The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside

Norway comes for the #TechBros

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.

Trump wil Groenland om z’n techvrienden aan een eigen land te helpen:

‘Silicon Valley tech investors had begun ‘promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a libertarian utopia with minimal corporate regulation.’’

newrepublic.com/article/2051...

- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

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He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Analyse van de partijprogramma's van de verschillende politieke partijen aangaande hun plannen met het wetenschappelijk onderwijs.

Maakt het wat makkelijker te besluiten wat te stemmen, wat mij betreft. #WOinActie

@thijszonneveld.bsky.social Ik kom uit Québec en woon in NL. Magdeleine Vallieres haar naam moet jij geen “s” zeggen, in het Nederlands: wa-lie-er

Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts

Will the absence of public transport infrastructure in North America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

We’re offering a free bollard to anyone who can tell us what this superb little car is.
#WorldBollardAssociation

I can’t wait until we try to replace doctors with AI.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

"AI will make 1000s of people redundant"

Rutte: 'Navalny had band met Poetin moeten herstellen' Aleksej Navalny had er goed aan gedaan te proberen zijn band met Vladimir Poetin te herstellen. Dat vindt secretaris-generaal Mark Rutte van de NAVO.

Rutte: 'Navalny had band met Poetin moeten herstellen'

3 lines of terminal commands for using pixi to install qgis

🌶️ pixi.sh is the easiest and fastest way to install #QGIS on Ubuntu (maybe Mac too) right now if you need access to GeoParquet and DuckDb formats and python libraries for plugins 🧵 #gischat

I can confirm it works like a charm for macOS too.

One week left to apply for this fully-funded PhD position at TUDelft

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A screenshot of the book's website

An image with the publication date: February 14, 2025

🎉 The "Geocomputation with Python" book has been officially published today!

Dive into the world of spatial analysis and geospatial data with Python. 📖🐍

Book's website: https://buff.ly/3NK2uBq

#geocompx #geopython #spatialanalysis

There are some templates from journals but I don’t know if you can submit this… yet.

But for assignments, exams, letters, lecture notes, it’s getting a great alternative IMO.

And our MSc students, instead of learning (old and archaic?) LaTeX, can just learn Typst (which is like Mardown)

Typst: Compose papers faster Focus on your text and let Typst take care of layout and formatting. Sign up now and speed up your writing process.

The missing link for me to switch from LaTeX to Typst (typst.app) is now a reality: with muchpdf we can use PDF figures!

github.com/frozolotl/mu...

(I often have figures with several pages; converting them to different SVG file was just a no-no).

Scandinavian scientists seem to have some of the best work-life balance, Chinese scientists some of the worst, as measured by who submits their papers and peer reviews to the BMJ late at night, on weekends, and holidays😅

www.bmj.com/content/367/...

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

Not direct raster-to-vector but I reckon this is great to get a good shape once you have a bad vector shape (which is easy I guess): doc.cgal.org/latest/Shape...

Roofs in Rotterdam categorised in different uses

🚀 Fully-funded PhD position at TUDelft 🚀

3D reconstruction and modelling of roofs in European cities

Deadline to apply: 2 March 2025

3d.bk.tudelft.nl/jobs/phdmult...

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

Un premier candidat sérieux au poste de tsar du fentanyl à la frontière canadienne.