The new asbestos... We have seen something similar with glyphosate, and this is what is going to happen with the AI infrastructure grift that the EU and many countries think they need to jump on. The precautionary principle is a beautiful thing, but it doesn't stand a chance with neoliberal logic.

Omg ik dacht dat alleen maar de natuur in gevaar was maar het is veel erger www.parool.nl/nederland/zo...

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

"What makes it possible for a [..] dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer." -- Hannah Arendt

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Dat wordt tüteren!

Me, who has not finished the PhD, in Horizon EU projects...

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

“But of course, AlphaFold is helping cure cancer, so it’s not all bad.” -> I literally mentioned this rhetorical device yesterday while leading a break-out discussion at an inter-institutional meeting, because sadly I did hear it during a workshop on why AI is an issue for RI.

In other words, not all complexity is the same, not all use of jargon is good or bad, and having a blanket embargo on complicated prose is not at all useful proposition. But that proposition has been politically weaponized against education.

Het lijden van kinderen in Gaza is hartverscheurend. Moedwillig veroorzaakt door Israël. Nederland móét en kán veel meer doen dan het nu doet.

Are you attending the #SHARPIES festival? On Thurs 9 Jul, 21:30-22:30 CEST I will be hosting the 'All-Languages Book Recommendation Fika Social Hour.' Bring your bookish book recommendation (fiction & non-fic) & tell us why you liked it. @sharpweb.org #BookHistory 1/

It's on! #BookHistory

#Bookworm 📚

Correction - Breda is in Brabant! Reminder - book sale on Friday in Breda, Book Market on Sunday in Rotterdam. 📚

"Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on “Stochastic Parrots” Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT Gwendolyn Rak" Let us hope people stop cerating different meanings for the expression. spectrum.ieee.org/stochastic-p...

#Bookworm announcement: 2 cool places you can visit this weekend in Zuid Holland. 📚 The Eriskay Connection (Breda) has their summer sale on Fri 3 July. 📚 PrintRoom will host the Books are Bridges Art Book Fest on Sun 5 July at the clubhouse of Volkstuinvereniging SNV (R'dam).

Did they just eat tacos? Cause that is what you do after eating tacos so your hands are not smelly, rub the lime on your fingers.

Golly, die Vanessa zegt heel veel van de exact zelfde dingen die ik ook zeg. Just saying. Even serieus, delen wordt heel erg gewaardeerd. Ik hoop van harte dat het wat redacties bereikt.

#skystorians do you know there will be a live broadcast of the schism? Starting in a few minutes. fsspx.news/en/news/epis...

CEREMONY GOES LIVE IN SIX HOURS, EVERYBODY we might have a schism before I go to bed!!!

Then it doesn’t matter that LLMs are interesting in the abstract. And it doesn’t matter if you think it helped you with that email. In the real world environment in which we live, it is immoral to use them or to support the companies who make them.

The Netherlands and the EU have so far refused to use their deep economic ties with Israel as leverage to stop Israel’s crimes of occupation, genocide and apartheid. These Files show that, far from sanctioning, the Netherlands is in fact facilitating the Israeli economy.

🚨 EU's Better Regulation framework risks turning into the very opposite of better regulation. We, together 50+ orgs, trade unions & groups, call for better protection of comprehensive impact assessments, social cohesion, public health, transparent participation & our fundamental rights.

In the Netherlands, the budget cuts on Social Sciences & Humanities will not be reversed cause the cabinet wants to invest in "innovation" (read AI factories). This is a political agenda and would be great if STEM colleagues recognise it and fight back.

This piece punches through a double standard: "if any of this -the outrage, the horror, the belief that something must be done- is childish, it is only because a child could see it. It is only adults who find comfort in the reassuring sobriety of pessimism." lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

We told you so! Het zou fijn zijn als mensen eens een boek of long-read over platform lock-in zouden lezen. Het is niet alsof dit de eerste keer is...

Climate inequality. #ClimateCrisis #inequality #airco #heatwave

Second-hand #bookshop fun finds: an edition of 5 stories from Joyce's Dubliners for the German market. The pupil has filled all the Os in many of the pages & underlined "My eyes were often full of tears" & "I thought little of the future." All of us, German student from the past. 📚 #marginalia

'Your Voice Your Choice'? HUN LIST, JOUW KIST. Philip Morris misleide met 75% AI reacties de Nederlandse inspraak bij de EU om wetten tegen longemfyseem, aderverkalking en kanker te blokkeren. Overstem de miljardenlobby! pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/meerderheid-... Doen: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Te laf om hun eigen racisme te ownen. Zelfs dat vuile werk mogen allochtonen opknappen.

What I want to see is even ONE of these French politicians that keep lecturing us about how AC is too terrible for the environment to be allowed pledge to stop eating red meat. No more charcuterie for you, Jean-Luc!

I think one of my favourite paintings is the one where Captain Oates has just been kicked in the balls by a penguin.

This is something I highlight in convos. The content & the work is human but packaged as a shiny thing that lives in the cloud. The extractivism & exploitation is real. Please watch @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social; as workers we must show solidarity with annotators & labellers. #ResistAI

#WhatIAmReading De Dichter en De Duivel bij #LiekeMarsman 💔 Een aanrader 📚

Why spend money on books as a society? Did you know making books needs a lot of water? AI factories, baby! What a bright future. #GLAMS #BookHistory

In 2025 importeerde Nederland 85.428 kalveren uit Ierland. Een importverbod levert 0,214 kiloton ammoniakreductie per jaar op. Vergelijkbaar qua depositie van N met 0,58 kiloton NOx-uitstoot. Daar kun je 20.000 nieuwbouwwoningen mee bouwen. Mag niet van coalitie. Die hebben liever dakloze mensen.

Luckily, this will be solved once we build all those data centers for AI 🥰

Dudes gonna keep investing on this rather than in social safety networks and proper infrastructure 🫠

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Screams in historian. Why do people that pretend to care so much about knowledge don't read? www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

I talked about Reclaiming Our #Reading & #Writing Skills at the Critical AI Literacies summer school w @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social, on how literacy is related to liberation & empowerment for example w publications from autonomous #presses. 📚 So nice to connect w lovely ppl 🥰

HITTEGOLF Europa: in rivieren zwemmen, veel water drinken, airco installeren België:

Today in the agenda: townhall discussion on academic collaborations with defense ministry/the military, plus institute discussions about 'AI.' I'd rather be in a coma, but ready to fulfill my duty 🫡

there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research

A) You shouldn’t have to use an LLM to get an accurate, functional diagnosis within a healthcare system B) The fact an LLM sometimes gives correct diagnoses does not mean they always will nor that they are a solution to the fundamental problem that causes A)

“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”

Oh it's the longest day of the year? Grow up. Every day is an unbearable timeless nightmare this one isn't special.

‘Khalil painted the house orange to match the national colour of the Netherlands, which she said had given her refuge during a time of need, and started a protection and ecotourism project for loggerhead and green sea turtles that nest along Lebanon’s southern coast.’ 💔