Net al bij streaming muziekdiensten is bij luisterboeken weinig te halen voor de mensen die het werk deden/maakten

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

My old college classmate, a part-time TikTok influencer, just openly wondered on Instagram whether something's wrong with her TikTok algorithm. TikTok's sale to the Ellisons has been finalized. The best time to delete the app from your phones was yesterday; the second-best time to do it is now.

Nog even een hele dikke hulde voor @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social voor het afdwingen van een algoritmevrije tijdlijn in Instagram! 🙌🏻

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

The turning point is when that pressure produces real effects: decisions change, roles end, policies reverse. The problem we have is authoritarian systems are resistant to that.

Historically, the response to systematic institutional failings and injustice doesn’t start inside government. It starts when groups of people refuse to let failure fade away, they keep attention on it, document it, repeat it, and make it costly to ignore. For example, the civil rights movement.

Verification (establishing truth), Deliberation (arguing about it), and Accountability (binding power to it). When these work, you have substance. When they break, you slide into performance, and eventually, simulation, and people recognise this, even if they don't use a shared terminology.

Misschien wel het leukste dat ik op Noorderslag tegenkwam: IDA open.spotify.com/track/6gVbNT... #esns #esns26

Everyone wants to blame the content: misinformation, bots, polarisation. That mistakes catalysts and symptoms for the underlying causes. The crisis isn’t bad information, it's that the very information infrastructure we relied on to create a shared understand of the world had changed completely.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Hier wat nieuws over hoe #BBB de belangen van boeren effectief behartigt in Brussel. #kuch www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/b...

@jorisluyendijk.bsky.social meer goed nieuws

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

Toch wel fijn dat ook de landsadvocaat het nu bevestigt. Het maakt geen reet uit dat je een afspraak hebt met Microsoft dat je spullen op een datacenter in de EU komen te staan. De lange arm van de Amerikaanse wet komt tot in de polder: debatdirect.tweedekamer.nl/2026-01-21/d...

Hoe k*t gaat het wanneer rechts uiteen valt omdat het nog steeds niet rechts genoeg is? nos.nl/artikel/2598... #fascisme

Peak Dutch politics is having five or six significant far right parties in parliament and thinking: “you know what we need? another far right party”

I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh. So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails. Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

Dit vond ik een erg inzichtelijk draadje. Ik snap nu beter waarom ik bepaalde andere mensen die de wereld in de fik aan het steken zijn niet begrijp

“We’re good on OpSec”

Ik ben zo te horen op BNR over dit onderwerp. Is al opgenomen, en ik denk dat er geen woord Spaans bij zit: www.bnr.nl

the Danube Institute is a nasty thing - a far right body paid by Orban to promote Orban; allied with Project 2025 and supporting people like Eric Zemmour and the AfD. It’s baffling and troubling that the NRC wouldn’t think this matters when publishing their views

I wonder how many Dutch voters fully realize that what ICE is doing in Minnesota is *exactly* what Wilders (and van der Plas, Baudet, Eerdmans etc) would like to see happen here. It’s a free preview of what far right government actually looks like.

This is a very important video to watch. Thank you Ashley the Barroness. One comment from IG was America isn’t becoming Germany. America is becoming America. That really hit home for me. Watch this! Be uncomfortable.

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...

@zibaldoni.bsky.social hi Roland, together with Martijn Aslander, I am co-Founder of the PKM Summit. Next edition is march 20/21 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. We’d love to follow up the interactions you and Martijn had with a live meetup/talk/workshop at the Summit. Are you available and interested?

Imagine we pull it off and no longer need rare earths. China having made all those efforts to monopolize them and then use as choke point... These days I need good news like a plant needs water.

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Origineel bericht: nostr.band/note123ggr97...

Ik was erin getrapt, in die milieuvriendelijke wasstrips… stelletje volksverlakkers kro-ncrv.nl/programmas/k...

🧵1/12: Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed, but it is suffering immensely. It still runs, but only because the central bank keeps it alive with constant REPO liquidity. What was once emergency support is now the daily operating system. 📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social

Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:

Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.

Bij nieuw leven: hoera voor alle eerste keren! Na overlijden: fuck alle eerste keren. #kerstmismaaranders

“Experts en het Staatstoezicht op de Mijnen betwijfelen of dat gaat lukken. Zij denken dat in 2034 nog altijd mensen in de wachtrij zullen staan. De Groningers zelf gaan ervan uit dat ze ook na dat jaar nog niet zijn geholpen” - specials.app.nos.nl/aardbevingen...

Having much belated second thought on this book by Kevin Kelly, after better understanding the use of inevitability as a strategy for autocratic rule en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ine...

I posted this for my handful of friend who hate AI as much as me, did not expect it to go viral, I had the original source noted in the Alt-Text which bluesky just doesn't show?! This wonderful person linked the full video at the Urban Consulate here: bsky.app/profile/prop...

Do not comply in advance. Is is not at all inevitable, unless we lay down and accept it as such .

There are a lot of stories like this that seem not to effect the overall narrative of the war for some odd reason. www.theconcis.com/p/novorossiy...

Hup Koen Schuiling. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Het Witte Huis wil het lettertype Calibri niet meer gebruiken omdat het 'te woke' zou zijn. In 1941 verbood Hitlers partij, de NSDAP, het lettertype Fraktur: dat zou 'te Joods' zijn. www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/hitler-deed-...

14.5% is veel minder. niet iets minder www.ad.nl/economie/nie...

@berthubert.bsky.social at EU's Digital Commons EDIC launch event: "change is going to have to come from governments[...]Companies are not rewarded for thinking about digital autonomy[...]governments will have to lead" berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Standing on the shoulders of all who came before, so to speak youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?...

Disney misspelled putting back in the public domain

Nieuw op mijn substack Schuurpapier: 'Als lezers de media wantrouwen, blijft er maar één antwoord over' Lees je mee? Graag! schuurpapier.substack.com/p/als-lezers...

“There’s a particular pressure in wanting to experience joy in the same shape as the joy we once knew.”