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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ
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Computer scientist #CS & entrepreneur, Information Retrieval #IR and Databases #DB

Indie music 🎸

Radboud University, Nijmegen & Spinque, Utrecht NL
#nobot

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 5d
Onthutsende blik achter de schermen.

NRC spreekt ambtenaren off the record en schrijft een reconstructie over Wiersma, BBB, onkunde, en een groot pakket van vertragingstactieken van de minister. Stukken niet lezen, laten verdwijnen, obstructie bij vergaderingen, en uitnodigen externen zonder […]
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 6d
The Tech Coup, Trump and the Test for Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2IJy-F_n7E

by Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake

author of the book https://thetechcoup.com/

Public online lecture in the excellent series to celebrate 25 years of IPN:
https://ict-research.nl/ipn-colloquia/
thetechcoup.com – How to save Democracy from Silicon Valley
thetechcoup.com

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 13d
@Claudia Hauff:

Spotify's summer PhD internship vacancies are out!

If you are authorized to work in the UK: https://lnkd.in/eEqPWJJf

If you are authorized to work in the US: https://lnkd.in/efQ-pPQ9

Just in case!
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in

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Djoerd Hiemstra πŸ‰ @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 15d
3. The Radboud digital exam system has limited applications installed and very limited internet access. It did have access to Windows Paint, though, which has a new co-pilot button, which goes to "Image Creator", which has a "sign in with Microsoft", which is on the allow list, because our […]
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 15d
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates

https://www.ft.com/content/23e54a28-6f63-4533-ab96-3756d9c88bad

"Based on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year β€” […]
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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 15d
#cfp Call for Papers for Volume 2, 2026: Please submit your papers for the third issue of IRRJ, Volume 2 Number 1, which is planned June 2026.

https://irrj.org/announcement/view/305
Call for Papers for Volume 2, 2026 | Information Retrieval Research
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 17d
🎢🎢🎢

https://open.spotify.com/track/3rT4BgRJqUyhibsnGte9lt?si=qmAYSGmaTzGSHO1PLR6NGw
Real Thing
Drugdealer, Weyes Blood Β· The News Β· Song Β· 2025
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 17d
What Happened When I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI | HuffPost UK Parents
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-trap-to-catch-students-cheating-ai_uk_691f20d1e4b00ed8a94f4c01

Interesting stat: a Trojan horse in a writing assignment identified 33 AI-generated papers (out of […]
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Ren @rogueren.vt.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 18d
"Linux is too complicated for anyone"

Windows users:

#linux #microsoft #fuckai #windows11
Every Windows 11 PC is now an AI PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3) 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar 2/ Press Win + R > Type in "regedit" > Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot" > Right-click on the new key > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps

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kim_harding βœ… @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy Β· 21d
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
https://theconversation.com/learning-with-ai-falls-short-compared-to-old-fashioned-web-search-269760
When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge […]
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hrbrmstr πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 25d
The Epstein Network β€” https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/

(nerds are amazing)
force directed network graph

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 27d
Or, strictly, the server had continued to run steadily - now we can also reach it πŸ™‚

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 27d
Dear users, "somebody" (not me :-)) had put the machine that runs idf.social behind too strict firewall rules, and it took a half day or so for me to find out that we had a problem, and then some 60 hours more to find out what was the problem (to find that somebody :-)).

Anyways, we are back! […]
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· 29d
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods": https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

The […]
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Arturo Serrano πŸ‡¨πŸ‡΄πŸ€–πŸ‘½πŸ§™πŸ¦„ @carturo222.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Nov 11
This essay is beautiful and painful.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/literature-is-not-a-vibe-on-chatgpt-and-the-humanities

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Djoerd Hiemstra πŸ‰ @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Nov 10
#horizondiamond on 5 and 6 February 2026 in Nijmegen explores what Diamond Open Access (DOA) has to offer:

https://www.horizondiamond.nl
New Horizons Diamond
www.horizondiamond.nl

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Nov 9
Goed interview met @Felienne in Buitenhof,

"is AI slimmer dan de mens?"
https://www.vpro.nl/buitenhof/artikelen/buitenhof-9-november-2025

Ik zou het zeker kijken!

https://npo.nl/start/serie/buitenhof/seizoen-20/buitenhof_360/afspelen

Felienne zit op 38:50 (maar... eerste item over drones ook […]
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Rijkswaterstaat Verkeersinfo @rwsverkeersinfo.social.overheid.nl.ap.brid.gy Β· Nov 7
🌫️ | Niet overal in ons land is het stralend weer. Hier op de #n46 en #a28 is het zicht verminderd vanwege dichte mist. Het @knmi heeft voor Groningen en Friesland code geel uitgeroepen. Wees extra alert en denk aan je mistlampen. Meer weten? Check πŸ‘‰ https://www.rwsverkeersinfo.nl/nieuws/mistlampen/

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Nov 7
"VVD houdt woord" maar welk woord blijft lekker in het midden hangen.

Minister Paul wekt verbazing met schrappen van maatregel tegen uitbuiting van arbeidsmigranten
Nieuws
De verbazing in Den Haag is groot over het besluit van demissionair minister MariΓ«lle Paul (VVD) dat werkgevers toch loon […]
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Nov 1
Een cadeautje:

De voorzichtige terugkeer van het politieke midden
(Caroline de Gruyter in het NRC)

"Onderzoek van politicologen als Larry Bartels en Nancy Bermeo wijst stelselmatig uit dat kiezers niet verrechtsen. Het is het aanbod dat verrechtst. Het zijn politieke leiders van middenpartijen […]
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Nov 1
Goed artikel in NRC vandaag @Felienne

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Oct 28
WTF VVD.

"De IND stuurt namens demissionair minister Van Weel (VVD) van Asiel en Migratie vrouwen terug naar Afghanistan. Tegelijkertijd werkt minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Van Weel juist aan de vervolging van het Taliban-regime vanwege grove schendingen van vrouwenrechten." […]
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Oct 27
Today: DIR 2025 at #radboud University in Nijmegen.

https://informagus.nl/dir2025/schedule

Harrie Oosterhuis opening #dir2025 with a brief history of past editions and basic stats about submissions.

1/n

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Oct 23
International study involving 22 public service media (PSM) organizations in 18 countries working in 14 languages, identified multiple systemic issues across four leading AI tools:

+ 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
+ 31% of responses showed sourcing problems: missing […]
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Oct 23
@djoerd Tnx 4 the reports, suspended!

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Leo Boytsov @srchvrs.bsky.social Β· Oct 22
"Meta is cutting around 600 positions out of the several thousand roles in its Superintelligence Labs, the Facebook owner said on Wednesday as it looks to make its artificial intelligence unit more flexible and responsive."
www.reuters.com/business/met...
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Oct 20
Alexander Serebrenik gives today's diversity lecture at the Science Faculty.

He starts with a warm welcome by claiming software engineering is a social science :-)

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Djoerd Hiemstra πŸ‰ @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Oct 19
I signed the #freewebsearch Charter: Web search belongs to all of us. Together we can reclaim it!

https://charter.freewebsearch.org

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers πŸ•ŠοΈ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Β· Oct 15
Als je jezelf hebt klemgeluld en je weet echt niet meer wat je moet zeggen... Dan gooi je er gewoon AI en Robotica in!!

Caroline v/d Plas (BBB) bij Nieuwsuur.