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Fuck me, I hate policy circles. Brussels is DC, but 10x boring. Every time I come here for work, I wish it’s the last time.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

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thank you for bringing hope and joy & making nyc believe. congrats, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

lol, lady be wild. rich, white people belong in hell.

Can’t believe I have people in my mentions actually arguing that cuts to science funding are the same as dropping bombs on kids

You know how one is reversible and the other is not? That’s how the fuck they are different you dipshits

Request for revision of EU/Israel agreement is 'legitimate', says France The Netherlands' request to revise the association agreement between the European Union and Israel is

“The Netherlands' request to revise the association agreement between the European Union and Israel is ‘legitimate,’ the French foreign minister said Sunday, urging ‘the European Commission to examine’ the file” today.lorientlejour.com/article/1459...

"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰

On the environmental impact of AI – Stop with individual carbon footprints already. Stop with individual carbon footprints already.

@molily.de consistently captures nuance without pulling any punches

Netherlands museum rethinks lending works to US amid Trump arts cuts Mauritshuis in The Hague says guarantees would be needed of artworks’ safety amid uncertainty caused by US funding cuts

Netherlands museum rethinks lending works to US amid Trump arts cuts 📜
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…

Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...

New publication by ISP fellow Mila Samdub!

India as the “AI Use Case Capital of the World”: Socio-Economic Development as AI Hype

casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/mila-t-s...

Glad to see so many schools finally following Tufts’ lead.

Europeans can’t vote in the US but they do vote with their feet/flights ↘️ on.ft.com/42Itt8c

Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Demands More Than Competitiveness | by Marietje Schaake & Max von Thun - Project Syndicate Marietje Schaake & Max von Thun warn that the European Union’s deregulatory push could undermine its autonomy and fundamental values.

On the European tech dependency: “By tackling its technological dependencies, protecting democratic governance, and upholding fundamental rights, it can foster the kind of competitiveness it truly needs” @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @maxvonthun.bsky.social

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

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New grant for recruiting researchers active outside Europe In mid-April, the Swedish Research Council will issue a call for grants of 2 million SEK to enable Swedish higher education institutions and other research organisations to recruit prominent researche...

The Swedish Research Council is offering 2 million SEK grants directed at scholars from outside Europe who want to relocate to Sweden and work at Swedish research institutions. The call opens 15 April. www.vr.se/english/just...

cc. @fletcher-fafp.bsky.social

A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gate

A close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil now

Students holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

Email to Tufts Administration (Sent on April 1st, 2025) (Sent on April 1st, 2025) To: The Administration, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 Subject: Concerns around student safety under current administration As the crisis of students, in particular inte...

Today, FAFP issued a clarion call for the Tufts administration to take proactive, tangible, effective steps to protect the freedom of speech of all community members, in the wake of the illegal detention of Rümeysa Öztürk.

Read and share the email: tinyurl.com/EmailTufts

“Scarcity is a choice. To have the future we want, we have to build and invent more of what we need.”

I can see right away that I’m going to disagree with their core thesis:

“Scarcity is a choice. To have the future we want, we have to build and invent more of what we need.”

Cue Frederic Jameson, “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”

A Fletcher School Faculty Resolution So I signed something....

In case anyone is interested…. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-fletcher...

There is a history of the American judicial and administrative systems acting on behest of a genocidal state to make political prisoners out of legal residents and citizens. Today is not too late to read about the Holy Land Five.

A screenshot of movies reserved for the Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague. There are 9 movies listed.

To say I’m excited would be an understatement.

Engaging people on data and AI: An unconference on giving people and communities a powerful say on public sector technologies Unconferences are participant-driven meetups that focus on sharing, learning and community building. This unconference is for people (particularly inside the public sector) who are interested in ensuring that public, community and worker voices are heard in decisions about data, digital and AI.

Are you working with communities concerned about public sector uses of data, digital & AI? Do they want to make their voices heard?

We're hosting an unconference, with @dxw.com, @projectsbyif.bsky.social and @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social in London on 20 March.
connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

I wish there was a feature on @letterboxd.social where I get an alert when any movie on my watchlist is in an indie theatre close to me.

These tech guys are in the midst of the most obvious groupthink of the last 50 years and every single one of them is convinced that they are a lone iconoclastic genius.

The Revolution Will Be Decentralized Power once flowed directly from “divine right”. Medieval Europe operated under a simple premise / lie: God appointed kings, kings appointed nobles, and the rest served. This hierarchical system…

The revolution toward digital democracy won’t wait for perfect tech or perfect timing—it begins now, with the imperfect tools we already have.

Digital feudalism or democracy: the choice is ours, and history won’t forgive our apathy.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-revolution-will-be-decentral…