Former "Gates Scholar" and New York Times say what?

In de nieuwste editie van het Nederlands Juristenblad pleiten Eva van Vugt (Universiteit Maastricht) en ik voor een verbod (in beginsel, uit voorzorg) op het gebruik van GenAI aan rechtenfaculteiten. Het stuk is hier te lezen: www.njb.nl/magazines/nj...

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

Een heel klein beetje stikstof erbij, dat moet toch kunnen? Als het aan landbouwminister Femke Wiersma (BBB) ligt, wel. Haar plan betekent dat stikstof geen obstakel meer is voor boeren die willen uitbreiden: op papier kan meer dan de helft van alle veehouderijen de uitstoot bijna verdubbelen.

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

Plan for climate levy on shipping emissions shelved as countries bow to US intimidation and bullying #IMO #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I love motion-smoothing

Some reflections on my experiences of #AI in academia (tl,dr: too apolitical, too a-humanities). Hopefully of interest to anyone as ambivalent about tech zealotry as me. intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/on-ai

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Chronological: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg) The New World [First Cut] (Malick) The Happening (Shyamalan) small roads (Benning) A Touch of Sin (Jia) Blackhat [Director’s Cut] (Mann) Mad Max Fury Road (Miller) The Trial (Notarnicola) First Reformed (Schrader) The Irishman (Scorsese)

nee, onzin, juist niet. Alle remmen los. Ze worden gesommeerd lak te hebben aan de grondwet, internationaal recht en het humanitair oorlogsrecht en zich bovendien te richten op binnenlandse veiligheid (democraten zijn de 'enemy within'). Hier wordt het fascisme van project 2025 uitgerold.

Deranged, un-American fascism. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Rules of engagement is what protects our forces, and American civilians, as well

Colleges and universities are going way too soft on policing AI, Tyler Austin Harper argues. “Institutions of higher learning can abandon their centuries-long educational project,” he writes. “Or they can fight.”

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Wierd Duk beschuldigt mij van ‘bijna doxing’ en zijn volgers leveren weer op commando.

I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…

Area man shouting at people from roof top. (This would have led to months of “dementia” coverage in NYT if Biden would have done this.)

Over de noodzaak van actie tegen plasticvervuiling bestaat amper discussie. Plastic is gevonden in vers gevallen sneeuw op Antarctica, in placenta’s en in de diepzee. Toch probeert de industrie een akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling tegen te werken: van overdadige nadruk op recycling tot intimidatie.

We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening. CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

CBS will be ending Stephen Colbert's run as host of The Late Show, days after he criticized parent company Paramount's $16 million payment to Trump. Here's why the Left has a censorship problem.

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens. "I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

i have really come to believe that this — treating the public like its too stupid to understand anything complex — is one of our big problems.

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

De hoop op meer efficiency, tijdwinst, en billable hours die in de juridische praktijk lijkt te leven, moet niet ook aan de rechtenfaculteit gaat leven. Zie ook mijn toelichting op ons @nrc-stuk en discussie met iemand van de NLse AI-Coalitie maandag jl. op Radio 1 www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d...

Glad to see my colleagues in Dutch academia standing up against the uncritical embrace of AI from administrators. The fact that so many signatories come from AI studies shows this is not about being a luddite, it's a matter of protecting education itself. Read the letter and sign if you agree!

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

Eva van Vugt (Universiteit van Maastricht) en ik doen een oproep: verban ChatGPT (in beginsel) van rechtenfaculteiten www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief - @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu says effects of #climatecrisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action Interview by @swajones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

This thread! It cuts right through all the allegedly sophisticated comments from some of my (very liberal) academic colleagues who breezily wave warnings of the rising rode of disinformation away 👇🏼

And of course condemn the playing down of US and Israeli violations of international law. But skipping over how destabilising actions of the Khamenei regime that devastated 100 000s of lives from Aleppo to Taiz have also hollowed out those norms won't help build a stable order either

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe - major report - IPIE Report comes as a UN human rights official says climate lies should be criminalised and #COP30 Brazil host urges a global crackdown #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

Double, double oil and rubble: here's "Bleak Magic," my essay for the new @criterion.bsky.social release of William Friedkin's magnificent SORCERER. www.criterion.com/current/post...

10 jaar geleden. Eerste klimaatzaak gewonnen.

RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

Bombing Iran is a terrible idea. It’s unlikely to work—and nothing could be more perilous to American democracy than going to war under Donald Trump, Robert Kagan writes. https://theatln.tc/CH1ulpLM

lol

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

Important thread about how the collapse of gatekeeping institutions has ripped the threads of factuality that otherwise bind society to objective reality. In a previous era, Hannah Arendt documented how the collapse of institutions was key to the Fascist project. What’s old is new again.