Dixit Dominus, ZWV 66: Virgam virtutis tuae - After Psalm 109

Zoals gisteren besproken in De Standaard: de grotendeels vergeten "Katholieke Bach"

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YouTube video by Erik Rydvall - Nyckelharpa Prelude in E Major by J.S Bach played by Erik Rydvall and Kristine West

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"His ass is so tight you couldn't pull a screw out of it with a tractor" - yet another beautiful example of the noble art of insult (fictional though- from "The wire")

Nog zo iemand met wie je best geen alpinisme beoefent

Le roi dance

Hello UK Transport Research Hive Mind! I have a question where I only turn around in circles with the answers provided by LLMs. Who should I contact to obtain up-to-date and accurate information on the Great Britain Freight Model (GBFM)?

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Ik heb een Master in Milieu-economie (en heb daarna in dat domein gedoctoreerd), dus ik heb er zeker zeer veel over geleerd. Maar normaal gezien wordt dat in elke cursus micro-economie (en zeker in de cursus "openbare financiën") gedoceerd.

Zhao’s Pardon Is Part of Crypto’s Attempt to Rewrite History The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

Trump’s pardon of Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao is a huge gift to the crypto industry as a whole, which has spent heavily to relax securities laws

A new study of mountain gorillas in Uganda shows that a high proportion of females live on after they stop reproducing: showing menopause. Animals known to show this include humans, chimps, gorillas, and, curiously, some toothed whales like orcas.

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Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.

A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

"...73% of all antimicrobials sold globally are used in animals raised for food, which is leading to a rise in antibiotic-resistant pathogens.E.g., resistance to colistin, a “last-resort antibiotic”, first developed in E coli bacteria infected pigs & pig farmers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ik heb er tijdens mijn opleiding in elk geval niets van gehoord. Pas veel later leren kennen, omdat sommigen een land value tax willen gebruiken om openbaar vervoer mee te financieren.

What drives toxic behaviour on social media?

Research by Zoizner & Levy analysing 7M tweets from 12k users and the users they follow suggests exposure to toxic behaviour by *ingroup* (vs outgroup) members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity:

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Graph showing the evolution of guilt slant over time in German parliamentary speeches concerning debt. Notes: The green line (left y-axis) shows the intensity of using guilt-connoted terms in speeches supporting public debt, while the red line (left y-axis) shows the same measure for speeches opposing public debt. Intensity measures the frequency of guilt-connoted words in a speech, scaled per 10,000 words. The grey bars (right y-axis) represent the percentage of speeches in favour of public debt in each electoral term. In many Germanic languages, the word for ‘debt’ also means ‘guilt’. This column explores whether the linguistic overlap leads to greater debt aversion in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. Using a guilt-laden term reduces willingness to borrow, lowers approval for government debt, and influences firms’ financing plans and politicians’ framing of fiscal policy. While support for public debt goes down with use of the laden term, the effect disappears when the purpose of the debt is clear. Linguistic framing may help guide borrowing toward socially optimal levels.

In many Germanic languages, the word for 'debt' also means 'guilt'. Cevat Giray Aksoy et al. find that using a guilt-laden term reduces willingness to borrow, lowers approval for government debt, & influences firms' financing plans and the framing of fiscal policy.
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Inside one of Brussels’ most beautiful Art Nouveau houses Inside one of Brussels' most beautiful Art Nouveau houses

Ever wondered what the inside of an emblematic Art Nouveau house in Brussels looked like?

Updating my LEGO White House

Doodstraf voor Congolese klokkenluiders Gradi en Navy ter dood veroordeeld voor onthullen corruptie

Klokkenluiders Gradi Koko Lobanga en Navy Malela onthulden een corruptieschandaal en witwaspraktijken in de DRC. In plaats van een onderzoek volgde een oneerlijke rechtszaak en een doodvonnis.

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In het VK is de wetgeving rond laster en eerroof veel strikter dan bij ons.

Dat is de reden. Het valt ook op un The Economist dat wanneer het gaat over aantijgingen die nog niet strafrechtelijk definitief afgehandeld zijn, ze altijd zullen toevoegen "which she/he denies"

Of Churchill over zijn opvolger Clement Attlee: "He is a very humble man, with a lot to be humble about."