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Joep Bos-Coenraad @joepbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@rtlnieuws/11732360… >>> Eva de Goeij, onderzoeker bij Bits of Freedom, zegt dat de actie de macht van Meta toont. "Meta bepaalt wat er publiek bespreekbaar is en hoe het debat verloopt", zegt ze. "Voor kritiek op zichzelf is daarbinnen blijkbaar geen plaats […]

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Arjen P. de Vries @arjenpdevries.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meta removes critical voices from Instagram, we know that. But censorship for their business interest has rarely been this clear. How naive! Tnx Meta, sais @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social -shoot yourself in the foot. All: watch like and share the thing on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=dHKh...

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Do META EMPLOYEES like their own META GLASSES?

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Maximaal effect, wat een stukje reactie van Meta, duidelijk weinig kennis van lokale (NL) verhoudingen. Van ironie naar schandaal in 24h, betere anti-Meta reclame kun je niet wensen! Meta verwijdert satirische video van Roel Maalderink over de ‘gluurbril’: ‘Voor kritiek is blijkbaar geen […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Reading the newspaper I saw in great sadness an In Memoriam for Gosse Bouma, computational linguist from Groningen Uni of Alpino fame (parser and tools for the Dutch language). Rest in peace, Gosse, we only met on CS-in-humanities-research committees but I remember you as a kind and very bright […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Wat een goed initiatief van Mike Hendrixen en Chris van Kreij: oor-merk.nl Zorg ervoor dat je kunt genieten van live muziek, zonder oordopjes - je bestelt toch ook geen maagtabletten bij een tafeltje in een restaurant?! (metafoor geleend uit Oor artikel van Roken van Gorsel […]

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Arjen P. de Vries @arjenpdevries.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gratis advertenties voor OpenAI en steun voor de overwaardering van AI bedrijven. Deze week: NRC voorpagina en sensationeel item van 's lands techknuffelbeer Alexander Killing bij Eva. Weinig nuance, veel doomsday. Lees daarom deze blogpost, Nederlandse journalisten en talkshow redacteurs!

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Letten jullie op, Nederlandse journalisten en talkshow redacteurs? Vandaag uitgebreid NRC voorpagina artikel van Juurd Eijsvoogel, Wouter van Noort en Jorit Verkerk, en eerder deze week een nog sensationeler item van 's lands techknuffelbeer Alexander Killing bij Eva. Voor beide geldt: Weinig […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Informative blogpost by Cory Doctorow that not only explains clearly how talk about "rogue AI agents" that "operate in swarms" is nothing more than promo fiction for Big Tech, but also details how LLMs "simply" solve those tasks from the "Exploit Gym" benchmark by reproducing (and adapting) […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Naomi Klein (van No logo, Shock Doctrine) heeft een nieuw boek: End Times Fascism waarin ze met Astra Taylor beschrijft hoe tech miljardairs de wereld opofferen aan hun rijkdom. Of: "how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of power" […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@suzan @fonolog eindelijk dan nu: de prompts!

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Premier gebruikt veelvuldig AI voor social media berichten, ook andere D66 communicatie vol met taalpatronen die wijzen op generatieve AI. Zoveel vragen! Hoe belangrijk is authenticiteit in communicatie? Hoe moet je efficiëntie afwegen tegen de kwaliteit van wat je vervolgens de wereld in […]

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/08/2026

What does it mean to participate in a library? 🔖 Save a webpage. 📚 Improve a book record. 🔎 Discover a document. 📣 Share a collection. 🏛️ Preserve local history. The Internet Archive has tools for it all. Over 8 weeks, we'll show you how. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/r... #ToolsYouCanUse

Event flyer for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," with the title at the top and a colorful abstract line drawing of a library building rendered in interlocking yellow, pink, and blue lines below. Text reads "Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm - 10pm, Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco."

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Marco Derksen @marcoderksen.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Wat een geweldige live-uitvoering van “Les Cèdres” door Hiba Tawaji samen met Ycare en Ibrahim Maalouf, opgenomen voor Hiba Tawaji Live à l’Olympia. #zomergasten #zg26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPw_...

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Hiba Tawaji & Ycare, Ibrahim Maalouf - Les Cèdres (LIVE à l’Olympia – OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Thanks Sigrid Kaag for reminding me (in Zomergasten) to these hopeful historic moments: President Clinton with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat at the Signing of the Oslo Accord - White House Historical Association […]

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 20/08/2026

📚🎵🎞️ Go behind the scenes at the Physical Archive! Join us IN PERSON Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6–8 PM in Richmond, CA, for a special tour of the preserved collections and learn how materials move from donation & preservation to digitization & access. Sign up ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...

