Gezichtsherkenning in supermarkten, voetbalstadions, tijdens demonstraties... Het wordt op steeds meer plekken om ons heen ingezet. Elke voorbijganger kan worden geïdentificeerd, geanalyseerd en gevolgd. Dat heeft een beperkende werking op hoe vrij je je voelt. Wij vinden dat deze ingrijpende vorm van surveillance niet thuis hoort in onze samenleving.

We nemen geen geld aan van overheden of Big Tech. Jouw support maakt dus verschil. Steun ons werk met een donatie: https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/?doneren! 💥

Oh cool, I get to teach Old Norse religion and cosmology for two hours as an improvised lecture from memory. I've decided to show the various #Wikipedia articles on the screen. Here we go!

#academia #vikings #paganism

Unser Heft 7-8/2025 ist raus!

Wie jeden Sommer mit starken Meinungen in eingeladenen Essays und Interviews – unter anderem zu:

- #Wissenschaftsfreiheit;
- #WissenschaftlicheIntegrität;
- #Tierversuche;
- #KünstlicheIntelligenz
- #IchBinHanna;
- #Evaluation;
- #Startups;
- …

Das ganze Heft online: https://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/aktuell/index.php

🚨 NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

50 Indie Games that Changed the World

We’ve only shown you the cover so far. But now it’s time for an exclusive first peep inside our new book, 50 Indie Games that Changed the World. It tells the stories of the most important indie games ever made.

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#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #new #comingsoon #bookstodon

"Main ingredient analysis".

https://pubpeer.com/publications/8B6E90142C67115A038B640D6C9ACF

Most people, when they think "reef", think of corals. That might be because that is the only one they heard about, as we lost many of the oyster #reef systems that used to dot the European coastline.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01441-4

Wow, today I discovered William Morris's Kelmscott Press. Many books published by the press were plain, but some of them were *spectacularly* illustrated. All of these images are from the Wikipedia page about the press (but the ALT descriptions are by yours truly):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelmscott_Press

#bookIllustration #illuminations #letterpress #bibliophile #bookstodon

How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance

Turns out semaglutide, tirzepatide, and relatives are wrecking the insurance underwriting industry's model of human mortality trends

https://www.glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-1s-are-breaking-life-insurance