Het extraparlementaire kabinet by @OmroepWNL op Zondag 🤗 Met oa Ali Niknam (Financien) @CarryKnoops (Justititie) @HanTenBroeke (Buitenlandse Zaken) @BoyanSlat (Klimaat) @Ruud_Koop_mans (Migratie) @DanielLohues (Platteland) @jaccovonhof (EZ) & ⏬🤩

'de mensheid bevindt zich –vanwege de opwarming vd aarde, de dramatische achteruitgang v biodiversiteit en de gevolgen v digitalisering en kunstmatige intelligentie– in een 3voudige existentiële crisis & de toekomst = niet meer iets om naar uit te kijken'

"If confirmed, this newly developed underground command bunker for China's military leadership [..] underscores Beijing's ambition to build not just a world-class conventional military force, but also an advanced nuclear warfighting capability."

'Electric vehicle sales in China are set to eclipse the sale of traditional vehicles for the first time in 2025, putting the country ahead of the West in a critical part of the clean energy transition, according to a new report.'

‘Dan hoor ik weer zeggen: vroeger zaten er nauwelijks kinderen in de jeugdzorg. Maar vroeger konden kinderen fatsoenlijk buiten spelen. Vroeger was er een buurthuis dat open was. Vroeger was er een vaste juf en een voltijds conciërge.’ @natasgr

Z O I S D A T 😤 'Na één jaar staat ook de vernieuwde doorstroomtoets in groep acht alweer in een kwade reuk. Een veel wezenlijker debat over de selectie in het Nederlandse onderwijs komt intussen niet goed van de grond.' @volkskrant

‘Het zou kunnen dat de moraliteit [..] al duizenden jaren achteruitgaat en iedereen daar tijdens zijn leven iets van opmerkt. De andere mogelijkheid is dat morele achteruitgang een psychologische illusie is, van alle tijden’ @DanTGilbert @a_m_mastroianni

"it's no longer hip or cutting-edge to be “woke”, or even to proclaim that you are. Creative young people want to be countercultural, & being “woke” feels mainstream and virtually middle-aged these days [..] sign of a profound “vibe shift”" @jemimajoanna

'Why did people around the world vote out incumbents last year? Despite the immense diversity in political systems, traditions, and circumstances, one clear pattern emerged globally: a rejection of incumbent parties and leaders.'

'óns liberale kapitalisme zo’n 10 jaar geleden via het neo-liberalisme (de tussenfase, waarin regels werden afgebroken of genegeerd) overgegaan in het ‘kapitalisme vd eindigheid’ [..] zero sum game: als jij iets niet krijgt, gaat een ander ermee vandoor'

How will we know when a new Cold War has truly begun? 'But if there is a Cold War on, you wouldn’t know it from simply streaming movies or TV [..] the stuff we watch these days is overwhelmingly produced by large corporations far too dependent on China'

What a (special) night @IFFR !!! Miike Takashi - the master himself - present at the premiere of his latest masterpiece ‘Blazing Fists / BLUE FIGHT 蒼き若者たちのブレイキングダウン’ 😍 🙏 🇯🇵

'Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health People in their teens & twenties now hang out about as much as someone 10 years older than them did in the past. Not so much a case of 30 being the new 20, as 20 being the new 30'

RT @studiozeitgeist: . @faridtabarki had het genoegen om in 'De Ochtend' @NPOKlassiek als ontbijtgast stil te staan bij - Christine Rosen…

Same @ other languages? 'We are currently in the midst of a radical reinvention of English. Not perhaps since the 15th, 16th & early 17th centuries has the English language shifted faster, with the rapid introduction of loanwords, neologisms, buzzwords'

#OzempicFace ‘Ozempic face’ prompts rise in demand for cosmetic facial fillers A dermatology group has reported a ‘significant uptick’ in cosmetic filler sales due to facial sagging caused by weight loss drug Ozempic.

These days I have to think of Imelda Marco quite a lot 🔮 “Perception is real, truth is not. I’m not fighting for money and possessions. I’m fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age – the Age of Transparency – the facts and the truth will out”

'The relationship recession is going global The trend is global. From the US, Finland and South Korea to Turkey, Tunisia and Thailand, falling birth rates are increasingly downstream of a relationship recession among young adults'

"Few industries appear to have more potential for disruption by artificial intelligence than the law [..] legal systems have sets of rules and precedents. Give an AI model enough data and it can pass its bar examination"

@MattLeRoss Same here … but maybe we were not the target audience anyway 😆

AI Tutoring Outperforms Active Learning 'We find that students learn more than twice as much in less time when using an AI tutor, compared with the active learning class. They also feel more engaged and more motivated.' via @WvNoort