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Garjan Sterk

@garjan.bsky.social
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Too much going on in the world to quietly introvert. NOT an ambassador of Radboud University! Pronouns: she/her

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bijna een half miljoen doden worden er dit najaar verwacht, vooral in het Mondiale Zuiden. De oorzaak: klimaatverandering door eeuwen CO2-uitstoot, met name in (en/of ten voordele van) het Mondiale Noorden. Dit is waarom een realistische klimaatpolitiek antikapitalistisch en antikoloniaal moet zijn.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is also #critical_AI_literacy, even (or especially) if it's very different from what you are used to.
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The final report of the State Commission Against Discrimination and Racism has been published in English now! We present an action agenda for tackling discrimination by the government in both the European and Caribbean Netherlands. www.staatscommissietegendiscriminatieenracisme.nl/documenten/2...
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Final report - Dismantling discrimination | Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie en Racisme
In its final report 'Dismantling discrimination: Towards a government that combats and prevents discrimination and racism', the State Committee against Discrimination and Racism presents an action age...
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
...but you don't know which one. One frog always tells the truth, one always lies.
Seen in Wikipedia: "A Giant Water Lily, one of which can support up to 32 kilograms of weight"
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Shell sells windparks and solar farms to a French company that announced it will sell them to KKR, the investment fund that invests in companies producing arms for the Israeli army. Be serious about sustainability and become complicit in the murder of Palestinians! 🇵🇸 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Shell verkoopt al zijn zonne- en windparken op vaste land van Europa aan TotalEnergies
Shell gaat al zijn zonne- en windparken op het vaste land in Europa verkopen aan het Franse TotalEnergies. Dat maken beide oliereuzen maandagochtend bekend op hun websites. Van Nederlandse bodem worde...
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@ftm.nl Klopt het dat ik betaal voor het terugleveren van stroom, terwijl datacentra gelokt worden met "gunstige tarieven"? Voor de niet-gebruikte stroom van mijn 4 zonnepanelen moet ik de kosten dragen, terwijl grootverbruikers sowieso minder betalen EN vervuilers zijn? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Datacenter Microsoft gebruikt 1 procent van alle Nederlandse stroom, Google wil geen inzage geven in verbruik
Netcongestie: Microsoft geeft als eerste grote Amerikaanse partij inzicht in het stroomverbruik van zijn datacenters in Nederland. Dat is groot, en groeit de komende jaren bovendien hard. Terwijl ande...
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hi @nrc.nl, do we know how the people of Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire are doing after the earthquakes in Venezuela? Afterall, they share the same tectonic plate. They are also in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Proud to share my article for the inaugural issue of re:wave! In it, I discuss how tempting it is to present 'marginalised' knowledge as a solution to the flaws of the academic status quo, but how we nevertheless should resist this temptation towards simplicity 📚 rewave.press/eating-epist...
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Eating epistemologies and tending to tension: against the romance of intellectual ease - Pippa Sterk — re:wave press
re:wave press' main website.
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Brushing up on the cinematic classics, and now I can't unsee Fred Astaire in blackface in Easter Parade: youtu.be/5g742gWRA8E?...
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Fred Astaire / Stepping Out With My Baby 「Easter Parade」
YouTube video by nzsaffron
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“Cool!” another added. “How do we block it?” @irisvanrooij.bsky.social futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform's New AI
Bluesky's latest foray into AI isn't exactly sitting well with what appears to be the vast majority of the platform's user base.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Beste @progressiefned.bsky.social, waarom AI slop in de video? Graag verwijderen en niet meer gebruiken. De gebruikte technologie is anti-sociaal, anti-democratisch, vervuilend, en technofascistisch. Is dat wat @progressiefned.bsky.social wil uitstralen? Dan niet mijn steun!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/03/2026
> The question is not whether Cofnas should be permitted to hold his views[. It's] whether a public research university in Belgium should be [granting] credibility to those views, funding their dissemination, and providing them the cover of academic legitimacy. www.brusselstimes.com/2020728/the-...
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The danger of legitimising hate through academia
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026
if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Oy @theguardian.com, read the room. This headline is tone deaf and racially insensitive! Do better
Screen shot of an article in The Guardian. The headline reads: "The Baftas' biggest drama is the red carpet fashion battle".
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
📚 ☀️ The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context. 1/🧵
