Beer Bergman

@beerbergman.bsky.social

Book Digital Hospitality | digital ethnography | organizational sciences | Dutch living in France @lagrossetalle | PhD student @ IAE Poitiers | studies knitters & woodworkers on Youtube 👩‍💻📖👩‍🌾

Jawel, dat is zeer zeer relevant in tijden dat rechts roept dat het vooral de asielzoekers en de buitenlanders zijn die seksueel misbruik plegen. En daarom moet je nu gaan benoemen wanneer het witte mannen zijn. Van die echte Nederlanders. En dat is verdomd vaak. En we zullen het blijven benoemen.

We should be outraged not only about Ceuta and the cynical reactions of European governments, but even more so in the face of the tens of thousands who have died in the Mediterranean, most of them without a trace. AI #Slop, however, only serves those who want to make their suffering invisible 4/

… AI synthesizes a timeless allegory out of vast masses of already existing images. Compared with the photograph, the AI image is intensified in every respect: more shoes (and nothing else), more vivid colors (resembling holiday snapshots of the Mediterranean), optimized for instant legibility 3/

A superficially similar picture has been published by Reuters. In both pictures, abandoned shoes can be read metonymically for missing bodies: an established visual trope, legible as an allegory of human suffering. But while the Reuters photographer documented a scene of real-life suffering … 2/

Licensable picture: Migrants cross into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

A float and shoes belonging to migrants float in the sea at El Tarajal beach, amid mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish...

reutersconnect.com

This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

A photographic looking image of shoes floating in the water. It's crossed out with two red lines

And you can’t imagine how many Russіan wаr crіmes the world never sees because there is no camera recording them. Yet after all of this, many people still talk about russian culture. Wake up…

Today, millions of people saw a Russian drоne huntіng a civilian man in Kherson as he was selling vegetables. I read countless comments from people saying they couldn’t believe this could happen in 2026. But it does. Every single day. 1/2

In 2026, Kyiv is facing more ballistic missiles in a single night than it did during the entire year of 2024. I can't wrap my head around the hell we're being forced to endure. And there is still no light at the end of the tunnel.

Bild

Every word! “We ask @economist.com to provide Ukrainian authors with equivalent space a format proportionate to that given to Melnichenko. This is not a request for a favor. It is a demand for editorial consistency.” Will @zannymb.economist.com respond? nationalinterest.org/feature/why-...

Why Did ‘The Economist’ Platform a Russian Oligarch?

The magazine’s recent interview discussing the future of Russia merely restated Vladimir Putin’s talking points.

nationalinterest.org

Natuur maakt geen brand Bos maakt geen vuur Klimaat maakt geen brand Het zijn mensen, zij maken vuur, veroorzaken brand op korte en langere termijn, ze creeeren klimaat, het is hun brand Je hebt verschillende mensen Brandweermensen Klimaatontkenners Brandmaakmensen en roependen in de woestijn

Thé Tjong-Khing is vandaag 93 geworden. De gerenommeerde illustrator is nog steeds actief en won vele prijzen, o.a. de Gouden Penseel. Als mensen hem vragen of de hele dag tekenen niet saai is, zegt hij: 'Ik heb vandaag een prinses bevrijd van een draak. En jij?'

BildBildBildBild

Europe is growing ever more skeptical of Palantir and other American tech companies. Enter ChapsVision, an obscure rival with a contract for France's spy agency and ambitions to become a “European champion" of AI. Read more: bloom.bg/4x6DYP7 📷️: Marie Magnin/Bloomberg

Bild