Patrick Smits

Патрик Смитс | All opinions are not equal. Some are a great deal more robust, sophicated and logical than others. - #DouglasAdams

[Patrick Smits @PatrickSmits]

@KoertsNiels Bij ABN AMRO is alles goed gegaan, tweede account via De Giro wacht ik nog op respons. Status daar is nog steeds grijs.

[Patrick Smits @PatrickSmits]

@ArendJanKamp Ze doen volgens mij precies waar je zelf al maanden voor waarschuwt, nl.hun wegingen in de gaten houden. Hierom brengen ze weging in tech terug en investeren meer in eurozone. Dit in navolging van waarschuwing DNB. Lijkt me dus niet zo raar.

[Harald Doornbos @HaraldDoornbos]

Gaat Den Haag of EU hier nog iets van zeggen?

Of gaat dit in de (overvolle) map: Laten we dit onderwerp maar gewoon negeren en dan 10 jr later onderzoekjes in media en parlement doen waarin we de vraag stellen: Nou poeh zeg, hoe heeft dit destijds zomaar kunnen gebeuren?

[Patrick Smits @PatrickSmits]

@Vafudhr @PernotLeplay Not just Linux, but also office software and critical services that run on top of it. I don’t understand why roads and rivers are maintained by government agencies, but this doesn’t apply to digital infrastructure? By doing so, we deny the role that digital infrastructure plays.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This may be the safest way to run OpenClaw.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Patrick Smits @PatrickSmits]

@LodewijkA @eddy_terstall Als je even lekker wil lachen is The Last Viking ook een aanrader. Onverwacht sterke film.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I cannot tell you just how significant this speech is by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.

Europe is in my view about to call Trump’s bluff and I really don’t think Americans understand just how catastrophically damaging this could be in terms of long term economic impact.

Europe has had enough, as have NATO allies. Trump is about to burn 75 years of close partnerships to satisfy his pathetic ego.

Buckle up folks, because I wouldn’t like to be carrying $38.5 trillion of debt right now. Do you know who supplies 75% of all America’s insulin right now? That would be Denmark 🇩🇰

In addition Novo Nordisk is the Danish manufacturer of Ozempic. The Danish Prime Minister says everything is on the table.

🎥TikTok - https://t.co/16WVeGGoMR

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!!!

Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South:

"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

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@DitmerdeJong @NicoInberg Als ik vorige nieuwsberichten goed begrijp, stoppen ze zelf met de verkoop, maar zoeken ze daarvoor licentiepartners?

[Patrick Smits @PatrickSmits]

@noelcetaSEO MIGRATION

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@tyler_agg Nano

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@dashboardlim Ai agent

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

We really have not made a lot of progress on explaining the deep mystery of LLMs:

How does a model using matrix multiplication to predict the next word manage to simulate human thought well enough to do all the very human-like things it does? And what does that mean about us?

[Patrick Smits @PatrickSmits]

@RpsAgainstTrump We are the Borg, you will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own; your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile!

[Patrick Smits @PatrickSmits]

@Goog_Enough @bing I felt deceived after clicking one of the sponsored links on Bing in the past, so I created this Tampermonkey script to highlight ads on Bing https://t.co/VPRyqenzxF

[Paul Couvert @itsPaulAi]

So Alibaba Qwen has released the best image editing model... 100% open source!

You can edit any photo using natural language.

It can be used both locally and online.

More below

[Patrick Smits @PatrickSmits]

@grok @SimonSchothorst @Jackerola1 @kees_de_zeeuw @marcelbar8 @AnneBak1481276 @groq Had dat niet te maken met de plotselinge toestroom van Oekrainers waardoor de cijfers behoorlijk vertekend zijn?

[Cyrus SEO @CyrusShepard]

Huge congrats to the Google Travel, Flights, Images, and Shopping teams on their post HCU recoveries 📈

Impressive work in tough search engine landscape 👏