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Director ETUCE - European Trade Union Committee for Education - representing teachers, academics & education personnel from 123 education unions in 51 European countries| History teacher #flipthesystem | #edusky 'If I am only for myself, what am I?'
Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.
Johan van Zanten in @trouw.nl, zaterdag.
Gas prices jumped an average of 11 cents OVERNIGHT, and continue to rise. This is the price of bad leadership.
Been really wild to watch Rolling Stone make a very obvious shift in editorial direction over the past few months. (And laying off most of the talented people who had been working there.)
Godallemachtig. Deze man was jaren geleden mijn chef, had een toppositie en salaris waarin hij alles kon zeggen, in tegenstelling tot anderen. En nog steeds komt ie niet verder dan ‘je mag helemaal niets meer zeggen’. Wat een gejank.
This is almost exactly what I said would happen on yesterday’s show. The conflicting & contradictory reasons given for the war, coupled with client journalists & pusillanimous politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, will enable him to claim ‘success’ when nothing remotely successful has happened.
> @benstiller.redhour.com
A one month chart of oil prices
Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.
Fvd *is* extreemrechts, en heeft baat bij deze quasi-neutrale verslaggeving. Je schrijft zelf de conclusie op maar past hem niet toe. Zo klaar met deze lemmingjournalistiek!
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Gaat lekker daar bij de VVD..
GroenLinks-PvdA stelt Kamervragen: Wat is het kabinet nou van plan & wie gaat ervoor betalen?
De rekening mag namelijk niet weer terechtkomen bij gewone werkende mensen.
Throwback naar toen kabinet Rutte/Samsom aantrad: het eerste dat de VVD toen deed was het uit het coalitieakkoord slopen van de nivellering. Samsom liet het passeren. De PvdA is er nooit meer bovenop gekomen. @robjetten.bsky.social @d66.nl
Mochten organisaties als Milieudefensie hiertegen willen procederen, dan kan dat nu nog gewoon. Maar de VVD wil dat recht beperken want “wie zegt dat zij het algemeen belang vertegenwoordigen?”. Ondertussen nemen ze zelf Tata Steel standpunten over die in niemands belang zijn behalve dat van Tata.
"De Lange wijst opnieuw op het fenomeen normalisering. De anti-antifamotie haalde een parlementaire meerderheid dankzij steun van de VVD. ‘Het extreemrechtse gedachtegoed van FvD wordt steeds normaler. De veiligheidsdiensten zijn hier heel duidelijk over. Extreemrechts vormt de grootste dreiging.’"
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En zo lukt het de #vvd iedere keer om ondanks afspraken toch de eigen zin door te drijven. Nu hoor je niets over budgetaire kaders en ingeboekte belastinginkomsten die we niet kunnen missen.
What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator.
The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be.
Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏
#bbcqt #IranWar
And so it begins👇
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Heinen verraste coalitie en ambtenaren met belofte vermogensbelasting aan te passen na ‘brede ophef’
NEW: No TikTok account? They're tracking you anyway
TikTok harvests sensitive and embarrassing information about you even if you don't use the app. Last week I watched websites send TikTok data on cancer diagnoses, fertility treatment, and mental health crises
Here's what you can do about it:
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OpenAI diagram about its educational research workflow.
Here is how OpenAI is reimagining educational research. It's basically GPT accesses all student records and "over-time signals" for constant tracking. It's total student surveillance for its model improvement.
Ze maken extreemrechts groot. Zullen we ook ophouden om dit alleen op domheid en aandacht te gooien? Dit is al jaren doelbewust beleid.
Twee weken voor de verkiezingen gaan TV-media/talkshows het hebben over Forum voor Democratie.
Ik geef het op.
Nu ook onderwerp aan tafel bij Pauw. Ik haak af, have fun/
Dus wel...
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The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
And as someone who closely monitors both websites I can assure you that X is a right wing radicalization pipeline, including for people who consider themselves smart and progressive, while Bluesky is just an overwhelming left leaning platform. Those are very different things.
