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jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social @jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social · Jul 10
De hoop op meer efficiency, tijdwinst, en billable hours die in de juridische praktijk lijkt te leven, moet niet ook aan de rechtenfaculteit gaat leven. Zie ook mijn toelichting op ons @nrc-stuk en discussie met iemand van de NLse AI-Coalitie maandag jl. op Radio 1

www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d...
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hourlyoutrage.bsky.social
Big Oil loves AI. It brings an enormous energy burden that renewable development can’t yet keep pace with, forcing a dramatic increase in fossil fuel consumption (just when we desperately need to reduce it). Great timing, humanity. Enjoy that fabulous new toy. 🌎
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
"Disinformation is one of the major obstacles stalling climate progress"

- Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change was launched at #COP30, backed by 12 nations

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 live: ‘literally insane’ that we are letting global heating happen, says Al Gore
This live blog is now closed. You can read the full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil here
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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stefandekoning.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Former "Gates Scholar" and New York Times say what?
op-ed "Bill Gates Has a Point"
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social
In de nieuwste editie van het Nederlands Juristenblad pleiten Eva van Vugt (Universiteit Maastricht) en ik voor een verbod (in beginsel, uit voorzorg) op het gebruik van GenAI aan rechtenfaculteiten. Het stuk is hier te lezen: www.njb.nl/magazines/nj...
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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normative.bsky.social
I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.
Financial Times headline says “critics accuse” Trump of extrajudicial killings
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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ftm.nl
Een heel klein beetje stikstof erbij, dat moet toch kunnen? Als het aan landbouwminister Femke Wiersma (BBB) ligt, wel. Haar plan betekent dat stikstof geen obstakel meer is voor boeren die willen uitbreiden: op papier kan meer dan de helft van alle veehouderijen de uitstoot bijna verdubbelen.
Stikstof geen bezwaar meer: met Wiersma’s plan kan de uitstoot bijna verdubbelen
De versoepeling die landbouwminister Femke Wiersma voorstelt, betekent dat stikstof geen obstakel meer is voor boeren die willen uitbreiden. In theorie kan de uitstoot zelfs verdubbelen.
www.ftm.nl
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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paulwaldman.bsky.social
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
Plan for climate levy on shipping emissions shelved as countries bow to US intimidation and bullying

#IMO #climatecrisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure
Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
I love motion-smoothing
oddleighenough.bsky.social Leigh @oddleighenough.bsky.social · Oct 16
I’m desperate for In-N-Out fries.
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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riclements.bsky.social
Some reflections on my experiences of #AI in academia (tl,dr: too apolitical, too a-humanities). Hopefully of interest to anyone as ambivalent about tech zealotry as me.

intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/on-ai
On A.I.
Remembering why we learn
intlegalcraft.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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strandjunker.com
You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
October 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social
Chronological:

Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg)
The New World [First Cut] (Malick)
The Happening (Shyamalan)
small roads (Benning)
A Touch of Sin (Jia)
Blackhat [Director’s Cut] (Mann)
Mad Max Fury Road (Miller)
The Trial (Notarnicola)
First Reformed (Schrader)
The Irishman (Scorsese)
danhf.bsky.social Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · Oct 6
Best movies 2000–2025, in no particular order:

Miami Vice
Parasite
Synecdoche, New York
Inland Empire
The Zone of Interest
School of Rock
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Decision to Leave
Mad God
West Side Story
cairdiul.bsky.social Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · Jun 23
Ten best movies of this dumb quarter century?

Amélie
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Dahomey
The Fall
Head-On
Miami Vice
The Royal Tenenbaums
Russian Ark
Titane
Walk Hard
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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osinga.bsky.social
nee, onzin, juist niet. Alle remmen los. Ze worden gesommeerd lak te hebben aan de grondwet, internationaal recht en het humanitair oorlogsrecht en zich bovendien te richten op binnenlandse veiligheid (democraten zijn de 'enemy within'). Hier wordt het fascisme van project 2025 uitgerold.
September 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Deranged, un-American fascism. bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Rules of engagement is what protects our forces, and American civilians, as well
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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theatlantic.com
Colleges and universities are going way too soft on policing AI, Tyler Austin Harper argues. “Institutions of higher learning can abandon their centuries-long educational project,” he writes. “Or they can fight.”
Universities Can Abdicate to AI. Or They Can Fight.
Too many school leaders have been reluctant to impose harsh penalties for unauthorized chatbot use.
bit.ly
September 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Sep 10
Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
September 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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olivia.science
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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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
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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schimmelpenninck.bsky.social
Wierd Duk beschuldigt mij van ‘bijna doxing’ en zijn volgers leveren weer op commando.
September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 8
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
www.france24.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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tomjanmeeus.bsky.social
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...
From Russian Interference to Revisionist Innuendo: What the Gabbard Files Actually Say
Tulsi Gabbard’s latest “revelations” are being spun as proof of a deep state conspiracy. The documents themselves tell a much duller story.
www.lawfaremedia.org
August 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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casmudde.bsky.social
Area man shouting at people from roof top.

(This would have led to months of “dementia” coverage in NYT if Biden would have done this.)
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 5
Reporters shouted to ask what he was doing up there and he said he was "taking a little walk." He said something about the White House ballroom and made some gestures but it's not really making a ton of sense yet. Normal stuff
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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maxvangeuns.bsky.social
Over de noodzaak van actie tegen plasticvervuiling bestaat amper discussie.

Plastic is gevonden in vers gevallen sneeuw op Antarctica, in placenta’s en in de diepzee.

Toch probeert de industrie een akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling tegen te werken: van overdadige nadruk op recycling tot intimidatie.
De plasticindustrie tracht op allerlei manieren een historisch akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling tegen te werken
Plastictop: In Zwitserland begint deze dinsdag het overleg tussen 175 landen dat kan leiden tot een historisch akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling. Maar de industrie tracht dit te blokkeren, onder meer me...
www.nrc.nl
August 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM