Maaike

@MaaikeV
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Social Psychologist, digital native, checks sources, loves irony. Maker of humans, breaker of stuff, hacker of both. Tries not to judge. Google-fu

Interested in the connection between #infosec, #cyber, #users, #ui and #training

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It will come as no surprise to you that the Netherlands intelligence agencies are now no longer sharing intelligence with the US (and specifically that on Russia).

Whether this is part of a wide intelligence inoculation from the US remains to be seen, but if the Dutch are saying it, you can bet other intelligence agencies are quietly withholding from information sharing with the US.

More evidence of a ongoing fragmentation of global politics in the age of Trump

#politics #spys
h/t FT

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software 🇬🇧

"When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant these scamps immunity,” confirmed French prosecutor Alain Barbier."

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

Pour les non anglophones 🇫🇷:

Les voleurs du Louvre bénéficient de l'immunité après avoir confirmé que les bijoux avaient été volés dans le but d'entraîner un logiciel d'intelligence artificielle

"Lorsque nous avons réalisé que ces bijoux n'avaient été volés que pour gonfler le cours de l'action d'une société dont toute la valeur repose sur le vol en gros des œuvres d'art d'autrui, nous n'avons eu d'autre choix que d'accorder l'immunité à ces escrocs", a confirmé le procureur français Alain Barbier.

#Francais #France

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software. "When …

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Please remember that "Red Tape" is why there's no sawdust in your bread and the nearest river has not actually caught on fire lately.
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Well whaddya know, Amazon AWS fired hundreds of people in their cloud computing unit in July:
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-aws-cloud-computing-unit-cuts-least-hundreds-jobs-sources-say-2025-07-17/

> …just a month after CEO Andy Jassy warned that adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction.

Clown Computing! 🤡

#AWS #AWSOutage

Saw this on Bluesky,

Pretty sure @pluralistic knows the photo but enshittification was visualized well

Credit for posting : [email protected].

Frank Zappa Time photograph superimposed on work by Frank Kunert

https://www.instagram.com/p/BujCFSInYez

I’m totally charmed by these snaps of some of the best sumo wrestlers in the world touring London, posing in front of Big Ben, doing the Abbey Road walk, etc. https://kottke.org/25/10/sumo-tourists-in-london
Sumo Tourists in London

I’m totally charmed by these snaps of some of the best sumo wrestlers in the world touring London. The athletes w

kottke.org
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