To a new financial system? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Why is human-centricity important in these technological times? This picture explains why. @peteroeij.bsky.social @seismec.bsky.social

Here you have it. We all don't understand the American president correctly. He wants a Coup Denmark! Please send him one.

Gradually, the play of the American administration is becoming clear. The Greenland strategy is only meant to break up the European Union. The support for the radical right was a first step to do this. The flip-flop on Ukraine fits this strategy. And now Greenland. More EU is desperately needed.

Does the EU have baby leverage in discussions with the US? Maybe the EU should oblige European pension funds to disinvest from the US stock markets? Drop Blackrock and other such institutions in coordinating EU funds? That may help.

The Dutch and the US have working for years on stopping drug boats coming from Venezuela. Thousands of kilos of drugs have been intercepted by the Dutch authorities. The persons apprehended by the Dutch were delivered to the Americans for justice. -/--

Have the American policymakers gone totally mad? Capturing an active president, how illegal this president may be, is totally unacceptable. The precedent is sets, is unbelievable. For the same reasons, the Canadian prime minister can be kidnapped. -/--

It was an honour working on this project over the past years. As always, learned a lot about how economist think and approach subjects. Refreshing. Good to know that sociological perspectives are equally needed. Thx to EEP!

I am fully for dogs wearing helmets!

Avoiding an AI bubble requires human centricity. NVIDIA tries to convince the market that the AI revolution is far from finished. I guess that if I had a quasi monopoly in my market, I would contend the same. However, the LLM revolution is showing cracks. -/-

The European workplace, the basis for competitive advantage? See the webinar with Steven Dhondt bridges5-0.eu/recordings/

Athens by night ... allemaal lichtjes

The US Administration says it has not decided to go all in on attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is portrayed as strategic behaviour. However, the Israelis supply of weapons will run out soon. When that happens, the decision to defend Israel has already been taken. -/--

The Bridges 5.0 project has it's Scientific Conference #AdvancingIndustr5_0

Are American manufacturing jobs coming back? Obama 2= 399.000 manufacturing jobs created; Trump 1 = 160.000 manufacturing jobs destroyed; Biden 1 = 541.000 jobs created; Trump 2 after 4 months: 4.000 jobs created. Estimate for Trump 2 = 48.000 created?

My message for the Bridges 5.0 scientific conference

DOGE will remain after Musk leaves. This means that the US will operate under chaos. Managing the public sector requires different approaches. Many systems were developed over time. E.g. zero based budgetting was a technique to give some rationale to down-sizing. ../..

@bnr.nl bracht item over sociale kosten van gedrag van Nederlandse bedrijven. Interessante framing. Het klonk alsof bedrijven duurder uit waren als gevolg van IMVO. Het rapport zegt iets anders. Negatieve sociale kosten zijn 31 mrd euro. Oftewel, dat is wat bedrijven niet betalen shorturl.at/aqmK8

Today at HFES Annual Conference. Explaining #Industry5.0 to Human Factor specialists @seismec.bsky.social @bridges5-0.bsky.social @tno

Seismec is doing well in the social media! @dhondts.bsky.social @juliacomer.bsky.social

My prediction: the US administration will change their tariff policy by the end of the week!

The only thing that tariffs will bring to the US are robots. Most of the robots will come from outside of rhe US. Even with tariffs, these robots will remain competitive to expensive blue collars jobs. -/--

Tariffs make the US administration blind for reality. The Netherlands gets sanctioned for having a trade deficit with the US. This deficit exists since decades and has only grown. The Dutch government should forbid ASML to send machines to the US. Agree? To keep some sane logic. See #DeVolkskrant

Two strange mistakes when thinking of tariffs as a means to make your country great again. The first is that you cannot divide more gains by making the total cake smaller. You may get a bigger slice of this cake, by being a serious bully. But your slice is going to be smaller. And, second, most -/-

Just don't know what the US republicans are thinking. Even if new jobs may be created by tariffs, this will not be blue collar jobs. It will be jobs that cater to highly educated groups. Probably jobs that have a democratic leaning? Oh yes. Make America Think Again?

Another prediction. Trump will impose tariffs, even if everyone says this is plain stupidity if you want to reduce inflation. My prediction: as Erdoğan did in Turkey, Trump will start forbidding any economic statistics on inflation. Let us see. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/03/e...

