Maarten Boudry's banner

Maarten Boudry

@mboudry • 46,730 subscribers

Writer. Substack: https://t.co/VsUehvu0Jj Support me: https://t.co/LpIczJq8hi Upcoming book: 'The Betrayal of Enlightenment' (Pitchstone)

Shorts

De groteske onzin die deze Maarten Soubry verspreidt, is werkelijk schandalig. Kennelijk afkomstig uit Roeselare. Geen idee aan welke universiteit hij werkt, maar onmiddellijk ontslag is de enige oplossing! 😉 h/t Wouter Duyck

De groteske onzin die deze Maarten Soubry verspreidt, is werkelijk schandalig. Kennelijk afkomstig uit Roeselare. Geen idee aan welke universiteit hij werkt, maar onmiddellijk ontslag is de enige oplossing! 😉 h/t Wouter Duyck

60,955 Aufrufe

If I'm searching for a flight on Google, I now have to scroll through two pages of ads, airlines and AI responses before I find Google Flights—which is actually superior than Skyscanner or anything else I've tried. In Google Flights, results are nearly instantaneous, you can apply filters without reloading, and there's virtually no advertising clutter. It has a price calendar, a price history graph, price-tracking alerts, and a "Best flights" ranking that weighs cost against duration and layovers instead of simply sorting by price. Why is Google burying its own superior product? Because of the EU's Digital Markets Act, of course. And now the EU is hitting Google with another billion-euro fine because it still isn't demoting its own services enough. Is there a rational justification for this beyond European hostility toward American Big Tech—an industry in which Europe has fallen hopelessly behind?

If I'm searching for a flight on Google, I now have to scroll through two pages of ads, airlines and AI responses before I find Google Flights—which is actually superior than Skyscanner or anything else I've tried. In Google Flights, results are nearly instantaneous, you can apply filters without reloading, and there's virtually no advertising clutter. It has a price calendar, a price history graph, price-tracking alerts, and a "Best flights" ranking that weighs cost against duration and layovers instead of simply sorting by price. Why is Google burying its own superior product? Because of the EU's Digital Markets Act, of course. And now the EU is hitting Google with another billion-euro fine because it still isn't demoting its own services enough. Is there a rational justification for this beyond European hostility toward American Big Tech—an industry in which Europe has fallen hopelessly behind?

17,939 Aufrufe

Videos

Anya Rossi

sweetdream.ai

SweetDream.ai•Sponsored•Livecam

Watch Anya Live

Anya is streaming live right now! Join her private show and enjoy exclusive content.

Exclusive private shows

1.2k viewers online

Private Show

Join now for exclusive access

Free preview available • Premium content

Ja, het brutale geweld lag ongetwijfeld aan de "hitte", die leidt tot een "verstoorde aanmaak van serotonine". 🙄 De temperatuur in Gent was gisteren 22,9°C / 14,4°C. Dit is een volstrekt bespottelijk artikel, De Morgen, Remy Amkreutz. Zijn jullie stemmen aan het ronselen voor Vlaams Belang of zo? Ik snap dat mensen woést worden van zoveel politiek correcte blindheid.

Ja, het brutale geweld lag ongetwijfeld aan de "hitte", die leidt tot een "verstoorde aanmaak van serotonine". 🙄 De temperatuur in Gent was gisteren 22,9°C / 14,4°C. Dit is een volstrekt bespottelijk artikel, De Morgen, Remy Amkreutz. Zijn jullie stemmen aan het ronselen voor Vlaams Belang of zo? Ik snap dat mensen woést worden van zoveel politiek correcte blindheid.

66,262 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen

This week I spoke at a conference on anti-Zionism at the European Parliament—an old hatred in fashionable new garb. Here's my speech, titled “A Spiral of Silence: How Academia Enforces Anti-Zionist Orthodoxy”. It examines the increasingly hostile and suffocating environment in Western academia for those who hold dissenting views on Israel and the Gaza war, as well as the manufactured consensus around the obscene accusation of “genocide”—a narrative that is unraveling more with each passing day. No other form of fake news has garnered such widespread assent in academia and among cultural elites despite a total lack of evidence and overwhelming evidence to the contrary. And almost none of the usual "misinformation" experts has expressed the slightest interest. It really is the blood libel of our age. My thanks again to European Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith International, and Alice Teodorescu Måwe for hosting this important conference.

This week I spoke at a conference on anti-Zionism at the European Parliament—an old hatred in fashionable new garb. Here's my speech, titled “A Spiral of Silence: How Academia Enforces Anti-Zionist Orthodoxy”. It examines the increasingly hostile and suffocating environment in Western academia for those who hold dissenting views on Israel and the Gaza war, as well as the manufactured consensus around the obscene accusation of “genocide”—a narrative that is unraveling more with each passing day. No other form of fake news has garnered such widespread assent in academia and among cultural elites despite a total lack of evidence and overwhelming evidence to the contrary. And almost none of the usual "misinformation" experts has expressed the slightest interest. It really is the blood libel of our age. My thanks again to European Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith International, and Alice Teodorescu Måwe for hosting this important conference.

