retired governance designer struct philosopher; EVM dev

Europe
Joined May 2012
Genuinely believe that political astroturfing will bring down social media over the next years. You can flood feeds with opinions artificially and people will pick them up sooner or later. And the value to do this is disproportionately large for political actors.
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Bogdan A. retweeted
Jeśli zawalacie czasem deadline — o dzień, dwa lub miesiąc — to nie bądźcie dla siebie zbyt surowi i spójrzcie na Belgów. 🇧🇪 Musicie wiedzieć, że połowa Brukselczyków nigdy nie widziała w pełnej krasie jednego z najokazalszych (o ile nie najbardziej okazałego) gmachów stolicy — Pałacu Sprawiedliwości. Otaczające go rusztowania stoją tam nieprzerwanie od 1984 roku. Tak. 42 lata. Ale to nie wszystko! Stalową, szkieletową kratownicę, mającą umożliwić remont popadającego w ruinę budynku, wzniesiono nie tyle z myślą o szybkim rozpoczęciu prac renowacyjnych, ile przede wszystkim po to, by… ochronić przechodniów przed regularnie odpadającymifragmentami elewacji. Prace naprawcze — choć oficjalnie planowane — wciąż bowiem odkładano. W efekcie robotnicy weszli na rusztowaniadopiero w roku… 2003. Tak. Dobrze słyszycie. Po 19 latach. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ W efekcie pierwszym zadaniem budowlańców, którzy wspięli się na rusztowania, był remont samej kratownicy, a zwłaszcza przegniłychdesek. Za dużo jednak nie zrobiono. Faktyczne prace renowacyjne rozpoczęły się tak naprawdę dopiero 3 lata temu — 39 lat po podjęciu decyzji o naprawie gmachu. Zgodnie z planem mają się one zakończyćw 2035 r. Przy dobrych wiatrach cały remont zajmie więc ponad pół wieku (sic!). Sami Brukselczycy żartują, że ich mała ojczyzna jest chyba jedynym miastem na świecie, w którymrusztowania otaczające obiekt wpisany na listę UNESCO także mają szansę się na niej znaleźć. Ale to nie pierwszy raz, gdy Bruksela myli placbudowy z instalacją sztuki konceptualnej. Łuk Triumfalny i hale wystawowe w Parku Pięćdziesięciolecia (znajdujące się w sercu tzw. Dzielnicy Europejskiej — siedziby instytucji unijnych) miały być gotowe na 50-lecie Belgii (stąd nazwa), czyli w roku 1880. Nie pykło. 🤷 Prace ukończono dopiero w 1905 roku — tj. na 75-lecie Królestwa. Na sam jubileusz zdołano postawić jedynie… tymczasową, drewnianą atrapę łuku. 25 lat obsuwy. But wait, there is more! Otóż rondo Schumana, centralny węzeł komunikacyjny leżący między Radą UE, ESDZ (unijnym „MSZ-em”) i KomisjąEuropejską, przebudowują od listopada 2023 roku. 🇪🇺 Roboty miały zająć dwa lata. Tymczasem, choć mamy już lipiec 2026, inwestycja wciąż nie została ukończona (prace powinny zakończyć się,wedle obowiązujących deklaracji, „na jesień”). 🍒A na koniec wisienka na torcie: państwo belgijskie tyle lat płaciło za wynajem rusztowań wokół Pałacu Sprawiedliwości (zakładając, że potrzebne będą tylko przez pewien czas), iż w końcu poddało się i po prostu odkupiło je od firmy, która je dzierżawiła. Także tak… 🇧🇪 Zdjęcia pochodzą ze świetnego artykułu Macieja Bochajczuka z 2024 (link w komentarzu poniżej) 🔗 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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The Guardian wins the caption of the year competition :) #worldcup
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Clacton faces the ultimate choice 🗑️ 33% of Brits would prefer @CountBinface to win the by-election in Clacton, while 21% would prefer Farage to win.
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Late Sunday / early Monday, depending on your time zone: xitter.cf/i/spaces/1AJEmmBrYARJL…

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Monet painted The Magpie when he was 28. No one knew him. He had just become a father and was living in extreme poverty. ​He presented it at the Paris Salon and they laughed at him. They told him it was unfinished.
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Bogdan A. retweeted
THIS IS NOT TOOL UNPACKING THIS IS BODY INFRASTRUCTURE CYBORG BUILD LOG // 001 DATE // MAY 14 LOCATION // SAN FRANCISCO FIELD TAG // B-U-S-H-Y OPERATOR // @ALBICODES SENSORS / LEDS / MICROCONTROLLERS / ATTACHMENTS EVERY TOOL IS A FUTURE INTERFACE. EVERY LABEL IS A RULE. EVERY SIGNAL IS A BODY WAITING TO HAPPEN
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Felicitări pentru performanța extraordinară a elevilor români la Campionatul Mondial „FIRST Tech Challenge” din Houston! Patru echipe din România 🇷🇴🇪🇺 au ocupat primele patru locuri, o clasare care vorbește despre talent, muncă și pasiune la cel mai înalt nivel. Velocity (Brăila), Heart of RoBots (Buzău), Quantum Robotics (București) și AiCitizens (Focșani) sunt dovada că viitorul României este construit de tineri excepționali! 🤝👏
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Bogdan A. retweeted
do you understand what just happened to Robinhood.. Someone sent a perfect phishing email - real domain, DKIM pass, SPF pass, DMARC pass and Robinhood's own servers delivered it. Here's the chain: → Gmail treats john.doe@ and johndoe@ as the same inbox → Attacker registers a NEW Robinhood account using the dot trick of YOUR email → Sets the device name to raw HTML code → Robinhood's "unrecognized activity" email renders it unsanitized The "Review Activity Now" button? Attacker's phishing site. The email? 100% real.. Sent by Robinhood.. Signed by Robinhood.. Just because it passed every security check doesn't mean it's safe.
