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Maurits Martijn

@mauritsmartijn.bsky.social
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Journalist. De Correspondent. Over de mythes, de macht en de mogelijkheden van technologie. Boek: Je hebt wél iets te verbergen. Nieuwsbrief: corr.es/maurits Signal: mauritsmartijn.17

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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Voor iedereen die, net als ik, geboeid is door de religieuze trekken van Amerikaanse AI-bedrijven: lees dit stuk. Veelzeggend detail: Anthropic probeerde invloed uit te oefenen op de AI-toespraak van de paus – het deel waarin hij zegt dat AI geen bewustzijn heeft www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Goede vraag: willen Amerikanen net zoveel uitgeven aan AI als aan voedsel? Twee keer zoveel als aan energie? Dat is namelijk nodig om de investeringen terug te verdienen, zo blijkt uit onderzoek: in 2032 moet AI 3,5 biljoen dollar in het laatje brengen. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/will...
wsj.com
Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It
To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food.
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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Ik moest de livestream zelf terugkijken om het te geloven: het officiële AfD-YouTube-kanaal speelde de ‘New Wave Edit’ van Erika af, het marsliedje dat de Wehrmacht gebruikte tijdens WOII. Sie sind wieder da.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/08/2026
Water will find its way through cracks in walls and foundations in such a manner that even the most wondrously designed structure may collapse into pile of rubble. Do not attribute agency to the water; rather, denounce the engineers and the builders and the maintainers who failed in their work.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ik was in Silicon Valley en kon de karikaturen niet vermijden, decorrespondent.nl/16977/reizen...
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Reizend door Silicon Valley is de karikatuur niet te vermijden: mooie woorden, brute werkelijkheid
Ik sta voor een dichte deur van het hoofdkantoor van Anthropic. Althans, ik dacht dat dit het hoofdkantoor van Anthropic was. Google Maps leidde me naar dit adres in San Francisco, maar door de beplak...
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12/06/2026
I want you to notice how this article, which took two journalists to write, doesn't even bother to seriously explore whether the claims being made by companies are true it's genuinely just not relevant to them
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Anthropic maakt technologie die een cruciale kern vormt van de Amerikaanse diensten, het leger en het buitenlandbeleid. Je kunt niet Trump een gevaar voor de wereld noemen en tegelijkertijd Anthropic de hemel in prijzen als moreel baken. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
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White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
De hele vloot!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 12/05/2026
“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.”
ft.com
Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores
In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company’s AI leaderboard
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.
@AnthropicAI
We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation.

Our post-training at the time wasn’t making it worse—but it also wasn’t making it better.
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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 28/04/2026
So. Which do you think is more efficient: 1) Solar panels in space, converting that electricity *back* into EM radiation, beaming that *through the same atmospheric losses*, recapturing it (losing some to efficiency/misses), and converting it back into electricity, or 2) solar panels on the ground
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Meta makes a bid for space-based solar
Unlike Elon Musk’s approach of putting compute into orbit, Overview Energy plans to beam energy to solar farms here on Earth.
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Dit lijkt mij een risicovolle politieke strategie. Omwonenenden staan met hooivorken voor datacenters. AI pollt bijna net zo slecht als Trump. Wat brengt deze technologie de burgers die gele hesjes aan de kapstok hebben hangen? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment
Technology secretary plays down fears over jobs and cyber security as stake taken in British startup
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Happy 4/20 everyone I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real
Gudtrip
The first agentic cannabis device

Not just a vape. A connected earning device. Gudtrip combines premium cannabis, blockchain rewards, and AI-powered asset tools in one product
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
Why.
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This pasta sauce wants to record your family
Even dinner wants to listen to your conversations now.
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Vanceplaining
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/04/2026
The system “combines a Reddit-like forum with a chatbot called VictorBot to help troops surface useful information, like the best way to configure electromagnetic warfare systems for a particular mission.”
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The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat
The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Headline maker @theguardian.com has a distinct sense of conveying irony.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 07/04/2026
Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.
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Menno van den Bos @mennovdbos.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Als 'Fellow' bij Mediahuis blogt oud-hoofdredacteur van o.a. NRC Peter Vandermeersch tegenwoordig over de journalistiek. Daarbij publiceerde hij tientallen fictieve citaten van echte deskundigen. Het onbedoelde gevolg van AI-gebruik, bevestigt Vandermeersch. Mediahuis heeft hem tijdelijk geschorst.
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Hoe een journalist uitglijdt op door AI verzonnen citaten
Gebruik van AI-programma’s als ChatGPT als schrijfassistent leidt regelmatig tot missers. Na incidenten in media, wetenschap en advocatuur, ging nu ook journalist Peter Vandermeersch in de fout. „Ik h...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible
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The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chip makers
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
You know the war is going well when JD Vance’s allies are leaking that he was opposed to it all along. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Vance was ‘skeptical’ voice in White House on Iran strikes
White House officials revealed that the vice president made his opposition known in the leadup.
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Goede analyse, leesvoer voor iedereen die Anthropic op het schild hijst www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war
Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
These guys are so normal.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"On top of automating rote tasks, government agencies have launched hundreds of artificial intelligence projects in the past year, many of them taking on central and sensitive roles in law enforcement, immigration and health care."
washingtonpost.com
Trump wants AI everywhere in government. See the 1,300 new ways it’s being used.
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Updated: the DOJ redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein files. Now DOJ tells us it contains a victim's face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...
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The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files
While Epstein’s victims endure the fallout of their photos and names being exposed in the Department of Justice’s latest tranche of files, investigators redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa. Now we know ...
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
First Trump's tariffs tipped the Canadian and Australian elections to the center-left parties. Then his interference in Brazil flipped Lula's numbers, and Greenland threats revived the Danish left — both ahead of 2026 elections. Trump is the international left's best friend.
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Jensen knows that the AI bubble is about to pop and he's pivoting to robotics to save NVIDIA's stock price. He did the same thing toward the end of the crypto bubble. All of this is a giant scam. You can't build an economy on graphics cards.
cnbc.com
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI robotics is a 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity for Europe
Europe's industrial base sets it up well to lead in the physical AI space, Huang told WEF
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Congress Is Rejecting Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Things *not* to do on an airplane: Personal Wi-Fi hotspot named “I have a bomb, everyone will die” triggered NATO Quick Reaction Alert
airlive.net
Personal Wi-Fi hotspot named “I have a bomb, everyone will die” triggered NATO Quick Reaction Alert
Turkish Airlines flight to Barcelona was intercepted by NATO fighter jets after a passenger created a bomb-threat Wi-Fi hotspot.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
NYT managing editor: "So, godlike AI system, what do we mean by this?" NYT reporter: "“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” [beat] NYT managing editor: "Make sure there's a period after the A and the I. Ship it."
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, asked top executives last year to make cuts to their 2026 budgets while he pours money into A.I. research. As Meta faces competition from companies like OpenAI and Google, Mr. Zuckerberg has increased the budget for TBD Lab, the skunk works unit at Meta that aims to build superintelligence, a godlike A.I. system.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
New: DHS is lying to you. At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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Maurits Martijn @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Goed stuk www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers
And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Another day, another AI "expert" has some kind of prediction to share with the media and they just have to share it with us... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity
Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predicted
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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Mercantilism, 21st century edition
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Three tabs on a screen in a war room and they’re all X feeds, an influencer operation
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
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64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/12/2025
The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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