, in 1903, in the Habsburg Empire? Perhaps the solution could inspire today’s EU.
My latest for @ForeignPolicy
foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/31/e...
My latest for @ForeignPolicy
foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/31/e...