New Robinhood phishing chain that's kinda beautiful: 1. Attacker creates an RH account using the Gmail dot trick of your email (same inbox, different address) 2. Sets device name to HTML 3. RH's "unrecognized activity" email renders the device name unsanitized (html injection) The result is a real email from [email protected], DKIM pass, SPF pass, DMARC pass, with a phishing CTA Just because it's real, doesn't mean it's safe... $HOOD
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Bogdan A. retweeted
Working for peace, security and freedom for 7️⃣7️⃣ years
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Syrian children in Ayn Issa use their hands and sticks to dig up and extract circular anti-tank mines from a pebbled field, March 2026.
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Enclave is now The Interfold. What we built isn’t a hardware enclave, but a distributed network for confidential coordination. The Interfold names that network. 🌐
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Drones shows are nice but at the same time it maybe risky if there are careless or bad faith operators.
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Swedish soldier Frida checking the optics on her AK 5C under the sweltering Afghan afternoon at the forward operating base, 2011. This image was taken during one of the most active years of NATO’s mission in Afghanistan, a conflict that drew soldiers from more than 50 nations, including Sweden. At the time, Swedish troops were primarily stationed in Mazar-i-Sharif as part of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force), supporting stabilization, reconstruction, and local security efforts in northern Afghanistan. The conditions were harsh. Daytime temperatures often soared past 110°F (43°C), and forward operating bases offered little comfort, just sandbags, camouflage netting, and cot beds under makeshift shade. For soldiers like Frida, every quiet moment between patrols was an opportunity to clean, adjust, and recalibrate weapons. Her AK 5C, a Swedish-modified version of the FN FNC, was reliable but required constant care in the fine dust that filled every crevice of equipment. Beyond the immediate moment, this photo also represents the transformation of Sweden’s military identity. Though historically neutral, Sweden’s deployment to Afghanistan marked one of its most significant overseas missions since the Napoleonic era. The image of a woman soldier calmly maintaining her weapon in a war zone symbolizes both the normalization of female participation in combat roles and the professionalism of modern peacekeeping forces. Frida’s composure contrasts with the brutal environment surrounding her, a reminder that much of a soldier’s life is made up not of battles, but of waiting, maintaining, and enduring. Between 2002 and 2014, over 9,000 Swedish soldiers served in Afghanistan as part of ISAF. Only five Swedish soldiers were killed in action, but more than 70 reported long-term psychological effects such as PTSD upon returning home. © History Pictures #archaeohistories
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It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy… I got something to announce: We're launching PROTOTYPE: a new fund, fully focused on Europe. A small fund that punches way above it's size. With it we back what Europe is world-class at: robotics, automation, manufacturing, and anything that requires hard engineering. First check. First round. As early as it gets. Europe invented industry. We're the birthplace of precision manufacturing. The second largest manufacturing hub on the planet. Leaders in automation and robotics. And yet… We sell out our best tech to China. We export our best founders & most of our investment money to the US. That's insanity. What should we do instead? Build the next trillion euro companies in robotics, manufacturing, automation right here: in Europe. Showcase to young founders what is possible and change the system around them where needed. What we will do: → Publish all our fund updates and build in public: updates.prototypecap.com/ → Showcase Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups on Youtube: youtube.com/@prototypecap → Launch & support more projects like @euinc_petition. Enough talking about Europe. Time to build it: Startups, makerspaces, student clubs, and much more. → And most importantly, invest into the best founders in Europe. Same model as our previous funds that are in their top 1-5% cohorts worldwide. We won’t do a VC fund in the classic sense. This will be a community of hyper-ambitious people who want to actively change Europe for the better. It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy. Check out prototypecap.com!
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The fact that you can just plug sensors into the VGA port of an old laptop and get data out is crazy to me. It’s always fun finding GPIO in strange places.
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Replying to @elonmusk
The EU is run by three bodies: 1) European Council - democratically elected heads of governments of member states 2) Democratically elected European Parliament 3) European Commission, composed of commissioners appointed by democratic governments and confirmed by parliament
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Thank you so much to Politico for covering the growing grassroots European Federalist movement and interviewing our members. We're just getting started. The next step is gathering 140+ federalists at our general assembly in may at Ortenberg Castle, Germany. For more information: ave-europa.eu/first-general-… Just a small tip Politico - don't call it the United States of Europe. We reject this term.
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