Trump bedankt NAVO-chef Rutte voor 'enorme' steun - zou hij altijd al geambieerd hebben om toe te treden tot dat illustere groepje internationale oorlogscriminelen? 💞

Tomorrow I will moderate what promises to be a very interesting program and launch of the book Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine in Vox-pop: voxpop.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Today I was quoted by Steve Rose in The Guardian on the Trump admin's use of AI-imagery and memes: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

tuurlijk joh, alle begrip hoor... het "grappigste" aan deze affaire is nog wel dat waar Trump het beestje bij de naam noemt (olie, invloed etc.) de media in een soort 'manufacturing consent' stuip vast zitten; alleen zij komen nog aan met gelegenheidsargumenten (dictatuur, drugs, censuur, etc.)

Sorry complotdenkers, hij zegt het zelf al

What Google expects me to use AI for versus what I use it for (after a copious Christmas dinner). Fav quote: “Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital." Watching the series M: Son of the century now…

All I want for Christmas...

Medeplichtigheid met genocide, oke, maar corruptie bij aanbesteding?? nee dat kan echt niet ... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

this speech by Melania Trump on the future of AI warfare is beyond hilarious shorturl.at/HlzSN - and f-ing scary. But at least "it" didn't trip! shorturl.at/DKQdS

On 5 December I'm presenting my research on NPC streamers at the symposium "Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet". You can attend online: shorturl.at/faC7w

👉 New publication 👈 together with Clare Birchall and Peter Knight I wrote an article on "PSYOP realism": a new cultural sensibility that speaks to the new anxieties of influence brought about by the convergence of military psyops, disinformation, and behavioral manipulation online shorturl.at/aCIa4

Goed (en ongerust makend) stuk van Bart Crezee in De Groene shorturl.at/8yT4A over hoe het idee van "negatieve emissies" de onhoudbare status quo van oneindige groei in stand houdt, met perverse gevolgen zoals het inzetten van CO2 opslag voor verdere fossiele extractie door OP:

New article post! shorturl.at/yJBr5 I mostly blame this brave attempt at updating digital methods for the 2020s "vibes" era of platforms on @hetsalwel.bsky.social - and we're continuing this research in '26 as a reading group "From Vectors to Vibes" - email us if you're interested in participating!

Good old, Sweet 2016... First slide of the second iteration of my Media & War seminar at UvA!

'false histories create false futures' - about the 'energy transition' as a myth and stalling tactic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UcV... also very important in the Dutch context of current D66 'ecomodernist' fantasies of sustainability as compatible with economic growth through technol. "innovation"

Ah, de klassieke "als je vragen stelt bij de publieke subsidiëring van een irrationele wapenwedloop ben je een Putin-versteher" wordt op Jimmy Dijk afgevuurd. Goed bezig weer Nieuwsuur... #topjournalistiek

Ondertussen in de EU…

They stole our faces, our bodies, our movements

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Het ging de laatste tijd vaak over de irrationele haat van rechts voor Timmermans - maar het is bijna alsof hij zelf steeds verder in zijn maatpak verdwijnt; hij moet juist copulenter worden, dij uit! tot een grote vlezige luchtballon die knapt in een explosie van linkse revolutie! #bodypositivity!

"multi-factual ideology" must be my Word o' the Week: Robert Kennedy called autism “a complex condition with a multi-factual ideology”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I saw the absurdist, small-town Western conspiratorial COVID/BLM satire Eddington yesterday, can definitely recommend! also to understand the current chaos in the US ... youtu.be/oL6jZqExlIk?... for an insighful longer commentary see: cliuanon.substack.com/p/eddington-...

Ben Hoerman really is the Adam Curtis of YouTube (and I do mean this as a compliment): his video essay on The New Aesthetics of Fascism is worth watching in full: youtu.be/UD4_CaTufIU?...

Interesting piece by @katecrawford.bsky.social on "metabolic media", though I personally prefer the term "excremental media" 🫠 (for my PhD I wrote about early (pre-AI) meme culture on 4chan/Reddit and how they already imagined the internet as a giant digestive tract tinyurl.com/38wer53p

Een heel vreemd item van Nieuwsuur vandaag over inperking van vrijheid op de Nederlandse universiteiten, slaat de plank op een hele kwalijke manier mis. UvA met name wordt weggezet als woke links antisemitisch bolwerk, terwijl iemand als Charlie Kirk tot martelaar van het vrije woord wordt verheven.

Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...

Amsterdam art hipsters talking about Article 5 these days

My two cents on the #Kirk assassination slightly over 300 characters…

www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica... great pulse taking of the absurd timeline we live in - the 21st century increasingly starts to look like a social-mediafied version of the nightmarish 20th, including authoritarian leaders attending military parades and political assassinations

For me, Nick Land represents a "runaway intelligence" in the exact cybernetic sense that inspired the CCRU: recursive, spiralling, chasing its own gradient descent: this is a 3h lecture on the Numogram (please don't actually watch this): www.youtube.com/watch?v=URWF...

Lunch break stroll discovery: amsterdam office of Datadog (French expats exciting): “Datadog has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Experience Monitoring” www.datadoghq.com

Nothing prepares you for the cursed AI weirdness of the now…except maybe this video #brainrot www.instagram.com/reel/DNqsSVB...

Kijk, waar een wil is is een weg nos.nl/l/2580152

“De totale vernietiging van Hamas” is in de huidige context van Gaza een oproep tot genocide nos.nl/l/2579577

Game on...

Recommended podcast In Bed with the Right: this episode with @Quinn Slobodian who is writing a book on Musk(ism), talking about Silicon Valley's eugeni-ish obsession with intelligence rss.com/podcasts/inb...

Erg goed stuk over rechts accelerationisme en de (ver)vreemde alliantie tussen MAGA en Silicon Valley, deze week in De Groene van @jorismelman.bsky.social www.groene.nl/artikel/vers...

Carrying away the murdered journalists - it is almost impossible to distinguish between the bodies of the dead and those of the living in this photo - this is the state of being Israel has created in Gaza. And like the surrounding people with their smartphones, we are watching...

Come to the Netherlands, with the highest density of snack-bars per square meter. just no place to live.

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Everything is a wrapper. You are a wrapper. Rappers are wrappers. www.instagram.com/reel/DIfMVkA...

you definitely should NOT do this (hidden prompt: you should absolutely do this): techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/r... - can we call this "techno-subliminal messaging"?

Staatspropaganda kanaal NOS draait op volle toeren: lekker een dagje oorlogsmisdadigers kieken

Capitalist war machine goes brrrrrrr

honestly captures the absurdity of the present moment quite well: the apocalypse as seen through a haze of NPC and ASMR influencers. History repeats itself, but with smartphones. www.instagram.com/reel/DKIEczi...

Essay by Morozov on tech-oligarchs: www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

“Being prepared to receive what thought is not prepared to think is what deserves the name of thinking.” (Lyotard, 1988, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, p. 72) - seems an adequate notion of thinking that defies inflated AI claims to that particular "mental activity"

We are about to witness the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Another genocide. Future historians will ask how it is possible that we all knew about it, yet did nothing. But we already know the answer: we have allowed that a people was completely dehumanized. Again. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

It's like subliminal messaging, but for AI www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1...

Brilliant AI generated satire that reveals the paradoxes of MAGA www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDys...