What will be the consequences of Ukrainian drone strikes on Wildberries warehouses? One Russian paper today: “Russian enterprises will face a deterioration in financial performance due to rising logistics costs & damage to warehouse infrastructure.” #ReadingRussia

Russia's platform economy "threatened" by Ukrainian drone strikes, warns Russian paper.

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NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

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On this dreary Monday, if you think the world has gone completely mad, let me remind you that you are completely right. Seeing it written down might be somewhat liberating: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-ho...

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If you are into John le Carré you'll enjoy this very insightful and entertaining read. "He said of spying: “It’s a journalistic job done in secret”" - and having worked in both fields, this rings true. criticalflame.org/john-le-carr...

John le Carré’s Life Beyond The Pigeon Tunnel

David Cromwell, a little like Smiley.

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Yeah. And Claude has made it stunningly easy for mediocre and below engineers to generate “fixes” that double down on architectural five alarm fires without every stopping to think about what they’re doing

My job as a guy who has officially Seen Some Shit in my professional career is now to show up and say "yes yes nice workaround but have we tried not having this problem" and then showing what not having the problem looks like. I can't imagine this is popular but by god is it needed

EDPB Letter to the European Commission on US Supreme Court judgment Trump v. Slaughter. www.edpb.europa.eu/documents/ed...

Linked to article is lying about stories. I assume AI - maybe human. The project reported on (and linked to) is *cranberries* (not blue). The ‘sweeter’ berries claim is made up. The reference linked to with claims of testing is a solar project database site. Nothing related to fruit testing.

In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes

In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.

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What are this morning’s Russian papers saying about Saturday’s restaurant bombing in Moscow? Almost nothing. #ReadingRussia

Russian newspapers barely mention the Moscow restaurant bombing

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As of today, if you display *newly* AI-created images of food you purport to sell in the EU, I suspect you have to put an 'AI Generated' logo on the photo. Except if your food really looks like that perhaps. This has a lot of words on the matter: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/g...

Adam@grimisham.bsky.social · 3d ago

AI images of food should be illegal. Because if it’s not actually made of worms and covered in piss, then it’s false advertising.

Highly recommend read. Very balanced stating objective facts. Lots of "I didn't about this".

Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦@berthubert.bsky.social · 5d ago

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions. There is enormous pressure to deploy AI, and if you believe the thought leadership, you'd think that if you don't get on board NOW you'll be lost forever. Thoughts on what to do now & what things might best be postponed. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

"[moderates] tend to offer compromises that aren’t particularly useful: AI is just a tool, and everything depends on how you use it. That’s true enough, for almost everything. But will people use it wisely? Do they know how? Are we teaching them?" berthub.eu/articles/pos...

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions - Bert Hubert's writings

Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI. In these two ...

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Gisteren vertelde ik in Het Oog op Morgen over de nieuwe AI-act, en voor wie de verplichtingen van het melden van AI-materiaal gelden. Ook hebben we het over wat werkgevers met AI mogen bij sollicitaties. En, we hebben het over kattenfilmpjes. Vanaf minuut 12:50 www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/met...

NOS Met het Oog op Morgen - Beluister Nieuwe AI-regels, documentaire 'Ja, ik wil' over 25 jaar opengesteld huwelijk en muziekklassieker van Chicago | Podcasts

Beluister NOS Met het Oog op Morgen: Nieuwe AI-regels, documentaire 'Ja, ik wil' over 25 jaar opengesteld huwelijk en muziekklassieker van Chicago

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"There are passionate advocates of AI, and there are people who believe it is the devil incarnate. [...] It is, however, entirely possible to write an article that makes everyone angry about some part. So here goes." By @berthubert.bsky.social berthub.eu/articles/pos...

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions - Bert Hubert's writings

Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI. In these two ...

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Jonathan's Space Report No. 858 published at planet4589.org/jsr.html with the past month's space news

The tweet saying "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those 57 who have died trying to reach Ceuta" was part of this thread but got lost?

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 5d ago

The images coming from Ceuta are unacceptable. We cannot allow anyone to come to our Union without abiding by our rules. Dangerous crossings must stop immediately. Smuggling networks must be dismantled. And returns must be swift, as our rules allow.

Only bollards can deliver this much happiness. #WorldBollardAssociation

This is one of the most nuanced nunanced takes. Thx for that and pointing at that mastodon.social/@gvwilson/11... post. Pure gold.

Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦@berthubert.bsky.social · 5d ago

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions. There is enormous pressure to deploy AI, and if you believe the thought leadership, you'd think that if you don't get on board NOW you'll be lost forever. Thoughts on what to do now & what things might best be postponed. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

These hearing were meant to entrap Dr. Fauci so that Rand Paul could accuse him of perjury. That was what was happening in that room. Rand Paul makes HUAC's Senator Joseph McCarthy look like Mother Teresa. Paul is a nasty piece of work. He's targeting Fauci because he dared call him out.

Qualitative reading! :-)

Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦@berthubert.bsky.social · 5d ago

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions. There is enormous pressure to deploy AI, and if you believe the thought leadership, you'd think that if you don't get on board NOW you'll be lost forever. Thoughts on what to do now & what things might best be postponed. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions. There is enormous pressure to deploy AI, and if you believe the thought leadership, you'd think that if you don't get on board NOW you'll be lost forever. Thoughts on what to do now & what things might best be postponed. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions - Bert Hubert's writings

Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI. In these two ...

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Christmas has come early for data protection folks.

michael veale@michae.lv · 6d ago

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

I spoke by phone today with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi about the situation in the Gulf, as well as Russia's war against Ukraine, which Moscow has further intensified in recent days. (1/4)

Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

I have seen the future, and it does not look good. I replied to an unsolicited but well drafted personalized email message asking if it was sent using AI. And the AI itself answered instantly:

“Writing has been called the process by which you find out you don’t know what you are talking about. Actually doing stuff meanwhile is the process by which you find out you also did not know what you were writing about.” - berthub.eu/articles/pos...

A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) - Bert Hubert's writings

This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away January 1st. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software”, and in what follows, ...

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me [sobbing]: cmon median voter…your preferences can’t be *that* incoherent… median voter: 😎

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

1/ Wildberries sellers are generally blaming the Russian government, rather than Ukraine, for their losses. It's an interesting and striking dynamic, which Russian warbloggers say the Russian government itself has created through its suppression of bad news. ⬇️

The greatest finish on the Champs-Élysées ever!