‘Could Should Might Don’t’ by Nick Foster If futurists really want to help everyday people, perhaps their goal should be to help us deal with our anxiety about the future rather than to simply predict what will happen. [..] the grandiose sooner or later becomes mundane' www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

'In the last decade and a half, boys and young men ages 15 to 24 more than doubled their average time spent gaming, to about 10 hours a week [..] They’ve become a central way that young people socialize and provide them — especially boys — with a sense of belonging' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Isn't Beirut always coming back from the brink?! 😳 🇱🇧 'Is Beirut back from the brink? Despite challenges for the Lebanese government, the city is getting its buzz back A new government is offering the long-beleaguered city a welcome opportunity for renewal.' monocle.com/affairs/beir...

'In The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900, Edgerton demonstrates that technological change often runs in reverse. Ship-breaking is an example of this “low-tech future” [..] regressed from specialised docks in Taiwan to beaches in Bangladesh' monocle.com/business/tec...

Yvonne Zonderop: "Democratie is niet enkel een handige organisatievorm. Het is ook een overtuiging [..] De Tocqueville schreef: ‘Despotisme kan zonder geloof, maar vrijheid niet.’ Dat inzicht zullen mensen die de democratie willen beschermen vast kunnen gebruiken." www.groene.nl/artikel/het-...

🇯🇵 #epic #Kokuho ‘Ryo Yoshizawa stuns in mesmerising epic on Japan’s kabuki theatre Kokuho is a lavish, bewitching story of two Japanese kabuki theatre actors, raised in the same family and competing to become the best’ amp.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

'Larry Fink and Rob Goldstein on how tokenisation could transform finance Ledgers haven’t been this exciting since the invention of double-entry book-keeping every expansion of access must be matched by updated safeguards.' www.blackrock.com/corporate/li...

#EuroStack 'De EU is een ‘digitale kolonie van de VS’. Cristina Caffarra probeert dat te veranderen, met enig succes' www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The AI Shift John Burn-Murdoch: 2026 will see a decline in the amount of time spent on the internet (excluding the use of LLMs) [..] a resurgence of in-person assessment [..] Sarah O’Connor: I think 2026 will be when we really start to see AI agents become useful www.ft.com/content/260d...

#joint #sovereignty 'The EU’s enthusiasts [..] must embrace a word dear to nationalists: sovereignty. The trick is to identify where European states need “joint sovereignty” to regain their strength [..] Today the key fields are digital tech and AI.' www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

"Schumpeter argued that you could spot a fundamental economic transition by the arrival of new -> types of goods production methods & forms of industrial organization #drones #phones #solar a geopolitical transformation [..] led by cheap, shareable innovations" shorturl.at/BebmG

#britney 'Thanks in large part to this group of Gen Z stars, the nostalgic specter of Spears seemed to hover over the pop world this year like a glittering, benevolent fairy godmother [..] a kind of trailblazing older-sister figure and a major aesthetic touchstone' www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/a...

In een geweldig interview met @jorn_lelong (@demorgen) stonden Joey Hullegie en ondergetekende twee pagina’s lang 🤗 stil bij onze bestseller ‘Het versnellingseffect’ 🎢 📈🥇 Nog geen exemplaar in bezit? T/m 9 februari krijg je bij aanschaf @Mgtboeknl 'Slow productivity' van Cal Newport cadeau 🎁

📈 #grootste #werkgever 'ASML [..] die de toptien binnenkomt met ruim 21 duizend fte’s in Nederland, ruim 76 procent meer dan vijf jaar geleden. Ook de Action is een banenmagneet [..] omgerekend 13.401 volledige banen in Nederland, ruim een derde meer' www.volkskrant.nl/economie/def...

'The military will always need physically fit service members. But[..] headed toward a future where software will play a bigger role in armed conflict than hardware [..] in temperature-controlled rooms rather than well armed troops braving the physical challenges of the front line' shorturl.at/V6trT

'A moment of silence became a powerful statement at AFCON as DR Congo 🇨🇩 supporter Michel Kuka Mboladinga stood motionless for the full 90 minutes of his national team’s match. The act was a personal tribute to Patrice Lumumba, the country’s independence hero' @afrika.world 📸: @latoileviews_

#zeitgeist Ozempets #weight #loss #jabs #for #pets 'That’s right. In the US a pilot study is testing GLP-1 drugs – a category that includes Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic – on cats.' www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

. @creamradio vroeg naar mijn Sunday Favorites Je hoort ze vandaag voorbijkomen op CREAM. Megan Thee Stallion (feat. Yuki Chiba) – Mamushi La Rappresentante di Lista – Resistere Patrick Bruel – Au café des délices Tracy Chapman – Talkin’ Bout a Revolution Via DAB+, de app of creamradio.nl.📲

Interesting way to frame your centennial celebration 🤪 AI-generated video summary -> 'Publicis Groupe's "New year. New century. New wishes" recounts a century of resilience. This historical journey follows a French advertising agency through triumphs & challenges' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtcA...

