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America’s action in Venezuela cannot be understood without looking at the Netherlands’ historical role in feeding tensions in the region, writes historian Thomas van Gaalen. https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/01/the-netherlands-cannot-deny-its-role-in-the-venezuelan-crisis/

"The Netherlands cannot deny its role in the Venezuelan crisis" - DutchNews.nl

America’s action in Venezuela cannot be understood without looking at the Netherlands’ historical role in feeding tensions in the region, writes historian Thomas van Gaalen. On Saturday January 3, tensions in the Caribbean suddenly boiled over. After the United States sank over 20 boats and forcibly boarded several oil tankers, the situation ended in what can only be described as a coup. The American army bombed important cities and army bases in Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro. In a...

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Madhu Jan 12

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Meredith Whittaker Jan 12

Why? See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANECpNdt-4

39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy

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Madhu Jan 11

Mastodon Jan 9

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Support Mastodon. Keep the internet in the hands of the people: Donate #SupportMastodon

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

Madhu Jan 3

Eugen Rochko Jan 3

I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.

Madhu Dec 23

It's FOSS Dec 23

Massive respect to his efforts so far. 🙏

#linux #linustorvalds

Madhu Dec 23

Greenpeace International Dec 23

Whether it's through acts of kindness, volunteering in local communities, or supporting causes that promote social and environmental justice, everyone has the power to make a positive difference.

Let's spread love and connection wherever we go.

Together, we can build a brighter future for ourselves and future generations. ❤️ #LoveAndConnection #GlobalCommunity

Madhu Dec 21

nixCraft 🐧Dec 21

The search giant Google claims SerpApi is running an "unlawful" operation by using hundreds of millions of fake requests to bypass security and scrape search results at scale and selling that data to OTHER AI companies for profit. 😅🤣 https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/serpapi-lawsuit/

Biggest web scraping/LLM company in the world is suing a web scraping company for web scraping its content obtained illegally without paying for it. isn’t that something? It is not like that Google does something like that.. oh wait a sec..

Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping

We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi.

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Madhu Dec 20

@innsbruck_greeters hi! That’s very nice. Can I meet someone? I am here for another week.

Madhu Oct 28

Meredith Whittaker Oct 27

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Madhu Oct 28

🫧 socialcoding..Oct 28

Suppose run-amok #capitalism is a car model. Then what is its engine that keeps it going on its destructive rampage? And what fuel does it run on?

Is it the #internet revved up to full overload? Is it high octane #data, that keeps the pistons running like crazy?

According to a Harvard study, FOSS contributes ~9 trillion to hypercapitalist #economy.

What then is #FOSS in this analogy? Free turbochargers?

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html

Harvard study: Open source has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars

Open source software is worth trillions to the economy. However, researchers warn that companies contribute too little to the development of open source tools.

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