Voor een monter, goed geïnformeerd en breed gedragen alternatief op het gebied van AI, zie deze open brief van de coalitie Zorgvuldig en Zorgzaam Digitaal: openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...

Hij is zijn tijd ver vooruit met een Zoom-outfit avant la lettre.

Well done to them! While I try to instill social niceties in my kids because it's an important skill in navigating the world, I would also never judge a child for forgetting to say please or thank you. That stuff is *hard* when you're already dealing with an overwhelming situation!

Yeah i'm a millennial and 'fetish' just means 'bdsm aesthetic' to me (e.g. a 'fetish model' = a sexy cybergoth). I'm not a porn consumer so I think this usage must've been pretty normie/mainstream for me to catch on.

*passive

"As AI becomes embedded across professions" that weaselly passively construction is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, like AI is a natural phenomenon rather than people actively making choices.

Am only halfway through so far (excellent read!) but had to come back here to note that Creative Commons have in fact been working on a system of AI 'preference signals', although their draft proposal did not include an actual opt-out (they did get some criticism for that).

Oops, lost most of the link www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...

Yes! This essay by Anita Naidu is another excellent critique of the Bregman brand of capitalist-approved, power-centred 'morality'. I'd fully expect Keir Starmer to find him 'extraordinary' but George Monbiot? That's a bit shocking

As we approach 70k signatures, please keep sharing our open letter - Not in our Name, women in support of the trans community:

notinourname.org.uk

I think it's because she's glued her lashes weirdly high up on her eyelids (you can see her eyelids extending several millimitres below the lashes). The video's still incredibly uncanny but it made me feel better to discover that the inhuman eyes are mostly trickery

If a student doesn't know / can't do something, they won't magically know or be able to do it with more time. If they can do it with a bit more time, they had it in them to begin with.

Yup back when I was still teaching I always felt that if a significant number of students were unable to complete the exam in time, I'd set a bad exam.

Hij heeft zich duidelijk uitstekend aangepast aan de Amerikaanse cultuur.

Deze dook toevallig net op in mijn feed. Wat het kost: het veilige gevoel dat hun voorkeuren normaal zijn. En daarmee de angst: wat als anderen mij nu net zo gaan behandelen als ik altijd de mensen heb behandeld die *ik* niet normaal vind?