Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
@berthubert.bsky.social
Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist, publicist. https://berthub.eu/ More active on Mastodon -> @[email protected] -> Nederlandse BlueSky @berthub.eu
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We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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We need to talk about this A LOT in Europe. Such a shocking illustration of how we are getting colonized by the Americans. Let's spread this widely so it helps galvanize public opinion.
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We need to talk about this A LOT in Europe. Such a shocking illustration of how we are getting colonized by the Americans. Let's spread this widely so it helps galvanize public opinion.
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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#NerdVote in het nieuws! Vandaag vanaf 16:00 ergens in EenVandaag op Radio 1. En, ook op tv! EenVandaag om 18:30. En nu al een artikel: eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/ne...
Nerds gezocht: veel minder Tweede Kamerleden met digitale kennis
Het bepaalt inmiddels elk deel van ons dagelijks leven, maar in het parlement is de kennis over zaken als kunstmatige intelligentie, clouddiensten en digital...
eenvandaag.avrotros.nl
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#NerdVote in het nieuws! Vandaag vanaf 16:00 ergens in EenVandaag op Radio 1. En, ook op tv! EenVandaag om 18:30. En nu al een artikel: eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/ne...
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I made this clip to illustrate my 10 year love-hate experience on Twitter and what made me finally walk away. 🤣😂
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I made this clip to illustrate my 10 year love-hate experience on Twitter and what made me finally walk away. 🤣😂
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There’s no shortage of ways inverters can be turned into weapons, writes @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social @ecfrpower.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4pGeDbd
https://bit.ly/4pGeDbd
How China could crash Europe’s energy grid and what the EU can do about it
Europe’s solar boom has quietly handed Beijing remote access to hundreds of gigawatts of its power capacity. Without a 5G-type toolbox banning untrustworthy suppliers of inverters and other grid…
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
There’s no shortage of ways inverters can be turned into weapons, writes @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social @ecfrpower.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4pGeDbd
https://bit.ly/4pGeDbd
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I’m reading (again) about Stalin’s cult of personality but I think even he would have considered this a bit much
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I’m reading (again) about Stalin’s cult of personality but I think even he would have considered this a bit much
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Remembering the lead-up to the publication of the Mueller report, and how so many sincerely believed that would change *everything*.
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Remembering the lead-up to the publication of the Mueller report, and how so many sincerely believed that would change *everything*.
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Fate of humanity now rests on
Nvidia earnings report.
Nvidia earnings report.
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Fate of humanity now rests on
Nvidia earnings report.
Nvidia earnings report.
Preparing my talk over at Delft University tomorrow evening (you can still sign up here vvtp.nl/article/symp... ). I'll be presenting on the role of science in our (military) security. And I found out today that the Wassenaar Arrangement has this astounding logo:
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Preparing my talk over at Delft University tomorrow evening (you can still sign up here vvtp.nl/article/symp... ). I'll be presenting on the role of science in our (military) security. And I found out today that the Wassenaar Arrangement has this astounding logo:
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UK 🇬🇧 Ministry of Defence (MOD) image of Russian spy ship Yantar, presumably in or near UK waters.
Note that the ROV (remote operated vehicle, a deep-sea robot) A-frame is deployed (red). It’s doing something on the seabed.
Also two new radomes (yellow)
Note that the ROV (remote operated vehicle, a deep-sea robot) A-frame is deployed (red). It’s doing something on the seabed.
Also two new radomes (yellow)
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
UK 🇬🇧 Ministry of Defence (MOD) image of Russian spy ship Yantar, presumably in or near UK waters.
Note that the ROV (remote operated vehicle, a deep-sea robot) A-frame is deployed (red). It’s doing something on the seabed.
Also two new radomes (yellow)
Note that the ROV (remote operated vehicle, a deep-sea robot) A-frame is deployed (red). It’s doing something on the seabed.
Also two new radomes (yellow)
Yesterday I attended the @powerdns.bsky.social 25th anniversary event, which was tremendous. When we started PowerDNS back in 2000, I could not have dreamed that 25 years later it would be such a big thing. As a founder who has moved on, attending such an event is an emotional roller coaster.
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Yesterday I attended the @powerdns.bsky.social 25th anniversary event, which was tremendous. When we started PowerDNS back in 2000, I could not have dreamed that 25 years later it would be such a big thing. As a founder who has moved on, attending such an event is an emotional roller coaster.
Glad that some cooperation is still possible. A climate satellite no less.
LAUNCH at 0521 UTC Nov 17 of Falcon 9 from Vandenberg with the Sentinel-6B ocean sea level altimetry satellite, a joint EU/NASA project
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Glad that some cooperation is still possible. A climate satellite no less.
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Hedline here doesn't reflect what a good post it is geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
Hollowed out: can the centre hold?
Can the centre hold and resist the far right?
geoffmulgan.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hedline here doesn't reflect what a good post it is geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
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German taxpayers are handing BMW €273m to once again attempt to push hydrogen-powered cars, when battery prices have once again dropped >50% in the past ~18 month and CATL is on its 5th-gen LFP battery.
CATL, BYD et al must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sigh.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
CATL, BYD et al must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sigh.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
Wasserstoff-Autos: BMW erhält staatliche Förderung zur Entwicklung
Hat der Einsatz von Wasserstoff eine Zukunft bei der Autoentwicklung? BMW glaubt nach wie vor daran. Jetzt erhält der Konzern eine staatliche Förderung für die Weiterentwicklung der Technologie.
www.spiegel.de
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
German taxpayers are handing BMW €273m to once again attempt to push hydrogen-powered cars, when battery prices have once again dropped >50% in the past ~18 month and CATL is on its 5th-gen LFP battery.
CATL, BYD et al must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sigh.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
CATL, BYD et al must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sigh.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
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Please teach this in politics school.
Project management is not the same as strategic leadership. Confusing the two is proving to be very costly.
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Please teach this in politics school.
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Kate Manne coined the term “himpathy” to describe “the disproportionate or inappropriate sympathy extended to a male perpetrator over his similarly or less privileged female targets or victims, in cases of sexual assault, harassment, and other misogynistic behavior.”
The Costs of Male Entitlement
The philosopher and author of “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women” discusses Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and what differentiates sexism from misogyny.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Kate Manne coined the term “himpathy” to describe “the disproportionate or inappropriate sympathy extended to a male perpetrator over his similarly or less privileged female targets or victims, in cases of sexual assault, harassment, and other misogynistic behavior.”
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This is the kind of thing that makes Ms. Kabas required reading.
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is the kind of thing that makes Ms. Kabas required reading.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
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Millennials: “What is wrong with kids today, shouting ‘6 7’ all the time? It doesn’t even mean anything.”
Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”
Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Millennials: “What is wrong with kids today, shouting ‘6 7’ all the time? It doesn’t even mean anything.”
Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”
Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”
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Barbara Kathmann (GL-PvdA) kan mede dankzij #NerdVote blijven strijden tegen techbro’s in de VS
Barbara Kathmann (GL-PvdA) kan mede dankzij #NerdVote blijven strijden tegen techbro’s in de VS
www.volkskrant.nl
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Barbara Kathmann (GL-PvdA) kan mede dankzij #NerdVote blijven strijden tegen techbro’s in de VS