#endofanera @mtvsocial.bsky.social Proud to have played a tiny little part - a small cog in the machine really, hardly worth mentioning, just dipped my toe in, barely a footnote - in its history 🤩 #Coolpolitics ‘MTV Channels Come Full Circle With Final Clip "Video Killed The Radio Star" ‘

Terrific read! 'This future is often difficult to predict because it always disguises itself as the past. Early phone calls were concise like telegrams. Early movies looked like filmed plays. (Marshall McLuhan: "driving to the future via the rearview window.")' x.com/ivanhzhao/st...

Big thanks 2025 🥳 🙏🎆🎇 What a ride 🎢 #HetVersnellingseffect #JoeyHullegie #ClarenceSeedorf #LaurentienVanOranje 😍 🥇 @Mgtboeknl #leiderschap @StudioZeitgeist @Businessboek

#luigi 'What happens when the systems meant to sustain life are experienced as systems that profit from suffering? [..] The unsettling possibility that “Luigi” raises is that the line between protest and performance, revolution and revenge, has all but vanished' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...

Bring it onnnnnn 🧀 🧀 🧀 'Cow-free dairy startup Those Vegan Cowboys closes €6.25 million funding round as it eyes crowdfunding campaign Tastings of their cheese prototypes are planned for 2026 in 🇳🇱, giving early backers a chance to experience the results first-hand.' bebeez.eu/2025/12/22/c...

👶 👶 👶 'Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them' www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...

NOW @AlbertinaMuseum Marina Abramović’s 'Counting the Rice' #vertragen www.albertina.at/en/albertina... Images: #MarinaAbramović, Counting the Rice, 2015, Museum of Old and New, Tasmania © Marina Abramović Courtesy: the Marina Abramović Archives and Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles @abramovicinst

‘Jennifer Saunders is sublime in this Ab Fab reunion The TV legend is back on screen with Joanna Lumley for a brilliant guest role in the Motherland spinoff.’ #Guardian So put your VPN on 🇬🇧 #Merry #Christmas 🎄😍 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

'The fundamental security weakness of LLMs is that there is no rigorous way to separate instructions from data so anything they read is potentially an instruction [..] “Lethal Trifecta” [..] the risk that the LLM will read hidden instructions that leak sensitive data to attackers' shorturl.at/lylWD

Steven Everts: 'believing in one’s capabilities, including the capacity to say “no.” But this is only possible if Europe invests in its ability to take major decisions together [..] There is no way out of this without investing in a stronger EU' www.politico.eu/article/euro... via Joop Hazenberg 🙏

'The important conflicts now are within, not between, civilisations. [..] September 11 2001 [..] seen for a long time after as the moment the 21st century began. In retrospect, the real trailer for what was to come was Putin’s invasion of Georgia seven years later' www.ft.com/content/1ed6...

'Critical state infrastructures are being privatized across —data, defense, space, energy & money—the foundations of democratic power [..] architecture of privatized sovereignty [..] power flows through laws, infrastructure & automated platforms' buff.ly/HPl1Nvw

#TheSirensCall ' 'the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on. [..] The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on.' buff.ly/BBjhxjU

Kijken! 😍 'Iemand moet het doen is veel meer dan een muziekdocumentaire, het is een waardevolle en soms pijnlijke terugblik op hoe grootstedelijke jongerencultuur niet op waarde werd geschat. En hoe hiphop desondanks [..] heeft weten te ontwikkelen tot de dominante subcultuur' shorturl.at/9VvUS

#hetversnellingseffect 🎢 DE cadeautip 🎁✨🎄 .... 🥇 Managementboek .nl #leiderschap '“Bad actors are moving faster than ever before,” said Ari Redbord [..] Sanctions and other economic penalties, he said, lose force when criminals can move millions with a few clicks.' shorturl.at/oE7X9

'Are video games getting harder? Our analysis shows how games have changed in the past 40 years games were tougher in the 1980s and 1990s (see chart). Arcade games had long been deliberately difficult, as designers wanted to coax coins from competitors.' www.economist.com/culture/2025...

