Sigrid Kaag shared today on Dutch TV that the Gaza Executive Board (UN mandated and composition announced on 17 January) that she is part of... hasn't met yet. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @jeremyscahill.com

With 71% of social media images now AI-generated (Forbes), let's go for the remaining 29%. www.reuters.com/business/ope...

"A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive, well, and can help you resist enshittification of the Web." www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/r... @theregister.com

"'last resort' skiing"

Interesting interview study about AI in the labor process. Best possible atmosphere (well-paid, autonomous) still results in more work, not less, because AI helps you multitask, work during nonwork time, extend your capability into other people's turf (experts then need to clean up vibejobs)

It's bots vs. reporters at the AP www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...

The @ec.europa.eu's special representative for the Gulf Region (@eusrgulf.bsky.social), Luigi di Maio (appointed in May 2023), since January also honorary professor at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, has exactly said... nothing since the war started. www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/eu-spec...

This is a hell of a piece of writing by Sam Kriss

Putting oneself in the shoes of a service provider (e.g. internet at home), how do you reach out to your customers if there is an issue? Phone calls are not trusted (given the huge amounts of fake calls, often very sophisticated). Emails and app messages neither. What should they do? 😵‍💫

Young Spanish males drifting to the far right, a problem not just limited to Spain. Link to Google translated version below: @angelmunarriz.bsky.social elpais-com.translate.goog/espana/2026-...

"According to a new study by cybersecurity company SkyShark, deepfake-related scam and fraud schemes tricked people out of approximately €930 million worldwide in 2025. This is three times more than the roughly €304 million worth of scams in 2024." www.euronews.com/2026/02/23/h... @euronews.com

I just moved my Bluesky data to @eurosky.social, hosted in the EU (and managed by the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social. The process is a bit convoluted, but it worked. Nothing really changes: you still access your data via the bsky.app website or its device apps. It's all backend.

Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.

“Whenever I work with teenagers I tell them, ‘This is not your fault. None of you asked to be sat in front of a computer for your entire K-12 schooling,’” Horvath said. “That means we…screwed up—and I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.” https://bit.ly/4tJmI1D

Excellent two part documentary on Giorgia Meloni by Barbara Conforti and Eric Jozsef, produced by @artefr.bsky.social and @lilaproductions.bsky.social. www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... (comes with subtitles in a range of languages)

"The real risk of artificial intelligence in the near future is [that] of massive influence on how people think and how they vote."

This doesn't make sense. If alone because there is no statement by King's College as to why this honorary title has been bestowed. Are we even sure this is true?

Italian news (and social media) is reporting that Luigi di Maio (5 Star Movement, no university degree) has become Honorary Professor at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Besides a CV page that mentions this title, I can't find any other information in English. True? www.kcl.ac.uk/people/luigi...

Nudging doesn't work /2 www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

In "a world where we will have 20 countries with weapons, we are sure to see nuclear use, even in regional or subregional conflicts, with the potential of escalation." Rafael Grossi of the @iaeaorg.bsky.social interviewed by @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/18/r...

Read the full report 👇 ✍️ Francesca de Benedetti @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @enopeu.bsky.social 🔗 www.enop.eu/publications...

🎧LISTEN: On a podcast episode w/ ScienceFriday, Prof. Hany Farid discussed how deepfakes have become commonplace and what we can do to avoid falling victim. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dee...

"It is mainly university graduates from fields unrelated to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) who are struggling." @dominiquesoenens.bsky.social in @brusselstimes.com www.brusselstimes.com/1968300/why-...

Quite striking that many Italian journalists - particularly female ones like Patricia Mazzei (@nytimes.com), Silvia Borrelli (@financialtimes.com) & @butinicecilia.bsky.social (@euractiv.com) - express their critical reflections about the Winter Olympics only in English in international publications

"We [in Ukraine] count more than 120,000 soldiers with amputations. We only know of such an enormous number from the First World War." Vyacheslav Zaporozhets, director of @tytanovirehab.bsky.social (Flemish TV report by @marijntriovrt.bsky.social)

Italian police (in Turin) accused of publishing AI-manipulated photos of political demonstrations. www.lastampa.it/torino/2026/...

Humbly honoured to get this impressive recognition by the Tech University Polito in Turín. We all contribute to innovate and build prosperity in Europe. It is in our unity and joint committed project that European values, fair societies and competitive economy boost.

The future of movie theaters doesn't look great . www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The deputy prime minister of Italy:

Curtain raiser for my conference on Wednesday. Note: it’s spicy. open.substack.com/pub/escapefo...

Europe’s quest for tech decoupling from the U.S., now seen as a potential adversary. The times we live in.

Brutal and excellent www.ft.com/content/6f84...

2026 US National Defense Strategy is out. Let's see: »Previous administrations squandered our military advantages ... to uphold cloud-castle abstractions like the rules-based international order.« Yeah, it's what I thought.

A new kind of power is emerging in culture: the identity industrialist. As synthetic humans become lifelike, identity itself can be manufactured, optimized, and scaled. Dave Snyder explores what this means for media, influence, and trust.

Highly recommend this article by @vitrav.bsky.social in National Geographic citing work done by @gloriamark.bsky.social. I have some doubts though that #mindfulness is the solution. The problem is structural, not individual. www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

Nudging doesn't work

How surveillance companies track smartphone users through advertising data

Italian TV news (La7): Meloni is not going to Davos.

"The Council of Europe stands ready to support Denmark and Greenland through concrete legal and institutional cooperation. If Europe fails to articulate a legal and political vision, others will fill the vacuum, shifting security from law to strategic leverage."

I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

The article by Liza Rozovsky in Haaretz is worth a read. Key phrase: "If [leaders of the 60 countries invited] "take part in the initiative, they will be personally responsible for participating in the destruction of the old world order." Italy seems to be joining. @nathalietocci.bsky.social

News: US officials have floated the idea of broadening a Gaza “Board of Peace” headed by Donald Trump to include other hotspots such as Ukraine and Venezuela, according to people familiar with discussions. www.ft.com/content/3461...

"Wine’s decline reflects a fraying of the social fabric that once held Western societies together." www.economist.com/internationa...

"The European Commission is fixed on the misguided idea that deregulation will unleash AI innovation, and has made that dogma one of its cornerstone policies. Deregulation in a highly monopolised market, however, only risks further entrenching dominant players."

Is Reddit indeed "one of the few platforms where you can still have substantive discussions"? Dutch media are starting to join the platform precisely for that reason, reports Dutch newspaper NRC (English translation here): www.reddit.com/r/Journalism...

About 42% of respondents said they agreed with "the ideas advocated by the RN," setting a new record (44% were in disagreement). @lemonde.fr

Nice one! www.thelocal.it/20260110/clo...

I changed my profile background to an image of hedgehogs created around 1250. The myth was that these animals carried stolen fruits on their spines. So it is also a warning for us not to fall into the same myth trap 8 centuries later. theconversation.com/why-hedgehog...

Handbook on cognitive biases "that are particularly common and relevant to intelligence work" (67 pages) published by the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) www.vbs.admin.ch/dam/en/sd-we...