Maya Maes

Driven by ecology & social justice

[Maya Maes @MayaMaes1]

.@MobirisNL webpagina naar transitparkings op https://t.co/AnxIAB6iJa in NL werkt niet. Slechte timing met de feesten en bezoekende familieleden

[Matt Orfalea @0rf]

EXCLUSIVE: In a newly discovered Zoom recording, the Biden/Harris team reveals how they manipulated voters to think Biden's mental decline was "disinformation". 🧵/1

[BRUZZ @BRUZZbe]

Tweehonderd EU-medewerkers voeren liggend actie voor Palestina: https://t.co/4yLEcGGJBy

[MSF International @MSF]

Yesterday in Rafah, #Gaza, one of our doctors recounted via voice message the harrowing experience her family lived through as airstrikes and bombs dropped around them at 5am. Today, she sent us the below series of text messages describing the situation.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Here’s the truth about the war in Ukraine

[Maya Maes @MayaMaes1]

Boerenprotest gepasseerd langs Waterloosesteenweg, Ukkel (geluid aan)

[Tijl De Bie @TijlDeBie]

Dit is wat @JoeBiden @POTUS te zeggen heeft over Gaza, na 100 dagen slachting.
https://t.co/MnfacWdzhZ
Niks over vele honderdduizenden ontheemde Palestijnen, een ongeziene humanitaire crisis, en meer dan 24000 doden en een veelvoud gewonden. Met Amerikaanse wapens en steun.

[Tijl De Bie @TijlDeBie]

The concept of #thoughtcrime in Orwell's 1984 may be finding its way into EU regulations under the guise of #SystemicRisks.

The legal concept "systemic risks" has been around for a while in the finance/banking/insurance sector (cf. https://t.co/Tj7uKqZqjI).

New is its use to refer to "negative effects on civic discourse and election processes, and public security".
In this political meaning, it is a central concept in the #DSA #DigitalServicesAct (https://t.co/AyXUFQ67kV), which aims to suppress online freedom of expression that is deemed to pose 'systemic risks'.
Now, it also seems to be embraced in the near-final #EUAIAct draft (https://t.co/WjX2KSty3H), where General Purpose AI systems will be required to detect and mitigage such 'systemic risks'.

The conveniently-vague concept is vulnerable to abuse, to avert risks to the personal interests of the powers that be. Indeed, some incumbents will perceive a risk to their power as a systemic risk.

It should be noted that Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Lech Wałęsa,... also once posed 'systemic risks'.

Needless to add: I think it's a mistake to introduce this concept so centrally into #EU legislation.

[peter Vanderheyden @petervanderhey6]

De kinderen van Gaza spoken door mijn hoofd. Ik kan er niet van slapen. Ik doe mijn ogen dicht en het magere jongetje trillend over zijn hele lijfje doorprikt het donker. Het meisje dat wezenloos voor zich uitstaart met een groot bebloed verband rond haar hoofd lost af.

[Fazel Hawramy @FazelHawramy]

What is happening in #Gaza “is a text-book case of genocide… What's more, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, are wholly complicit in the horrific assault,” from resignation letter by Volker Turk, High Commissioner for Human Rights

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Horrifying: After bombing dozens of bakeries, water stations, and fishing boats, and preventing food assistance into the Gaza Strip, Israeli barbarism reached a new record. They just bombed a water reserve tank in Jabalia refugee camp which now deprives more than 120.000 of fresh drinking water. This is another form of genocide. #GazaGenocide

[Ann Vermeulen @anne_verm]

“Een staakt-het-vuren is de enige manier om te beginnen met het helen van wat gebroken is, om ademruimte te bieden zodat we kunnen nadenken over hoe deze regio vooruitgang kan boeken inzake gelijkheid, waardigheid en veiligheid voor iedereen.” Ilana Sumka https://t.co/r5c3K9OPUx

[Ann Vermeulen @anne_verm]

Gaza volledig afgesloten van licht & elektriciteit. Onschuldige burgers, hulpeloze slachtoffers, ziekenhuizen vol hulpbehoevenden,… weerloos achtergelaten tss bombardementen.

Blijf aandacht vragen voor deze oorlogsmisdaden, voor dit onbeschrijfelijk onrecht.
#StopGazaGenocide

[Maya Maes @MayaMaes1]

@MausMichel "Uit een studie van Randstad is gebleken dat in 2020 maar liefst 70% van de studenten buiten de schoolvakanties aan het werk was."
Peilde de studie ook naar de reden waarom studenten tegelijk werken? Linkt u werkstudenten aan luiheid? Dat lijkt me niet fair. Cost of living ↗️?

[Maya Maes @MayaMaes1]

Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party’s Revenge on Matt Taibbi https://t.co/nIGXikDv91

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is the most famous Symbolist painting in the world.

What was Symbolism?

An art movement about our struggle to deal with scientific progress and social change...

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What happened in London?

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

Hong Kong has the highest current case rate in the world with consistent universal mask wearing and 91% of its residents fully vaccinated

I don't know how many times this needs to happen before people admit that "The Experts™" were wrong

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This is Biete Giorgis, one of eleven rock-hewn churches carved into the volcanic hills of northern Ethiopia over 800 years ago...

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

104 years ago today the armistice that ended the First World War was signed.

While photographs can tell us how it looked and facts can tell us how it happened, art has the unique power to show us how it felt.

So here is the terrifying, futuristic, and mournful art of WW1: