There's a heartwarming story, in @seamas.bsky.social ' best-selling memoir "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?" (available in all good, and many mediocre, bookshops) where Séamas is forgotten at Mass, and we only realised we'd lost him because we'd also lost another sibling, who we returned to collect.
🇳🇬 Nigeria’s 14-year-old Ekunke Odey Goodness wins FIDE World Amateur Rapid Chess Championship 2026 🏆 ✨ History was made in Abuja as Nigeria’s 14-year-old Ekunke Odey Goodness emerged as the inaugural champion of the FIDE World Amateur Rapid Chess Championship 2026, scoring an
Kant believed in free will because he didn’t have modern neuroscience to tell him that our desires are often shaped by factors outside our introspective awareness
1/14) Erev Rav Officiële Verklaring: De gewelddadige aanval op antizionistische Joodse bezoekers bij Loods 24 Rotterdam, 2 augustus 2026 — Wij, het collectief Erev Rav, publiceren deze verklaring om de feiten rondom de herdenking bij Loods 24 definitief vast te leggen.
Today is Porajmos Memorial Day. Today we remember the half a million Romani people murdered by Nazi genocide. Dikh He Na Bister
En alle media moeten in de spiegel kijken en de politiek ook! @volkskrant.nl @dvhn.nl @trouw.nl @telegraaf.nl @nu.nl @nieuws.nos.nl @nieuwsuur.nl @parool.nl @omroepwnl.bsky.social @nrc.nl @brabantsdagblad.bsky.social @gelderlander.nl @lc.nl @nd.nl @pzc.bsky.social @rtl.nl @ad.nl 👇🏼
Roel Janssen🍀🌹🪶@vrijevogel56.bsky.social · 6d agoFrans Timmermans raakte deze week een gevoelige snaar bij rechts Nederland. Terwijl er amper ophef is over het ‘werkbezoek’ van Geert Wilders aan kolonisten in illegale Israëlische nederzettingen, valt half Nederland over een interview van Timmermans in de Belgische krant De Morgen.
I cannot win this against maximum strength engine, anyone have guidance? lichess.org/analysis/8/4...
Ik erger me steeds meer aan de zelfgenoegzame grimas van Jelle Postma, de voormalige AIVD-medewerker die constant op televisie is om te waarschuwen voor extreemrechts.
Jeetjemineetje, dat FvD zit vol racistische antisemieten!, deel 847 - Frontaal Naakt
Peter Breedveld Ja, al die racistische politici met hun fascistische voorstellen, hun schijt aan de wet, aan de wereld, hun verheerlijking van en oproepen tot gewelddadig verzet, ze zijn extreemrechts...
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The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.
Von der Deutschen Meisterschaft: Weiß zieht und gewinnt.
Any time I read a story like this, I immediately scroll down to see if my favourite true crime trope - the absurdly incriminating search history - gets featured. I can confirm that this one does not disappoint.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5mo agoA Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death has been convicted of aggravated murder in his death
Ultimately the missing element is respect for the person on the other end of the line.
Empathy and delight mean nothing when the software is disrespectful
Software is now something we do TO users, instead of something that we make FOR them.
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i think a lot about how animals afflicted with illness lash out in confusion, unable to understand why their bodies are not working as a metaphor for how people unable to understand how their world is changing react to stress
go vote for the tiny awards! if you want a better internet you have to help make a better internet!!
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 4w agoWe have had over 300 sites submitted to this year's Tiny Awards, so IN YOUR FACE people who say there's nothing good on the web anymore. Nominations are open for ~24h hours, so here's your FINAL CHANCE to nominate your favourite website from the past 12 months to win!: tinyawards.net
De AFD, de Duitse combinatie van PVV en FvD, heeft afgelopen weekend op hun partijcongres een AI tool gepresenteerd om hun achterban volautomatisch haat te laten spuien op sociale media. correctiv.org/aktuelles/ge...
Die Propaganda-KI der AfD
Eine Firma des AfD-Bundesvorstands hat eine KI gebaut, die auf Knopfdruck Propaganda erzeugt. CORRECTIV testete die AfD-KI-Propaganda undercover.
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“Er ligt nu een kans die links-progressief in 25 jaar niet heeft gehad.” is wel zo www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/ik-...
‘Ik weiger te geloven dat Nederland gewoon een rechts land is, zoals vaak wordt gezegd’
Oxfam Novib-directeur Michiel Servaes wil de eerste voorzitter worden van Progressief Nederland (Pro). Hij ziet een gebrek aan lef onder progressieven. ‘Ik weet niet of het woord ‘links’ bewust vermed...
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From: sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · last mo.we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society
This is what makes it art: '(...) the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.' www.science.org/content/arti...
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
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Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
science.org
It is with great sadness that FIDE learned of the sudden passing of Woman FIDE Master, FIDE Arbiter and FIDE Trainer Beata Andrejczuk-Dudzińska at the age of 38. Beata showed her talent at an early age, winning the Polish Women's Blitz Championship in 2005 as a teenager. Many
the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure
the many faces of someone who just lost a 2 v 3 after solving much harder problems earlier photog: Michal Walyusza
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
Would be ironic for the Netherlands to fall to Japan while Germany overruns their colonies. Kind of a reverse world war 2 situation.
nou moe, wat verdrietig zeg. een parel, ze zal gemist worden. ook hier.
NOS@nieuws.nos.nl · 2mo agoDichter Lieke Marsman op 35-jarige leeftijd overleden
Probleem met DigiD is opgelost, nu hebben we een nieuw probleem, ontdekte ik: www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nl... @ftm.nl
Gedoodverfd opvolger van DigiD is niet te gebruiken zonder Gmail-account of Apple-ID
NL Wallet, de aankomende digitale identiteitsapp van de overheid, is afhankelijk van software van Apple en Google, blijkt uit onderzoek van Follow the Money. In een reactie zegt het ministerie te ‘bestuderen’ of er mogelijkheden zijn de app alsnog minder afhankelijk te maken van Amerikaanse techgiganten.
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