And for all male keyboard warriors: this is just locker room banter!

Is lobotomizing men an option? We've got female brain surgeons and are not dependent on the collaboration of men.
Or their consent, for that matter
#YourBodyMyChoice 🤭

Fred Astaire / Stepping Out With My Baby 「Easter Parade」 YouTube video by nzsaffron

Brushing up on the cinematic classics, and now I can't unsee Fred Astaire in blackface in Easter Parade:
youtu.be/5g742gWRA8E?...

Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform's New AI Bluesky's latest foray into AI isn't exactly sitting well with what appears to be the vast majority of the platform's user base.

“Cool!” another added. “How do we block it?”

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Beste @progressiefned.bsky.social, waarom AI slop in de video? Graag verwijderen en niet meer gebruiken.

De gebruikte technologie is anti-sociaal, anti-democratisch, vervuilend, en technofascistisch.

Is dat wat @progressiefned.bsky.social wil uitstralen?

Dan niet mijn steun!

> The question is not whether Cofnas should be permitted to hold his views[. It's] whether a public research university in Belgium should be [granting] credibility to those views, funding their dissemination, and providing them the cover of academic legitimacy.

www.brusselstimes.com/2020728/the-...

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Screen shot of an article in The Guardian. The headline reads: "The Baftas' biggest drama is the red carpet fashion battle".

Oy @theguardian.com, read the room.
This headline is tone deaf and racially insensitive! Do better

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The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.

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European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

🚨 European Citizens' Initiative : Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. If you are an 🇪🇺 citizen you can now SIGN and disseminate! eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Stop de Amerikaanse overname DigiD! Onze privé-gegevens zijn bij overname door een Amerikaans bedrijf niet veilig! Dit lijkt ons niet de veilige manier nu president Trump in Amerika aan het roer staat. Dit kan misgaan! Als de Nederland...

Geen idee of dit gaat helpen, maar ik steun elk verzet tegen het overhandigen van onze prive-gegevens aan een bedrijf in de US (of elk ander land).
Ik vertrouw onze eigen overheid al niet met deze gegevens, laat staan een echt fascistische

actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...

Vast een mooi boek hoor, @nrc.nl.
Maar had @rosanhollak.bsky.social niet eenmaal kunnen benoemen dat deze groep vrouwen niet de hele categorie VROUWEN representeert? Dat er meer 'duister' is dan de regimes van Stalin of Hitler? En dat er ook vrouwelijke filosofen van kleur bestaan?

#Eurocentrisme

EU adds Iran's Revolutionary Guards to 'terrorist list' EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the move is a response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters.

The EU places the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the list of terrorist organisations, with Hamas, Isis and al-Qaida.
Italy allows ICE to be security during the Olympics.

They are all violent, ideology driven forces. Just one of them is not muslim
🤔

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

Watched The Young Ones before going out.
Good times, long ago

Protest Lab #5: Film & Gesprek - The Encampments This screening of The Encampments is part of Protest Lab and organized in collaboration with InScience Film Festival. After the documentary, there will be ...

On January 27, the 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗯 organises a screening of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨. 𝗙𝗿é𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗸 (author of Alle journalistiek is activisme) and 𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗻 (ed. in chief of De Gelderlander) will talk about journalism and activism.

Find all information here: www.lux-nijmegen.nl/programma/pr...

"Guyan’s study argues that excluding gender identities from data collection 'presents a more chilling form of power where trans people in data are not possible – when they appear in data, their presence is "wrong" or "inaccurate”'."

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Our former prime-minister, now Secretary-General of NATO(!), Mark Rutte, used to say "I don't have an active recollection of XYZ" whenever he was held accountable for his decisions or leadership.

Greenland needs to watch its back. Have everything in writing, because he deleted digital communication

The uncritical adoption of AI technologies can compromise the values of organizations/individuals and (re)produce inequalities and injustices.

For professionals who want to strengthen their critical thinking about AI: there is a Summer School for you!

Wat lief.
Maakt hij woord- of braille-etiketten? Of allebei?

Since I can see my lovely colleague Anna van der Vleuten in the group picture, I assume that @radboudpol.bsky.social was there as well?

The UK Were Not Involved In Venezuela Strikes Says Starmer YouTube video by Times News

I started to suspect that at least the UK knew about it after seeing Starmer explicitly denying that the UK was involved in this operation "in any way": youtu.be/bKwMSBG6II4?...

The FIFA Peace Prize Winner has now bombed:
•Iran
•Iraq
•Nigeria
•Somalia
•Syria
•Venezuela
•Yemen
•Armed Netanyahu to bomb Palestine, Iran, Syria, Lebanon.

This is the “pro peace” President. Alas, I remember when the FIFA Peace prize meant something.

De fijnstofpiek in Utrecht (Binnenstad) op 31 december 24.00

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Why is my newspaper @nrc.nl opening with a picture of an extreme-right winger? She was convicted 5 times for spreading and inciting hate, downplayed sexual harrasment, was islamophobic and homophobic.
But hey, she was pretty and loved animals

"We and our students can choose not to use these technologies. Just like we have banned smoking from public spaces, we could foster that process of banning both by choosing to individually quit smoking & by demanding regulation of the tobacco industry” Guest et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1706...

Some reviewer are failures themselves.
My colleague was told by Reviewer 2 to read a paper my colleague co-authored. However, my colleague had not written the recommended paper, nor had anyone else. It was an AI hallucination.
They reported Reviewer 2 to the editors of the journal.

"... have generative AI do research and generate the most beautiful and powerful outcomes. However, this has nothing to do with doing scientific research according to the methods we use to reach robust conclusions."

Don't call AI research research! It's probability

www.surf.nl/en/story/ai-...

17 December is the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers.

PIC always organises a small gathering on this day in our center and at Belle, our sex worker statue at the Oudekerksplein in Amsterdam.

Community, family, friends & allies welcome 🤗

#17dec #IDEVASW #Sekswerk

Invite 👇

12 December 2025 Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.

📝 OPEN LETTER 📝

Are you based in NL 🇳🇱 ? Do you also want government to thoughtfully shape our digital future, with care for people and nature? Please share and sign 🖊️ this letter addressed to parties forming the new Dutch government and outgoing administration.

📝 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.

If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:

"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social