We have concluded presenting the SEISMEC pilot journey. But let's have a quick recap. During the project’s duration, 17 pilots will take place in 14 countries, focusing on a wide range of areas. Learn more ℹ️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #SEISMEC #HorizonEU #HumanCentricity #Industry50

The GI-NI team takes questions. Understanding how the example of Jo Baer clarifies labour market mobility

#Bridges5_0 is in Morocco, Ben Guerir. Prof Amine Benlemlih addresses complexity leadership

Fouad Laroui discusses #Rembrandt and #ai. And this with the heaven of the French language. Ah, what is not possible anymore in Europe, is still possible in Morocco. Congratulations to UM6P for organising the Science Week.

Time for the GOP to stand up and change the agenda of the new administration. Rubio should listen to Senate voices. Or is he hoping that the US can tidy up their own backyard is Putin gets Ukraine? Eyes on Cuba? edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

First relevant news of the new US presidency. Inflation is up! Guess he (and co-prez) will have to fire the data collectors.

Ik ben benieuwd. De werkgevers lopen storm tegen de regeldruk. Ze zien hun kans schoon om in het huidige tijdsgewricht soepeler wetgeving te krijgen. Vooral CSRD in al zijn vormen heeft het gedaan. Maar tegelijk begrijpt men dat veel bedrijven hun zaken op orde hebben. --/--

🗓️On Monday, February 10th, the SEISMEC partners met virtually 👨‍💻 to review the project's progress and share key insights 🔑 from its first 12 months. Learn more ℹ️ linkedin.com/feed/update/... #SEISMEC #HorizonEU #Industry50 #HumanCentricity

Interesting read from @frankfukuyama.bsky.social on Trump's foreign policy. He sees a regression to strategic regional thinking as was dominant some 200 years ago. However, I think it is not even at that level. Trump has not answered the question if he wants to use violence to achieve his goal.-/-

💥 New Zealand knows what’s up!!

The Frankfurter Schüle tackles the challenges of our society. Such counter trend thought is extremely needed. www.normativeorders.net/debatte-uebe...

Saw this over at the bad place, and it made me laugh.😂

A great reporter is stopping at CNN. As he indicates: "Don't give into the lies!" edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/b...

We nadenken over hoe Nederland productiever kan worden. Sommige sociale oplossingen blokken achteraf niet zo handig te zijn. Laten we ervan leren. www.linkedin.com/posts/steven...

Five positive outcomes of the Amercan presidents absurd policies 1. Cheap oil will degrade Russian military power. No money. 2. Rocky mountains will disappear: needed for dikes to keep America dry again 3. Point 2 offers a lot of opportunities to Dutch dike builders --/--

Grootste vermogensbeheerder ter wereld, bediener van zowat alle Nederlandse pensioenfondsen, gelooft niet zo in duurzaamheid. Moeten de PF nog verder met hen? De Volkskrant: De winnaar en verliezer van de week: ‘duurzaam’ BlackRock benoemt olieman www.volkskrant.nl/economie/de-...

Will the EU follow the tariff war? Well the EU had been building its own trade world. gini-research.org/blog-trumpia...

The World Ecomic Forum predicts mass employment because of ChatGPT. Daron Acemoglu contradicts this in his Nobelprize speech. If you really want to know, come to the H2020 GI-NI final conference. See gini-research.org/gi-ni-intern...

The incoming Prez of the US does not like to lose face. Well, day one is coming ... and we will see if he can stop the Ukraine war. If not, then the first loss of face is there ...

Dutch tradition on New Years' eve ...

Kwaliteit van de arbeid is een lastig concept. Teveel gaan we uit van wat de persoon ervan vindt ('tevredenheid'). Maar wat moet je doen om de omstandigheden in beeld te brengen? Lees ons artikel in TVA www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

One of my predictions for 2025. Trump and team will try everything to block ruling on TicToc before Jan 20. Not so much that they want to help TicToc, but just so they can push Bytedance to sell TicToc to ... Elon Musk. Another channel for disinformation coming ...

The GI-NI project is ending. Core results are presented at final conference. "Finding the drivers for a more equal and skilled EU". Participate? This link: ceps.eu/eventregistr... @peteroeij.bsky.social @ceps.eu