34,007 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Bij Boze Geesten over hoe de VRT-rel begon. Michiel Lieuwma P.S. Ik doe hier nogal laconiek over "something something representativiteit", niet omdat ik het belang van representativiteit in de statistiek niet snap, maar omdat ik sterk vermoedde dat die uitleg een "smoesje" was. Toen de VRT eindelijk alle ruwe data vrijgaf, bleek dat ook te kloppen. Het probleem met "representativiteit" was in een handomdraai op te lossen (gooi die Nederlanders eruit!), en de oplossing zat al gewoon in de dataset (onderverdeling per geografische regio). Hier het hele verhaal:

Bij Boze Geesten over hoe de VRT-rel begon. Michiel Lieuwma P.S. Ik doe hier nogal laconiek over "something something representativiteit", niet omdat ik het belang van representativiteit in de statistiek niet snap, maar omdat ik sterk vermoedde dat die uitleg een "smoesje" was. Toen de VRT eindelijk alle ruwe data vrijgaf, bleek dat ook te kloppen. Het probleem met "representativiteit" was in een handomdraai op te lossen (gooi die Nederlanders eruit!), en de oplossing zat al gewoon in de dataset (onderverdeling per geografische regio). Hier het hele verhaal:

29,872 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Dit is nu al mijn favoriete complottheorie van het jaar: onze elites hebben bejaarden gered tijdens corona omdat ze oma en opa later nodig hadden om dood te gaan aan extreme hitte. 😂 Een rondje #bejaardensparen dus, om hun totalitaire klimaatagenda kracht bij te zettten. Ik hoop dat onze elites nog wat gepensioneerd kanonnenvlees overhouden voor de nakende zeespiegelstijging. Wees er zuinig mee, want de voorraad bejaarden is niet eindeloos!

Dit is nu al mijn favoriete complottheorie van het jaar: onze elites hebben bejaarden gered tijdens corona omdat ze oma en opa later nodig hadden om dood te gaan aan extreme hitte. 😂 Een rondje #bejaardensparen dus, om hun totalitaire klimaatagenda kracht bij te zettten. Ik hoop dat onze elites nog wat gepensioneerd kanonnenvlees overhouden voor de nakende zeespiegelstijging. Wees er zuinig mee, want de voorraad bejaarden is niet eindeloos!

11,946 Aufrufe • vor 25 Tagen

I saw RAYE at the Montreux Jazz Festival last night, and it was probably one of the best pop/jazz concerts I've ever seen—up there with David Bowie and Radiohead. I only discovered her a month or two ago, having largely stopped following pop music over the past decade. I find most of it boring and derivative. But I became obsessed with Raye almost immediately, because she's simply phe-no-me-nal. The ambition of her second album, This Music May Contain Hope, is staggering—it's like going straight to your Sgt. Pepper's. There isn't a style she doesn't seem to master effortlessly. As a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and arranger, she's in a league of her own. And my God, those live arrangements. Check her out with full symphonic orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall (and she's arranging this herself??). 😱 She brought a full string and brass section, backing vocalists, special guests including Alicia Keys, Mark Ronson, and her two sisters—all superb musicians. She moved seamlessly from jazz standards to tributes to Nina Simone and Ray Charles, casually crushed Prince's Purple Rain, and delivered her own songs with astonishing versatility. Here's the almost operatic coda to Nightingale Lane, the song that first hooked me. I ended up buying a second-hand ticket from a scalper because I was determined to see her, and I don't regret it. I know I sound like a total groupie, but this really is a generational talent. If you don't know RAYE yet, do yourself a favor and check her out.

I saw RAYE at the Montreux Jazz Festival last night, and it was probably one of the best pop/jazz concerts I've ever seen—up there with David Bowie and Radiohead. I only discovered her a month or two ago, having largely stopped following pop music over the past decade. I find most of it boring and derivative. But I became obsessed with Raye almost immediately, because she's simply phe-no-me-nal. The ambition of her second album, This Music May Contain Hope, is staggering—it's like going straight to your Sgt. Pepper's. There isn't a style she doesn't seem to master effortlessly. As a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and arranger, she's in a league of her own. And my God, those live arrangements. Check her out with full symphonic orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall (and she's arranging this herself??). 😱 She brought a full string and brass section, backing vocalists, special guests including Alicia Keys, Mark Ronson, and her two sisters—all superb musicians. She moved seamlessly from jazz standards to tributes to Nina Simone and Ray Charles, casually crushed Prince's Purple Rain, and delivered her own songs with astonishing versatility. Here's the almost operatic coda to Nightingale Lane, the song that first hooked me. I ended up buying a second-hand ticket from a scalper because I was determined to see her, and I don't regret it. I know I sound like a total groupie, but this really is a generational talent. If you don't know RAYE yet, do yourself a favor and check her out.

12,537 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

On his 90th birthday, political scientist & war scholar Michael Walzer offers more moral clarity on the Gaza war than the entire Intl Association of Genocide Scholars and dozens of NGOs combined. (He proceeded to rebuke certain of Israel's war policies, as is totally legitimate.)

On his 90th birthday, political scientist & war scholar Michael Walzer offers more moral clarity on the Gaza war than the entire Intl Association of Genocide Scholars and dozens of NGOs combined. (He proceeded to rebuke certain of Israel's war policies, as is totally legitimate.)

21,618 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

That moment when a "ladle" of molten pig iron (still full of fossil carbon atoms from the coal) is poured into the converter to be mixed with scrap iron, ready to be converted into liquid steel. 🔥😍 At ArcelorMittal Belgium yesterday. It was a blast!

That moment when a "ladle" of molten pig iron (still full of fossil carbon atoms from the coal) is poured into the converter to be mixed with scrap iron, ready to be converted into liquid steel. 🔥😍 At ArcelorMittal Belgium yesterday. It was a blast!

14,358 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Keine weiteren Inhalte verfügbar