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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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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 20h

Former "Gates Scholar" and New York Times say what?

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jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social @jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Follow the Money @ftm.nl · 11d

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.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 15d

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]

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19d

I love motion-smoothing

Leigh @oddleighenough.bsky.social · 19d

I’m desperate for In-N-Out fries.

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Richard Clements @riclements.bsky.social · Oct 1

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

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 27d

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.

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jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social @jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social · 29d

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)

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 29d

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

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

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Frans Osinga @osinga.bsky.social · Sep 30

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.

RTL Nieuws @rtl.nl · Sep 30

Trump en Hegseth draaien duimschroeven krijgsmacht aan na 'decennia van aftakeling' #nieuws

Trump en Hegseth draaien duimschroeven krijgsmacht aan na 'decennia van aftakeling'

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump en zijn minister van Oorlog Pete Hegseth hebben bij een speciale bijeenkomst de voltallige legertop de oren gewassen. Hegseth kondigde aan dat militairen zich professioneler zullen moeten gedragen, Trump zei iedereen te zullen ontslaan die hem voor de voeten loopt.

www.rtl.nl

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 30

Deranged, un-American fascism. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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"

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Sep 30

Rules of engagement is what protects our forces, and American civilians, as well

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."

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 11

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.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Sep 10

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.

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Sep 10

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

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

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Sander Schimmelpenninck @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wierd Duk beschuldigt mij van ‘bijna doxing’ en zijn volgers leveren weer op commando.

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jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social @jorisvlaarhoven.bsky.social · Aug 20

Premier Biden

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Aug 8

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…

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

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Tom-Jan Meeus @tomjanmeeus.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.)

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

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Max van Geuns @maxvangeuns.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Jul 25

We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening.

CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 18

CBS will be ending Stephen Colbert's run as host of The Late Show, days after he criticized parent company Paramount's $16 million payment to Trump. Here's why the Left has a censorship problem.

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