THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Stopping anthropogenic climate change is terraforming on "easy" mode. Until we can sort out global warming we have no business considering terraforming Mars.

Hi everybody - this account will soon migrate to @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social - with many thanks to the fosstodon.org maintainers for many years of great service.

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social)

2 Posts, 0 Following, 5 Followers · Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist. https://berthub.eu/

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Happy bats in the margin Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

The bot is making a lot of noise about Galileo, the EU GPS. This is because Galileo is being very weird and is clearly running on outdated orbital data. It might still be accurate enough though. This was announced very cryptically last week that there would be “deviations”. Galileo […]

Do the things that are meaningful while you can, because gosh it makes a difference

As I type away into the void, hoping to achieve something, I sometimes wonder if it is worth it. Do people read this stuff? There are now 222 articles on https://berthub.eu/articles/ and sometimes one of these gets read really well. But what about the "back […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

OK, I'm going to hammer on this one. Five days might not seem like much to get 700,000 signature, but I've seen petitions get to 1 million in a day to save baby seals, so why not this one. We have 4 countries above the threshold, but even if you're in those, your signature can make a different […]

I too have an important announcement tomorrow! It is good news, so no worries.

Students not merely cheating with, but utterly relying on AI in "a society that treats schooling as [nothing more than] a means to a high-paying job" is deeply concerning as AI may actually make you dumber: "research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their […]

I've written an unhealthy amount of words on "the cloud" and specifically Europe's woes. In the post below I tie many articles together into a hopefully useful overview. It may be good to know that nothing what I write on the cloud is novel or original, I mostly hope to report things as they are […]

In hindsight they were right. This is exactly what Republicans are now.

ESA reports K482SA reentered between 0604 UITC (seen by radar on pass over Europe) and 0732 UTC (not seen by European radars on the next orbit). Roskosmos reports that reentry was at 0624 UTC over the Indian Ocean, but with no details on how they conclude that.

LEO sat disposal is a new environmental disaster brewing, mostly because of the actions of a single private company, but really, it's everyone's operating procedure in LEO. Just burn those sats up in Earth's atmosphere when they're done! They just disappear! And if they don't, they probably […]

During my time in the European Parliament, I attended a crucial final negotiation between Portuguese, Danish, German, Romanian and French MEPs, only to discover there had been a mixup and we would have no interpretation (translators) for the meeting. ⬇️

Happy Europe Day from Brussels! Today marks 75 years since Europe's Nations chose peaceful cooperation over war. On Europe Day I wanted to share a personal anecdote about that cooperation. ⬇️🧵

This clip must be shown in schools and shopping centres in all regions of eastern Germany. The hapless German reporter asks whether it would have been possible to commemorate the end of the war alongside the Russians, "not necessarily hand in hand", but […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"Make war not just unthinkable, but materially impossible." Today marks 75 years since the Schuman Declaration. A bit of European history to be proud of. Let's cherish it.

I've written an unhealthy amount of words on "the cloud" and specifically Europe's woes. In the post below I tie many articles together into a hopefully useful overview. It may be good to know that nothing what I write on the cloud is novel or original, I mostly hope to report things as they are […]

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Long but cheering+ practical from @bert_hubert https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-coherent-non-us-cloud-strategy/ "Europe has ample compute capacity and skills.... the carrot won’t be enough to make Europe sovereign again. We must have our own technology under our own control, but we must […]

Everyone agrees something needs to be done about our total dependence on US clouds. But what? And who should do it? Ample words have been written on the 'why', and we also have a lot of text on our values and that *someone* should do *something*. Here I elaborate on an earlier suggestion with a […]

"«In der Schweiz wird es keine private, digitale und datenschutz­freundliche Kommunikation mehr geben», so Alexis Roussel." Die @republik_magazin -Recherche von @adfichter rüttelt auf. #VÜPF #BÜPF #Überwachung […]

Spaceweather's website has some rather ominous notes about the giant sunspot that's now pointed directly towards us... https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=05&month=05&year=2025

"All eyes on Los Angeles with tariff impact looming: Intermodal demand remains strong despite concern over imports" www.freightwaves.com/news/all-eye...

All eyes on Los Angeles with tariff impact looming

Southern California is at the epicenter of freight coming from China. Domestic demand patterns have not changed much since “Liberation Day,” but no one expects this to last.

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"Underlying this is the idea that common sense always wins in the end. And yet the peculiar horror of the present moment is that we cannot be sure that this is so. It is quite possible that we are descending into an age in which two and two will make five when the Leader says so." - George […]

Y’all know my take on the world, but in case you’re up for reading an interview: I recently sat down with journalist Maurits Martijn of De Correspondent, and the result was just published. It’s in Dutch, but it’s likely quite readable still through your favorite translation service.

Deze visionaire activist slaat alarm: als de Trump-regering geen fascisme is, wat dan wel?

Activist en hacker Rop Gonggrijp heeft een zorgwekkende boodschap: in Nederland laten wij niet écht tot ons doordringen hoe snel de Verenigde Staten afglijden in fascisme. ‘Ik weet niet wat er nu nog ...

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Our #SaveVOA Twitter/X social media account, run by a team of VOA News staffers silenced by USAGM since mid-March, was suspended this afternoon.

US Port Update - May 4, 2025 | Trade Wars: Port of Los Angeles Says Imports are Dropping ▶️ Executive Director of Port of LA talks China trade ▶️ Impact on US Ports? ▶️ What are the options if you ship cargo from China? ▶️ Impact to the #supplychain? youtu.be/43VMteILGOI

US Port Update - May 4, 2025 | Trade Wars: Port of Los Angeles Says Imports are Dropping

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