gisteren bood Yes We Can excuses aan, vandaag is er nieuws:

de inspectie is een onderzoek gestart naar de kliniek.

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This is where free speech absolutism on university campuses leads: the widespread dissemination of disinformation 👇 The journals who published Lynn’s discredited database - where the claim that Somalians have an average IQ of 68 originates - typically did so in the name of “freedom of enquiry”

New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

Legislating that literally every view, regardless of academic rigour, should be platformed by universities helps only those who want to spread disinformation and have a vested interest in damaging trust in expertise.

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Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.

My students are shocked & offended alright when I tell them a paper whose methodology assumes the earth is flat (in service of the argument that white people are innately smarter than black people) was published in a mainstream academic journal & not retracted after its major flaw was pointed out

Opinion: There is no free-speech right to a university platform The UK government’s bill to tackle university cancel culture would give it unacceptable powers to control academic debate and student protest, says Professor George Letsas (UCL Laws).

The UK government just made the spread of disinformation easier, with a bill which fails to understand the distinction between free speech and academic freedom:

“What distinguishes university platforms is that they are credible and influential because they are typically run by experts”

Based on Richard Lynn’s dodgy data, of course. This was the purpose of its creation, to masquerade racism as ‘science’ & thereby infiltrate mainstream politics. This is one reason why Co-authors & I have called for retractions of scientific articles that use this data - it’s effectively propaganda.

Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…

the fact that people are allowed to repeat that 70IQ thing without a giant air horn going off directly in their ear is evidence that the PC cancel culture mobs were not nearly ruthless enough

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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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Iedereen die er verstand van heeft (incl. de Nationale Politie) zegt dat de strafbaarstelling van illegaliteit ineffectief en nauwelijks uitvoerbaar is. Het gevolg is teleurgestelde kiezers die nog meer naar extreemrechts opschuiven. Met dank aan D66 en CDA.

Analyse Tom-Jan Meeus in de NRC vandaag.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

AfD Wahlanteile nach Geschlecht und Alter in allen Bundesländern. Landtagswahlen: Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (*=LTW 2021 am gleichen Tag wie BTW), Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen. Bundestagswahlen: Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland Pfalz (da noch keine Daten für Landtagswahlen 2026), Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein (keine Repräsentative Wahlstatistik für Landtagswahlen)

Was sehen wir?

1) Männer ALLER Altersgruppen wählen in ALLEN Bundesländern mehr AfD als Frauen (ausser Ü70 in Bayern)

2) Unter den Männern wählen die Ü-70 in allen Bundesländern am wenigsten AfD (ausser in Berlin)

Weil das Narrativ der "jungen rechten Männer" sich derart hartnäckig hält - einige Auswertungen aus den repräsentativen Wahlstatistiken der verschiedenen Bundesländer.

Spoiler: *IN KEINEM BUNDESLAND DEUTSCHLANDS WÄHLEN 18-24-JÄHRIGE MÄNNER MEHR AfD ALS MÄNNER ZWISCHEN 35 UND 60.*

‘The AI industry is ignoring how much people hate it’ | Ed Zitron YouTube video by The Tech Report

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about the dangerous rhetoric spread by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, and how the AI industry needs to stop threatening people with job loss as a means of hyping their products.
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Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is detained under new security and fake news laws in Kuwait. Mobilizing international support puts real pressure on the Kuwaiti authorities to #freeahmed.

Sign the petition to demand Ahmed’s immediate release. ⤵️
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ICE’s hiring spree led to influx of recruits with questionable qualifications, investigation shows Patchy employment records, bankruptcies and allegations of wrongdoing blemish the records of several new recruits

And from the "Annals of Being Surprised that Water is Wet," a new study found that ICE has been hiring people with "questionable qualifications" and histories of lying to frame innocent people.

Seriously, though, it is good that they did the careful study even though the results are obvious.

Cherokee chief won’t be allowed to speak on Oklahoma House floor again, chamber leader says • Oklahoma Voice The head of the Cherokee Nation will not be invited back to speak on the House floor after he took a “political position” defending Medicaid expansion, the House speaker said Thursday.

Bonkers: The USA belongs to the First Nations & yet the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation has been banned from the Oklahoma House floor! The sheer colonialism of such arrogance is breathtaking. Perhaps Oklahoma could make America great again, by listening to its original people?

Opinie: ‘Met zijn voorstel voor meer online surveillance schiet Van Weel op een mug’ Minister Van Weel van Justitie wil burgers nog meer kunnen volgen op sociale media. Dit moet verstoringen van de openbare orde voorkomen. Maar hoe groot is het probleem eigenlijk? vraagt Lotte Houwing...

''Als dit wetsvoorstel van de minister wordt doorgevoerd, mag de politie al onderzoek doen naar burgers - en persoonsgegevens opslaan - zonder dat zij verdacht worden van een strafbaar feit.''

Lotte schreef over een nieuw wetsvoorstel van Minister Van Weel van Justitie: www.ad.nl/praat-mee/op...

De VVD staat aan de kand van de schenders van mensenrechten.
Weerzinwekkend dat D66 en CDA deze beweging die al eerder het racisme en fascisme van Wilders legitimeerde en normaliseerde, wederom in de regering zetten.

Nog niet zo lang geleden schreven huisartsen in Nederland ‘gefrustreerde’ huisvrouwen kalmeringsmiddelen voor om het thuis rustig te houden. Het proberen te domineren van vrouwen door mannen dmv sedatie is niet nieuw en vindt hier ook plaats (in vredestijd). #cultuur

CNN legde onlangs een online “rape academy” bloot. Een site waar mannen elkaar tips geven hoe hun vrouw te sederen zodat ze seksueel misbruikt kan worden. In januari had de site 62 miljoen bezoekers. In maart 81 miljoen.

De zaak Pelicot is tipje van ijsberg.

We zijn nog niet boos genoeg.

Book Cover image of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan are funding an app to attack journalists.

Getting smeared by "Objection AI" will become a badge of honor for reporters.

I'm glad to see them deepening their relationship just in time for my book, which exposes that very subject.

"The Nerd Reich" drops 8/18/26.

MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol?

These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes

Stephen Miller almost says that Trump is seeking a "final solution" in Iran but then catches himself

It’s been overshadowed by Venezuela and especially Iran, but the deadly boat bombing campaign is still going, even though:
-There’s no war
-The US wasn’t attacked or under threat
-Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists
-These may not be traffickers
-It’s blatantly illegal
-With no clear strategy either

When the White House released their ridiculous “weaponization of government” report, claiming the Biden administration discriminated against conservatives, the press lapped it up

Meanwhile today the Trump DOJ looked to vacate convictions against seditionists and Tulsi Gabbard did this

Gelukkig is hij nu (na weggestuurd te zijn bij de Belastingdienst vanwege de Toeslagenaffaire) de CEO van www.lento.eu, een 'platform' dat zorgt voor huisvesting van arbeidsmigranten. "Oplossing voor verhuurders"

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Misschien helpt dit EU brede initiatief. Ik zag het vanochtend pas langskomen. Al 850.000 ondertekenaars, vooral Fransen, Spanjaarden en Italianen.

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Doe iets met je macht @minister-president.bsky.social, trek een rode lijn. Ze martelen daar kinderen. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...