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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨 European Citizens' Initiative : Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. If you are an 🇪🇺 citizen you can now SIGN and disseminate! eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Geen idee of dit gaat helpen, maar ik steun elk verzet tegen het overhandigen van onze prive-gegevens aan een bedrijf in de US (of elk ander land). Ik vertrouw onze eigen overheid al niet met deze gegevens, laat staan een echt fascistische actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
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Stop de Amerikaanse overname DigiD!
Onze privé-gegevens zijn bij overname door een Amerikaans bedrijf niet veilig! Dit lijkt ons niet de veilige manier nu president Trump in Amerika aan het roer staat. Dit kan misgaan! Als de Nederland...
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Vast een mooi boek hoor, @nrc.nl. Maar had @rosanhollak.bsky.social niet eenmaal kunnen benoemen dat deze groep vrouwen niet de hele categorie VROUWEN representeert? Dat er meer 'duister' is dan de regimes van Stalin of Hitler? En dat er ook vrouwelijke filosofen van kleur bestaan? #Eurocentrisme
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The EU places the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the list of terrorist organisations, with Hamas, Isis and al-Qaida. Italy allows ICE to be security during the Olympics. They are all violent, ideology driven forces. Just one of them is not muslim 🤔 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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EU adds Iran's Revolutionary Guards to 'terrorist list'
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the move is a response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters.
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
On January 27, the 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗯 organises a screening of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨. 𝗙𝗿é𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗸 (author of Alle journalistiek is activisme) and 𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗻 (ed. in chief of De Gelderlander) will talk about journalism and activism. Find all information here: www.lux-nijmegen.nl/programma/pr...
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Protest Lab #5: Film & Gesprek - The Encampments
This screening of The Encampments is part of Protest Lab and organized in collaboration with InScience Film Festival. After the documentary, there will be ...
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"Guyan’s study argues that excluding gender identities from data collection 'presents a more chilling form of power where trans people in data are not possible – when they appear in data, their presence is "wrong" or "inaccurate”'." archive.is/202601211442...
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The uncritical adoption of AI technologies can compromise the values of organizations/individuals and (re)produce inequalities and injustices. For professionals who want to strengthen their critical thinking about AI: there is a Summer School for you!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 04/01/2026
The FIFA Peace Prize Winner has now bombed: •Iran •Iraq •Nigeria •Somalia •Syria •Venezuela •Yemen •Armed Netanyahu to bomb Palestine, Iran, Syria, Lebanon. This is the “pro peace” President. Alas, I remember when the FIFA Peace prize meant something.
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
De fijnstofpiek in Utrecht (Binnenstad) op 31 december 24.00 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Why is my newspaper @nrc.nl opening with a picture of an extreme-right winger? She was convicted 5 times for spreading and inciting hate, downplayed sexual harrasment, was islamophobic and homophobic. But hey, she was pretty and loved animals
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
"We and our students can choose not to use these technologies. Just like we have banned smoking from public spaces, we could foster that process of banning both by choosing to individually quit smoking & by demanding regulation of the tobacco industry” Guest et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1706...
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"... have generative AI do research and generate the most beautiful and powerful outcomes. However, this has nothing to do with doing scientific research according to the methods we use to reach robust conclusions." Don't call AI research research! It's probability www.surf.nl/en/story/ai-...
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"AI can be applied in education and research in a values-driven way"
Digital transition has been a central theme throughout Alexandra van Huffelen’s career. Now, as president of the Executive Board of Radboud University Nijmegen, she is committed to digital autonomy and the development of the region.
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PIC Amsterdam @picamsterdam.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
17 December is the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers. PIC always organises a small gathering on this day in our center and at Belle, our sex worker statue at the Oudekerksplein in Amsterdam. Community, family, friends & allies welcome 🤗 #17dec #IDEVASW #Sekswerk Invite 👇
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
📝 OPEN LETTER 📝 Are you based in NL 🇳🇱 ? Do you also want government to thoughtfully shape our digital future, with care for people and nature? Please share and sign 🖊️ this letter addressed to parties forming the new Dutch government and outgoing administration. 📝 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
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Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future
To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration,

