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I build data related stuff in #rstats or #python. I care a lot about putting Machine learning into production #MLOps. I also care about fairness and justice in a digital world. also a #FriendOfdeSoto #fod he/him
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Hey guys I wrote this short story twelve years ago, but oops it came true. It's a dark look at the AI lifestyle, and it hits so many notes.

I would very much appreciate any boosting you might think warranted.

https://medium.com/message/agency-3d37adfc69a3

Agency

This all started because of two things, I am an engineer, and I wasn’t coping well with my father’s death. He had died about seven years before, but his death kept intruding on my life. I had so …

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From their OneDrive to my one drive

#DanmarkSkifter

Getting my photos off OneDrive was the last & longest thing I needed to do before shutting down Microsoft. It turned out to be an enjoyable process. I cleansed my digital hoard. I curated & kept what mattered. Now my photos are on my laptop, in my house, backed up on an external drive. I'd forgotten how streamlined & speedy it is to work locally, not in the cloud. Yet again, the process of disenshittification turned out to be enhancification.

De top-7 van Nederlandse woorden die op de hele wereld verder niemand heeft.

https://neerlandistiek.nl/2026/03/gezellig-onvertaalbaar/

Gezellig onvertaalbaar

De top-7 van Nederlandse woorden die op de hele wereld verder niemand heeft

Neerlandistiek

Horses can't use laptops.

They use maneframes.

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

@TheBreadmonkey I could be an AI datacentre for a living. I drink lots of water and say unreliable things that need to be independently checked.
The Wellcome Collection has digitized the sketchbook of Emily Madden, a Victorian girl documenting the fantastical adventures of her cat, Mouton. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/rzwecsjy via @metafilter
De NOS zoekt een netwerkbeheerder en wie weet zit die persoon wel hier: https://www.werkenbijdenos.nl/netwerk-beheerder-2/nl
Netwerk beheerder

Ben jij een ervaren netwerkbeheerder met een passie voor ICT? Wil je werken voor een dynamische nieuwsorganisatie die 24/7 doorgaat?

NOS
What people don't understand is it never used to be this bad. Even the tunnels under the Internet used to be well-kept by their inhabitants. Radscorpions were trained by diligent owners and didn't need leashes. There was a sense of community.
De nieuwe regering bezuinigt op zorg en sociale zekerheid. Waarom eigenlijk? Drie jaar geleden adviseerden ambtenaren van Financiën te snoeien in het oerwoud van belastingkortingen voor speciale doelgroepen. Dat zorgt voor een rechtvaardiger belastingstelsel en levert vele miljarden op. https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/merendeel-belastingkortingen-ondoelmatig-en-onrechtvaardig
Kabinet houdt voor de eigen achterban miljarden aan zinloze belasting­voordelen in stand

De nieuwe regering bezuinigt op zorg en sociale zekerheid. Waarom eigenlijk? Drie jaar geleden adviseerden ambtenaren van Financiën te snoeien in het oerwoud van belastingkortingen voor speciale doelgroepen. Dat zorgt voor een rechtvaardiger belastingstelsel en levert vele miljarden op.

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