The New York Times: “Facebook’s role has become so hegemonic, so monopolistic, that it has become a force unto itself,” said Jasmin Mujanovic, an expert on the Balkans. “No one entity, especially not a for-profit venture like Facebook, should have that kind of power to influence public debate and policy.” En: The company never set […]

Bijan Stephen op The Verge: Epic Games managed to produce a hit, sure, but the genius of it is how it’s rewritten the idea of what hanging out online can be. Fortnite is a game, but it’s also a global living room for millions of people, and a kind of codex for where culture has […]

Quartz: The petition’s success, which the four organizations have called ”unprecedented,” is a sign of growing anxiety in France and elsewhere over the rapidly increasing pace of climate change. It is also the latest example of citizens using legal systems to try to force governments to keep their environmental promises. Het zijn een agressieve gele hesjes, maar […]

Gesprek tussen de ploegleider van Goolaerts bij ‘In het wiel’, de podcast van Thijs Zonneveld en Hidde van Warmerdam. Ik herinner me de minuut stilte bij de start van de Brabantse Pijl in Leuven nog steeds.

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Jake Knapp: The first few days were strange. I’d unlock my phone, only to remember there was nothing to check. Before, getting up-to-date on my apps provided a small sense of accomplishment. Unlock the phone, tap, boom! It was like a sugar rush. Now, the candy was gone. De aanleiding komt geweldig dicht bij huis, […]

The A.V. Club: Today maybe it’s easy to laugh off Girl Talk and The Hood Internet, or all the breathlessness that surrounded “A Stroke Of Genie-us.” But you can hear their influence woven like a sample beneath everything we listen to. Gerelateerd: Best of Bootie 2018

Het verhaal van Ada Hegerberg, die van de Ballon D’Or (en van dat twerken): The male players are treated as our colleagues. It’s that simple. Isn’t that the way it should be everywhere? Every female player deserves the same opportunity to develop. There’s so much talent out there all over the world that deserves a […]

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