Felienne Hermans

These bans are short-sighted and inhumane and pushed by people who do not understand the complexity of social media

Deze man is hoofdredacteur van een publieke omroep, betaald door belastinggeld. Het is een schande.

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

Things not on my 2026 bingo card: a penis enlargement olympic doping scandal.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

On the very same day that Bezos published a climate-downplaying op-ed by newly Epstein-linked climate denier Bjorn Lomborg:

Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Immigratie­dienst IND stopt met Amerikaanse e-maildienst vanwege zorgen om veiligheid De Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) neemt afscheid van Zivver, een aanbieder van beveiligde communicatie. Dit gebeurt nadat de staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid toegaf dat niet volle...

Media-aandacht heeft zin deel zoveel, "Immigratie­dienst IND stopt met Amerikaanse e-maildienst vanwege zorgen om veiligheid" www.ftm.nl/artikelen/in...

The only surprise is they admit it

Subconscious theory "if terrible people make art, it can only be terrible," that's not how it works. Sometimes in the art there is true catharsis & person is good. Other times, veiled confessions & manipulation. We can only know the difference by truly listening & respecting those around the artist.

3 million disgusting nudified images were produced by Grok in just 11 days.

Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI.

My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren't Allowed I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

NEW: I went undercover, as a human poster, on the social network designed just for AI agents.

The site isn’t a novel breakthrough; it’s simply a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies for the hype machine’s true believers.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

exactly. this is not difficult.

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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently"- David Graeber

Well, what does it mean for AI to be "fake?" Language evokes intelligence - in the reader. It's a powerful illusion. A reasonable critic sees that computation at scale can fuse language w/math in ways that do things. That is not "intelligence," and the problems that come that error are bountiful.

My stance of not having a smart phone cause I don't trust big tech looks less and less crazy every day

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

We’ve known for years that tech execs send their children to schools where no technology is allowed. This alone should be enough to know it’s a money making scheme to the detriment of children. Period.

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The "when used well" does a lot of heavy lifting there, meaning it needs to be done by a teacher that understands the technology well, is empowered to make changes when needed and is motivated, all very unlikely to happen at scale

AI in week 5 Op veler verzoek... Een kortere nieuwsbrief! (Click here for English!) Ik ga echt proberen me vanaf te beperken tot twee onderwerpen, zo hou ik hopelijk tijd over voor mijn boek. En ik stond deze wee...

EdTech, it doesn't work... How long until we can just accept the science on this? www.felienne.nl/2026-05/#edt...

Good thread showing how people are finally paying attention to the decay of the British Library and the outrageous proposal to make it unnecessarily difficult to access the BBC's Written Archives.

De economische keuzes van het nieuwe kabinet zijn vooral goed voor het bedrijfsleven Het regeerakkoord is een integrale vertaling van het rapport Wennink: zoveel mogelijk publiek geld richting bedrijven, en zoveel mogelijk regels voor bedrijven afschaffen.

"Het regeerakkoord is een integrale vertaling van het rapport Wennink: zoveel mogelijk publiek geld richting bedrijven, en zoveel mogelijk regels voor bedrijven afschaffen." Oftewel: kneitertje rechts met libertarische trekken.
www.groene.nl/artikel/opto...

Children in ICE Detention Skyrocket in Trump’s Second Term With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

Getting Trump on Epstein stuff is like trying to arrest the hamburglar for stealing hamburgers it’s his ENTIRE DEAL how can there be that many obstacles

This sounds great, what's the problem