#TheSirensCall 'the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on. [..] The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on.' www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

#TheAuthoritarianStack 'Critical state infrastructures are being privatized across —data, defense, space, energy & money—the foundations of democratic power [..] architecture of privatized sovereignty [..] power flows through laws, infrastructure & automated platforms' www.authoritarian-stack.info

Voor iedereen die de komende dagen nog net op tijd voor de kerst de bestseller 'Het versnellingseffect'🎢 moet aanschaffen (en wie is dat niet) 😉 Vanaf VR weer leverbaar via Libris, Bol etc #uitverkocht 🤩 maar heb je haast -> Managementboek .nl (🥇#leiderschap) of ren 🏃naar DE boekhandel om de hoek 📚

'You’re a Computer Science Major. Don’t Panic essential skill is no longer simply writing programs but learning to read, understand, critique & improve them instead. The future of computer science education is to teach students how to master the indispensable skill of supervision' shorturl.at/XLk2

😍 🎬 🎞️ 🇧🇪 'Le film "Les Baronnes" est hypertouchant, très ancré dans la réalité belge mais porté par un vrai souffle poétique. C’est doux et lumineux, parfois drôle, parfois dur.' www.rtbf.be/article/les-...

I love LA 😍 🤣 'A comedy that’s both precise and unhinged, absurdly funny yet emotionally true — a portrait of youthful ambition and friendship that makes someone slightly older both grateful to not be that young anymore and just a little envious of those who are.' www.vulture.com/article/i-lo...

#politics #became #pop #culture 'When they started sketching new episodes of the brash animated comedy “South Park” this summer [..] thinking a lot about politics and MAGA [..] “It’s not that we got all political,” Mr. Parker said [..] “It’s that politics became pop culture.” ' buff.ly/IE5xlcT

'In een socratisch gesprek fungeert de ander als spiegel, schrijft Callard. [..] Volgens haar is denken geen individuele maar een sociale activiteit [..] AI zou ook socratische vragen kunnen stellen [..] alles hangt af van de manier waarop het wordt geprogrammeerd' www.groene.nl/artikel/het-...

Big Tech is the new Big Tobacco @theknowledgeldn 'Meta has long known what Facebook does to teen mental health & how Insta’s algorithm targets vulnerable girls' 'Tech’s Tarnished Halo How Silicon Valley’s declining image is dimming America’s light' By Bobby Ghosh foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/01/t...

Boek van de maand 🎢 🤗 'De centrale boodschap – dat grip niet ligt in het vasthouden aan het oude, maar in het leren bewegen met het nieuwe – is overtuigend. by Jan Bletz #CHRO DE cadeautip dus voor de feestdagen 🎁✨🎄 😉 🥇 @ Managementboek .nl #Leiderschap #MensEnMaatschappij

'Polycene — multiple intelligences, seamlessly networked, co-improving & co-evolving in real time [..] The most adaptive, resilient & productive communities in the Polycene will be those that can assemble dynamic coalitions across issues —what I call complex adaptive coalitions' shorturl.at/i1OtW

A new project aims to predict how quickly AI will progress 'by 2040, they expect AI to be as important to this century as electricity or the car were to the previous one—a score of eight on a ten-point scale devised by Nate Silver' #measure #impact #inventions www.economist.com/science-and-...

En terecht .... kijken dus! 😍 npo.nl/start/serie/... #Bodem2 'Eva Crutzen heeft het Gouden Kalf gewonnen voor 'Beste Regie Dramaserie'. Dat deed de Maastrichtse met de serie Bodem 2. Die serie schreef ze zelf, regisseerde ze zelf en ze speelde zelf de hoofdrol.' rtvmaastricht.nl/nieuws/artik...

Ageing populations a 'ticking time bomb' for GDP growth, says EBRD "Already today, demography is eroding growth in living standards, and it is going to be a headwind for GDP growth in the future" [..] Post-communist nations "are getting old before getting rich," www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Diner met het FD 🍽️ Wat een feest om eens even een flinke boom op te mogen zetten met Jan Fred van Wijnen @fd.nl 🤗 🎢 Over #HetVersnellingseffect (#JoeyHullegie) #interregnum #autoriteit #fuckup #racisme #wereldkaart #ranglijsten #invloed #DoubleSpeed #Tunesië #TestTafel en nog veel meerrrrrrrrrrr