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Volt Nederland @voltnederland.org · 18h

Wat blijkt? Onze plannen zijn kneitergoed: voor een groene toekomst, voor jouw portemonnee, voor de kunst- & cultuursector en voor het kopen van je volgende huis. Ohja, en die investering in sociale zekerheid. Die is zo hoog dat die er niet meer op paste.

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Frans Timmermans @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl · 20h

VVD bezuinigt €1400 op de bijstand, een maandinkomen. Waar moeten deze mensen in december van leven?

Ondertussen is 1 op de 7 daklozen kind, terwijl NL duizenden miljonairs extra telt. Harde rechtse stilstand.

Wij halveren het eigen risico en kiezen voor solidariteit.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 21h

Some teachers are using AI to grade and few are talking about it. Scantrons are one thing, but automating grading, feedback, and assessing written work with AI poses massive ethical challenges and should not become the default or go to choice in education.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 21h

As with so much in the AI discussion, the debate about using AI to grade isn't really a debate about AI but about education. Make sure to read @marcwatkins.bsky.social wise words on faculty using AI to grade. marcwatkins.substack.com/p/the-danger...

This isn’t really about AI at all. It’s about what we believe education is for. If higher education is just a credential farm, then efficiently sorting students into rankings makes sense and by all means, automate away! But I think most of us believe that education is more than that. For me, the purpose of higher education is about human development, critical thinking, and the transformative experience of having your ideas taken seriously by another human being. That’s not something we should be in a rush to outsource to a machine.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky.
mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

Prof. Sam Lawler (@[email protected])

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disas...

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Jeroen ‘Jeremy’ Fransen @jeroenjeremy.bsky.social · 2d

Great! Also on texts written by kids?

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone interested in democracy should get familiar with the details of the DSA

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to let Facebook and Instagram users set a chronological feed by default, a first test of the EU’s Digital Services Act in civil court.
Tech Policy Press spoke with Bits of Freedom’s Rejo Zenger on the ruling’s significance.

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2d

This is what's so remarkable (for me, infuriating) about boosting AI usage in schools. We are *already* seeing modern society straining under the corrosive effects of social media -- now we want to push related technology down into our schools? A long-term recipe for disaster.

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 2d

Humans evolved a cognitive 'social proof' system for establishing what's true (if enough of the people around me believe something, I'll go along) and media fragmentation + social media has completely and totally hijacked it

Feels like AI will only make this worse

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

"no in the future people will cryptographically verify what's true and-" no they will not. People are fucking stupid.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

There's good reason why the oil and gas industry lobbies so hard for carbon capture - because it's the one 'climate solution' that wouldn't necessarily require shutting down the oil and gas industry

But it doesn't work. They need to be shut down

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 3d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2d

I'm finding it surreal that there's broad agreement in the finance community that we are in an AI bubble. Even unapologetic boosters such as Ben Thompson of Stratechery are like, yep, obviously in a bubble. Given that much of the global economy is being propped up by AI, this should be worrying!

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

BoE flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI on.ft.com/3WqHK5t

BoE flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

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Jeroen ‘Jeremy’ Fransen @jeroenjeremy.bsky.social · 2d

Great stuff! Is there anything similar for handwritten texts?

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Reinier Van Lanschot @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org · 3d

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Jeroen ‘Jeremy’ Fransen @jeroenjeremy.bsky.social · 2d

Actually Bloomberg makes a similar point today

OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals

A wave of deals and partnerships are escalating concerns that the trillion-dollar AI boom is being propped up by interconnected business transactions.

www.bloomberg.com

Jeroen ‘Jeremy’ Fransen @jeroenjeremy.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed there!
I referred to a mutual dependency between tech companies (nVidia, Oracle, OpenAI, Microsoft, Coreweave etc.) with circular contracts between them.
To keep stock prices high they all need each other. So not a classic bailout but companies propping each other up when bubble pops?

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Jeroen ‘Jeremy’ Fransen @jeroenjeremy.bsky.social · 3d

And I meant to say both nVidia and OpenAI may be following this playbook

Jeroen ‘Jeremy’ Fransen @jeroenjeremy.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t you sometimes think that OpenAI is making deals with all these other tech and media companies, making them interdependent by raising their stock prices, so that the total becomes ‘too big to fail’?

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3d

Denmark aims to lead a legal shift in the EU with proposed Copyright Act amendments, granting individuals rights over their likenesses and tackling deepfake misuse, reports Giovana Fleck.

Denmark Leads EU Push to Copyright Faces in Fight Against Deepfakes | TechPolicy.Press

Denmark's Copyright Act amendments would give individuals copyright over their own likenesses, reports Giovana Fleck.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Frans Timmermans @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl · 4d

De verkiezingen gaan over de oplossingen voor Nederland. Doorbreken we de stilstand of gaan we vooruit?

Als Geert Wilders kiest om 1 miljoen mensen uit te sluiten, mag dat nooit normaal worden. Daarom staan wij op. Samen bouwen we aan echte oplossingen en samen gaan we vooruit.

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Jeroen ‘Jeremy’ Fransen @jeroenjeremy.bsky.social · 4d

Slightly depressing?!

Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 4d

"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."

-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 4d

OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI

With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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