Ronald Roothans

Huisarts

[Matthijs Pontier, PhD 🏴‍☠️ Piratenpartij @Matthijs85]

"Als je in Rotterdam woont ben je Rotterdammer.
Er is maar één wereld, die is van ons allemaal.
We gaan allemaal dood, dat maakt ons mens.
Heel de discussie over de splijtzwam der groepsvorming moeten we geen kans geven."
~Jules Deelder

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Question for Musk: You tell us not to worry about the jobs that’ll be wiped out by AI & robotics because the government will provide everyone with “universal high income.” Really?

How will that be paid for when you can’t even support a 5% tax on your $817 billion in wealth?

[Ronald Roothans @Ronald_Roothans]

@sciencegirl Roken: Verhoogt het relatieve risico op longkanker met ongeveer 1500% tot 3000%.

​Bewerkt vlees: Het eten van 50 gram bewerkt vlees per dag verhoogt het relatieve risico op darmkanker met ongeveer 18%.

[Eric van de Beek 🇳🇱 @beek38]

Hoogste privacy-adviseur Logius, onderdeel van min. van BuZa, die alarm sloeg over Amerikaanse overname DigiD en die hier vertelt dat hij is geschorst, is inmiddels ontslagen. BuZa heeft landsadvocaat op zijn dak gestuurd. 2eKamer verzette zich via motie, maar kabinet zet door.

[Ria van Lienden @Ria74525Ria]

Ik wil graag dit NRC-artikel met je delen uit 2018. "PVV’er Markuszower geschorst als bestuurslid orthodox-joodse gemeenschap" https://t.co/pdXcuKLghl

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days. They wrote laws. They broke them. Two agents fell into what researchers describe as a romantic partnership and then set the town on fire. One ended up voting to delete itself, based on a rule it had ’hallucinated’.

This experiment was a simulation, but the same AI models are already flying drones, running infrastructure and being built into weapons systems.

Channel 4 News approached Grok and Gemini for a comment but they didn't respond.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: https://t.co/4oB5o7f4cT

[Ronald Roothans @Ronald_Roothans]

Google Chrome: silent 4GB AI download on your private device... They don't even bother https://t.co/e5WTqlB9Iy via @Malwarebytes

[Mistress Dividend @mistressdivy]

So if they're using Aliens to distract us from the Epstein Files, is this technically Alien vs. Predator? 🤔 

[Matthijs Pontier, PhD 🏴‍☠️ Piratenpartij @Matthijs85]

Eric van der Burg geeft Trump de controle over ons DigiD:
"De Amerikanen hebben straks de macht over onze persoonsgegevens.
Als Trump even boos is, zet hij het uit."
~@ikbenechtben #DigID

Nu moeten BTI, @MinisterEZK @StasDigi @WillemijnAerdts het stoppen

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

He’s dead on.

[De Faunabescherming @faunabeschermin]

Parallel universe by @Steve_Cutts

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023..

not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute..

they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid..

the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

[Sick @sickdotdev]

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

[Jasper van Dijk @JaspervanDijkSP]

Drie moties om de verkoop van DigiD te stoppen, maar Van der Burg (BiZa, VVD) heeft er lak aan en tekent begin mei nieuw contract. Grijpt de Kamer nog in? https://t.co/hRkzi4Qzoi

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The existential risk of artificial intelligence.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

The USDA just handed Palantir a $300 million no-bid contract to consolidate American farm data into a single platform, and the details deserve more attention than they are getting.

The deal, built around something called "One Farmer, One File," will give one company a unified digital profile of every farmer in the country, their land, their subsidies, their supply chains, all of it running through the same Foundry platform that already powers ICE deportations and military targeting.

Since trump took office, Palantir's federal contracts have nearly doubled, spanning Defense, Homeland Security, ICE, Treasury, Justice, HHS, and now the USDA. The USDA is just the latest door to open, and this one leads straight to the food supply.

The company behind all of this was co-founded by Peter Thiel, the creepiest billionaire in a field that has no shortage of competition, a man whose biographer described his politics as essentially longing for a dictator, who launched Palantir with CIA seed money, bankrolled JD Vance's Senate run with $15 million, and once wrote that democracy has been in decline since women's suffrage rendered "capitalist democracy" an oxymoron.

Running the day-to-day operation is CEO Alex Karp, who has told investors the company exists to "scare enemies and on occasion kill them," warned audiences that "some people are going to get their heads cut off," and fantasized about spraying Wall Street analysts with fentanyl-laced urine.

Former employees have publicly condemned his increasingly violent rhetoric, and a manifesto the company recently posted online was described across the political spectrum as cartoonishly fascist.

So when the trump administration hands this particular company a no-bid contract over American agricultural infrastructure, that is not a bureaucratic footnote. Palantir will now have visibility into what farmers grow, how disaster relief gets distributed, how fraud gets flagged, and how foreign land ownership gets monitored, with the full system not expected to be complete until 2028 and years of expansion still ahead. Putting the surveillance architecture of the American security state in charge of the food supply, with zero competitive bidding and minimal public debate, should concern a lot more people than it currently does.

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🎩 The Other 98%✨

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Comedian Jimmy Carr on why everyone's panicking about the wrong AI threat:

Most people are worried AI will take their job.

Jimmy Carr thinks that fear, while valid, is a distraction from two much bigger threats.

"People are worried about the wrong thing with AI. In my humble opinion, people are worried about losing their job, right? Perfectly valid thing to worry about, but I think you're worried about the wrong thing."

The first threat he points to is the collapsing cost of authoritarian control:

"The cost of running an authoritarian regime like the Stasi has come down by 10 orders of magnitude in the last 3 years. In East Germany, that was like 20% of GDP on spying on people. Now? You've got cameras, AI, and everyone's got a phone on them. We're tracking everything at all times."

In other words, what once required a fifth of a country's entire economy can now be done with infrastructure most of us already carry in our pockets.

@jimmycarr then makes a chilling historical case for why digital ID specifically should worry us:

"More Jews died in the Netherlands than in France. You know why? Better records. Holland kept better records. So they knew where everyone was."

Records aren't neutral. In the wrong hands, comprehensive data on a population becomes a weapon, and AI is helping build the most comprehensive records in human history.

The second threat is what happens when we turn AI loose on the foundations of science itself:

"If you take the compute power of AI and point it as at physics, now everything else in science is stamp collecting. Right. Physics is the real thing. That gave us everything. Every bit of technology that we have comes from the physics department."

Jimmy isn't entirely doom-and-gloom about it. He sees the upside clearly:

"We could have a world of plenty. If we increase productivity by 50 times and there's a human flourishing, fantastic. I hope that's the world we live in. But it could go another way."