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Love art, hate inequality Here to read and think about art history and democracy and post the occasional picture
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Een beetje ‘ja’ is al genoeg om het fascisme voluit te steunen
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Weer een bizar verhaal.
Hoe Trump zijn blik liet vallen op de ‘gouden eresabel’ die Koningin Wilhelmina - namens bevrijd Nederland - gaf aan oud-opperbevelhebber Eisenhower op zijn 57ste verjaardag.
De museumdirecteur weigerde mee te werken aan deze kunstroof en is nu ontslagen.
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The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
Maarten Wolterink #Joop. Vrij naar Opland.
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Van de Overtoom tot de Elandsgracht: hoe Amsterdam honderden grachten en vaarten verloor
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The worst people own the most of everything, and to keep it that way they create a surveillance state. You know who will be surveyed and it will definitely not be them
28.09.2025 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Quelle surprise
27.09.2025 08:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some major personal news:
Things have really changed. Now I need your help.
On why I left academia, why I left America, and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:
Onward. Forward. Steady:
In de nasleep van de moord op de Amerikaanse rechtsextremist Charlie Kirk, Trumps eigen Horst Wessel, bestempelt het Nederlandse parlement antifascisme nu als terrorisme. En daarmee fascisme dus als normaal: een naoorlogs dieptepunt. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
22.09.2025 05:40 — 👍 701 🔁 170 💬 44 📌 19
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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Unbelievable that it's still possible
16.09.2025 16:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump is coming to the UK to AVOID the EPSTEIN story. Unfortunately the British public just crowdfunded the WORLD’S BIGGEST PHOTO of Donald with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
And here is right outside Windsor Castle, where Trump is staying with the King this week.
Things are developing fast
13.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
13.09.2025 14:56 — 👍 20210 🔁 9662 💬 7535 📌 8326En daarom is geschiedenis van de late middeleeuwen geen dure overbodige hobby
13.09.2025 16:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Op 27 sept. (13.30-16.00 uur) organiseert Into Nature een zintuiglijke wandeling in De Onlanden. Je gaat op pad met de boswachter, een bioloog en kunstenaars! (max. 40 deelnemers)
Startlocatie: parkeerplaats bij uitkijktoren De Onlanden
Aanmelden: www.intonature.net/news/27-sept...
The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire
The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink.
New piece - about where we are, and where this might be going:
🚛✨ Record week for De Leeuw Kyiv!
Last week we delivered 30 trucks filled with anti-drone nets to Ukraine. Together with our partner organistions, we are sending as many tulip-bulb and fishing nets as possible to the frontline.
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Via bomentinder kregen al 2,5 miljoen weesboompjes een nieuwe plek om te wortelen. ‘Natuur heeft geen afval’
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Art in Action: Framing migrants in a respectful way through the Dreams in Transit project and inspired by JR’s inside out project
🗃️ #arthistory #art #refugees #migrants #Europe #empathy #politics
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
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Impact counter. Deaths caused by USAID Funding Discontinuation.
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AMOC kan al stilvallen bij opwarming van 2,5 graad Celsius. Dit gebeurt vanaf 2060. Dan wordt het koud, guur, stormachtig in Nederland voor eeuwen. De landbouw opbrengst zal met 33% dalen.
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