We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together.

This letter has two objectives:

a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values.

b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/12/2025
If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co: "Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a... Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future
To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration,

We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together.

This letter has two objectives:

a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values.

b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Ik kan moeilijk verdragen dat we in een land leven waar links wordt verketterd en gecriminaliseerd, terwijl men zich gretig stort op het smeden van ongure coalities die desastreus uitpakken voor grote groepen en daarmee ondermijnend zijn voor de democratische rechtsstaat.
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Ondanks lage verwachtingen toch teleurgesteld door @robjetten.bsky.social en Bontenbal: ze gaan over rechts. De VVD wordt beloond voor kinderachtig, egocentrisch gedrag. Laat je stem horen tegen de normalisering van extreem-rechts en teken: campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/ge...
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Doorbreek de normalisatie van extreemrechts aan de formatietafel!
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
‘I like to think of AI as a plagiarising mechanism. I know it’s changing the world….but I am in open rebellion’ Be still, my beating heart
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Vanavond om 19:30 in het Roze Huis in Nijmegen: deel 4 van Protest Lab - een reeks bijeenkomsten over filosofie, wetenschap en activisme. Met dit keer als thema: protest en maatschappelijke (om)gelijkheid. Voor meer info over de inhoud en het panel zie de website: www.protestlab.nl/protest-en-m...
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Protest en Maatschappelijke (On)Gelijkheid :: Protest Lab
Protest en Maatschappelijke (On)Gelijkheid
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Het is Wereld AIDS Dag. Door de terugtrekking van fondsen door Trump's regering, leven er nu duizenden mensen in doodsangst. Geen medicijnen voor besnette mensen, geen medicijnen die gezonde geboortes mogelijk maken. Lees de info van @aidsfonds.bsky.social : content.aidsfonds.nl/viewer?tid=T...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Let this be a lesson for us all.
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Israeli scholasticide exported to Europe: Dutch and British uni terminate positions of Palestinian PhDs, de facto deporting them, for standing with their people. Shame on you @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social London case: 2025newsnow.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/k...
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King’s College London accused of ‘Trump-like’ tactics to deport pro-Palestine student activist
King’s College London (KCL), a prestigious UK university, is facing legal action over its decision to indefinitely suspend a student and revoke his visa sponsorship, triggering potential deportatio…
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apache/ @apache.be · 23/10/2025
Prominente professoren en onderzoekers luiden de alarmbel over AI in het hoger onderwijs. Ze verzetten zich tegen wat ze “de AI-hype” noemen en waarschuwen voor het verlies van kritisch denken, een kunst die vooral niet uitbesteed kan worden aan “best guess machines”. apache.be/2025/10/23/a...
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Als AI-wetenschappers zich verzetten tegen AI in het hoger onderwijs
Deze wetenschappers en filosofen roepen op tot kritisch denken over AI.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science 🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg... 📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... 🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025
YouTube video by Iris van Rooij
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/10/2025
unequivocal support for and unending pride towards our students last night and always www.voxweb.nl/en/pro-pales...
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Pro-Palestine activists occupy Goudsmitpaviljoen: ‘We are not going to allow research to be done in this building’ - Vox magazine
Pro-Palestine activists occupied the Goudsmitpaviljoen behind the Huygens building this morning. They have locked the building from the inside and a number of activists are also at the door, secured t...
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Pekkaa pahempi Mervaala @mervaala.eurosky.social · 24/09/2025
Tästä oli @helsus.bsky.social -mediaryhmässä tänään puhe!!
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Arnold Lubbers @arnoldlubbers.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Dit is toch behoorlijk verontrustend.
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"... dan weet een taalmodel halverwege een zin over asielzoekers simpelweg niet of daar VVD of PVV bij moet staan. De kans op een van beide mogelijkheden is ongeveer even groot." Atta boy! www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Column | ChatGPT verheft de middelmaat
ChatGPT voedt de zesjescultuur aan universiteiten. Peter Kuipers Munneke verwacht van studenten meer dan middelmatige teksten.
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Liza Mügge @lizamugge.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔎✒️ How can we keep research teams and ourselves safe when studying politically sensitive topics? @britanlar.bsky.social and I present a new framework for protection and support drawing on feminist care ethics. The report is now available on the @men4dem.bsky.social website 👇
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Garjan Sterk @garjan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Wel helder nu: de partijen die tegen antifa - wat geen organisatie is maar een standpunt - stemden, hebben zichzelf geopenbaard als fascisten. Wij, antifa, wisten dit al, maar misschien beseffen de redelijke VVD-ers nu ook dat ze, onder Yesilgöz, niet langer 'liberaal' genoemd kunnen worden.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"De wetenschappelijke integriteit staat op het spel nu universiteiten [AI] zonder kritische bezinning omarmen. Dat is de waarschuwing van een internationale groep van achttien wetenschappers, onder leiding van onderzoekers van de Radboud Universiteit.” www.scienceguide.nl/2025/09/ai-s... 1/🧵
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AI schaadt wetenschappelijke integriteit en vergroot kansenongelijkheid, waarschuwen wetenschappers - ScienceGuide
De wetenschappelijke integriteit staat op het spel nu universiteiten kunstmatige intelligentie zonder kritische bezinning omarmen. Dat is de waarschuwing van een internationale groep van zestien weten...
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Progressief Nederland @progressiefned.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
In Gaza vechten kinderen voor hun leven. Ziekenhuizen liggen in puin, zorg is bijna onmogelijk. Nederland weigert ieder verzoek om te helpen, terwijl de ziekenhuizen klaarstaan. Dat is onverteerbaar. ✍️ Teken de petitie: laat zieke kinderen uit Gaza toe! groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/ziek...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/09/2025
Among those listed is feminist philosopher Judith Butler, who likened the move to a ‘practice from the McCarthy era’.
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UC Berkeley shares information on 160 staff, students with US government
Among those listed is feminist philosopher Judith Butler, who likened the move to a ‘practice from the McCarthy era’.
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