'Het versnellingseffect' by A.I. 🎢 ‘Wij zijn ruim tweeënhalf jaar bezig geweest om dat systeem geschikt te maken voor de Engelse markt. [..] Als we hetzelfde nu gaan doen voor Duitsland, kost het ons misschien tweeënhalve maand. Dat is echt gigantisch.’ www.groene.nl/artikel/wach...

6-7 by Pope Leo 😇

'Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts Expenditure is growing fast and consumer take-up accelerating. But alarm bells are sounding' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘A Sad and Beautiful World’ 😍 🇱🇧 'The lead actors’ believable chemistry in tandem with director Cyril Aris’ eye for vibrancy propel Lebanon’s Oscar entry, as it traces a heartsore relationship affected by economic and political turmoil.' @Carlos_Film variety.com/2025/film/re...

Nederland 😍 'De week erop zal preventiedeskundige Graman weer achter de telefoon zitten om mensen te woord te staan die bellen voor de uitslag van hun drugstest. [..] „Dat zit je erbij als een callcenter, terwijl ik droogjes uitleg hoe sterk een xtc-pil is.”' www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

'Russian cosmism: inspiring Putin and Musk with ideas of immortality and space colonization The intellectual movement of the late 19th century influenced the Soviet space race and contemporary transhumanists in Silicon Valley' english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Ondergetekende had het enorme genoegen om @WNLOpZondag met oa @SilvioErkens @stasLVVN @Eerdmans @floorbremer stil te staan bij de vraag wat er momenteel in Silicon Valley aan het gebeuren is. #Mars #OrbitaleDatacenters #Neuralink #Prospera Maar hoe zijn wij eigenlijk zelf onze toekomst?

#hetversnellingseffect 🎢 'Steeds meer bibliotheken worden ‘zelfbiebs’: onbemande vestigingen [..] Het speelt in op de groeiende behoefte aan publieke mogelijkheden om rustig te werken en te studeren. ‘Ik denk dat mensen snakken naar dit soort plekken.’ ' www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/d...

📵 'In country after country the birth rate plunged after the introduction of smartphones, no matter what the previous trend was. The younger the age group, the more pronounced the downturn — a mirror image of smartphone usage patterns.' www.ft.com/content/fba3...

#hetversnellingseffect .nl 🎢 'Kwetsbaarheden in software steeds sneller misbruikt door opmars AI-modellen Gemiddeld aantal dagen tussen het bekendmaken van een kwetsbaarheid in software, en het eerste bewezen misbruik' www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

#grip „Het heeft misschien te maken met een gevoel van controle dat al die beschikbare technologie ons geeft”, zei ik tegen een vriend. „Misschien”, antwoordde hij, „of doordat we door al die technologie juist bang zijn om nog meer controle te verliezen.” ' www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

'The Vatican is acutely aware of technology’s power to upend existing political and religious order. The invention of the printing press [..] famously preceded the rise of nation-states and the Protestant Reformation, remaking the power of the Catholic church.' www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

'Can democracy survive if no one’s reading? The big risk here isn’t just that future generations won’t get to enjoy Dickens or Austen. It’s that modern democracy was built on a culture of mass literacy, so if we lose reading, “we could lose democracy”.' www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

In @WNLOpZondag ging ondergetekende samen met @ministerBZ @GeneraalDeKruif @TijmenDokter en @ChristianneWal oa in te gaan op het wel of niet verbieden vd overname vh het bedrijf achter DigiD (Solvinity). Terecht besluit by @stasdigi.bsky.social "ter bescherming van het publieke belang".

#radicaletransparantie 'Met een lichte vertraging gaat ook NL over tot het invoeren van de wet die bedrijven verplicht lonen transparant te maken. Werknemers kunnen dan opvragen wat collega's in vergelijkbare functies verdienen.' nos.nl/artikel/2615... zie ook www.vn.nl/de-beste-in-... #2012 🤗

#hetversnellingseffect 🎢 'In wijnland Frankrijk vloeit nu meer bier: bij snelle hap is een glas wijn geen optie' 🍷🍻 www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/i...

