Terwijl X de afgelopen weken een platform is geworden voor AI-seksplaatjes, gebruiken het Koninklijk Huis, de Europese Commissie en Nederlandse politici het nog volop. Maar voor wie doen zij dat? fd.nl/opinie/15618...

"These days, one doesn’t experience the news on these platforms before seeing the memes and reactions—the reaction and the news are, in essence, one thing now." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Een netwerk van AI-sites verspreidt in moordend tempo nep- en pulpnieuws. Artikelen van andere media worden er door AI herschreven en aangedikt met fictieve citaten. Op Facebook gaan de pagina's nog veel verder, met clickbait over BN'ers die ernstig ziek of overleden zouden zijn. Mijn stuk in NRC:

the uniting theory that everyone just Needs More Homies really explains everything

Een sterk pleidooi van Bart Jansen en Jeroen Veldman: de in Europa zo modieuze 'strategische autonomie' kan ook tot oligopolie en autocratie leiden. fd.nl/opinie/15781...

Does Trump think Zohran Mamdani is Saudi?

Nou is groei sowieso een compleet irrelevant gegeven als je een coalitie wil smeden, maar zowel CDA als D66 hebben er meer zetels bijgekregen dan dat JA er überhaupt heeft?

"It was also the first time since May that New Yorkers inked more than 40 contracts for apartments with price tags above $4 million, more than half of which were signed between Nov. 5, the morning after election day, and Nov. 9." www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

A US war cemetery in the Netherlands removed information on black soldiers that helped liberate Europe during the Second World War. The local government is asking the US ambassador to put the panels back. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...

Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Can't recommend this enough: docs.google.com/presentation...

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

Over Zohran Mamdani, de socialist die linkse Amerikanen energie geeft - én hoogstwaarschijnlijk de volgende New Yorkse burgemeester is. fd.nl/politiek/157...

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Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.

Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' on.ft.com/4nKf3MR

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Ook een goede vraag om aan de Nederlandse overheidsorganen te stellen.

A 5th grader explains that his schoolmate shielded him. That friend is now in the hospital after taking a bullet while shielding his classmate. They are only 10 years old.

Dit is een zin die helemaal niks betekent

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Word gezellig mijn collega:

This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Zelden zo hard gelachen tijdens het lezen van politiek nieuws

Steve Moore shows Trump a chart of "medium income"

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Amerikanen krijgen voortaan geld toe als ze medicijnen kopen.

This is Zuckerberg earlier tonight during Meta's investor call. Just imagine the shock people would have if the ceo of Philip Morris would boast so blatantly to his investors about how he's making his product more addictive.

En iedere keer als er Olympische Spelen of WK's zijn, staan alle politici vooraan om mee te juichen over de prestaties van onze sporters... We hebben het hier over een bijdrage van €19 miljoen per jaar, heb wat meer over voor deze geweldige rolmodellen.

Trump is nu "deals" aan het aankondigen die hij.... vorige week ook al heeft aangekondigd.

De Nederlandse fiscalist Frank Butselaar zou vandaag vrijkomen. In plaats daarvan werd hij opgepakt door migratiedienst ICE. fd.nl/politiek/156...

Jamie Dimon's analysis that Europe's GDP has gone from 90% of US to 65% in last 10-15 years is based on comparing the two using market exchange rates. On that basis, EU GDP has just jumped 10% in the last six months against the US. I must have missed the "WHY IS THE EU ECONOMY BOOMING?" pieces

FD-commentaar over antisemitisme op X, en waarom het Koninklijk Huis en Dilan Yesilgöz er nog aanwezig zijn. fd.nl/opinie/15618...

It's hard to make this any more explicit... from a cynical political perspective anyone in government comms should be concerned about the incentive structures that most "local news" sites have, which are increasingly shaped by big tech aggregators that push clicky headlines onto phone screens.

Opeens is het een stuk minder gek dat die oude Grieken hun oorlogen begonnen op instigatie van een paar gedrogeerde oude dametjes in Delphi.

Is this what “support the troops” means?

I switched to Kagi about a month ago and I've not missed Google Search for a moment

Boek! Samen met @bartmos.bsky.social en @pauliense.bsky.social ga ik verder met het verhaal achter de 'fiscalist van de sterren' Frank Butselaar. Met veel meer over de Amerikaanse rechtszaak, de gevangenissen in de VS en het vervolg van de fraudezaak in Nederland. Volgend voorjaar in de boekhandel!

Light a candle for all journalists and analysts that thought that their weekends had started.

And after Bezos spoke at a 2019 memorial service for Khashoggi and spoke directly to his widow, as she cried: "You need to know you are in our hearts." www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAb...

Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

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