Bart Schapendonk

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Bart Schapendonk1d ago
Marleen Stikker1d ago
Incredible. “US has subpoenaed all tech companies to hand over all messages with EU officials that enforce the DSA” https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-probes-eu-bureaucrats-hiding-efforts-censor-american-speech
Chairman Jordan Probes EU Bureaucrats Hiding Efforts to Censor American Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to ten technology companies—including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Reddit, Rumble, TikTok, and xAI—reiterating that the Committee's document subpoenas require the companies to produce communications with foreign censors, including the European Commission and European Union (

House Judiciary Committee Republicans
Bart SchapendonkMar 1
Cat overflow exception
#cats #catsofmastodon
Bart SchapendonkFeb 23
Show threadRenaud ChaputFeb 23
@jerry I foresee a 25% to 50% price increase in the next 2 years for everything requiring hardware, including servers, cloud but also laptops and phones. This will have a *huge* impact.
Bart SchapendonkFeb 23
Tjeerd RoyaardsFeb 23

Jetten 1 gaat van start. Cartoon voor Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#Jetten #stikstof #klimaat #armoede #hypotheekrenteaftrek

Bart SchapendonkFeb 13
Tjeerd RoyaardsFeb 13

If 2026 were a shopping mall, it would probably look like this. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#fascism #racism #manosphere #tradwives #democracy

Bart SchapendonkFeb 8
#CatsOfMastodon
Bart SchapendonkFeb 7
#caturday #catsOfMastodon
Bart SchapendonkFeb 6
Show threadAndreeaFeb 3

In 2025, Big Tech—just ten major companies—spent €49 million lobbying Brussels. That’s more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.

Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.

This is no longer “poor old me, I need a bit of help,” this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

Bart SchapendonkFeb 2
Charlie StrossFeb 2

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/116000388750823868

A reasonable summary of the field (a technologist's eye view). Note that the insane economic bubble has very little to do with the underlying technologies. LLMs are impressive but not very useful; other areas of AI/ML that don't get the gosh-wow coverage—pattern reconizers—are potentially revolutionary for a variety of fields.

Bart SchapendonkFeb 1
Amir KhanFeb 1

If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
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“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”

or putting it another way:

If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
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