@vanderborghtr.bsky.social
Researcher International Relations @uantwerpen. Focused on technology and international security.
Good to highlight this.
I always wonder how it is that this long piece in Wired from 2017, on how Palantir takes over institutions, has not found its way into the minds of public procurement decision makers around the world.
www.wired.com/story/how-pe...
Volgens De Tijd gaat het daarbij ook om onderdelen van Belgische bedrijven.
Het volledige onderzoek:
Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was expected to do. Ellison, Bezos, and other oligarchs are not trying to make their media properties profitable. They are turning them into regime media--to make their other properties more profitable.
17.02.2026 05:30 — 👍 265 🔁 80 💬 7 📌 2We have two dominant visions for digital tech: one from major corporations that maximizes profit at any cost, and another based on cyberlibertarian ideals that assumes you must code to participate in society.
We need another: where the public sector builds and funds tech for the broad public good.
Het Israëlische leger heeft de grensgebieden van Libanon en Syrië besproeid met grote hoeveelheden landbouwgif. Op die manier probeert de Israëlische regering vermoedelijk semipermanente, onbegroeide bufferzones te creëren waar boeren zich niet langer kunnen begeven.
16.02.2026 08:27 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 5Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.
14.02.2026 09:56 — 👍 3408 🔁 1194 💬 188 📌 96Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
14.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 12280 🔁 5185 💬 3725 📌 2987Dit opiniestuk van in NRC van Floris Burgers, Adriaan Duiveman en Lotte Hogeweg citeert tot 4x toe Musa al-Gharbi als bron (ook het boek dat ze citeren doet dat).
Maar Al-Gharbi is helemaal geen betrouwbare bron.
Al-Gharbi was jaren onderdirecteur van Heterodox Academy, de anti-woke lobbygroep van
ICYMI: The Epstein files have pushed a powerful surveillance contractor back under the spotlight 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-p...
14.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0‘Alleen illegalen worden aangepakt’. Nope. En de overheid LIEGT er over. Keer op keer. Dit is van weer alleen gísteren bijvoorbeeld:
14.02.2026 09:46 — 👍 53 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 2ok but is there a third woman labeled never producing a billion ai powered humanoid robots
09.02.2026 10:09 — 👍 117 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0
No. Sensationalistic journalists attempt to trigger fear of an AI uprising.
A bots-only social network triggers fears of an AI uprising www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
01.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 4065 🔁 1200 💬 145 📌 89
Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.
How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
striking how many mainstream, supposedly sane and rational quality media, fall for Trumpist lines and frames. Same with the idea that the rules-based order America wrote was somehow putting America second, and now Trump is putting that right. Or that the US 'paid to protect Europe' - the altruists!
22.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 32 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties
22.01.2026 11:48 — 👍 5656 🔁 1888 💬 427 📌 115
I had to write a corrective. This crisis is anything but over. Even by the standards of Trump speeches, this was psychotic.
21.01.2026 18:03 — 👍 156 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 5In Kryvyi Rih (City in Ukraine) extreme cold caused bottled water to freeze inside supermarkets. Imagine this cold — and we are living without electricity and heating.
19.01.2026 19:17 — 👍 47 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 2
At least 16,500 protesters have died, and 330,000 have been injured, in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.
18.01.2026 11:09 — 👍 117 🔁 64 💬 0 📌 6
„De haat tegen vrouwen en minderheden, die ook online allang bestaat, kan door de AI nu veel sneller ontwikkeld en op grotere schaal verspreid worden."
17.01.2026 11:20 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.
16.01.2026 02:33 — 👍 2015 🔁 397 💬 143 📌 275
Anthropic has two simple messages these days. AI is going to destroy the economy by stealing all the jobs but don't worry they're building the "good AI" and the AI has already stolen the jobs of their development team but that's actually a good thing.
14.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 92 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 1
100 dagen na het staakt-het-vuren in Gaza is de bevolking nog steeds opzettelijk van water beroofd, zegt Oxfam. Hulporganisaties moeten materialen redden uit het puin van gebombardeerde waterinfrastructuur omdat Israël de toegang tot nieuwe onderdelen vaak blokkeert. www.mo.be/nieuws/100-d...
15.01.2026 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.
Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Zelenskyy: “Almost 300 attack drones, most of them “shaheds,” along with 18 ballistic and 7 cruise missiles, were launched by the Russians against Ukraine last night. Once again, the main target of the strike was our energy – generation facilities and substations.”
13.01.2026 12:38 — 👍 125 🔁 62 💬 7 📌 8The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
08.01.2026 22:33 — 👍 12195 🔁 2496 💬 86 📌 118For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
08.01.2026 15:35 — 👍 24894 🔁 9103 💬 456 📌 358
Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century
www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
08.01.2026 20:27 — 👍 27157 🔁 8395 💬 1477 📌 460
