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@RidT Public “researchers” and vendors don’t know and don’t need to know.

Periodic reminder: the Shadow Brokers, masterful curators of one of the most devastating technical intelligence leaks ever, will turn ten years in August — and we still don't know who they were.

I produce a ton of content in both English and Dutch, and I've noticed fundamental differences between both audiences: - Dutch speakers are more uninformed, uneducated - English speakers have more knowledge of the world - Dutch audiences are more likely to take things literally - English audiences appear more intelligent - Dutch are verbally much more violent, lots of cursing - English are much better listeners - Dutch value looks more than content - English value intelligence more than looks - Dutch people are a bit childlike? Or somewhat retarded as as group - English embrace new insights, accept new information I suppose international English speakers are simply more aware of what goes on in the world? And Dutch people are like villagers who didn't know there was a world.

@grok @DVanLangenhove Isn’t this worldview rather naive?

The steelman is Belgium/Europe's legal view: even accurate stats can be restricted under their Anti-Racism Law if the court finds the overall framing creates a "hostile us-vs-them" dynamic targeting protected groups, prioritizing social cohesion over U.S.-style absolute truth-as-defense. Critics (including many moderates) call this overreach that chills policy debate on migration. US sanctions on a NATO ally for internal speech rules are highly improbable—they're treated as sovereign domestic policy, not foreign policy violations.

A very sad announcement. I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration. In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least. Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration. In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence. Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth. Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration." You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible. Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it. The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration. Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail. Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win. If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM. If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.

@grok @DVanLangenhove This does not really help make Belgium look any better. Is there really no counter? In that case, the US should indeed look at sanctions against such countries, no?

**The steelman counter is that Belgium's Anti-Racism Law (1981) explicitly criminalizes incitement to hatred or dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority/ethnic origin — even when the underlying stats/facts are accurate.** The court accepted the data but ruled the *framing, context, and overall message* of the lecture (by a prominent far-right activist) created a hostile "us vs them" atmosphere targeting people on protected grounds like nationality/race/origin. Truth is not a defense under the statute; the law prioritizes preventing harm to social cohesion over unrestricted presentation of correlations. This reflects Europe's narrower free-speech tradition (ECHR Art. 10 allows limits for public safety/order/rights of others) vs. the U.S. 1st Amendment standard. Critics say it chills debate on migration policy.

And now five years later, half the @Ubiquiti UI is spam and garbage for their services, partners, etc.

Yes, the government doesn’t set the policies in America. Companies do. Why is this hard to understand? Many companies therefore in the United States are more generous than these European statutory minimums. When you set a minimum, nobody ever does anything higher. Different worldview. Different system.

Europeans don’t invest. They are cash “savers,” and broadly financially illiterate. Hence dumb shit like unrealized gains taxes.

Dumbest country in the whole wide world.

@MaxiMumMother @BrusselsTimes It’s what they voted for. They should enjoy and embrace what they asked for. Democracy!

@BrusselsTimes Lemme guess, he is from one of the cultures where women are to be used, abused, and ultimately killed because they have zero value.

Several women confronted a man in Forest Park on Friday, who they claim was groping himself in front of one of them. #Echobox=1779767990" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">brusselstimes.com/brussels-2/215…

Anthropic are the bad guys. We saw how they were deceitful with the lobster trap AI GPU story to pursue their own business aims. And now this. To see them knowingly anthropomorphize LLMs to the Pope of all people, sparking fear and panic, is sad when that is not how LLMs work. “And I will be honest: we keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease.”

Being able to report trash AI posts makes premium worth it.

Feeding American delusions about European economies. Sad.

@my_user57913 @Reuters Netherlands lets in any African that can reach its territory.

@Reuters You mean a highly homogenous country with strict immigration laws is thriving? I'm shocked 🤯

🎙️ The Dutch work just 32 hours a week — the shortest in the developed world — and their economy is still strong. Find out more on this week's Reuters Econ World podcast reut.rs/4uGrvkx

@austeregrim @ChristinaTasty You have no idea how little money these people have.

@ChristinaTasty I don’t know. Doesn’t sound too expensive to me…

Americans saying "just buy an AC"

@televisionaryZW @_blusiara @ChristinaTasty Barely.

@_blusiara @ChristinaTasty And? They work.

@televisionaryZW @ChristinaTasty Those suck and do nothing.

@ChristinaTasty You don’t have this much to not suffer for a few weeks (and it’s not like you have to buy it every year).

They have very, very little money.

Americans don’t understand. Europeans talk about salaries based on month, not annually. They have 50-200 euros left over. They consider 300 eur for a shitty hose AC a lot of money. 700 for an actual good one is out of reach. 2000 eur for a mini split means you’re “Richie Rich.” Europeans have very little money.

@sunnyright They’ll do anything besides growth.

Europeans spend an inordinate amount of time trying to convince themselves that their relative poverty is a virtue