#90

'Door het postmodernisme zijn we wantrouwig geworden tegenover grote verhalen & universele idealen, en daardoor het vermogen kwijtgeraakt om collectieve toekomstbeelden te scheppen [..] we verlangen [..] naar een tijd waarin het nog leek alsof de wereld richting beter bewoog'

shorturl.at/Y4CX4

#ToSlowDown

The Three-Hour Challenge: 180 Minutes with ‘Las Meninas’

'For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with an artwork. A reporter tried this “immersive attention” experiment with a Velázquez masterpiece.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

Vanilla Ice: 'The ’90s are infectious. The decade was so colorful with neon colors. Nothing was that serious. It was, “Let’s enjoy life, let’s make friends.” [..]

The ’90s was the last of the great decades, because after that, computers killed the world.'

www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/s...

🕷️

'Two teenagers have been charged in connection with a massive cyber attack which caused Transport for London (TfL) months of disruption

The National Crime Agency says it believes the hack [..] was carried out by members of the cyber-criminal group, Scattered Spider'

www.bbc.com/news/article...

'De mentale volksgezondheid van Nederland staat onder druk. @raadRVS [..] we leven in een ‘hypernerveuze samenleving’ waarin prestatiedruk, versnelling en individualisme zijn doorgeschoten en het welzijn van jong en oud ernstig bedreigen'

www.nieuwsbriefadviesraden.nl/op-de-rem-vo...

#digital #fentanyl

'@washingtonpost [..] collected TikTok watch histories from 1100 users

After 5 months, the data trends for both groups suggested features of compulsive behavior — repeatedly feeling urges to do something, even if the person thinks it’s harmful in the long run'

shorturl.at/4oEFu

#VVD

'Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het gezond als een partij, die sinds het kabinet-Den Uyl (1973-1977) maar liefst 70% vd tijd heeft (mee)geregeerd & zodoende afgelopen halve eeuw meer dan CDA (60%) of PvdA (45%) haar stempel op NL heeft gezet, bij zichzelf te rade gaat'

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

#slop

'The internet is rapidly being overtaken by AI slop. ( [..] internet spam: low-quality text, videos and images generated by AI.) A recent analysis estimated that more than half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated.'

www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

'As long as political competition took place in the real world [..] & traditional media, the customs & rules of each country determined its limits [..] now that it has moved online [..] fate of our democracies is increasingly being played out in a kind of digital Somalia'

www.ft.com/content/85ee...

'Why assume that our minds, in their sober “default state,” are naturally designed to grasp reality as it really is? [..] Why not “explore all the modes of consciousness available to us”? What might they tell us about “the relationship between mind and world?” '

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/b...

#theartofthedeal

'While Trump said on Thursday that he would love for TikTok’s algorithm to be “100% MAGA,” both he and Vance sought to assuage concerns that the app’s new ownership would promote a certain perspective on the platform.'

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/25/t...

'onze problemen zijn een gevolg v economisch succes, niet v ellende [..]
de voornaamste belemmering [..] een tekort aan personeel. [..] Hetzelfde geldt voor de fysieke & ecologische ruimte: die zit vol. Net als het stroomnet. Bouwen wordt gehinderd door het stikstofslot'

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

#life #long #development

'Accenture is cutting staff it can't retrain in the age of AI — but it still plans to hire more people'

www.businessinsider.com/accenture-co...

'Parents should be very wary about children having unfettered access to a new digital technology. We saw social media wreak havoc [..] With A.I., it isn’t just children’s emotional well-being that’s at risk — it’s also their cognitive development.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

#siliconpower

'Taiwan planned to restrict the export of advanced chips to South Africa amid a row over its diplomatic status, but has agreed to talks.'

african.business/2025/09/tech...

#post #literate #society

jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

'daily reading for pleasure in the US has declined by more than 40% over the last 20 years — raising urgent questions about the cultural, educational and health consequences'

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

graph by @jburnmurdoch

now this is C I N E M A 🎬 🎞️ 🎥 😍

One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson

'The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised
Will not be televised, will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live'

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

🇵🇱

'Though most Poles hate Russia, many devote more energy to hating other Poles [..]

It’s often said that Poland since 1990 has become a western country, but Andrzejczak formulated it differently: it’s now in northern Europe.'

www.ft.com/content/3df0...

a stimulating piece indeed!

Janan Ganesh: 'I wonder if university growth will come to be seen as the event that did most to sunder once-cohesive western societies. Ahead of even immigration? Yes, to the extent that attitudes to immigration often themselves hinge on education'

shorturl.at/uJrj5

'een brede brugklas, waar vmbo-, havo- en vwo-leerlingen naast elkaar zitten, gaat kansenongelijkheid in het onderwijs tegen'

Moorman: ‘Zeggen dat je voor gelijke kansen bent, maar intussen keihard snijden [..] als het bewust gebeurt, dan is het ronduit kwaadaardig.’

www.groene.nl/artikel/keih...

'Human intelligence has started to decline. Results from large-scale international tests show the average person in high-income countries now has lower levels of literacy, numeracy, and critical reasoning than in the early 2010s.'

www.thesgnl.com/2025/09/thur...

#zeitgeist #intervision

Russia’s 2015 Eurovision runner-up ‘A Million Voices’ served as the closing song, performed by 🇷🇺 🇧🇾 🇦🇿 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇬 🇮🇳 🇰🇿 🇰🇬 🇶🇦 🇸🇦 🇷🇸 🇿🇦 🇹🇯 🇦🇪 🇺🇿 🇻🇪 🇻🇳 @ Intervision

(originating in Czechoslovakia in 1965 and developing into a socialist counterpart to Eurovision)

youtu.be/RkF75R6jH1M

👑

'Charles’s first few years as monarch have been something of a quiet triumph. [..] Charles may be the last man standing who can exude global gravitas in the dumpster fire of our digitally dominated world.' @tinabrownlm.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

#zeitgeist #StrawberryMatchaStratoFrappuccino

'For Starbucks, the Strawberry Matcha Strato Frappuccino was one of the hottest drinks of summer.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

📼 📼 📼

'Kamer van Koophandel updatet miljoenen belangrijke bedrijfscodes: videotheek verdwijnt uit lijst'

www.volkskrant.nl/economie/kam...

Michel Foucault:

"There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new norma

Poor "influencers" 😎

'The rise of the AI influencer

Computer-generated profiles are gaining traction with brands but may pose a threat to real life endorsers'

www.ft.com/content/cb85...

#Silksong

'In 2017, Team Cherry, a tiny Australian studio, released Hollow Knight, a meteoric hit that obliterated expectations. [..] It wasn't considered one of the greatest indie games of all time; it was considered one of the greatest games of all time.'

www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...

#RoboBallet

'Scientists [..] have developed a powerful new AI algorithm that enables large sets of robotic arms to work together faster and smarter in busy industrial settings - potentially saving manufacturers hours of planning time and boosting flexibility.'

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

'There’s a moment in human connection that defies easy explanation — that sudden, electric feeling when you meet someone & feel your minds merge [..]

if [..] two people strayed from the script & riffed off each other, they might begin to feel that electric buzz of being in sync'

shorturl.at/GJyIV