Photo of Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive’s physical archive site. He is leaning forward and looking into a large shipping container used for storage, with palettes visible inside.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@djoerd SIGIR Back to the Futures

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 13/08/2026

Oh damn it is way worse. Turnitin was trying to make instructors *personally liable* for mistakes made by its faulty AI detector. The entire FAQ is eye-popping. If you're a journalist, download a copy and consider writing about academic surveillance software.. view-su2.highspot.com/viewer/40018...

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Herinnering: Ongelijkheid in Nederland neemt toe De hoogste bomen vangen minder wind: belastingdruk op inkomens en vermogens De economische verschillen tussen huishoudens nemen toe. Het belastingstelsel dempt deze ontwikkeling niet en draagt soms zelfs bij aan de groeiende verschillen […]

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/08/2026

A Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way. Wall Street Journal covers Network State cult founder Balaji Srinivasan. “Federal records indicate he and his wife renounced American citizenship in 2023.” 👀 Gift link: www.wsj.com/tech/a-tech-...

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A Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way.

Balaji Srinivasan says he believes America is descending into anarchy. His solution: Build a new country from scratch.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

and this summer is one of the coolest of the rest of our lives, I hope everyone keeps that clearly in mind. Until emissions are zero, warming, fire, floods, drought, destruction and death will all keep climbing. Simple.

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Lukas Gienapp @lgnp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Super happy that our paper “Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs” just won Best Student Paper at #SIGIR2026🏆 It argues against the reflex to reach for an LLM whenever you need relevance judgments. What we found 🧵:

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 20/07/2026

𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐨 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 ✒️Lukas Gienapp, Jenny Lang, Martin Potthast, Harrisen Scells dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 20/07/2026

𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: 𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐄'𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 ✒️Gregory Polyakov, Harrisen Scells, Carsten Eickhoff arxiv.org/abs/2605.19628

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Understanding Wacky Weights: A Dissection of SPLADE's Learned Term Importance

Learned sparse retrieval models such as SPLADE combine the effectiveness of neural architectures with the efficiency of inverted indices. As these models assign weights to terms from a fixed…

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arxiv cs.IR @arxiv-cs-ir.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oscar Rolando Ramirez Milian, Harrie Oosterhuis An Epistemic Position-Based Click Model: From Interactions to Epistemic Distributions of Relevance and Bias arxiv.org/abs/2607.18712

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Inspiring keynote by Cecile Paris on lessons from the history in NLP and IR that can and should inform our future research, especially through learning from models of human-human communication (aka "user modelling"). And a really nice photo from Dagstuhl 1985, with KSJ #SIGIR2026

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Arjen P. de Vries @arjenpdevries.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ready for our tutorial at #SIGIR2026 Reasoning for IR & IR for Reasoning reasoning-for-ir.github.io John us in Eureka 2!

Tutorial presenters before the title slide

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Our #SIGIR2026 Tutorial starting in Eureka 2! reasoning-for-ir.github.io Mohanna Hoveyda, Panagiotis Eustratiadis, Arjen P. de Vries, and Maarten de Rijke. 2026. Reasoning for IR & IR for Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

After watching the soccer final in Melbourne with long time IR friends 🤗 Getting up at 4.30am, jet lag to the rescue! #SIGIR2026 #Spain #Argentina #Final

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

This week in Melbourne, Informagus, the Information Retrieval research group from Radboud University, NL, participates actively in many parts of the ACM SIGIR and ICTIR 2026 conferences. Please come check out our contributions if you attend as well! #SIGIR2026 #ICTIR2026

Our entries in the ACM SIGIR & ICTIR 2026 programme in one picture.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

This week I am in Melbourne, with this sunrise at my arrival, for #SIGIR2026 the ACM SIGIR 2026 conference! Looking forward to learning a lot and seeing many old friends!

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

What do you do your first day back in Oz?! Go and watch that 4K restoration of Strictly Ballroom in a movie theatre / museum downtown Melbourne, the ACMI, what else! It was as lovely a film as I remembered! (Baz Luhrmann is my fav director.) Here's some […] [Original post on idf.social]

The main characters of Strictly Ballroom dancing the Paso Doble

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Trump administration is actively undermining European democracies. State Department has now launched grants (1-3 million $), designed to boost groups pushing MAGA style policies. Direct, blatant interference in sovereign nations. www.ft.com/content/e2ad...

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US to fund Trump-aligned Europeans building ‘civilisational bonds’

State department grants of up to $3mn are designed to boost groups pushing Maga-style policies

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"He was a mentor who was there because he cared about people and the research and not because he had something to gain. Thanks Frank for being just that!"

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Interesting thread on students' learning behaviour (and failure) when they may resort to AI tools.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Why would any country reject an international court established to rule according to international law? The only explanation I can give is that such a country **does not value human rights**. That it puts its own peoples' merit and rights above the rights of others. The country that likes to […]

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