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tijssikma.bsky.social
Political Historian | PhD Radboud University: history of the Dutch public debate surrounding digitalisation | Researcher Rathenau Institute (parliamentary technology assessment institute): project about Planetary Health | Computational methods in history
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Wat een verhaal: 'Radicale klimaatactivisten' die ruim 270 auto's beschadigden en met Groenen-stickers beplakten, bleken in werkelijkheid door Rusland aangestuurde 'amateuragenten'. Bedoeld om afkeer tegen de Groenen te vergroten. Verhaal van Spiegel: www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 24 days ago • 355 comments

Tech giants have used their social media & advertising monopolies to manipulate our behaviour for profit at the expense of privacy, open markets & democratic debate. As this study suggests, giving the same actors control over AI will make matters much worse. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

1/ 🧵 Radicaal-rechtse Facebookpagina’s gebruiken AI voor racistische propaganda. Samen met @jorisveerb.bsky.social onderzocht ik hoe dit terug te leiden is tot binnen de PVV-fractie zelf.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

Vandaag lanceren we de website Goetgevonden, waarmee je kunt zoeken in alle besluiten van de Staten-Generaal van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden (1576-1796). Goetgevonden is wereldwijd de krachtigste zoekmachine voor historische teksten die ooit is gemaakt. Je vindt ons via goetgevonden.nl!

submitted 80 days ago • 16 comments

Why did Silicon Valley turn right? During stable times, institutions shape people's understanding of their interests and alliances. In crises, certainties crumble. This creates opportunities for political entrepreneurs armed with new ideas to reshape how people understand their interests.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

What can Americans learn from Yoon Suk Yeol's less-than-a-day dictatorship? snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...

submitted 84 days ago • 125 comments

Dit kwam ik net tegen in het boek 'Welvaart in zwart-wit' (2000) van C.J.M. Schuyt en Ed Taverne. Blijkbaar werkte oa het CBS al in de jaren zestig aan een classificatie voor milieuvervuiling:

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 86 days ago • 25 comments

As many of you following main might know @hf.co released 1M posts scraped from the @bsky.app Firehose API. It was a mess. People got angry, and I thought -- #privacydisaster. So I decided to write about it. insights.priva.cat/p/privacy-di... Let's unpack this a bit... 👇

submitted 87 days ago • 8 comments

New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...

submitted 92 days ago • 121 comments

Je kunt nu nog tekenen! Straks niet mee. campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Ik reken op een grote opkomst, morgen: collega’s van alle faculteiten, van alle universiteiten in Nederland. Acties zoals deze tonen aan dat er nog steeds solidariteit bestaat, en dat wetenschappers zich betrokken voelen bij álle vormen van het verwerven van kennis.

submitted 94 days ago • 7 comments

🧵 Thrilled to announce our new paper in Memory Studies Review exploring how AI chatbots are reshaping historical memory! With @riksmit.bsky.social and @socmerrill.bsky.social #memorystudies doi.org/10.1163/2949...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

🔴 Monopoly Power and the cost of shareholder compensation The trend of increasing shareholder payouts is particularly notable among the top 1%, highlighting the intersection between monopoly power and financialisation a thread🧵 www.somo.nl/taking-stock...

submitted 97 days ago • 3 comments

quite the cover from @politico.eu

submitted 98 days ago • 28 comments

De eerste versie van de 'Human Cell Atlas' is er, een gigantische database met beelden en beschrijvingen van alle cellen in het menselijk lichaam. Hiermee zullen wetenschappers allerlei ziekten beter begrijpen, zo hopen de makers. https://buff.ly/3Z0mDIg

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submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

This is an interesting website that amongst others has a 3d visualisation of a 20 percent random sample of a scientists’ network on Bluesky (of 39,030 scientists).

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating stuff. In an interview from 1957, Dutch futurologist Fred Polak predicted that in the year 2000 thanks to automation, we would only have to work 2 days a week (around 10 hours).

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Fascinerend. In een interview uit 1957 voorspelt futuroloog Fred Polak dat we dankzij automatisering in het jaar 2000 nog slechts 2 dagen in de week, circa 10 uur hoeven te werken.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I have been waiting for @hannahritchie.bsky.social to run the numbers on this question: What’s the impact of artificial intelligence on energy demand? www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-...

submitted 101 days ago • 9 comments