FACT OF THE DAY. 2 August 1343. French woman Jeanne de Clisson decided to become a pirate to seek revenge for the execution of her husband for treason in Paris. Her crew targeted French ships in the English Channel. All crew were killed, except one, who carried her message to the King.
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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Have you read this brilliant article about revolutionary diaries? academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary
Céléstin Guittard de Floriban did not leave much of a mark on history. Born in 1724 in the Champenois village of Evergnicourt, he married but remained chil
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WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
In a list of twenty seven grievances, immigration is seventh. Taxation without representation is seventeenth.
Tucked away in West Yorkshire is a hidden piece of transatlantic history perfect for the Fourth of July. The Triumphal Arch on the Parlington Estate in Aberford is Britain's only monument dedicated to American independence. Built in 1783 by the eccentric, whig-sympathising
Hoe ons zorgstelsel een miljoenenbedrijf laat wegkomen, terwijl ernstig zieke kinderen en hun families de prijs betalen. Het klinkt absurd, toch gebeurt het. Prima samenvatting van het frustrerende debat vandaag. 👇🏼 nos.nl/artikel/2621...
Voor drie kwetsbare kinderen is er nog geen plek na sluiting zorgvilla's
Twee van de vier villa's in Nederland waar zeer kwetsbare kinderen verbleven, zijn gisteren op last van de inspectie gesloten.
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Israel holds thousands of Palestinian hostages, including children. The Israeli regime starves them, beats them, tortures them, sexually abuses them, deprives them of medical treatment & murders them. But the UK mainstream media rarely (if ever) talks about these hostages.
There's a special place in Hell for the person who created the "sex and gender are different things!" talking point. I've hated it for as long as I've heard it. It's trash.
#OTD 1858 Alice Lee b (d 5 Oct 1939). Showing that "negative” studies can have major impact, her doctoral research demonstrated no correlation between skull volume & intelligence. As craniometry was used to “scientifically prove” male genius & female inferiority, the fallout was massive.
Reading @dannybate.com's book 'Why Q needs U' I wonder how many memes already have been inspired by it.
Europa loopt ver achter in AI-race en de doemscenario's komen nu al uit - nos.nl/l/2620589 Bedoelen ze daar dit mee: Tabaksgigant laat AI 'publieksreacties' schrijven tegen strengere EU-regels: 'Dit is valsspelen' - nos.nl/l/2620686
Tabaksgigant laat AI 'publieksreacties' schrijven tegen strengere EU-regels: 'Dit is valsspelen'
De EU werkt aan strengere regels voor vapes en e-sigaretten. Philip Morris helpt burgers daar bezwaar tegen te maken.
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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
À Gaza, Israël continue de tuer des enfants. L’ONU enquête sur ce qui s’apparente à un génocide. Et en attendant, aucune trêve pour les gazaouis. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist
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Het spel is nog steeds razend populair, ook al is het al
Ik hoop zo dat Australië tegenover Iran komt te staan. Dan zien we pas echt hoe goed hun Irankunde is!
the fact that someone is talking about IQ says more than anything they could chose to say about it
This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas
LLM based AI is just a database. A database trained in the past. If applied to our endeavour the result will be ossification at best.
Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about
This is something I struggle with. I appreciate that men want models of how to be. But when we try to populate “positive masculinity” with traits — strong, smart, kind — they are all equally available to women. Masculinity and femininity are empty concepts, absent gender hierarchy.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it
In het debat over justitiële jeugd, hoorde ik rechtse partijen opnieuw pleiten voor meer en hardere straffen. Dat klinkt natuurlijk stoer. Maar we wéten dat juist mensen met een verstandelijke beperking worden geronseld. Daarom is preventie zoveel belangrijker! www.omroepwest.nl/misdaad/5116...
Criminelen azen op kwetsbare mensen, nieuwe aanpak moet slachtoffers voorkomen
Een nieuw initiatief moet mensen met een verstandelijke beperking behoeden voor misbruik door criminelen. Het gaat om een onderdeel van de website Steffie.nl. Die legt in makkelijke taal uit hoe crimi...
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Trump wanted to build American Arc de Triomphe, but he built American Père Lachaise instead.
Mediapolitic@mediapolitic.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.
Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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This is the most incredible triumph of propaganda in my lifetime. The idea that Hitler was "left" and/or a "socialist" once was correctly seen as self-evidently insane. But here we have the richest & most powerful man on earth blithely repeating it.
In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9mo agoAndrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.
The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org
Het absurdste aan dit hele verhaal is toch wel dat dit in 2017 al is onthuld door Roemeense onderzoeksjournalisten en dat de beste man vervolgens nog acht jaar rustig kon doordoen. Pas in 2025 kwam een collega van hem het Roemeense nieuws toevallig tegen en kwam de zaak aan het rollen.
‘Gigantische hoax’: Franse taalkundige verzint neppe prijs voor zichzelf
Een Franse professor verzon een vooraanstaande wetenschapsprijs, en reikte die vervolgens uit aan zichzelf. Justitie doet onderzoek naar mogelijke vervolging, maar de kans van slagen hiervan is nog on...
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Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir received a birthday cake decorated with a giant gold noose from his wife. The Hebrew text reads in part “sometimes dreams come true”—referring to Ben Gvir’s now-achieved dream of legalizing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