' “London,” wrote Ford Madox Ford in 1905, “is the world town, not because of its immense size but its assimilative powers.” This stems from two foundational factors: the legacy of Empire and, more importantly, the notions of due process, -> 1/2 🧵 buff.ly/3w301MR

'The state’s return Feature: How have governments become some of the biggest investors in the global economy? Adam Dixon on a new era of state capitalism. And they’re not just investing more—they’re investing differently.' www.thesgnl.com/2026/05/sove...

Samen met Lotte Prins #NJR het Verantwoordingsontbijt @tweedekamer @rekenkamer.bsky.social @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social‬ toe mogen spreken over het belang van langetermijndenken en hoe we dit steviger kunnen verankeren in beleid & politiek 🙏 @ThomvCampen @sneller.bsky.social @tomvanderlee.bsky.social

#ElectroUnion 🇪🇺 'We call on the EU to adopt the vision of becoming the world's first electro-continent: making the EU the Electro Union by targeting to run a majority of its economy on clean, domestic electricity by 2040.' www.norrsken.org/goodnews/mak...

'The new low-growth world of zero-sum competition and ageing populations is fundamentally different, & it [..] will have fundamentally different politics [..] The old system was one that worked under a particular set of conditions. Those conditions are no longer present' www.ft.com/content/b4d2...

#CocktailPartyProblem 'MIT neuroscientists have figured out how the brain is able to focus on a single voice among a cacophony of many voices, shedding light on a longstanding neuroscientific phenomenon known as the "cocktail party problem." ' medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03...

#solarpunk #toekomstverliefd 'Coined on an internet blog in 2008, Solarpunk is a subgenre of science fiction that challenges the apocalyptic scripts of capitalist realism and opens new futures of radical possibility.' creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Efficiëntie maakt niet gelukkig 'eigenschap van grote taalmodellen is bijvoorbeeld sycophancy [..[] AI-chatbots ons overmatig naar de mond praten [..] eigenschap die tot problemen leidt is homogenisering. [..] tijd voor een herwaardering van het belang v herhaling' www.groene.nl/artikel/effi...

'Zelensky argued that, if the U.S. is truly planning to withdraw from NATO [..] European democracies need a whole new security architecture. To defend itself from 🇷🇺 without 🇺🇸 assistance, he suggested, the 🇪🇺 would need the capabilities of the nonmembers 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇹🇷 & 🇺🇦' www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

#radical #transparency 'Founded in 1843, The Economist has long been an outlier [..] Its writers have always been unnamed, [..] Now even The Economist is putting its writers and editors in front of the camera. ' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b... Uit de oude doos #2012 🤗 -> shorturl.at/RUk9L

#theaccelationeffect 🎢 The AI Evangelists on a mission #TeamMirai 'The party came from nowhere to win an eye-popping 11 seats in the lower house of Japan’s parliament “Make slow politics fast,” said a campaign brochure. “Technology makes your life easier.” ' www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-ne...

“Life is too long,” Louis CK complained. I like life, but as a fellow tired man in his late fifties, I identified. More than that, Louis has probably put his finger on a truth about our times: our lengthening lifespans may not be entirely welcome.' @simonkuper.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/374d...

'hoe worden we lichtvoetiger en toekomstbestendig? Bevorder concurrentie, verbeter het onderwijs, steek meer geld in infrastructuur [..] aan bedrijven een prijs te vragen voor wat schaars is. Want niet alles kan [..] bedrijfsleven zélf kan een stuk wendbaarder worden' www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

#theendofthemiddle 'a lot of middle management, in essence, is about taking a broad strategy and dividing it up into ever smaller parcels of responsibility, and then flowing information up the chain. AI [..] can leapfrog the process and run the show.' www.ft.com/content/f580...

#TheInternetArchive 'last year it began archiving something different: how A.I. systems respond to questions about the world [..] it is a signal that the centre of gravity in the information economy may be moving, from what is published to what is being asked' www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

'AI will “deprofessionalize” once high-skill careers, opening up the law, medicine and finance to lower-skill, lower-paid workers [..] Ming terms these “meta-learning” skills; they include cognitive flexibility, empathy, working memory, resilience and divergent thinking' www.ft.com/content/2f1c...

