​Jezus Christus had inderdaad volgers, maar had hij ook goede engagement? Dat laatste trekken enkele content creators nu in twijfel. “De heer had zeker een following opgebouwd, maar in de cijfers zag je de engagement zelden echt terug”, zegt content creator Benny (126k op Tiktok).

“Jezus postte niet heel vaak, en als hij het deed reageerden er amper mensen. Ook was hij niet regelmatig in het naar buiten brengen van zijn boodschap. Dan preekte hij weer drie keer per dag, dan hoorde je veertig dagen weer niks van hem. Het algoritme straft dat keihard af.”

Toch is er volgens Benny wel het een en ander dat creators nog steeds van Jezus kunnen leren. “Z’n engagement was ruk, maar de volgers die hij had waren wel hondstrouw. Die loyaliteit is ook te monetizen.”

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WENEN (ANP) - De directeur van de Oostenrijkse omroep ORF is per direct afgetreden, twee maanden voor het Eurovisie Songfestival dat de omroep organiseert. Dat heeft de ORF maandag bekendgemaakt. Roland Weissmanns vertrek volgt op een beschuldiging van seksuele intimidatie aan zijn adres, laat de omroep weten.

De 57-jarige Weissmann ontkent de beschuldigingen, schrijft ORF. Zijn advocaat zegt in een verklaring dat de raad van bestuur hem een deadline had gegeven van een paar dagen om terug te treden. Weissmann was bereid "concessies te doen om schade aan het bedrijf te voorkomen", aldus het statement.

Het aftreden van Weissmann komt op een gevoelig moment voor de omroep. In mei is Oostenrijk gastheer voor het Eurovisie Songfestival in Wenen. Dat vindt plaats van 12 tot en met 16 mei. Er is al veel discussie geweest over de komende editie van het songfestival vanwege de deelname van Israël. Onder meer Nederland heeft besloten het evenement dit jaar te boycotten.

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Standoff with DoD over Claude chatbot reignites debate over how AI will be used in war – and who will be held accountable

Until recently, Anthropic was one of the quieter names in the artificial intelligence boom. Despite being valued at about $350bn, it rarely generated the flashy headlines or public backlash associated with Sam Altman’s OpenAI or Elon Musk’s xAI. Its CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei was an industry fixture but hardly a household name outside of Silicon Valley, and its chatbot Claude lagged in popularity behind ChatGPT.

That perception has shifted as Anthropic has become the central actor in a high-profile fight with the Department of Defense over the company’s refusal to allow Claude to be used for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input. Amid tense negotiations, the AI firm rejected a Pentagon deadline for a deal last week, in a move that led Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, to accuse Anthropic of “arrogance and betrayal” of its home country while demanding that any companies that work with the US government cease all business with the AI firm.

Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

The large tortoiseshell – an elusive and enigmatic butterfly that became extinct in Britain in the last century – is a UK resident species once again, with a flurry of early spring sightings.

Britain’s list of native butterflies has increased to 60 with the return of the insect after individuals emerged from hibernation in woodlands in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Cornwall and the Isle of Wight.

Exclusive: Bank Policy Institute, representing lenders such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, argues that new licenses could harm US consumers and financial system

Some of the largest US banks are considering suing their financial regulator, arguing that a new raft of licenses for crypto, payment and fintech could put American consumers and the wider financial system at risk.

The Bank Policy Institute (BPI), which represents 40 of the biggest US lenders including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, is understood to be weighing its legal options after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) failed to heed repeated warnings from influential banking groups and state regulators over its reinterpretation of federal licensing rules.

Claes Bang plays the Danish designer of Paris’s Grande Arche in a meticulous drama about artistic purity colliding with bureaucratic ego and national vanity

At first glance, Stéphane Demoustier’s new drama about the construction of Paris’s Arche de la Défense appears to belong to the recent run of what you might call French brand-heritage pictures, which include the likes of 2021’s Eiffel or 2023’s Widow Clicquot. But adapted from Laurence Cossé’s 2016 novel La Grande Arche, the film is not the story of a cultural triumph but rather the testimony of a failure, or at least a monumental botch-job, that spiritually crushed its Danish architect, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (played here by Claes Bang).

In 1983, Von Spreckelsen was the unexpected winner of an international competition to design the statement building for the French capital’s western business district. He’s such an obscure name that the embassy in Denmark doesn’t even know who he is, leaving President Mitterrand’s adviser Jean-Louis Subilon (a toadying Xavier Dolan) to track him down while he’s fishing in a Danish lake. Summoned to France, this purist refuses to deviate from the perfect dimensions of his “Cube”, seeing it as the culmination of his life’s work. But he’s immediately caught between the pernickety caprices of the premier (Michel Fau) and the cost-cutting wiles of the technocrat Subilon.

Interpol’s DNA unit is helping bring closure to families of murder victims, whose names may be unknown for decades

In the shadow of Antwerp’s main arena, close to the city’s docklands, runs the Groot Schijn River. It was here that the body of Rita Roberts was discovered in June 1992, floating against the grate of a water treatment plant.

She appeared to have been murdered, but Belgian police were unable to identify her. A tattoo of a black rose with green leaves and initials on her left arm was their only clue.

Our physiological response to emotions apparently lasts just a minute and a half. But there’s an embarrassing episode from 2009 that still makes me sweat

I’ve just discovered the “90-second rule”, a concept neuroanatomist Dr Jill Bolte Taylor explored in her book, Whole Brain Living, back in 2021. That’s how long our physiological response to emotions such as anger lasts, from the time we formulate a thought to the point at which our blood is “completely clean” of the noradrenaline released in response to it, Bolte Taylor explained to a US news channel.

I read about it in US magazine Bustle, which suggested a 90-second timeout could “reset your vibe”, reframing it, bleakly, as an alternative to a lunch break: “It often feels like a big ask to take an hour lunch … everyone can use just 90 seconds for a quick reset.” Presumably it’s back in the ether because Bolte Taylor appeared on Steven Bartlett’s podcast last November, explaining that if you’re still experiencing emotional reactions after 90 seconds, “you’re rethinking the thoughts.”