Felienne Hermans
@felienne.bsky.social
"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976
Weekly newsletter on AI and teaching and more(nl/en): www.felienne.nl
Weekly newsletter on AI and teaching and more(nl/en): www.felienne.nl
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The @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast devoted a full episode to my new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING, which will be published by @uminnpress.bsky.social very soon now! newbooksnetwork.com/fast-and-fur...
Dan Hassler-Forest, "Fast and Furious Franchising: How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood" (U Minnesota Press, 2026) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:01 PM
The @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast devoted a full episode to my new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING, which will be published by @uminnpress.bsky.social very soon now! newbooksnetwork.com/fast-and-fur...
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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new political spectrum just dropped
February 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
new political spectrum just dropped
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AI enthusiast podcasters recreating labor alienation from first principles while repeatedly pulling the lever on the labor alienation machine
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
AI enthusiast podcasters recreating labor alienation from first principles while repeatedly pulling the lever on the labor alienation machine
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The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
bylinetimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:17 PM
The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
Don't miss my last newsletter before I will skip two weeks in the spring break! This week on the Dutch concept of unity sausage; women and AI and more!
www.felienne.nl/2026-07/#eng...
www.felienne.nl/2026-07/#eng...
AI in week 7
Eenheidsworst op internet en vrouwen en AI | "Unity sausage" on the internet and women and AI
www.felienne.nl
February 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Don't miss my last newsletter before I will skip two weeks in the spring break! This week on the Dutch concept of unity sausage; women and AI and more!
www.felienne.nl/2026-07/#eng...
www.felienne.nl/2026-07/#eng...
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Call US Senators and tell them to vote against the SAVE Act. It has already passed the US House. In its current form, it means that 100 years after women earned the right to vote, we are facing down the implementation of a 21st century poll tax for women.
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Call US Senators and tell them to vote against the SAVE Act. It has already passed the US House. In its current form, it means that 100 years after women earned the right to vote, we are facing down the implementation of a 21st century poll tax for women.
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mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
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“if one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently” yeah I’m gonna stop you right there
February 15, 2026 at 6:02 AM
“if one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently” yeah I’m gonna stop you right there
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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That time when, two months into World War 1, the FT asked its readers to predict the impact the conflict would have on the map of Europe. As a game. With cash prizes: great @ftweekend.com piece by @theboysmithy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/79a4...
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 AM
That time when, two months into World War 1, the FT asked its readers to predict the impact the conflict would have on the map of Europe. As a game. With cash prizes: great @ftweekend.com piece by @theboysmithy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/79a4...
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i often think about this review
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
i often think about this review
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
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This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
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Personhood is not a metaphysical question, it's a political question. AI personhood debates focus only on the former to obscure the latter.
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Personhood is not a metaphysical question, it's a political question. AI personhood debates focus only on the former to obscure the latter.
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Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
February 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
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When "we cannot have serious conversations about AI" is just a shorthand for "I want critics to overlook that none of the criticism has been answered and I need them to accept that AI is without alternative and forever" the problem lies not with the critics.
February 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
When "we cannot have serious conversations about AI" is just a shorthand for "I want critics to overlook that none of the criticism has been answered and I need them to accept that AI is without alternative and forever" the problem lies not with the critics.
In a certain sense I am happy that they are now saying it out loud so I don't sound like a lunatic
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM
In a certain sense I am happy that they are now saying it out loud so I don't sound like a lunatic
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
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Did The Atlantic really write a story entitled "What Happened to Pam Bondi?" Nothing happened! She's always been willing to do anything for power. She fired the only prosecutors looking into foreclosure fraud on behalf of a campaign donor. She was an Amazon lobbyist!
prospect.org/2024/11/22/2...
prospect.org/2024/11/22/2...
February 12, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Did The Atlantic really write a story entitled "What Happened to Pam Bondi?" Nothing happened! She's always been willing to do anything for power. She fired the only prosecutors looking into foreclosure fraud on behalf of a campaign donor. She was an Amazon lobbyist!
prospect.org/2024/11/22/2...
prospect.org/2024/11/22/2...
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this is where i sadly break with Ed Zitron. i am now a convinced AI early adopter. Chance the Rapper would never lie to me about a major technological innovation.
In my wildest dreams I could never have imagined a more gratuitous sign that AI is a bubble than “chance the rapper, sponsored by coreweave.” It’s beautiful. It’ll be in a movie someday
February 7, 2026 at 7:04 AM
this is where i sadly break with Ed Zitron. i am now a convinced AI early adopter. Chance the Rapper would never lie to me about a major technological innovation.
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A move from a moderately discriminatory firm to a highly discriminatory one reduces the Black share of new hires by 17%.
Bottom line:
Audit studies aren’t just measuring on paper discrimination.
Callback gaps map directly onto real world hiring outcomes.
Bottom line:
Audit studies aren’t just measuring on paper discrimination.
Callback gaps map directly onto real world hiring outcomes.
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
A move from a moderately discriminatory firm to a highly discriminatory one reduces the Black share of new hires by 17%.
Bottom line:
Audit studies aren’t just measuring on paper discrimination.
Callback gaps map directly onto real world hiring outcomes.
Bottom line:
Audit studies aren’t just measuring on paper discrimination.
Callback gaps map directly onto real world hiring outcomes.
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Maar doe vooral de was rond 11:00 's ochtends. Zo doen we allemaal iets!
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Datacenter slurpt straks meer stroom dan heel Lelystad, gemeenteraad wist van niks #klimaat
Datacenter slurpt straks meer stroom dan heel Lelystad, gemeenteraad wist van niks
Bij Lelystad komt een datacenter dat meer stroom gaat verbruiken dan de hele stad nu doet. De gemeenteraad werd verkeerd genformeerd over het energieverbruik en het project van de Amerikaanse datacentergigant Equinix weet een landelijk vestigingsverbod voor grote datacenters te omzeilen.
www.nu.nl
February 10, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Maar doe vooral de was rond 11:00 's ochtends. Zo doen we allemaal iets!
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