Notices by Bart Janssens 🇧🇪 (bart@sociabl.be)

Watch for #GretaThunberg 's fantastic reply to US Senator Graham's "I hope she can swim" remark:

"It says a lot about their priorities that in the face of #genocide and systematic starvation of 2M people lawmakers, whose responsibility should be to protect the people, rather than ending their complicity to genocide and the mass slaughter of civilians are focusing on mocking people who are at least trying to do their bit." 👏

https://youtu.be/jkKRxD8D2kU?feature=shared&t=781

@WarnerCrocker Yes, same!

🤦♂️ Why do we keep flocking to the next big shiny thing, blindly trusting anything big tech throws at us?

#DeepSeek #DeepShit #TheRegister

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/deepseek_database_left_open/

Being able to set up and maintain a #YunoHost server should be a mandatory end term objective in all secondary schools. You could even integrate it into school communications, that way there is a continuous evaluation based on how effective communication remains.

Dat gevoel wanneer je een niet-voorziene aansluiting haalt met de #trein en daardoor gewoon 15 min. vroeger aankomt dan volgens de planning van de #NMBS 😎

It seems that even the rich and famous (you know, the folks that take their private jet when you and me would take the train or bus) are not safe from this #climatecrisis.

I hope they are poorly insured, all their vacation homes are undergoing renovations and most of all that this will be a wake up call for them to truly set the example.

#lafires #ClimateChange

“Mensen verwijten me soms dat ik dystopische verhalen vertel. Sorry, dit is geen dystopie, dit is de toestand van vandaag. En dat is niet de mening van een of andere doorgeslagen gek, het is pure wiskunde. Ik heb de dominantie van big tech berekend tot het laatste cijfer na de komma.”

https://www.demorgen.be/tech-wetenschap/als-we-hen-niet-stoppen-is-onze-democratie-om-zeep-wetenschapper-martin-andree-over-het-gevaar-van-big-tech~b1871e4b/

It seems to me that the #ICC warrant gives #Netanyahu tremendous power to damage the ICC itself, as well as #NATO and the #EU.

Let's say for argument's sake that Netanyahu decides to take a little trip to Amsterdam tomorrow (or even worse, the day after the #Trump inauguration). What would happen? After internal discord in the Dutch government, only two outcomes are possible: they arrest him, or they don't. Sadly, both options are disastrous in the current international context. 🧵 1/

Let's say they choose to let Netanyahu walk. Then we are in the situation that the country hosting the ICC doesn't respect its warrants.

Say goodbye to all authority of that court then. It will also sow tremendous discord between #EU member states, possibly to the point of destabilizing it.

The result is that the ICC is dead and the EU severely weakened.

🧵 2/

Now imagine that they choose to arrest Netanyahu. This is the only legal choice, but unfortunately some countries within NATO are opposed to the warrant, not in the least the US. Even #Biden opposes it, but if this happens when #Trump is president, all bets are off. It could result in a speedy withdrawal from NATO for the US, assuming The Netherlands don't cave under the pressure first.

Result: either #NATO is destroyed, or again the ICC is severely weakened to the point of irrelevance. 🧵 3/