#theaccelerationeffect “Warfare is a race of innovation, and time is a domain of war [..] We need more cooperation with Ukraine to adapt at the speed of conflict.” nurtured by constant interaction between soldiers at the front and agile defense-tech companies' foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/28/u...

Set your VPN to 🇳🇱 and watch a teacher fighting back in this powerful documentary -> 'Mr Nobody Against Putin' 'A primary school teacher in Russia pushes back on cruel nationalist propaganda in a fascinating and daring look at everyday encroachment' @theguardian.com npo.nl/start/serie/...

Sites Unseen: What Travel Is Like for Those Who Can’t See 'That question led me on a 10-day journey through northern India’s Golden Triangle with Traveleyes, a British tour company that pairs visually impaired and sighted travelers.' www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#ModelCapabilityInitiative 'Meta is installing new tracking software on [..] employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks & keystrokes for use in training its A.I. models [..] broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously' www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? 'By manipulating animals to do wonderful things, we may become numb to their real wonder.' www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

#Robot #Metabolism 'Von Neumann called this the theory of automata. In essence he showed that a machine could build any describable machine, therefore including itself.' www.ft.com/content/9193... & pingpongrobot Ace www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/s...

China’s Electrostate Is Poised to Win From War in the Middle East 'Chinese companies dominate the manufacturing of nearly every component of a modern grid, including solar panels, high-voltage cables, transformers and batteries that store energy for later use.' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...

#theaccelerationeffect #cyber #attacks “More is changing now and faster than we have seen in a long time, the time to find and exploit vulnerabilities is drastically decreasing” www.ft.com/content/954a... & China’s own Mythos is coming — America must prepare www.ft.com/content/ea8c...

#zeitgeist ' ‘Hairdryer or lighter?’: French police look at claim of sensor tampering to win weather bets Forecasting service raises alarm over data from Paris airport used to settle Polymarket wagers on temperature' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

E P I C 🔥 🔥 🔥 The xx - Intro - Live at Coachella 2026 youtu.be/UvRxaZH7DUY?...

TGI 🍾🥂 Is the office bar back? 'the normalisation of remote work [..] has revived a debate about how 2 make offices more socially attractive [..] modern office bar typically comes with more limits than its earlier incarnation [..] don’t serve alcohol during the workday' www.ft.com/content/715d...

#A.I. #nonproliferation 'China’s [..] race for powerful A.I. overwhelms any caution. [..] But if a U.S. leader [..] offered to scrap chip controls in exchange for collaboration on A.I. nonproliferation, there would be [..] some chance of the proposal succeeding' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

In WNL op Zondag had ondergetekende het genoegen om onder leiding van Rick Nieman samen met @ministerbz.bsky.social Mart De Kruif, Tijmen Dokter en Christianne van der Wal onder andere in te gaan op de vraag of China niet veel toekomstgerichter is dan Europa ... waar zeker iets voor te zeggen valt!

Robots captured Russian army positions for first time in history 🤖 🪖 'President Zelenskyy on Monday said that "for the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms — ground systems and drones"' www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russ...

#rechtoptoekomst #generatietoets #futuredesign #burgerraden #OmbudsmanVoorToekomstigeGeneraties 'De Raad van State spreekt van een ‘Tirannie van het hedendaagse’. De politiek heeft volgens het instituut te weinig oog voor toekomstige generaties www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

#theaccelerationeffect #mythos 'Anthropic is among the first major A.I. companies to decide the responsible thing was to slow down [..] says it is committing $4 million to open-source security organizations. That’s more than anyone else in this industry has done.' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

#VPN 🇳🇱 and watch ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ 'Urgent and Brilliant Documentary Finds Radical Ideas Following Israeli Stand-Up Comic’s Peacekeeping Efforts observantly portrays Noam Shuster Eliassi's work with uproarious humor, heartrending moments & bold idealism' #Variety npo.nl/start/afspel...

Visited Ennedi last year 🇹🇩 😍 'I know very well that Chad isn’t for everyone — assessment of risk is personal — but it is for me. I also know how easy it is for the outsider to romanticise one of the toughest environments on Earth. [..] A wonderland, as Rossi calls it' www.ft.com/content/524e...