Jan Maarten

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[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@hicasamadim (2+2)*2 = 8
(5+5)*5 = 50
(6+6)*6 = 72
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[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@Porkchop_EXP @Noahpinion For some it is ideological, for many it is whether or not to spend money on a thing they will use a few weeks in a year.

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

What causes this behaviour @X ?

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@NUnl Ik ben benieuwd naar de grafiek met op de x-as de inleverdatum en op de y-as het aantal boetes (en het %).

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@CtrlAltDwayne Glad that you’re not a comedian or a judge.

[Bradley @VerdeSelvans]

When will Apple add a “clear cache” option 🫩

This is so annoying

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Royal Holloway student Brodie Mitchell could face a hate crime charge over a “tea towel” joke.

After being called a “wannabe Jew” by the university’s president of the Friends of Palestine Society, Huda El-Jamal, he compared her keffiyeh headscarf to a “tea towel”.

The next day, he was handed a nine-week suspension while the university launched an investigation ‘for alleged conduct that could be considered hate speech’. He was barred from campus and given less than 48 hours to vacate his student accommodation. At the same time, Huda El-Jamal was allowed to continue with her studies as normal and faced no disciplinary action.

This incident, which occurred at last year’s Freshers’ Fair, was then reported to the police as a hate crime. Officers from Surrey Police have submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which will determine whether any criminal charges will be brought.

Thanks to support from the Free Speech Union, Brodie is back on campus but has been subjected to restrictions. He has been warned that if he violates the university code of conduct — even with a minor offence — he risks expulsion.

Brodie is now taking Royal Holloway to the High Court. He is expected to tell a three-day trial that the university’s actions resulted in him missing seven weeks of teaching, meaning it is possible he will complete his degree after his peers.

As Royal Holloway looks to defend its actions, it is planning to spend nearly a quarter of a million pounds. At a recent costs hearing, it initially indicated costs could reach £734,000.

This move clearly shows that the university is trying to scare and deter one of its own students out of litigation.

All of this comes at the same time that the Government has published its official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — which is already being used to silence legitimate criticism of Islam. This will sadly not be the last case of its kind, we fear, as universities are set to enforce the definition zealously.

We are proud to be backing @BrodieMitchell1.

Read more below 👇

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@gmmds It felt inappropriate to me.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Like an appreciation of progress, reading and literacy are among the things that are good but cognitively unnatural. That is, they go against our evolved nature. We didn’t evolve with print; it was a recent invention. Reading, for many of us, has become so second nature that we just assume it’s the most natural way of getting information. But what we’ve seen, especially in the last 10 years, when video has become so cheap because of the cloud computing revolution and the broadband revolution, is that a lot of people, unlike us, much prefer to listen and watch than to read. You just see this: when I go to Google and ask a basic question about how to unstick my printer or solve a problem, I get like five videos. And I just want a paragraph that would solve it. I don’t want to see Seth saying, “Hi, welcome to my show. If you like it, subscribe and give it a like.” So just help me solve the problem. But clearly there’s something unusual about me, because people are going for the video. And the massive availability of video—of TikTok, of YouTube—means that people may not be getting the practice or putting in the effort into literacy, which we have reason to believe was one of the drivers of the Flynn effect and of cognitive sophistication in general.

@HumanProgress

[normie 𓆏🦔 @KellytoyDK]

I can't prove it but youtube is planting red bars underneath the thumbnails of videos that I definitely have not watched

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@suusonline Het zijn verkopers en als je geen zin hebt in hun product treden ze ook op als verkopers.

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@fw_lennox1 No doubt about it

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@emiliacastelao History never ends.

[Kristel 💙🧡 @kristelxo]

Nobody talks about how weird it is when you talk to someone at work every single day for YEARS… then change jobs and never speak again. 🤔

[Out of Galaxy @OutofGalaxyy]

just subscribed to YouTube Premium

and yk what i've realised? ads ruin our lives. I feel so free watching content now.

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@ShishirShelke1 The burden of clearing cache cannot be on the user, says Apple. Better delete the app, says Apple. 🫠

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@annefleurdd Het domme soort conservatisme dat ook elke verbetering als bedreiging ziet.

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@EmilSutovsky The attitude of retired professionals.

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@HilzFuld I use it every single day.

[Jan Maarten @JanMaartenC]

@NOS “Het afvalmonster” bestaat uit gewone mensen.