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Mirjam

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Journalist, researcher | tech, data, privacy, finance | parttime cyclist | sometimes internet historian | side-eyeing hypes. Mostly private netizen. Likes are also bookmarks I mix Dutch and English.

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Rage, rage against that machine.

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So it still was in 1998, 2002, and 2005. Though I do miss the Geocities/Angelfire DIY esthetic sometimes

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Ik was daar een paar jaar geleden en ontmoette er een oud-bewoner, die vertelde over het dorp en ook het verdwijnen. Ze kwam er nog vaak. Bijzondere plek.

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Bewaar je ww wel op een veilige plaats

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My city is building a mostly carless neighbourhood and I do wonder now if anyone tried to calculate how much extra housing space and/or green this design has created.

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I'm pretty sure there is a joke about Bridgerton to be made here, if I could put it together.

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The tag I mentioned results in a crossover of the weirdest religious imagery, flag waving, and American military. The latter framed - interestingly enough - mostly as victims of war.

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For anyone who wants an easy entry into the galleries of AI generated insanity at Facebook (which may not yet have escaped containment from the English-speaking world?): Search "why don't pictures like this ever trend" (quotes optional). But a simple "shrimp jesus" works too, of course.

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Seems like it is either that, or tying the whole thing up in as many courts as possible, for as long as possible, and meanwhile gathering as many specks of doubt about legitimacy as they can muster.

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Sometimes I think people underestimate how different the web can be for people whose language *doesn't scale*. In a relatively tiny language, it's all different. Changing media, opportunities. How it influences subjects. Platforms, moderation. I think a lot about scale.

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This Week in AI: With Chevron’s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water

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My mind just wants to escape at this point. It doesn't matter where to.

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When writing a piece feels like being stuck on a road consisting of an endless string of roundabouts with signs that only point toward the next one or another, and you don't have a map.

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The Sigma demon male, who didn't really fall but just sauntered vaguely downwards.

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Don't forget the farm art. Sheaves of wheat in the shape of a bicycle! Tractors forming a wheel! The town name in grain!

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Dat ei. Dat ga ik niet vergeten.

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It's hard to explain how widespread the repercussions of overturning Chevron deference will be. Even if you narrow the scope down to tech policy, you're left wrangling a super-explainer on a friday afternoon www.theverge.com/24188365/che...

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It is not so much a bad faith argument, as forcing a generational divide that is not really there, imo. An app like Strava, that took off properly around 2014, used to be completely open to everyone. Nobody cared, much. I think the only salient point about age is in the middle: it feels pointless.

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Zo. Dat is in een klap een flink stuk geschiedenis door het putje. Oude afleveringen zijn ook niet te vinden achter de nieuwe paywall.

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Belangst. Streepje voor de leesbaarheid ben ik vaak wel fan van, maar vind ik in dit geval niet nodig.

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Het was ooit fluo-oranje.

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We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them

www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...

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We have dedicated 'silent cars' on trains that have the fascinating psychological effect of making the irritation about sounds exponentially worse than on the normal ones (even when they too are often silent!), to the point where I am happier to avoid them. There are lessons in that, I'm sure.

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Ik wist niet dat jij daar had gezeten! Wat een fijn verhaal.

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BIG BOAT STUCK everyone gets the rest of the day off, that's the rules

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The Cambridgeshire branch of the Ever Given Reenactment Society is at it again.

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New from 404 Media, something we've been thinking about for a while: has Facebook just given up? The site is overrun with AI and scams, and the experts who used to help with content moderation there tell us Facebook has stopped asking them for help www.404media.co/has-facebook...

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Longform rekindled my love of storytelling, of media. Its many guests helped inspire the ventures I went on since I discovered it (which was years into its run). Many thanks and well-wishes to the hosts. Though I'm sad to see it go, it's been great.

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Wat is hier handig aan? Niks. Njente. Ik mag lijen dat binnenkort iemand bedenkt dat het handig is om de dopjes uit te rusten met gps en locatieservices. Om het probleem op te lossen dat de dopjes zelf hebben gecreëerd. Losse oordopjes zijn een valstrik. Ik wil mijn draadje terug.

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De kans dat je het hele huis moet afzoeken voor één dopje of dat vermaledijde doosje (of allemaal!) lijkt wel vertienvoudigd. En dan heb ik het nog niet eens over dopjes die niet werken als ze niet direct uit het doosje komen. Dat je dus dat doosje op zak moet hebben.

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Draadloze oordopjes? Vooruit. Die snap ik nog, ondanks het zoveelste oplaadding. Nooit meer een knoop en nooit meer een draadbreuk. Maar losse oordopjes? De kans op verlies verdrievoudigt. De kans dat er iets kapotgaat verdrievoudigt.

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Na meer dan een jaar losse oordopjes te hebben gebruikt weet ik het zeker: Losse oordopjes zijn een valstrik. Losse oordopjes zijn nergens anders goed voor dan de verkoop van meer losse oordopjes.

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I don't know much about the Tony's, but I'm so glad to see the 1992 Guys & Dolls performance from on there. I've been mildly obsessed by that revival. It's so incredibly excellent and joyful, and this is an almost perfect outtake (almost because it doesn't have Faith Prince singing).

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In the 880s, Alfred The Great launched a literacy campaign. He brought in clerics and scribes to teach English. This was a huge change in politics, and needed a lot of diplomacy. It's not an exaggeration to say he saved the English language.

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Het Nederlands Kampioenschap voor vrouwen is het sterkst bezette nationaal kampioenschap ter wereld

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I also found a good old copyright discussion in there - because of someone taking the recipes others freely shared for the group and making them into a book, for money. Nothing changes but the scale.

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Talked about this with a friend and checked some notes I made a long time ago. Sure, it was not quite that simple. The underlying disagreements were about perceived bureaucracy, gatekeeping and... moderation. Yep. As well as fights about names.

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Not one person has been able to satisfactorily explain to me why Microsoft is trying to cobble-together an AI search function WHEN THE BASIC SEARCH FUNCTION OF WINDOWS DOESN'T FUCKING WORK HALF THE TIME. IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS. THEY NEVER CONSIDERED FIXING IT A PRIORITY.

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