Als niemand oplet... tijd voor Meta om zijn bril met gezichtsherkenning op de markt te brengen. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us, would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

This framing of 'the EU has never done multiple speed Europe' seems like a product of way too short institutional memory. Since the 1980s, major EU integration often happened in avantgarde groups, be it the Euro, Schengen, EU Patent, EU Public Prosecutor. The real change is a different one.

Financial Times windt er geen doekjes om: European countries need to overcome fears of riling the White House and strengthen their defences. America is embracing an Orwellian definition of freedom. The rest of the west will survive only if it can muster the courage to defend freedom’s true form.

Ik wil graag dit NRC-artikel met je delen: "Brandende vluchtelingen en verheerlijking van Hitler? TikTok ziet geen problemen": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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Is het hier iemand ooit gelukt een mens van de klantenservice van FAIRPHONE te spreken te krijgen? Tips welkom, voor deze Fairphone-gebruiker die z'n geloof in het merk hard aan het verliezen is

As the discreet wearable cameras become more popular, students are saying they feel constantly watched and harassed— and professors are reshaping their classrooms in response.

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

"The billionaire, who shifted his tax residency to Monaco in 2020, is no stranger to wading into politics, having vocally backed Brexit and lobbied against green taxes and in favour of fracking." How do you describe somebody like this?

Het Pentagon zet zwaar in op AI die besluiten kan nemen: "We must approach risk tradeoffs as if we were at war.” The Pentagon told vendors it is seeking to acquire cutting-edge “agentic” AI systems that exhibit “decision-making capabilities” and “human-like agency” for its Special forces.

“European integration is built differently: not on force, but common will; not on subjugation, but shared benefit. Europeans are, slowly but surely, waking up to what they're able to do. A senior EUminister said to me recently: Europe is not as weak as it behaves” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

In 2010 General Morillon, a devout Catholic, went back to Srebrenica to ask for forgiveness. He was chased away under a hail of insults from the town’s grieving widows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

‘Spionage in de ruimte’, nooit gedacht dat ik nog eens zo’n technochocoladekop zou schrijven. Russen zijn de baddies hier, maar de Amerikanen zijn toch echt begonnen (al waren de Sovjets de eersten en enigen die ooit een machinegeweer hebben afgevuurd vanaf een satelliet) www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Mijn eerste stuk voor de wetenschapsredactie van NRC 🎉: een interview met ingenieur Karlheinz Samenjo, die iets wil doen aan eendenbekken, mammografieën en baarmoeder­verdoving (giftie) www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Ironically it has been a demand of student protesters since the 1960s that universities end their entanglement with the military and CIA. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

“De nieuwe coalitie van D66, VVD en CDA vraagt van iedereen – burgers én bedrijven – een bijdrage om het leger te versterken. Eén groep is echter gevrijwaard van deze vrijheidsheffing: vermogenden.”

Zou er niet gewoon zo'n ouderwetse, grootse, avondvullende tv-actie moeten komen voor 'Help Oekraïne deze winter door'? Goed idee, NPO? vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

'De Poolse premier Donald Tusk wond er deze week geen doekjes om. „We spreken niet meer alleen over een pedofielennetwerk. We spreken over een massieve, staatsgesponsorde chantage-operatie, bedacht om westerse leiders in Poetins achterzak te krijgen.” '

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

Het is koud in Kyiv. Rusland valt constant energievoorzieningen aan en zet de kou in als wapen. Hoe overleef je een oorlogswinter zonder verwarming? Podcast met @simonepeek.bsky.social en Kostyantyn Chernichkin www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... in @nrc.nl

Exclusive: To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.

BBC-correspondent @bbcstever.bsky.social over werken in Rusland. Dat hij op staatstv een 'poepende eekhoorn' wordt genoemd vindt hij niet erg. Maar 'vijand van Rusland', dat doet pijn bbc.com/news/article...

In Duitsland herkent men dit

Due to algorithmic bubbles, people often imagine a “deadly silence” over an issue they care about when in fact they and their follows are simply not reading/watching the reports on that issue by serious media. Here: the Dutch NOS refutes populist-right claims it is ignoring Iran massacres.

