Eindelijk!!

"Recommendation algorithms actually do, on the whole, make the internet experience much more bearable." No, they don't

Blijkt Benoit Poelvoorde hier actief op het WK ! Wat een carrière toch, die man.

"She used to talk about the beach like it was a person. Her bond to the sunset, her bond to the water and the turtles….she was really into conservation, and into the soul, the spirit of conservation." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vlamingen hebben vandaag meer dan ooit de mogelijkheid om het nieuws te volgen op een manier die hen aanspreekt. Maar dat leidt niet tot meer betrokkenheid, zegt onderzoek aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). De traditionele media verliezen steeds meer terrein. www.mo.be/nieuws/vub-o...

Six months after Australia’s youth social media ban, other countries are already learning lessons to better address platform harms. Legislation in Brazil and Canada pairs age limits with design standards, including an opt out if platforms are “safe by design.” It’s not perfect, but it’s progress.

Het feit dat een Zwitserse riviercruise op het Albertkanaal was beland is inderdaad voldoende reden om de schipper eens te controleren.

White Nationalism and White Supremacy is what his forefathers fought against. This is despicable.

I signed for an open European social web: less dependence on Big Tech, more digital sovereignty, open source, decentralised and protocols/communities strengthening each other. ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Matrix, XMPP, … a broad coalition. Will you sign too? european.social

For all those who keep insisting that Bluesky is dead or dying... Bluesky is where you can get actual engagement with real humans.

The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit will explore incentives and power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence and disinformation campaigns. This is an interesting read from @masnick.com from Techdirt.

Nixon's executive branch goons thought they were untouchable while committing crimes for Nixon. And when Nixon fell from power, 48 of them were criminally convicted & 30 went to prison. Beginning in January 2029, those numbers will pale in comparison to what's coming for Trump's criminal cabal.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

CSIS: The Many Faces of Antisemitic Terrorism in the United States www.csis.org/analysis/man...

"100 million deportations" is catching on, thanks to the Trump admin advocacy. It reinforces the importance of birthright citizenship. I explain how the 14th amendment was implemented in part to stop ethnic cleansing and how Trump wants to undermine it www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-isnt...

Increasingly our culture and economy have become void of virtue. Profit obsession robs work of dignity. Consumerism replaces citizenship. Corruption becomes normal. That’s why I wrote Crisis of the Common Good - to explain that the solution is bigger than just beating Trump.

“Fash Front” is rebuilding the violent neo-Nazi ecosystem once centered around Iron March, the network that helped build groups like Atomwaffen Division. The forum spreads propaganda, praises white supremacist terrorists, and draws younger users into extremist networks online. Read more:

The scale of Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department against his enemies www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

basically: it’s very weird and idk prob not amazing for a society if, in just a couple of years, a small group of people foist a social/ political/ economic experiment on the world with the animating question: what is a human for?

Enemies Are Exploiting Unregulated Data Broker Location Data To Target And Kill U.S. Troops There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected industries…

What kind of lunatic do you have to be in 2026 to still believe Trump cares about ordinary people’s financial situation? Yet, at the same time, those same people praise him for “telling it like it is” and being brutally upfront.

The “Seven Mountains Mandate,” a theology that calls for Christian dominion over government, education, media, business, religion, family, and culture, is increasingly moving from the margins to the center of American politics, driven by Project 2025 and a network of aligned officials. Read more:

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From Twitter. Shameful.

Panem et Circensis

If you're wondering why Chris Olah, the cofounder of AI company Anthropic, was sitting on the stage with Pope Leo today as the pontiff unveiled his new encyclical on AI, well ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/w...

European democracy is under direct threat from foreign algorithms. American, Russian, and Chinese tech oligarchs manipulate the flow of information during elections. Their only interest is keeping the European continent weak and divided

Deplorables.

I indeed do want to be in a bubble that values democracy dearly. The problem is that people don't seem to / are not willing to understand that platforms like X are tearing down the fabric of liberal democracy, deliberately.

Very happy to be in the 'liberal democracy' bubble.

“Pornography is the unseen dark matter molding and shaping how the online right speaks and thinks about politics, on anything from immigration to transgender people to higher education.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

Wie interesse heeft in SpaceX aandelen doet er goed aan dit even te beluisteren. Wie eens wil grinniken om zo veel sarcasme ook. https://youtu.be/IHD8BDFYyGI https://youtu.be/8rS3fTbC7TE Patrick Boyle is een geweldig man om naar te luisteren. Hij citeert volop andere analisten.

(1/X) I would argue that the vast majority of all commentary is essentially pro-Trump. I don't mean pro-Trump in the sense of liking Trump, I mean it in the sense of them not holding him to the anything close to the same standards as Democratic politicians....

NEW: Across ideologies and borders, extremist and terrorist threats are now driven, to an unprecedented extent, by children. In a new report for the Soufan Center, I attempt to make sense of this devastating trend. thesoufancenter.org/research/com...

Second, the dynamics described -- virality instead of credibility, peer vibes instead of institutional trust -- have been hypercharged by social media. And what's worse they have become *trivially easy to manipulate* by bad actors.

Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.

Some counterterrorism objectives conflict with Trump’s own actions, analysts say. How can federal agencies step up efforts to thwart terror plots after Trump slashed the national security workforce and diverted resources to his deportation campaign?

The most depressing thing about America’s rapid decline under Trump is that while he is busily throwing Taiwan under a bus, he has received no Chinese help with Iran. He has left the US weak and exposed with his ill conceived war.

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet. Hope you'll read it

Exclusive: Israel built a secret military post in Iraq to support its campaign against Iran and launched strikes on Iraqi troops who almost found it early in the war.

Do you ever think about how Trump's posting was this wild new thing in 2015 and now it's just background noise in politics? I think about this a lot. So I read all his posts this year and analyzed them because THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING A LOT OF STUFF YOU AREN'T READING. www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...

Schrijf maar op : zal niet zorgen voor minder fraude, minder discussie en minder agressie.

Followers of the white-nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes once constituted a tiny subculture of America’s young right; now they hope to overtake it. Antonia Hitchens reports on the Groypers’s growing influence over the Republican Party. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hKblEm

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's no mention of far-right terrorism (neither white supremacist nor anti-government) in the Trump administration’s new national counterterrorism strategy. Instead, the domestic focus is on "violent left-wing extremists" and "cartels and gangs."