Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

“Met AI kan iedereen het” en “Hiermee valt belangrijkste horde weg waarom velen niet afstuderen” www.standaard.be/binnenland/v...

I think about this all the time.

Het bestuur van een BV die een feestzaal organiseert betaalt kort voor het faillissement voorschotten terug aan klanten. Is dat rechtmatig? Zo nee, leidt dit tot collectieve of individuele schade? En hoe bereken je die? corporatefinancelab.org/2026/04/27/v...

Schrijf nu in voor Themis Insolventierecht www.law.kuleuven.be/apps/activit...

“Een boekenclub zonder te lezen? Dat prikkelt de mensen.” www.bruzz.be/ice/ice/brus...

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

Yet I alone, alone do me oppose Against the Pope, and count his friends my foes.

Cave Idus Martias

22 years ago today, “Hallelujah” live at The Fillmore West in San Francisco.

PAPA LEONE YES

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

this could happen to you, too, if you still go to America. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

‘Ik heb een grote passie voor politiek en de stad Antwerpen. Vuilophaling, Erediensten en Openbare Markten fascineren mij van jongs af aan.’

Een Personal Brand Manager die uitpakt met zijn functie lijkt me vooral bezig met het persoonlijk managen van zijn Personal Brand Manager Brand.

The very same people ordering untrained federal agents to shoot at protesters have very strong thoughts about how Europe should be run. Maybe they should think less about Europe and more about Minnesota.

My Charlemagne column this week: REQUIEM The Atlantic alliance, storied as it might be, is increasingly unworthy of the name. It is dead, or dying. Europe is going through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression -- and soon acceptance. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)

If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.

RIP

Nieuw Recht inzake Persoonlijje Zekerheden: te laat voor onder kerstboom maar nu al te bestellen voor Valentijn corporatefinancelab.org/2025/12/24/c...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I get the sense from my students that A.I. feels like the sour icing on an already bitter cake,” Colleen Kinder writes. “Adults need to step up and set parameters so that it’s not on these kids to self-regulate.”

In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

Ik deed een poging tot synopsis van mijn studiedomein, het insolventierecht. Of toch wat ik er van ken. corporatefinancelab.org/2025/12/01/i...

Breaking news

Breaking News: Brazil’s top court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year prison term for a failed plot to stay in power. nyti.ms/3LSSs2S

Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open.

Ze zouden Belgische begrotingsonderhandelingen moeten laten erkennen door de Unesco als immaterieel erfgoed.

As winter flooding looms, it's worth noting that a young street tree in an asphalt surface can prevent 60% of the rain that falls on it from reaching the ground, even when not in leaf. Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.

Bang aftellen naar de start van winterterreur in Brussel

Frederik Anseel | Terug naar het klooster met AI www.tijd.be/opinie/algem...

Waarom zegt niemand dat de verering van het Heilig Hart begon in Sint-Truiden met de heilige Lutgard? www.standaard.be/media-en-cul...

Een buurt informatie netwerk beschermt blijkbaar Kleine Brogel. Dacht iemand al aan het mobiliseren van de duiven van onze vele liefhebbers?

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“In my experience, academics and administrators have just not reckoned with how deeply unpopular they are with the public—and in a democratic society, that matters.” —an interview with Mark Lilla

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Il est 7 heures, Bruxelles s’éveille.

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Professor Edward Morrison (Columbia Law School) on the Law and Economics of Restructuring and Insolvency ~ Dieter Heremans Lectures series in Law & Economics 2025 at KU Leuven corporatefinancelab.org/2025/10/02/p...

Problems now, bigger ones ahead.