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[Arjen @ajdevries1981]

@matthijs_immink @maartenbrante @franktieskens Gecondoleerd met je verlies 🩷

[Arjen @ajdevries1981]

@BartNijman Gecondoleerd ❤️

[Arjen @ajdevries1981]

@Denkjewel @wierdduk 60.000 sociaal-wetenschappelijke artikelen sinds de jaren zestig machinaal heeft gelezen en een semantische analyse heeft gemaakt: zijn dit eerder linkse of rechtse teksten?
‘Het resultaat was volkomen eenduidig: de sociale wetenschappen zijn overwegend links-liberaal

[Timon Dias @TimonDias]

Ontroerende aflevering met Keyvan Shahbazi over zijn wereld van gisteren, en misschien die van morgen:
https://t.co/R35VTwQO3H

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

On every continent, food supplies have grown faster than the population—

We just lived through the period with the fastest population growth in human history. Six decades ago, there were three billion people on our planet.

Since 2022, there have been more than eight billion people — an increase of five billion over this period.

It would have been impressive if food supplies had merely kept pace with population growth. But as the chart above shows, they grew even faster.

On every continent, food supplies — measured by calories — grew faster than the population. This rise in food production per person was a major reason for the decline of extreme poverty and hunger.

To us, this chart documents one of humanity’s most extraordinary achievements.

(This Data Insight was written by Pablo Rosado and @MaxCRoser.)

[Hans van Meerten @LawPension]

Waarom is het zo oorverdovend stil dat politici niet gaan invaren (ook dit jaar weer geen wetsvoorstel) maar het volk wel omdat dit “eerlijker” is?

[Michel Portier @michelportier80]

Laat dit even tot je doordringen. Als je niet mee wilt doen aan Digital ID en Age Verification kun je straks niet meer op X, YT, Signal, WA etc. Tenzij je (nu al) bijzondere maatregelen neemt wordt je online aanwezigheid gewoon weggevaagd. Voor de kinderen.

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

Anthropic's CEO is warning that AI will eliminate roughly half of entry level white collar jobs in law, finance, and consulting within five years. Not because the work will change but because AI is already doing it better and cheaper. Companies know this and will continue to cut these positions to boost margins.

One of the real problems nobody talks about is that entry level jobs are how you learn to think like a professional. You dont become a good lawyer by reading legal theory, you become a good lawyer by watching senior lawyers work, making mistakes in a forgiving environment, learning what actually matters in practice. The same goes for all entry level jobs These apprenticeships are how judgment gets transferred from one generation to the next. When you kill the entry level tier you don't just lose jobs. You're literally breaking the knowledge pipeline that's existed for centuries.

In ten years, all the current mid level people will be moving into senior roles or retiring. There's nobody behind them. You can't just skip twenty years of talent development and expect to suddenly have experienced people ready to lead. Firms are going to face a crisis where they need experienced professionals but only have automation and nothing in between

The institutional knowledge that took decades to build just vanishes because the people who carry it never got trained by mentors. We're essentially betting that AI will somehow handle those senior positions too which is a huge and probably wrong assumption at this stage. What we're actually looking at is a short term profit win for companies that creates a long term talent apocalypse across entire industries.

[Bart Nijman @BartNijman]

Hee @nos misschien kunnen jullie Hen vragen of jullie zijn beelden mogen gebruiken. Als die van Harry Pettit en wat botsende bootjes goed genoeg zijn voor de staatsomroep, voldoen deze misschien ook wel aan de drempel voor nieuwswaarde?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: Hamas forced hostage Evyatar David to dig his own grave— for a propaganda video.

He is pale. Starving. Barely alive.

Let that sink in: a man reduced to skin and bones, made to bury himself, on camera, for the world to watch. And no one seems to care.

This isn’t just a war crime. It’s psychological torture. It’s pure evil.

If this doesn’t move you, what will?

What else do you need to see to understand what we’re dealing with?

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/iHcTLn07lP

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

Today, Palestinian Islamic Jihad released footage of Rom Braslavski.

Rom was kidnapped from the Nova music festival and has been held hostage in Gaza for close to 700 days.

Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and Mark Carney would like to give Rom's captors their own country.

[Bart Nijman @BartNijman]

Empathie & de mode

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

What are Israel's choices in Gaza? The insanity of double standards and uninformed analysis about the war in Gaza.🧵 1/21

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Honored to be nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for my work fighting terrorism and saving lives. Despite the challenges, I believe truth and courage can light the way. Grateful for the recognition, ready for the journey ahead.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Smartphones bring porn & gambling to teens 24/7. Today we have our first post on what sports betting is doing to boys & young men (who are 98% of those with addiction).
By Jonathan Cohen and Isaac Rose-Berman.
Part of our growing collab with @aibm_org
https://t.co/YhDu0CGINb

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

In Britain, we now jail the likes of Lucy Connolly for dumb, incendiary social media posts (that she deleted), but 1000s chant about killing people at a major music festival, live on our publicly funded broadcaster, and nobody seems to care. Outrageous double standard.

[Arthur van Amerongen @DonArturito]

Mijn interview met Theodor Holman

“Eerst kreeg je dus die framing van Israël - genocidaal - en vervolgens werden de terroristen van Hamas de nobele wilden. Toen werd Hezbollah sexy, daarna de Houthi’s en nu ayatollahs. Dat is bizar. Vrouwen in hippe kleren in Berlijn en Amsterdam die met plakkaten van Ali Khamenei lopen te zwaaien. Dat snap ik niet meer.

https://t.co/V0tjDyHv4h

[Arjen @ajdevries1981]

⁦@elonmusk⁩ please fund this. I want my ⁦@nuwapen⁩ https://t.co/ww99sdiEYU

[Dr. Jan van de Beek @demo_demo_nl]

De wetten van Faber zijn veel minder vergaand dan het recente voorstel van @robjetten, benieuwd of @d66 derhalve de ‘coalitiewetten’ steunt.
Lakmoesproef wat betreft de intenties van D66.
https://t.co/MJLDobOwHK