Stephan Eggermont

@StOnSoftware
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French judge Nicolas Guillou dared to sign an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes. In retaliation, Trump has branded him a "terrorist" and AXA is now refusing to pay the judge's medical bills.

We forced AXA to stop funding war crimes before, now we must force them to stop taking orders from Trump

AXA, don’t take orders from Trump!

Do YOU have insurance from AXA?

A French judge is being treated like a terrorist.

Nicolas Guillou’s "crime"? He upheld international law and signed an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

https://action.eko.org/a/axa-don-t-take-orders-from-trump

Trump’s retaliation was vicious: he blacklisted the judge alongside drug lords and Al-Qaeda. But the real betrayal is at home: the insurer AXA has frozen the judge's health reimbursements. This is a European judge, getting care in Europe, from a French company. No U.S. dollars. No U.S. laws broken. AXA is simply bowing to Trump's bullying — leaving a man’s health in the crossfire.

AXA’s reputation is its biggest weakness. We’ve already broken them before – forcing them to divest from companies linked to the Occupation and genocide in Palestine. If we flood their board with thousands of signatures today, we make "obeying Trump" a toxic brand risk they can’t afford.

If AXA gets away with this, Trump has a remote control over our lives. If he can block a judge's health insurance for pursuing justice, he can silence anyone.

Judge Guillou warns his life has become a "laboratory for the loss of sovereignty." We cannot let corporate spinelessness become the new law of the land.

https://action.eko.org/a/axa-don-t-take-orders-from-trump

AXA must stop funding war crimes. Now, we must stop them from helping Trump dismantle the very idea of justice.

Cobbled together from an email!

De problemen in Nederland
- Drinkwater
- Oppervlakte water (o.a. meststoffen)
- Schaarste met Elektriciteit
- Woningnood
- Luchtvervuiling (o.a. industrie)
- Stikstof (bv boeren)
- Grond is vervuild (o.a. PFAS)
- Digitale autonomie (digid issues)
- Manosfeer
- Femicide
- Zorg loopt vast
- Desinformatie op Internet
- Nazi's marcheren in de straten
- Oorlog op de rand van Europa
- Klimaatramp komt er aan

En noem maar op wat je mist.

Maar het gaat 99,99 % van de tijd over die paar asielzoekers.

En dan te bedenken dat de #asielcrisis een nepcrisis is, terwijl we echt wel serieuze problemen hebben:

#jeugdzorg #dakloosheid #wachtlijsten #Nieuwsuur

Via @LisaWesterveld en @ErikJonker

Dear fellow Germans,
if it were 1930s' and this happened to a Jewish person: would you behave like many of your compatriots at the time, ie do not care and even think that may be right? or, would you do like Hanno and strongly oppose it?
NEVER AGAIN IS NOT A TRIBAL SLOGAN.

US requesting Israel to divert Palestinian tax money into the 'Gaza plan' is triply unlawful:
-withholding is illegal
-the diversion would amount to unlawful appropriation
-the Gaza plan is the burial of Palestinian self-determination.

This must stop
Palestine is not for pillage

Reese Witherspoon is the greatest method actor of all time.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

A fancy model won’t magically compensate for poor understanding of your data.

A VERY common mistake in data analysis is jumping to complex solutions too early. AI has made this even easier by making sophisticated tools extremely accessible.

Sometimes, a linear model or a PCA already tells you most of the story.

Complexity has its place.
But using it too early often masks problems instead of solving them.

Often, the real bottleneck is not the model.
It’s how little we understand our data.

Hier wordt stelselmatig weggekeken. In de TK lopen ophitsers, populisten rond die georganiseerd extreem rechts geweld ondersteunen uit persoonlijk politiek gewin, ten koste van de democratische rechtsstaat. Jesse Klaver (PRO) durft dit te benoemen.
https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/jesse-klaver-na-bomaanslag-op-asielopvang-politici-die-de-boel-opstoken-zijn-onderdeel-van-het-probleem