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Karel Donk

Software Engineer, Designer and Photographer in Suriname

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William Bruce Cameron on things that matter

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. William Bruce Cameron

Israhell are manipulating social media and AI

The terrorists of Israhell are trying to manipulate public opinion about their evil deeds by buying social media websites, infiltrating social media companies, paying influencers and spreading misinformation all around the Internet. You should not trust any information you find online anymore these days. Here s one of their latest tactics, from Politico, Israeli PR wants [ ]

Fyodor Dostoevsky on illusions

A man with no money and a woman with no beauty see the world without illusions. Fyodor Dostoevsky

I’m not on Twitter anymore

My Twitter (X) account was suspended (banned) on July 23rd 2026 for violating X rules against inauthentic behaviors . Of course, they didn t specify exactly what behaviors of mine were inauthentic . That would probably reveal too much about their true motives. As far as I can tell, I was using my account in the same way [ ]

Friedrich Nietzsche on a person’s strength

The strength of a person s spirit would then be measured by how much truth he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified. Friedrich Nietzsche

Activist wipes his GrapheneOS phone before US slave patrol can get access

With all the surveillance and spying taking place these days everywhere, and the fact that it s only getting worse, if you re not using a privacy phone these days, you re putting yourself at a disadvantage. Here s one example where using a privacy phone prevented US slave patrol from breaking into a man s phone. From US Prosecutors [ ]

On Angels and Monsters

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces, and angels full of scars. Unknown

Israhell Exposed

A group of researchers have been archiving war crimes footage from Gaza and the West Bank that are being committed by the terrorists from Israhell for the last few years. They gather all this evidence to submit to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hind Rajab Foundation, and the South African legal team at the [ ]

Frédéric Bastiat on governments and legal systems

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frédéric Bastiat

Friedrich Nietzsche on lying

I m not upset that you lied to me, I m upset that from now on I can t believe you. Friedrich Nietzsche

Think carefully before getting tested for HIV

For moral and ethical reasons, I feel obligated to share the information in this article and cannot help but place major question marks around how easily the so-called 'authorities' burden people with the consequences of a 'positive' HIV test. The central HIV/AIDS hypothesis (that HIV infection eventually leads to AIDS unless one takes 'life-saving' medication) is far from undisputed. At least two…

Normans Cousins on death

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins

AI models keep hallucinating

Current generations of Large Language Models (LLMs) are not very reliable. It s been known from the start that they can easily make up all kinds of factually wrong information (hallucinations). Here s from Familiarity is the enemy (April 24th 2026): In June 2024, Stanford s Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab benchmarked Lexis+ AI and Thomson Reuters Westlaw [ ]

Albert Camus on respect

Nothing is more dispicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus

FBI is buying data that can be used to track people

Here s from Politico, FBI is buying data that can be used to track people, Patel says (March 18th, 2026): The FBI is buying up information that can be used to track people’s movement and location history, Director Kash Patel said during a Senate hearing Wednesday. It is the first confirmation that the agency is actively [ ]

On politicians and hookers

Politicians anywhere on the planet are worse than hookers. Hookers just sell their bodies; politicians sell their souls. Hockey_Maniac7

Your device may not actually be turning off

One of the important things to realize these days is that when you turn a device off, it may not actually be turning off. Instead, it might go into a standby or low-power mode and keep working in some way depending on the device, while looking like it is not functioning anymore. It s especially important [ ]

Otto von Bismarck on learning from mistakes

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Otto von Bismarck

The SIM card in your device is a serious vulnerability

There are important things that you probably don t know or realize about the SIM card in your device. Especially if you care about security and privacy, you should know that using a secure device with a secure and privacy-oriented operating system and applications, still make you vulnerable when there s a SIM card installed in the [ ]

Arthur Schopenhauer on freedom and solitude

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer

Shulamit Aloni on Israel using the holocaust and anti-semitism

https://archive.org/details/shulamit-aloni-on-israel Shulamit Aloni, an Israeli politician and once Minister of Education, was interviewed by Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow many years ago. Goodman asked her: Often when there is dissent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called antisemitic. What is your response to that as an Israeli Jew? To [ ]

Erich Fromm on love

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. Erich Fromm

Lessons to learn from the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation published their annual report for 2025, and it s clear from that report that much of the funds that they receive do not go to the development of the Linux kernel, as many people would probably expect. From their own report, of about $311,343,021, only $8,410,114 actually got spent on the Linux Kernel [ ]

Robert Anton Wilson on the robberment

Taking somebody s money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it s taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it s National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it s National Security. Running a whorehouse makes [ ]

Watch out for hackers and spies during work

A while back I blogged about how the criminal US Government has spies in major (tech) companies. It was clear from that post that if you work at Big Tech companies or companies doing any kind of sensitive work, some of your co-workers are probably connected to 3-letter agencies such as the NSA, CIA and [ ]

H.L. Mencken on public education

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level. To breed and train a standardized citizenry. To put down dissent and originality. H.L. Mencken

Dead Horse Theory

I found the Dead Horse Theory meme in my collection and wanted to share it here to remind myself and everyone else about the important lesson that it teaches. You ll probably immediately recognize all the politicians and bureaucrats of the world in this and the stupidity that is common in governments. The tribal wisdom of [ ]

Max Stirner on the State

The State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. Max Stirner

Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou on the CIA’s hacking capabilities

Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou, citing the 2017 Vault 7 leaks, says that phones, cars, TVs and laptops are not as private as we assume. There was a dramatic leak in 2017 that the CIA came to call the Vault 7 disclosures gigabytes worth of documents leaked by a CIA technology engineer. What he told [ ]

Porsche immobilized thousands of Russian-registered & internet-connected vehicles

Here s from Wionews, Why hundreds of Porsches were mysteriously immobilised across Russia (December 4th 2025): Porsche owners across Russia have reported that their fancy sports car has become undrivable or ‘bricked’. Drivers in Moscow, Krasnodar and other cities have reported engine shutdown, fuel delivery blockades. Rolf, Russia s largest dealership group, has reported the largest service [ ]