Heerlijk stuk! “Na de schrik volgt meteen de opwinding. Als een kind in een zweefmolen. “Zelfs nu het donker wordt, voelt het dankzij de roze fatbike alsof ik mijn macht behoud op straat, iets wat ik niet vaak meer meemaak.”

Grootste tegenvaller in het akkoord voor Yesilgöz, zegt ze, is dat de bezuinigingen op ontwikkelingssamenwerking niet doorgaan.

"Wat ik niet heb voorzien is hoe weinig mensen in verzet zouden komen: de non-respons van de elite. „De Senaat, die Trump niet veroordeelde nadat hij probeerde een verkiezing ongedaan te maken. Het Hooggerechtshof dat hem immuniteit verleende. Mediabedrijven, advocatenkantoren, universiteiten."

In de podcast NRC Vandaag vertel ik over het snel veranderende leven op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever. open.spotify.com/episode/6hQn...

😬 "There’s now a concern that the sensitive information could be used to answer prompts from any of ChatGPT’s 700 million active users."

“This crisis is much worse than anything we’ve seen in 77 years of Nato history and in many ways, anything since December 7 1941, when the US formalised the idea that the security of Europe was fundamental to its security,” says Ivo Daalder. “That idea, formalised in 1949, is gone. It’s over.”

Razend interessante podcast. Waarom de speech van de Canadese premier Carney in Davos zo raak was en zo'n groot politiek gewicht heeft, en hoe het 'enshittification'-model van de tech-platforms door Trump is overgeslagen naar de wereldpolitiek. audio.nrc.nl/episode/1610...

Philip Glass informed the Kennedy Center that he did not want his symphony, based on Lincoln’s 1838 Lyceum Address, performed on its stage. “Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the symphony,” he wrote.

Héél, héél voorzichtig sputtert een tech-baas zowaar tegen "wat er gebeurt met ICE" - zoals Sam Altman van OpenAI het doodschieten van vreedzame demonstranten door de troepen van Trump in Minneapolis aanduidt. En natuurlijk verzekert Altman dat hij Trump een "heel sterke leider" vindt.

Ruim 90 jaar geleden: holodomor (hongermoord). Thans: cholodomor (koudemoord). Toen en nu: poging tot volkerenmoord.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Keir Starmer mocks the idea of Trumps board of peace, "Putin being on a board of peace?" "He is waging war on a European country" "They're raining down bombs on Ukraine, it's -20c, 60% of the energy of Kyiv is gone and people are putting up tents in their living rooms to keep warm"

Knap gemaakt.

The Netherlands is back at stage 1 of the cycle: New populist party created -> gets saturation media coverage implying they’re very fresh and clever -> party wins lots of votes -> it becomes clear that party is not in fact fresh and clever but weird and incompetent -> party implodes And repeat

Trump says he “won’t use force” to take Greenland, but insists that it be turned over to the United States. “Or,” he adds menacingly, “you can say no and we will remember.”https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/21/us/trump-davos-greenland-news

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

Essay over de ernst v/d breuk: "The American order is over because the United States decided it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security. The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used instead to destroy it."

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Oekraïne lijdt ook onder de Amerikaanse dreigementen over Groenland www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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on the evening of 9/11 i worked in the operations center at the state department helping field incoming calls & cables. ally after ally promised support under the north atlantic charter. trump is shredding the bonds that make that kind of support natural.

Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos is a must-read. Nice illustration of Balance of Threat theory—he’s saying medium powers must band together to deal with the threat of a rogue US. He’s right: it’s just more evidence of #Trump’s grand-strategic incompetence. globalnews.ca/news/1162087....

Een scenario van WW III (voor wie het zich durft voor te stellen): "Humiliated, the Europeans and Canadians retreated but regrouped, committed to do whatever they could to retaliate. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formally dissolved in late 2026. Europe expelled American troops. etc.."

Some Republicans have broken with Trump on Greenland. More lawmakers and business leaders should speak out. The US derived vast benefits from the transatlantic alliance, in commerce, security and projection of influence. To allow Trump to blow it up over Greenland would be the height of folly.

🤔 Trump to hold Greenland meeting at Davos after ‘very good’ call with Rutte giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...